DA to thieves: Stay away

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Delaware County Chief Detective Jim Nolan, left, and District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer check out the interior of Wegmans before meeting with store management.

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer has a message for would-be thieves coming into DelCo, “You will be prosecuted.” He specifically singled out theft rings from Philadelphia: “If they think they can steal and only get a citation from the District Attorney’s office, we don’t do that in Delaware County. If you steal from our retailers, if you steal from anybody who sells products here…

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Winery awaits zoning decision

Concord Township residents and the owner of Penns Woods Winery must wait until November to learn whether the Zoning Hearing Board OKs a request for a special exception. The winery wants to replace its 1,400-square-foot barn with a 4,500-square-foot structure. The proposed new building would have 2,500 square feet of storage space and an additional 2,000 square foot deck for wine tasting. Many residents, especially…

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Wegmans gets alcohol hearing

No date was set, but members of Concord Township Council Wednesday night granted a conditional use hearing for Wegmans to change its alcohol sales hours. The grocery store was granted conditional use approval in 2015 to sell beer and wine from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. But now Wegmans wants those hours…

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Booze, outdoor dining, and ARPA funds

Concord Township Council Tuesday authorized the spending of $1 million of ARPA funds and granted conditional use approval for a liquor license transfer and outdoor dining for a restaurant. The township has more than $1.88 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (COVID money) and councilmembers selected seven projects on which to spend $1.145 million of the funds. Council President Dominic Pileggi said the remainder…

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Concord in brief

Concord Township Tuesday night conducted one conditional use hearing, rendered a decision in another, and became a member of Bird Town Pennsylvania. • A conditional use hearing held before the regular meeting was held for Del Pez Concordville, LLC, to allow for a liquor license transfer and outdoor dining. The company has several restaurants in Delaware and wants to open at the site of the…

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Pie times in Concord

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The winners are, from left, Andrew Novasitis, Kiki Coll, and Laurie Harrison. Andrew took first place with his Bourbon chocolate chip pecan pie. Coll came in third with her, Harrison won in the best appearance category for her queen bee apple pie. Not pictured is Wesolowski, who came in second with her cherry pie.

Concord Township’s Parks and Recreation Committee provided some tasty fun Sunday with a pie-baking contest. There were 19 entries and people who wanted a slice with ice cream got some, as long as they made a donation to the Rachel Kohl Library. The pies were already baked so the June 11 contest at the township park was pretty much a matter of eating and judging.…

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New car wash planned for Concord

The applicant for a planned automated carwash at the southeast intersection of Routes 1 and 202 must wait another month before learning if the plan can go forward. Plans call for a 30,000-square-foot, automated carwash with vacuum stations to go into the area behind the Comfort Inn and the old Exxon gas station. Concord Township Council held a conditional use hearing for the proposal by…

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Water service restored in Concord

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 struck during some work by PennDOT. The…

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Concord in brief

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A new self-storage facility is planned for 366 Wilmington-West Chester Pike. Concords Township Council approved the plan during its May 2 meeting.

• 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, but the facility, as planned, will…

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Wine and rubber duckies in Concord

It was a mixed bag of topics at the April 4 meeting of the Concord Township Council. Council gets a governor’s award, Wegmans wants a new hearing to change its wine sales hours, and the township plans a rubber ducky race. Following a request from an attorney representing Wegmans Food Market, council members are considering granting a new hearing for the store to change the…

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Concordville Inn to be demolished

Concord Township Council last week issued a certificate of appropriateness for the demolition of the Concordville Inn. The property is being sold and the intent is for a new structure for Encompass Health to be used as a medical facility. That new facility would be two stories and be used as a 50-bed, in-patient rehabilitation center. A total of seven conditions are connected with the…

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