Academic Achievement Jan. 3

• Kutztown University named 1,725 students to the Fall 2017 Dean’s List. Among them are four students from chads Ford. They are Mitchell Vansant Camp, Morgan Nadin, Corey Dennis Ryan, and Dylan Charles. • Anna Crawford, of Chadds Ford, a freshman Undeclared major at York College of Pennsylvania, has been named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2017 semester. To be eligible for this…

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New council member tries making a splash

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John Crossan, left, and Joshua Twersky are the new members on Concord’s Township Council, bringing council up to its mandated size of seven members.

Concord Township Council is now at full strength. In the 2016 spring primary, voters elected to change Concord from a Township of the Second Class with five supervisors to a home-rule based government with a seven-member council. Last year the council functioned with five members. John Crossan and Joshua Twersky were elected in November and took their seats last night during the state-mandated annual organizational…

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Marie J. Diamond of Glen Mills

Marie J. Diamond (nee Dougherty), 84, of Glen Mills, died Sunday, Dec. 31. She was the beloved wife of the late Richard M. Diamond; loving mother of Anne M. Purcell, Joseph M. Diamond, Michael R. Diamond, Richard J. Diamond (Barbara), and Christine M. Diamond (Joel) Alferness; devoted grandmother of Mary Catherine, Elizabeth, Ted, Kaitlin, Kellyann, Jacquelyn, Michael, Liam, Keegan, and Brendan; dear sister of Edward…

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Police Log Jan. 3: Indecent exposure, theft

• State police from the Media barracks are investigating the theft of a 2007 Yamaha ATV and a 2005 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. The vehicles were reportedly stolen sometime between Dec. 7 and Dec. 13. Unknown suspects took them after unlawfully entering a garage on Trimble Road in Concord Township. The ATV is black with red flames, and the motorcycle is candy apple green in color.…

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