In a 15-minute meeting Wednesday, the Kennett Township supervisors approved a confidential settlement agreement and an open space grant application formally appointed a chief administrative officer for pensions and finalized two appointments to the planning commission. The confidential settlement agreement that was unanimously approved was for a matter of personnel, according to township Manager Eden Ratliff. Ratliff said at Wednesday’s meeting, held at the New…
Meetings and polling places usually held at the Kennett Township building will be held elsewhere while remediation and repair work continues in the township’s meeting room. Kennett Township residents who normally vote in elections at the township building will instead vote at Bethany Presbyterian at 316 Kennett Pike, according to a press release. Election Day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday, Nov. 8. “On Oct. 6, the…
Kennett Township supervisors will consider advertising their draft budget and finalizing a proposed tax increase at tonight’s (Oct. 19) meeting. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the New Garden Township building, where recent meetings have been held while the township’s meeting room is remediated for mold. The meeting will not be live-streamed. Final budget approval is slated for the supervisors’ Nov. 16 meeting. The…
The Kennett Township supervisors will continue meeting this month in an alternate location as mold remediation is done in the township’s meeting room. The Oct. 5 and 19 meetings will be held at the New Garden Township building, 299 Starr Road, Landenberg. According to the township, they are in-person meetings only, meaning that there is not an option for people to watch the meeting remotely…
The Kennett Township supervisors approved the possibility of pursuing an injunction against the owner of 821 Burrows Run Road for violating the zoning code. “I can say confidently that 821 Burrows Run Road is in violation of our zoning code, as well as our property code,” township Manager Eden Ratliff said, adding that the zoning officer found violations “mainly having to do with large construction…
The Kennett Township Police Department recently promoted two officers. During a ceremony in late July, Cpl. Amanda Wenrich and Detective Miguel Juarez were sworn into their new positions. Supervisors’ Chairman Richard Leff said at the ceremony that the police department, including Wenrich and Juarez, “take community policing to heart.” According to Kennett Chief Matt Gordon, Wenrich is in charge of the detectives and two patrol…
Construction of the new Kennett Library & Resource Center is about to reach a new milestone with the placement of the last steel beam. All are invited to join us as we celebrate the tradesmen who have been hard at work on this new building for the last eight months. This event marks the “topping off” of this project that has been planned for more…
The Creamery in Kennett Square paid homage to Juneteenth Saturday with a program of music, reenactors, and discussions about emancipation and the end of slavery. Juneteenth, which became a Pennsylvania holiday in 2019 and a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the emancipation of the slaves at the end of the Civil War. It marks the anniversary of Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger announcing in Galveston,…
The insurer for Kennett Township’s former auditing firm will pay the township $735,000 in a dispute related to the $3.2 million embezzlement by the former township manager. The Kennett Township board of supervisors unanimously approved adopting a settlement, in which both sides “without admitting or conceding any liability or wrongdoing … have determined that it is in their best interests to resolve this dispute,” according…
Memorial Day traditions continued Monday with a ceremony at Brandywine Baptist Church in Chadds Ford Township and a parade in Kennett Square. The ceremony at the church kept its format of Boy Scouts from Troop 31, bringing in the colors, a retelling of how Memorial Day came to be — how it began as a way to remember the Civil War fallen with Decoration Day,…
International news can sometimes have an impact on local news. The latest example of that is the war in Ukraine and how it’s influencing this year’s Kennett Beautification Committee Plant Sale, which is a little more than two weeks away. “These people are farmers,” said committee member JoAnn Donlick in a press release, “and they cannot plant this year.” Those people Donlick referred to are…