Hi, I am Whiskers, a handsome gray and white, 10-year-old domestic shorthair/mix who came at the Chester County SPCA on April 28. I am quickly becoming a volunteer favorite as a social butterfly. I love attention and enjoy being petted. I would do well in most home situations, with an adopter old or young. Won’t you consider me as your next family pet?
• A Wilmington man was cited for speeding after his 2008 Mercury Milan struck an embankment on Creek Road in Chadds Ford Township on May 11. State police said Ronald J. Bender, 60, was driving south on Creek Road, north of Bullock Road at 4:05 p.m. His car crossed over the northbound lane as Bender was negotiating a left-hand curve. The vehicle flipped over after…
• Become a time traveler in an exciting walk to explore signs of the Newlin Grist Mill nature park's past on Saturday, May 23, at 1:30 p.m. Newlin’s park naturalist will introduce participants to living fossils, help walkers discover the descendants of dinosaurs, and facilitate a visit with trees old enough to have witnessed the lives of wooly mammoths. "Prehistoric Newlin” is part of Newlin…
Even if you’ve never seen the movie, “The Graduate,” you’ve heard lines from it. You’ve heard the career advice that a family friend sagely offers Dustin Hoffman’s confused character as they walk together next to the family pool during his graduation party: “Plastics, my boy, plastics.” You’ve heard songs from the memorable Simon and Garfinkel soundtrack. You may even recall the awkward exchange when the…
Offering an innovative way to celebrate the regional work being done to combat climate change and promote sustainability, the Seventh Annual Energy Independence Festival will take place on Sunday, May 17, at the MoGreena complex in Modena. Waste Oil Recylers, a proponent of the waste-not philosophy that transforms used cooking oil into biodiesel, created the free, public festival, which has grown in popularity each year.…
Healthcare technology company Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (SMS) has agreed to pay $5.9 million to resolve an investigation into the overcharging of the federal government for purchases of medical imaging equipment, according to a civil resolution announced on Wednesday, May 13, by U. S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the dispute arose from an agreement the…
A magisterial district judge dismissed more than half of the charges lodged against a 61-year-old West Chester man in connection with his father’s death. On Monday, May 11, following a four-hour preliminary hearing, Magisterial District Judge John R. Bailey ruled that sufficient evidence existed to hold Edward J. O’Brien III for trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. He dismissed charges of third-degree…
A couple of Pocopson Township agenda items did not materialize on Monday, May 11, shortening the supervisors’ meeting to about 45 minutes. The supervisors said Toll Brothers postponed the closing on the wastewater treatment facility at the Preserve at Chadds Ford subdivision. Supervisors’ Chairman Barney Leonard said he expected the township would take possession of the facility within two weeks, at which point it would…
With the promise of warmer weather and increased motorcycle riding on Pennsylvania roadways, Governor Tom Wolf has chosen May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, stressing the importance of all motorists sharing the road and riders practicing motorcycle safety, a PennDOT press release said. “The safety of all Pennsylvania motorists is an issue of the highest consequence, and all highway users should unite in the safe…
James "JJ" Boyd, 72, of West Grove, died Saturday May 9, at Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford. He was the husband of Rosemarie Morini Boyd with whom he shared 29 years of marriage. Born in Darby, he was a son of the late Albert and the late Marie (Booth) Boyd. JJ served our country in the Army. He was a Pennsylvania State Trooper for more…
Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors now have a proposed final budget to vote on in June. Property taxes will rise, but not quite as much as anticipated. Instead of a proposal to bring about a weighted tax increase of 2.85 mills for Chester and Delaware County residents, the increase currently on the table for next month’s vote is 2.01 mills. That increase would mean Chester…