The American Battlefield Trust and the North American Land Trust have launched a fundraising campaign to protect a key portion of one of the critical battles on our journey to independence, Brinton Run Preserve on the Brandywine Battlefield. This 72-acre property will be owned and maintained by NALT, marking the first time the organization typically focused on holding and administering conservation easements, will manage and…
Peter Kurt Schwarz Sr., 51, of Kennett Square, died Sunday, July 12, at his home. He was the amazing, loving husband of Christine (Buckland) Schwarz. They shared 23 years of marriage and three awesome children: Peter Jr., Emma and Margo. He was the son of Kurt W. Schwarz and the late Lore (Ruof) Schwarz. Pete is survived by his brother Steven and wife Lynne, and…
Donna Pratola, 66, died peacefully while holding her son Christopher’s hand on July 15 at the Penn Medicine Inpatient Hospice Unit in West Chester after a nearly four-year battle with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Born on Feb. 21, 1954, Donna was the second of three children born to the late Fred Pratola, Sr. and Angeline (Giroso) Pratola. She was a 1972 graduate of Kennett High…
Barbara Kay Dalton, 79, of Chadds Ford, died Sunday, July 12, at Penn Medicine Hospice at Chester County in West Chester. She was the loving wife of William O. Dalton for 57 years. Born July 23, 1940, in St. Louis, Mo. she was the daughter of the late John O. Pinks and the late Elizabeth I. Coates Pinks. Barbara received a bachelor’s degree from Illinois…
The following animals are ready to be adopted from the Brandywine Valley SPCA in West Chester. Bentley Bentley came to the BVSPCA from Tennessee through their second chance program. The BVSPCA takes locally first, but if there are extra cages, they take animals like Bentley. This blue-eyed boy was at his previous shelter for almost three years, more than half his life, and he had…