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Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 18th, 2023
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Director of Facilities James Whitesell, left of the easel, and Hillendale Elementary School Principal Joshua Leight, right, present a plan for an outdoor pavilion to Pennsbury Township supervisors.
Pennsbury Township supervisors are taking a favorable view at a request for a special exception by Hillendale Elementary School. The school wants to construct a pavilion to serve as an outdoor classroom. Hillendale is the one elementary school in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District that doesn’t have an outdoor learning space. Hillendale Principal Joshua Leight ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 17th, 2023
Voter turnout is usually light during off-year elections, especially for the primary election. Yesterday was no exception. It was one of those elections where at any given time, the campaign signs in front of polling places outnumbered voters inside. To quote one poll worker in Chadds Ford Township, turnout in the morning was “minimal.” At the Concord Township ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 16th, 2023
School board members in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District know what budget they’ll be voting on during the June 19 meeting. The nine members voted to move forward with the proposed final budget during the May 15 meeting. The proposal calls for an estimated revenue of $100,522,120 and anticipated expenses of $100,902,107. Both figures represent increases of ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 16th, 2023
Youngsters wade and play in the creek at Ridley Creek State Park while a fisherman does his thing on a sunny Mother’s Day afternoon.
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 9th, 2023
It’s two more steps for the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District budget for the next school year, and one more step for all-day kindergarten. The proposed final budget will be voted upon during the May 15 school board meeting, then voted on for final adoption at the June 19 meeting. Also planned for a June 19 vote is the matter of all-day kindergarten. School board ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 9th, 2023
Horses graze in a field along Beaver Valley Road in Concord Township.
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 8th, 2023
With incumbent Chadds Ford Township Supervisor Noelle Barbone not running for reelection, there will be an almost new face at the head table come January. Timotha Trigg, a current member of the Planning Commission and a former school director and board president for the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, is running unopposed for the Republican Party nomination ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 4th, 2023
When George and Helen Sipala owned Painters Folly, there were maintenance issues. The issues were so costly that they were thinking about selling the property in the mid-1990s, 20 years after moving in. But their friend, the late Andy Wyeth, bailed them out paying what was needed to fix up the place. Chadds Ford Township bought the property from the Sipalas in 2018 ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 3rd, 2023
• Concord Township Council voted to approve a plan for a self-storage facility to be built at 366 Wilmington-West Chester Pike north of Smithbridge Road near McComb Avenue. The approval, granted during the May 2 meeting, came with multiple conditions, including one to keep trucks off McComb, a private road. There was no formal presentation during the council meeting, ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 2nd, 2023
The Unionville- Chadds Ford School District Board of Directors is hung up on the idea of all-day kindergarten. And the idea put a snag in the board’s May 1 budget hearing. Members reviewed the proposed final budget for the 2023-2024 school year. It calls for revenues of $101,154,717 and with expenditures estimated at $101,402,107. Superintendent John Sanville said ...
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 2nd, 2023
Chester Creek running through Newlin Grist Mill Park provides a quiet spot to enjoy nature on a sunny morning.
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