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New super in Pennsbury

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on February 20, 2025

Kay Ellsworth takes the oath of office to be a supervisor in Pennsbury Township. She is sworn in by former Township Manager Kathy Howley. Ellsworth replaces Dan Boyle who became the township manager after Howley retired last summer.

Pennsbury Township now has a new supervisor replacing Dan Boyle. Kay Ellsworth was sworn in at the beginning of the Feb. 19 meeting. She will serve out the remainder of this year when Boyle’s term would have ended, and she will run for her own six-year term in November. Ellsworth has lived in Pennsbury for four years and has been on the Planning Commission for…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on October 17, 2024

Read more about the article Quick meeting in Pennsbury

A sinkhole in the Knolls.

Pennsbury Township supervisors made quick work of a short agenda Wednesday night. They granted conditional use approval for a coffee shop on Ponds Edge Drive and authorized the township engineer to start looking for a company to repair a sinkhole in the Chadds Ford Knolls. The conditional use hearing was held on Sept. 18 for FRU Property Management and Little Brothers Coffee Roasters. They propose…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on June 25, 2024

Read more about the article Kathy Howley calls it a career

Kathey Howley is retiring from Pennsbury Township effective Aug. 5. She has worked for the township for 46 years, and has been township manager for 30, since 1994.

Kathy Howley has been working for Pennsbury Township for almost 46 years. Now she’s retiring and said, “It’s been a wonderful ride.” Her expected last day on the job will be Aug. 5 and her replacement will be current Supervisor Dan Boyle who will have to step down from the board when he takes over as manager. That change for Boyle is to be officially…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 16, 2024

Pennsbury Township supervisors reversed their decision and have now denied the application for a bed and breakfast for the Gables restaurant. That reversal came during the board’s May 15 meeting. Gables’ owners Ann Kolenik and Alfredo Giannaccari sought conditional use approval to have a B&B at 1301 Brintons Bridge Road. There are two structures: the former Brandywine View Antiques store and an adjacent carriage house.…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on April 18, 2024

Read more about the article Gables gets B&B

The stone house is approved for a B&B.

Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors gave unanimous approval to the Gables Restaurant for a bed and breakfast operation in two buildings on its adjacent property. The restaurant will also be changing its name in time. Approval came after Wednesday night after two sessions of a conditional use hearing. Township solicitor Tom Oeste read a list of 29 conditions that Gables’ owners Ann Kolenik and Alfredo…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on February 22, 2024

Read more about the article Hearing continued for Gables

The house on the corner of Brintons Bridge Road and Route 1 next to The Gables could become a B&B.

Pennsbury Township opened a conditional use hearing Wednesday night for the owners of the Gables Restaurant to possibly have a bed and breakfast. The B&B would use two adjacent structures next to the restaurant. Those two structures are a stone house and a carriage house at 1301 Brinton’s Bridge Road, on the corner of Brinton’s Bridge and Route 1. The stone house — the former…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on August 17, 2023

Hillendale Elementary School is returning to the Pennsbury Township Zoning Hearing Board for an application that was already approved in May. The reason is to avoid litigation. The hearing board approved a special request application for an outdoor pavilion/classroom for the school on May 31 (see story here) but one neighboring resident — Kathleen Carmody — who was a party to that proceeding opposed the…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 30, 2023

Read more about the article The Gables wants a B&B

The house on the corner of Brintons Bridge Road and Route 1 next to The Gables could become a B&B.

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…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 18, 2023

Read more about the article Supervisors favor Hillendale request

Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Director of Facilities James Whitesell, left of the easel, and Hillendale Elementary School Principal Joshua Leight, right, present a plan for an outdoor pavilion to Pennsbury Township supervisors.

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 said the need for the outdoor space became apparent when…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on April 20, 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 Parking” signs will come down and new signs indicating…

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on March 16, 2023

There’s still no resolution to the parking issue on Constitution Drive in Chadds Ford Knoll in Pennsbury Township, but Supervisors’ Chairman Aaron McIntyre said he expects one next month. Parking restrictions on the street went into effect in January because of safety and traffic flow issues caused by on-street parking. McIntyre said during the February meeting that prohibiting parking on both sides of Constitution was…