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Family’s anti-DUI crusade eludes surprise

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With her husband Ken Iwaniec (from left) at her side, Debby Iwaniec accepts the Governor’s Pathfinder Victim Survivor Activist Award for her statewide efforts to curb drunk-driving.

On March 27, 2008, a 24-year-old state trooper had been savoring his dream job, having just completed his probationary period at the Avondale barracks, when his shift ended and he began his drive home. Just two miles from the station, a woman transporting her 4-year-old son and a fifth of Grey Goose slammed head-on into Trooper Kenton E. Iwaniec’s vehicle; Kristina M. Quercetti had a…

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Loop road inches closer

The Hillman Drive extension, the last leg of the loop road around the intersection of Routes 1 and 202, moved closer to becoming a reality on Wednesday night. Members of the Chadds Ford Planning Commission voted on Aug. 10 to recommend preliminary plan approval based on several conditions. The Board of Supervisors must now decide whether to grant that preliminary approval before the plan can…

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3 days of potentially dangerous heat predicted

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the area from noon on Thursday, Aug. 11, through 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13. Heat index values of 100 to 105 are to peak from 2 to 5 p.m. each afternoon of the heat warning, with the highest values predicted for both Friday and Saturday. However, a few isolated thunderstorms could bring temporary…

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The lady is a lumberjack

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Chadds Ford's Martha King takes a break from chopping. She trains three days per week, chopping three to five logs per session.

Martha King has packed a lot of experiences into her 27 years, some of which involved travel. And while travel is not unusual for a young adult from Chadds Ford, her reasons are a little different from those of others. Martha King is a lumberjack who competes in various worldwide lumberjack championships. She’s been around trees her whole life. Her parents, Rob and Katharine King,…

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Widened Route 202 makes long-awaited debut

Starting at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, commuters got to enjoy the debut of 2.5 miles of Route 202, widened to six lanes. PennDOT said crews worked Tuesday night, Aug. 2, into the morning to complete line-striping and other operations for opening the rebuilt highway between the Routes 401 and 30 interchanges in East Whiteland Township, according to a PennDOT press release. The work…

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Former constable now Concord supervisor

Thomas Mahoney was appointed to the Concord Township Board of Supervisors Tuesday night. Mahoney, a former constable in Concord, replaces Kevin O’Donoghue, who stepped down last month for business reasons. Mahoney, one of seven applicants, has lived in the township for 15 years with his wife and two sons, spent seven years as a constable, and owns a construction and landscaping business. He’s a graduate…

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Chadds Ford special events ordinance delayed

Chadds Ford Township supervisors Wednesday tabled a possible special events ordinance until “we get it right,” according to Supervisors’ Chairman Frank Murphy. Ordinance 144 calls for a person or organization to apply for a permit to hold special events in the township and would establish requirements for planning events, exemptions and permit fees. Murphy said supervisors have discussed the idea for several months because “some…

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Grant to expand reach of water-monitoring

Citizen-science volunteers will soon be monitoring the state of threatened water sources for millions of people under the auspices of the Stroud Water Research Center. Stroud will guide the effort through a $2.5 million grant from the William Penn Foundation. The goal is to enhance citizen-science volunteer monitoring of water quality in eight regional sub-watersheds in the Delaware River basin, said a Stroud press release.…

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State offers tool to avoid convention tie-ups

For those residents already getting queasy about traffic jams from the Democratic National Convention, Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Thursday, July 14, that PennDOT has launched www.511pa.com/DNC, a detailed travelers’ website. It is designed to assist residents and visitors as Philadelphia hosts the convention from Monday, July 25, to Thursday, July 28. The site is linked both to PennDOT’s 511PA site and the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s…

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Birmingham gets ready for Freddy

Birmingham Township supervisors on Monday gave preliminary approval to a land development plan for Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. Restaurant owner Stephen DiMarco — who owns the Freddy’s on Sproul Road in Broomall — wants to open a second restaurant at the intersection of Route 202 and Old Wilmington Pike, across from Penn Oaks Golf Club. Supervisors gave conditional approval for the restaurant following a…

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Musings: No loop roadblocks

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A drawing of part of the Hillman Dreive extension showing the proposed roundabout on Hillman at Evergreen Place.

Clark Hoffman and Bill Bunch expressed the right idea at last month’s Chadds Ford Planning Commission meeting. Hoffman said local people have to solve local problems. Bunch readily agreed. Hoffman is president of the Painters Crossing Condominium Association. Bunch owns William Bunch Auction located in the Chadds Ford Business Campus on Hillman Drive, facing Route 202. The problem in question is the loop road, the…

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