PennDOT now has a projection about when the work on Route 1 will begin. Repaving along the section between the Brandywine Creek and Route 52 was expected to start today, March 23, depending on the weather. According to PennDOT spokesman Brad Rudolph, there are more than 12 shifts scheduled to do the work, and that’s expected to take until the middle of April. He said…
The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival has awarded $3,000 to the Kennett Library’s Adult Literacy Program, the library announced in a press release. The grant comes from proceeds from the 2021 Mushroom Festival. The money will help provide adult students with materials for classes in English as a Second Language, American citizenship, and high school equivalency diploma testing, which leads to a GED. While the Mushroom…
Last Saturday afternoon was the perfect first weekend of Spring. It was the kind of day that makes you want to run out and listen to music by the Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky. Wait, did I hear you say “No”? To most people Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) might bring to mind Disney’s 1940 Academy Award-winning movie Fantasia, with Stravinsky’s discordant and jagged music from his…
Pennsylvania State Police Avondale Barracks Police said Joan P. Selke, 73, of Nottingham, was cited for her involvement in a two-vehicle crash that injured a 75-year-old woman from Kennett Square. The accident happened at 3:12 p.m., on March 15, on Doe Run Road west of Unionville Road in East Marlborough Township. According to the report, Selke was pulling out of a parking lot onto Doe…