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…
• 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
While neither the proposed final budget nor teacher contract negotiations were on the agenda, both were aired out during the May 18 Unionville-School Board meeting. During the public comment period, seven members of the audience stood up to say basically the same thing, pay the teachers better. Birmingham Township resident Kristin Walker told he board that she doesn’t object to paying higher property taxes for…
The fifth annual homemade wine contest Twisted Vintner is set for 6 p.m. on June 4 at the Concordville Towne Center near Home Depot. The event is a fundraiser for the Concordville-Chadds Ford Rotary Club and helps pay for the chapter’s charitable efforts, according to event Chairman Don Culp, of Delco Alarms. “It’s a fun fundraiser,” Culp said. Previous fundraisers were golf outings, but Culp…
Sticks and stones my break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” So goes the old children’s rhyme, but not so purports recent research on bullying, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, a British medical journal. This study reports that bullying of children by their peers may have more prolonged and profound deleterious effects than parental abuse. No, this doesn’t give a pass to parents.…
One of the best investments you can make if you have in-store products to sell is in point-of-sale displays. These displays allow you to dramatically increase the impact of your product at the moment it counts most - at purchase time. Of course, such displays are most effective for impulse items or items for which consumers do not have brand loyalty. Sales increases Large displays…