Although Thanksgiving holiday crashes handled by state police decreased this year, DUI arrests saw an increase from 2015. The Pennsylvania State Police investigated 931 crashes during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday driving period from Nov. 23 through Nov. 27. The total represented a decrease of 8.1 percent compared to the 1,013 crashes investigated during the ...
Archive for November, 2016
PennDOT: Holiday crashes dip; DUI arrests rise
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 30th, 2016
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Nancy C. Gregory of West Chester
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 30th, 2016
Nancy C. Gregory (nee Carville), 75, of West Chester, formerly of Merion, died Monday, Nov. 28. She was the beloved wife of the late Robert F.; loving mother of Patricia A. Kubicek (Anthony), Robert Gregory, Jr., Christine Smith, David James "DJ" Gregory (Ilene), Suzanne C. O'Neill (Brian S.), and Peter S. Gregory; devoted grandmother of Kevin Kubicek, Brian Kubicek ...
Harriett Sargent Fitts of Kennett Square
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 30th, 2016
Harriett Sargent Fitts, 97, of Kennett Square, died Oct. 23, at Crosslands. She was born to Rufus and Rachel (MacLean) Sargent in Swampscott, Mass. She was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and will be missed by her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; her son Edward Payson and brother, Dana L. Sargent. She is ...
Hadley Fund offering Celtic Christmas Concert
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 30th, 2016
Admission is free: The experience is priceless. That’s the motto of the Hadley Fund, which is inviting the public to a Celtic Christmas Concert on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. Ring in the season with award-winning Celtic and American folk music that is both fresh and familiar: harp, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, violin, guitar, bagpipes, drummers, and dancers, ...
Police Log Nov. 30: Aggravated assault, drugs, thefts
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 30th, 2016
• State police from Troop K, Media barracks, arrested a 53-year-old man from Glen Mills after he reportedly aimed a shotgun at a motorist in Concord Township on Nov. 28. Police said they also obtained a warrant for simple assault, stalking and ethnic intimidation against Joseph Theodore Keenan. According to the report, a 26-year-old man from Philadelphia had been ...
Pocopson Township to hold line on taxes
Posted by Monica Fragale on November 29th, 2016
Pocopson Township residents will not see their taxes increase in 2017. The supervisors adopted a 2017 budget at their Nov. 28 meeting that keeps tax rates at 2.2 mills and projects an overall fund balance of $1.97 million by the end of 2017. (A mill is $1 for every $100 of assessed valuation.) The budget also keeps the earned-income and net-profit tax at half a ...
Laughs are alive at Routes 1 and 202
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 29th, 2016
Not many people would consider the intersection of Routes 1 and 202 to be a laughing matter, unless they were talking theater of the absurd. But there is something to laugh about — professional comedy acts at Reactors Comedy Club at the Wyndham Garden Hotel. “It’s a great location,” said John Ager, a performer in his own right, and the manager and master of ...
Art Watch: Artwork to enjoy and to gift
Posted by Lele Galer on November 29th, 2016
This week includes the "First Friday" for December, and that means it is a great chance to have some art fun at gallery openings and festivities from the Main Line to Delaware. The big art event of the weekend is the dual opening for "Craft Forms" and "Making Marks" at the Wayne Art Center this week. This is a ticketed event, and you can still get tickets online at ...
Photo of the Week: Go Geese Go
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 29th, 2016
Geese scramble toward a pond in Birmingham Township, but they seem to be scrambling in two directions with the help from some symmetrical magic.
The Rev. Duane Paul Mehl of Avondale
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 28th, 2016
The Rev. Duane Paul Mehl, 85, of Avondale, died Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Oxford Health Center, Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford. He was the husband of Dorothy Pannell Mehl, with whom he shared 58 years of marriage. Born in Arkansas City, Kan. on Feb. 14, 1931, Duane was the son of the late Paul Theodore Mehl and the late Anita Von Fange Mehl. Duane graduated from St. ...
Robert Eugene Mason of Chadds Ford
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on November 28th, 2016
Robert Eugene Mason, 80, of Chadds Ford, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, at home after a long illness. He was the beloved husband of Sally Meadowcroft Mason, with whom he shared 20 years of marriage. Born in West Chester, on March 28, 1936, He was the son of the late Raymond and Dorothy Brown Mason. Bob graduated Kennett Consolidated School in 1956. He took pride in ...
