Loop road plan still contested

Plans for the proposed Hillman Drive extension — the last leg of the loop road around the intersection of Routes 1 and 202 — continue to be developed, debated and contested. The latest meeting of the Chadds Ford Township Planning Commission showed that some elements of the proposal are pitting neighbor against neighbor. In this case, it’s a matter of Painters Crossing Condominium residents v.…

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Mexican indie icon to perform at Longwood

Mexican singer and songwriter Natalia Lafourcade will bring her experimental sound of acoustic, jazz and pop to Longwood Gardens on Wednesday, July 6, at 7:30 pm. Natalia Lafourcade Lafourcade, expected to charm audiences with her intimate new album “Hasta la Raíz,” is one of Latin America’s leading indie pop artists, and was the biggest award winner at the 2016 Latin Grammys, according to a Longwood…

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PECO lauded for June 2015 storm response

PECO has received national recognition for its dedication to restoring electric service to more than 260,000 customers impacted by a severe summer storm in June 2015. The company received the Emergency Recovery Award at the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) annual convention in Chicago on Tuesday, June 14. “We invest each year in innovative projects and programs to help prevent those outages that can be prevented,”…

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Daycare center, Barnard House beg questions

Snags sent a number of agenda items back to the drawing board at the Pocopson Township Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Monday, June 13. An expected vote on the preliminary land development plan for the Riverside Daycare Partnership’s proposal for a Ducklings Early Learning Center on Winston Lane in the Riverside at Chadds Ford community did not occur. “There’s still minor tweaking that we need…

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