UCF board weighs spending

There were no voting items during the three-hour-long Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board work session Monday night, but directors did discuss several issues scheduled for a vote later on. Those issues include a proposed middle school trip to Rome and Pompeii. That trip is tentatively planned for eight days in June of 2025 through EF Tours. According to the presentation, all adults traveling with the group…

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Conservancy holds flood study meeting

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Flooding in Wilmington on Sept. 1, 2021. “What we do upstream impacts downstream,” according to Brandywine Conservancy Director of Community Services for the conservancy Grant DeCosta. Emergency services couldn’t get from one side of the city to the other. He called that situation “unacceptable.”

The Brandywine Conservancy and the city of Wilmington joined forces to give area residents an update on the flood study prompted by Hurricane Ida. Director of Community Services for the conservancy Grant DeCosta was joined by Wilmington’s Assistant Water Division Director Bryan Lennon. DeCosta said Ida was “the catalyst” for the study but that the study won’t be finished until this summer. He said the…

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Board honors Murphy

It was a short and somber Board of Supervisors meeting Monday night as the board paid tribute to former Supervisor Frank Murphy, who died last week. There was a moment of silence in his honor, followed by township solicitor Mike Maddren reading a formal statement. He read, in part: "The Township's accomplishments under Frank's leadership are too many to list here.  Frank was most proud…

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Local AME Church restored

On Saturday afternoon, Concord Township held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the old Spring Valley African Methodist Episcopal Church on Spring Valley Road. The township bought the property in 2014 for its historic significance with the idea to restore and move it, but then some historic reality came into the mix. For roughly 100 years — from 1880 into the early 1980s — the Spring Valley…

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Frank Murphy, CF supervisor dies

(This post had been accidentally removed for as yet unknown reasons. It's now reposted.) Frank Murphy, Chadds Ford Township supervisor since 2014 has died. Word came via text from fellow supervisor Samantha Reiner. Murphy had been battling cancer for the last three years. He is survived by his wife Anna-Marie and two daughters, Natalie and Juliana. Murphy had two degrees, one in engineering and another…

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After the Bell turns 25

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Students at Kennett Middle School take part in a small party celebrating After the Bell's 25th anniversary.

A volunteer after-school program for students at Kennett Middle School just turned 25, and there was a small party for the kids and the volunteers. The idea behind After the Bell was to give middle-schoolers something to do between the time school lets out and when their parents would get home from work. After the Bell came into being in January of 1999, just a…

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Kuerner paints life story

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Karl Kuerner takes time to listen to some of his younger fans during the opening of his exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum of Art.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Brandywine Conservancy’s acquisition of the Kuerner Farm on Ring Road in Chadds Ford Township. To commemorate that anniversary, the Brandywine River Museum of Art has a new exhibit, Karl J. Kuerner: The Continuity of Creativity. In a museum press release, Kuerner said, "The Kuerner property holds a wonderful history and a bright future with many artistic discoveries…

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Pedestrian safety upgrade in Kennett

Update: In a follow-up email, the deputy borough manager said the project will take longer than two weeks. Schedule updates will be announced as they come in. End update. Kennett Square is making some changes to improve pedestrian safety in the borough. The borough is taking part in a PennDOT Safer Routes project, the Pedestrian Safer Access Project that’s expected to run through Feb. 3.…

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