Monthly Archives: March 2017

Pain relief for sciatica sufferers

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Sciatica is a pain that originates along your sciatic nerve, which extends from the back of your pelvis down the back of your thigh.

Surgery may be the fastest route to lasting pain relief for sciatica sufferers. Noninvasive and nonsurgical techniques sometimes work to alleviate the pain associated with sciatica. However, for some patients it can feel like there’s no relief from the leg cramps, shooting pains, or electrical jolts they feel running down the back of their legs. When medications, exercise, acupuncture and other medical and non-medical therapies don’t…

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Barbone announced re-election bid

Chadds Ford Township Supervisor Noelle Barbone formally announced her plan to run for re-election during a township Republican gathering Thursday night. Barbone was elected in 2015 to the fill the remaining two years of former Supervisor Keith Klaver's term. Klaver resigned from the board for health reasons in January 2015. He died a year later. In a short interview before addressing the audience at Brandywine…

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BHCU offers new savings account

Founded in 1952 in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, BHCU is a federally insured credit union that provides comprehensive banking services to its members. Originally established to serve employees of Boeing (formally Vertol) and their family members, BHCU recently opened an office in Glen Mills, PA and expanded to a community-based credit union, exclusively serving Delaware County, Pennsylvania. BHCU is proud to introduce its new iSAVE account,…

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Wellness, Jackie’s Way: National nutrition month

Did you hear that it’s National Nutrition month? Let’s celebrate by taking the time to revisit the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Dietary Guidelines is published jointly every five years by the Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture. Its focus is on disease prevention and health promotion. Previous editions focused mainly on individual components of the diet, such…

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Light snow expected

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, NJ is expecting light snow and ice to impact the region beginning tonight (March 17th) through Saturday night (March 18th). Wintry precipitation is expected in portions of eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey overnight tonight through late Saturday night.  Light snowfall will begin late tonight, but snowfall accumulations should be quite light (generally less than an inch).  Snow…

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Roadwork for March 18 through March 24

PennDOT has announced the following road projects, which are weather-dependent and could affect residents in the greater Chadds Ford area during the week of March 18 through March 25. Motorists are urged to allow extra time if they are traveling through one of the construction zones. • Beginning Monday, March 20, through Friday, March 24, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Route 322 (Conchester Highway)…

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Boost Your Business: Staying in the flow

In business meetings and networking events, sales meetings and company interactions, as in any conversation, there is a current or flow. If you can’t recognize the current in the conversation, it is difficult to follow its flow. Because not every conversation is planned or prepared, sometimes the current of the conversation will take you places that you never thought you would go. Sometimes it is…

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William J. Grant of Chadds Ford

William J. Grant, 79, of Chadds Ford, died Wednesday, March 15, at Virtua Hospital, Voorhees, N.J. He was the husband of Janet Huyett Grant, who died in 2012, and with whom he shared 53 years of marriage. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of the late William and Edith Himes Grant. Mr. Grant was a program manager/engineer at Boeing in Ridley Park, retiring in…

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Musings: Sessions and Franklin

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The "poisonous tree" shows the harm that grows out of drug prohibition. Image courtesy of LEAP at https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org

Attorney General Jeff Sessions should have a talk with Major Neill Franklin. He might learn something. Sessions should also learn from history, but he's not alone in that. All prohibitionists — whether they want to prohibit drugs or guns — should learn from history. But, of course, the first question you probably have is: "Rich, who the heck is Major Neill Franklin?" Franklin is the…

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Around Town March 16

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Sunday, April 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.is Free Sunday for Families at the Brandywine River Museum of Art.

• The Kennett Area Senior Center invites you to an afternoon “Sunday Dinner with Friends” on Sunday, March 19, from 1-3 p.m. Our themes are based on “dining across the United States” with this dinner being New York City.  What comes to mind when you think “New York City?”  What about “Broadway?”  Well, we are hosting R.T.C.’s Rising Stars of Broadway.  West Chester residents know…

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