GoFundMe pays off for U-CF family

The GoFundMe campaign to help raise money for the Johnson Family has worked. The family needed $80,000 to buy a van capable of handling two motorized wheelchairs for the family’s two sons who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The campaign began in December. In a letter, Joanna Johnson wrote: “YOU DID IT! This amazing community showed up big and with all of the money raised we…

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Mixed Media: Portraits unveiled

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Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley © 2018 Kehinde Wiley and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. Photographs courtesy of National Portrait Gallery.

This column usually focuses on regional art news, but I’d like to start this column by applauding the new presidential portraits unveiled this week. I know, I know, politics are not a subject to bring up in mixed company, but the art that memorializes the history of our country lives in a different realm and one that deserves of its’ own reviews. Former President Barack…

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Scoreboards and budgets at U-CF

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A rendering of the proposed scoreboard for the varsity baseball field at Unionville High School.

Unionville High School's varsity baseball and softball fields need new scoreboards, according to Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds Rick Hostetler. He told school board directors Monday night that URA — Unionville Recreation Association — is going to foot the bill to the tune of more than $46,000 for the two scoreboards. The district will do the installation, he added. The new…

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