For the most part, residents in Chester and Delaware counties were in step with statewide Pennsylvania results in the races for president, U.S. Senator, and attorney general in Tuesday’s primary election. In Chester County, Hillary Clinton got the nod for president on the Democratic side with 32,985 votes, or 55.2 percent, over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who received 26,046 votes representing 43.5 percent. Business mogul…
There’s going to be a new government in Concord Township and a new senator in Harrisburg. Beginning Jan. 1, Concord Township will no longer be operating under Pennsylvania’s Second Class Township Code. Township voters, including at least one incumbent supervisor, voted to have the township operate under a new Home Rule Charter. The vote was 2,674 for the charter, 1,833 against. While waiting for the…
The death of George A. "Frolic" Weymouth, an environmental pioneer, a co-founder of the Brandywine Conservancy, an accomplished artist, a passionate horseman and all-around community advocate, has rocked the region – and far beyond. During the past decade, Weymouth battled a host of medical woes that required him to add a pacemaker, crutches, even an oxygen tank, but his indefatigable spirit overcame them with good…
It is with great sadness that the trustees of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announce the death of its founder and chairman. George A. “Frolic” Weymouth was a visionary conservationist, philanthropist, a highly-talented artist and accomplished sportsman. In 1967, Weymouth, along with Bill Pricket and Francis I. DuPont, purchased two parcels of land in Chadds Ford totaling 47 acres that were threatened with…
Newlin Grist Mill in Concord Township is vaccinating trees on the property; some, anyway. About a dozen ash trees are being inoculated against the Emerald ash borer, a beetle-like pest that will kill the trees. “They’re already in Chester County and, if they’re not here, they’re coming here,” said park Director Tony Shahan. The Emerald ash borer — Agrilus planipennis — is a bright metallic green…
Members of the Concord Township Government Study Commission finished their official task when they voted on a final report in February. That report included a final draft of a proposed home rule charter that all registered voters in Concord will be able to vote on — for or against — in the April 26 primary. But the official task has been followed up by the…
The League of Women Voters is holding a debate between the two candidates vying for the 9th District Senate vacancy. The forum will be held in the auditorium of Riddle Village on Baltimore Pike, across from the Granite Run Mall, on Sunday, April 17, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The candidates are Democrat Marty Molloy, a nonprofit executive, and state Rep. Tom Killion, R-168, former…
Tuesday, April 12, marks the national observance of Equal Pay Day, the day when women and men around the country recognize the wage gap between working women and men, and offer remedies to address pay inequity. According to statistics released in 2014 by the U.S. Census Bureau, women are paid, on average, 79 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid – a gap…
April is National Safe Digging Month, and PECO wants to remind all customers and contractors to call 811 to have utility-owned underground lines marked before digging. Nationwide, there were nearly 350,000 incidents of damage to an underground utility line because of digging without first calling 811, according to the Common Ground Alliance, the national association that promotes the 811 phone number and safe digging practices,…
Concord Township supervisors want to bring public sewers into two areas of the township. One location is Andrien Road in the northeast section of the township, and the other area is along Route 202 from Smithbridge Road down to the beer distributor in the split near Goodwill and Targetmaster. To do that, the township must update its sewer plan — the Act 537 plan —…
The April 4 meeting of the Birmingham Township Board of Supervisors was pretty much all about roads. Supervisor Scott Boorse recapped last week’s meeting with PennDOT regarding the Route 926 Bridge project, and Police Chief Tom Nelling said there would be a township-imposed detour on Country Club Road that would coincide with PennDOT’s detour during the bridge reconstruction. As previously reported, construction is set to…