Kennett Township supervisors will be holding an online public meeting on April 15. The logistics of how the public can virtually join that meeting, as well as offer comment on anything the supervisors discuss or vote upon, are still being worked out, Kennett Township Manager Eden Ratliff said in a digital update Wednesday. Those details will be sent out to township residents and others as…
The Chester County Department of Health will coordinate COVID-19 response efforts in both Chester and Delaware counties going forward. “Delaware and Chester counties have a long history of working together and supporting each other,” Chester County Commissioners’ Chairwoman Marian Moskowitz said at a joint press conference Thursday in West Chester. “Chester County does have sufficient extra capacity to handle Delaware County’s public health needs as…
Kennett Township is canceling non-township meetings held in the township building and also non-essential “large group” meetings. It is part of their response to the novel coronavirus, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. “Many of the precautions we are putting in place mirror those taking place in other townships throughout the county,” the supervisors wrote in a letter that was…
Chadds Ford Township supervisors will continue the conditional use hearing for the Brandywine Summit Hotel until 7 p.m. April 1. Wednesday’s hearing lasted two hours and featured testimony from the applicant’s civil engineer, as well as comments and concerns from residents along Longview Road and Summit Avenue. The proposed four-story hotel will have 85 rooms and be located at 1792-1798 Wilmington-West Chester Pike. “I feel…
Kennett Township supervisors voted Wednesday to fire the township police chief, who was investigated by the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office for a sexual assault allegation but ultimately not charged, and who was the subject of an internal township investigation as a result. The supervisors also voted to make the police department’s second-in-command, Sgt. Matthew Gordon, the interim chief. Chief Lydell Nolt had been on…
Three more employees were let go in Kennett Township. It marks the second time in less than 48 hours that township Manager Eden Ratliff has announced staffing changes as part of the township’s ongoing restructuring effort. The restructuring of Kennett Township follows the discovery and subsequent investigation last year that former township Manager Lisa Moore allegedly embezzled more than $3.2 million from the township. Moore…
Kennett Township Manager Eden Ratliff on Monday addressed the absence of the township police chief and the restructuring of township staff. Chief Lydell Nolt is “part of an ongoing personnel investigation,” Ratliff said in an email to news outlets Monday afternoon. Ratliff also announced that three administrative employees were let go Friday as part of a restructuring move. More information will come out at the…
Kennett Township has recovered to date about $80,000 of the more than $3.2 million that was allegedly embezzled by the former township manager and has filed a claim on a $1 million surety bond that Lisa Moore had when she worked for the township. Both the recovery and the claim processes are in the early stages, current Township Manager Eden Ratliff said at Wednesday’s supervisors’…
Richard Leff was named the new chairman of the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors on Monday night. In nominating Leff, former chairman Scudder Stevens mentioned Leff’s increased role in the months following the start of the investigation into former township Manager Lisa Moore’s alleged embezzlement of more than $3 million. “Last April when we discovered the events that we were dealing with … Rich took…
In 2020, Kennett Township supervisors will help support the new library construction — but without the use of a tax increase. But sewer rates are going up. The supervisors unanimously approved the township’s 2020 budgets in a special meeting Monday night. The township will still contribute toward the new library, but the money in 2020 will come from an expected revenue surplus in the general…
For anyone who’s ever sighed over the story of Cinderella or dreamed of scaling a beanstalk like Jack, “Into The Woods” is for you — especially if you ever wondered whether happily ever after was all that it was cracked up to be. The Resident Theater Company’s cast of 19 – its largest yet, according to RTC Artistic Director Kristin McLaughlin Mitchell – brings to…