Around Town May 20

• Top photo: Unionville High School students are decked out in their finery before going to the prom at Springfield Country Club. • The May 20 meeting for Walkable Chadds Ford has been rescheduled to 6 p.m., May 27, at the Chadds Ford Township building. • The Chadds Ford Historical Society is opening a new exhibit in honor of 50 years of Chadds Ford Days. The…

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Academic Recognition

• Top photo: Three members of the UHS Rowing Club recently signed to continue their rowing careers in college. Seated from left to right are Justin Best (Drexel), Sara Beth Johnson (Robert Morris) and Julia Pinamont (Loyola Marymount). Also in the photo from left to right are Paula Massanari (UHS Principal), Jeanne and Glenn Best, Janice, Steven and Katie Johnson and Bernadette and William Pinamont.…

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Adopt-a-Pet: Red

Red is a 1-year-old hound/mix that came to the Chester County SPCA on March 21. The best word to describe me would be charming. I’m so soulful I will just charm your pants off. Take one look into my amber eyes and you will be hooked. I’m just a young guy, about a year, who is energetic yet well behaved. I walk well on a…

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Police Log May 21: Scams, DUIs, retail theft

• The Avondale barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police will hold a child safety seat check up from 3-7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26. Checks are done by appointment. To schedule an appointment, phone 610-268-2102. The event is free and is in conjunction with Click it or Ticket It. • The Pennsylvania State Police are advising people of a fraudulent e-mail scheme claiming to be…

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Letter to the Editor: Knauss is wrong

Once again, Keith Knauss gets it wrong. At the May 18 School Board meeting, Mr. Knauss stated that the Teachers' Association is proposing an 4.6 percent increase in "payroll" each year, as compared to the 2.1 percent being offered by the board. Check it out yourself on the Board Video, at time marker 1:35:35.  http://youtu.be/Vh4-P1hNDEs The documents given to me by the board negotiating team clearly…

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Harry Andrew Haney of Cochranville

Harry Andrew Haney, 85, of Cochranville, died Saturday, May 16, at his residence. Born in Londonderry Township, he was the son of the late James C. and Hazel Fox Haney. He was a 1947 graduate of Avon Grove High School. He was a machinist at CDS Analytical in Oxford, for 40 years, retiring in 2013. Harry enjoyed gardening, bluegrass music, trips to Bell Bank Bridge…

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School kids light up with enthusiasm

It wasn’t your ordinary science class. It wasn’t your ordinary history class. It was science history, the science of electricity that is. Elementary school students from two different schools lit up with excitement Tuesday when they learned about the early days of electric power generation at the Pennsbury hydroelectric mill. The hydroelectric mill on Fairville Road was built in 1917 and it supplied power to…

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Makeover for scrapple factory moves forward

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Guests arrive at the former East Bradford Boarding Home for Boys, part of the Strode's Mill Historic District and the site of a fundraiser for the property across the street.

Steps from where George Washington’s troops procured grain from Strode’s Mill in East Bradford Township, an equally tenacious group procured funds on Friday, May 15, for a project to turn the deteriorating northeast corner of the crossroads into a source of community pride. The Friends of Strode’s Mill held a country casual fundraiser at the East Bradford Boarding Home for Boys, a 1800s educational institution…

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Election lineup twists during primary

While most of the primary election results occurred as anticipated, several last minute write-in campaigns in Chadds Ford and Concord townships could add names to the November ballot or redefine specific races. Democrat Alan Horowitz was unopposed on the primary ballot for his party’s nomination to run for a six-year term as supervisor in Chadds Ford, but with a two-year term also open, township Democrats…

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