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Anson Nixon Park anniversary

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 31st, 2023

The Kennett Area Park Authority is planning a 30th anniversary celebration for Anson B. Nixon Park on June 21. From left are Mark Volpe, KAPA’s facilities director, Sheila Tekavec, office manager, and John Gaadt, KAPA’s vice chairman.

Anson B. Nixon Park in Kennett Square turns 30 this year. According to John Gaadt, vice-chairman of the Kennett Area Park Authority, Kennett Township and the Borough of Kennett Square got together to start the park after a landfill was closed where the soccer fields are now. “The land was going to be turned over to the township when the landfill was leaving, but the ...

 
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The Gables wants a B&B

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 30th, 2023

The owners of The Gables restaurant want to turn the old stone house next to the restaurant into a B&B. But the process might not be cut and dried. Mike Shiring, the attorney representing owner Ann Kolenick and her partner, said turning the old historic house into a bed and breakfast is a perfect idea for adaptive reuse, but added that it’s “a complex zoning and ...

 
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Water service restored in Concord

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 24th, 2023

UPDATE: Concord has amended its announcement saying 1,500 Veolia customers in Bethel Township should continue boiling their water. End Update. Water service is back on in Concord Township, but customers should still boil water until further notice. Concord announced a water main break at 3:06 p.m. after the main at Route 202 and Beaver Valley/Naamans Creek Road was ...

 
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Supervisors favor Hillendale request

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 18th, 2023

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 ...

 
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Spar Hill Farm reopens in Kennett

Posted by Monica Fragale on May 14th, 2023

Spar Hill Farm and Preserve officially reopened Saturday to the public, almost five years after Kennett Township bought the open space and months after a number of structures on the property were demolished for safety reasons. “This is the first time that name has been used as a title for this facility and space, and we’re really excited to be able to do it here with ...

 
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Chadds Ford’s primary lineup

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 ...

 
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Issues at Painters Folly

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 ...

 
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Concord in brief

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, ...

 
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Parking variance granted

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on April 22nd, 2023

A decision by the Chadds Ford Zoning Hearing Board paves the way for a coffee shop to move into the former location of the Bryn Mawr Trust Bank. One condition of the approval is for the property owner to pave the rear area. The site is the little strip mall with the U.S. Post Office and Agave restaurant on Route 1. The back side of the strip hasn’t been kept up. Much ...

 
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Big rig in Kennett Township

Posted by Monica Fragale on April 21st, 2023

What weighs more than 11 tons, goes up to 25 mph and swings 360 degrees, has its own online presence on Kennett Township’s Facebook page, and tears out part of a hill without blocking two lanes of traffic? The hydradig, a hydraulic wheeled excavator that Kennett Township’s Public Works Department has rented this month. “It’s got all the function of an excavator – ...

 
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Parking changes for Constitution Drive

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on April 20th, 2023

Pennsbury Township supervisors Wednesday night made good on a promise to change parking regulations on Constitution Drive in Chadds Ford Knoll. Parking rules were changed in January prohibiting parking on both sides of the street. Residents complained in February and last month Supervisors’ Chairman Aaron McIntyre said a decision would be made in April. The “No ...

 
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