Christmas traditions regain the spotlight in the Chadds Ford area with two favorites. Brandywine Christmas, the annual exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, launched the season the day after Thanksgiving with the O-gauge train exhibit and the Ann Wyeth McCoy Doll Collection. The trains, with more than 2,000 feet of track, fill 12,000 square feet of space in the second floor gallery at…
Hi everyone my name is Freddy and I'm 13 years old. I arrived as an owner surrender on Oct. 3. My coat is short and my fur is black to match any occasion. I've become the volunteer favorite and have been told I'm spry for my advanced years. I have plenty of life and energy in me still that make all these whipper snappers jealous.…
Strong light shows variations in texture between bare tree roots and the Brandywine Creek.
• State police said they arrested Thomas Davis, 25, of Newark, for DUI and drug possession. A police report said Davis was stopped on Route 202 at the Dilworthtown Wawa shortly after 1 a.m. on Nov. 22. • A four-vehicle accident along Route 202 near Spring Hill Road on Nov. 28 resulted in a minor injury of a passenger in one of the cars. A…
• Darlington Arts Center in Concord Township invites the community to a free Holiday Arts Party on Sunday, Dec. 6 starting at 2:30 p.m. The party will display music, art, dance, and drama and celebrate Darlington’s mission – Every Art for Everyone. The party kicks off with an art gallery and reception for local artist Lauren Litwa Holden, a longtime resident of Wawa. Her collection…
Every student in West Broad Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio, will receive a new winter coat on Dec. 15, thanks to a local nonprofit. All of the students in the selected school qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program, and their needs were matched with Operation Warm, a Chadds Ford-based providing the coats and a corporate sponsor Hollister California, a clothing retailer. Operation…
When the long-awaited Chester County Public Safety Training Center opened in September 2012, it represented a partnership among multiple agencies. The project had languished on the drawing board for decades and took an unprecedented collaboration to bring it to fruition. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, representatives from many of the parties involved in the project gathered at the Chester County Commissioners meeting to celebrate the national…
A Bucks County accountant is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a 100-year-old Delaware County woman, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan announced in a press release on Wednesday, Dec. 2. The release said Jeanne Swain, 58, of Yardley, wrote $116,667.33 in unauthorized checks to cover her own rent expenses and pay for her ex-husband’s rent and medical insurance as she maintained a gambling…
When a Chester County deputy sheriff heard a dispatch this past summer about a double overdose, he was a block and a half away. David Reeves said he rushed to the scene where an ambulance crew was already administering Naloxone to one of two women who were unconscious. He grabbed a kit from his patrol car and began to treat the second victim with Naloxone,…
Andrew Vogts of Chadds Ford, a 14-year-old student at Cab Calloway School of the Performing Arts, has been selected for the 2016 High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. He will perform violin during Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary season in February with the Honors Symphony Orchestra. Participation in one of the five honors ensembles is limited to the highest-rated high school performers from across…
If only Jesus’ disciples had had access to a Starbucks. When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane before his death, his disciples fell asleep. Jesus wakes them up and leaves only to return and find them “sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.” (Matthew 26:34). Growing up I would read this story and immediately think that the disciples had not had their coffee fix. Yes, I…