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 Oct. 27 to Nov. 2. Motorists are urged to allow extra time if they are traveling through one of the construction zones. Work schedules are subject to change. • Driveway installation will cause lane restrictions on northbound Route 202, between Route…
We’ve officially experienced our first frost! The chill of mid-autumn is upon us, and staying warm will again, becoming a hobby. Next weeks’ First Friday offerings in the area will make the chilly, trek from one destination to another, a part of the fun. Dovetailing off of the popular West Chester expanded art walks, Kennett will host its second November Expanded Art Stroll: Destination Kennett…
Pocopson residents got their first look Tuesday night at possible plans for the historic Barnard House and the Denton Hollow Road administration building. A decision on which plan the supervisors will approve is not expected until later this year. Neither plan would result in a tax increase for residents over the next two years, Pocopson Treasurer Peggy Lennon told the crowd of almost 30 at…
• If a proposed budget for next year matches the preliminary budget that was discussed on Oct. 24, Chadds Ford Township property owners won’t be hit with any tax increase. That preliminary budget, discussed at last night’s workshop, anticipates $1.1 million in revenues and expenses. That’s a 6.99 percent increase over this year’s, but taxes will remain as they are now. Township taxes currently total…
• Due to the weather forecast for this weekend, the Concord Township Harvest Festival is postponed until 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4. • The Kennett Symphony of Chester County and Music Director Michael Hall presents their opening night concert: Emotional Landscapes featuring Beethoven Symphony No. 9. The concert will be held on Saturday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. in the Unionville High School auditorium, 750 Unionville Road,…
Mark Kelly grew up in the Glen Mills area. Handsome and outgoing, he graduated from Salesianum and then St. Joseph’s University. He met Nina Napoli of Concordville while they were working at Pace One restaurant in Thornton. Nina liked Mark right away. “He was funny and sweet,” she remembers. They began dating three months after they met and married three years later, in 1989. The…
Pennsylvania State Police Media barracks • Police said they found 102 bags of heroin in a vehicle after making a traffic stop in the 200 block of Evergreen Drive in Concord Township on Oct. 12. Two men, who police identified only by name, Gabriel Frezzo and Justin Husbands, were charged. Drug paraphernalia was also found. • Someone stole a wallet from a car parked and…
A growth in a sycamore turns the tree into The Thing from Turner's Mill. Happy Halloween.
Toll Bros. Inc. has appealed last month’s Common Pleas Court decision upholding Westtown Township’s denial of conditional use approval for a proposed development of Crebilly Farm. Toll’s attorney Gregg Adelman said briefs explaining the grounds for the appeal would be filed in Commonwealth Court “in the near future.” Chester County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark L. Tunnell heard Toll’s appeal of the township’s decision on…
Edgar Leon Willis, 94, of West Chester, formerly of West Grove, died Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Pocopson Home. He was the husband of Carol McCleary Willis who died in 2003, and with whom he shared 20 years of marriage. Born in West Grove, he was the son of the late Water Willis and the late Frances Bryan Willis. He was a machine operator at…
Helen C. Dietze, formerly of Chadds Ford, died suddenly on Aug. 21. Helen was born in Durham, N.C. in 1929 on the eve of the Great Depression. The youngest daughter of a Methodist minister, she moved to a new parish every few years - from Durham, to Dunn, then Beaufort, Sanford, New Bern, Siler City, Andalusia, Benson, and later Greensboro and Chapel Hill — accumulating…