Photo of the Week: Moonrise
Moonrise
A full moon rises above an old train station, possibly evoking an uneasy feel. What might be creeping out of the shadows?
Author: Rich Schwartzman
Hank’s rebuild continues
Weather events slow the rebuild of Hank's Place.
UPDATE BELOW It might not look like much has been accomplished so far, but work is continuing on the rebuild of Hank’s Place at Route 1 and Creek Road in Chadds Ford Township. Several rainstorms flooded the area and there were at least two snow events that caused delays. However, crews said Monday that it will be about another one-and-a-half to two months before the…
Hearing continued for Gables
The house on the corner of Brintons Bridge Road and Route 1 next to The Gables could become a B&B.
Pennsbury Township opened a conditional use hearing Wednesday night for the owners of the Gables Restaurant to possibly have a bed and breakfast. The B&B would use two adjacent structures next to the restaurant. Those two structures are a stone house and a carriage house at 1301 Brinton’s Bridge Road, on the corner of Brinton’s Bridge and Route 1. The stone house — the former…
UCF OKs travel, facility upgrades
Patton Middle School students will get a chance to visit Rome and Pompeii in June of 2025. (Image from EF Educational Tours.)
As anticipated from last week’s work session, Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors approved a middle school trip to Europe and some facility upgrades. The approvals came during the Feb. 20 regular school board meeting. The proposed European trip will have students visiting Rome and Pompeii in June of 2025. The requested dates are June 17-24, but there is a flexible travel window of June 14-27.…
Photo of the Week: Sun After Snow
Sun After Snow
The footbridge at Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Square.
Primitive style, real emotion
Ask artists why they paint, and they’ll likely say it’s in their soul. Jerry Dowling is no exception to that, but his soul draws from two different continents. Hence the title of his new book, “The Brandywine Valley’s Irish Artist.” It’s who he is. Dowling grew up in the Brandywine Valley, Kennett Township to be exact, but he’s called the Chadds Ford area his home…
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…
Photo of the Week: Paper & Pen
Paper and Pen
A display at the John Chads House, perhaps where the family took care of the ferry’s books.
Conservancy holds flood study meeting
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…
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…
Photo of the Week: Thawed but Cold
Thawed but Cold
The stream running down Beaver Dam Road to Brandywine Creek is free of ice, but still cold. And it looks that way.