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,…
Despite the origin of his company’s moniker, this Kennett area resident is no ordinary Tom, Dick or Harry. W. Thomas Musser transformed the Tri-M Group LLC – eponymously named for the three Musser brothers, Tom Dick and Harry – into one of the leading electrical solutions providers in the eastern U.S. Founded in 1964, the Kennett Square- based electrical contracting company has served the likes…
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…
Active threat and reunification on a school campus will be addressed at the bi-annual Safe Schools Summit on Thursday, April 7. From 5 to 8:30 p.m., school administrators, school board directors, law enforcement, teachers and parents are invited to learn more about responding to and recovering from an active shooter scenario. The Safe Schools Summit will be held in the auditorium of Phoenixville High School,…
After at least 14 years of delays, the Route 926 Bridge replacement project is set to begin in 2017, two years after the last time it was scheduled. If the project goes as planned, the total job will take a year, but detours will last only six months and access to businesses in the area of the bridge will be kept open. That was the…
Most area residents can only imagine the disadvantages of being unable to speak, read, and write in English; however, for many, that inability threatens their chance to live a productive, independent life. Nearly half of the Kennett Square Borough population is Hispanic or Latino with the vast majority having emigrated from Mexico, according the 2010 U.S. census. And many have struggled with the language barrier.…
The federal government has granted disaster assistance to reimburse Chester County and Chester County municipalities for costs associated with the response to the winter storm of Jan. 22 and 23, according to a county press release. Chester County submitted a request for $3,553,431, which included the cost estimated to deal with the snow removal from municipalities and other government agencies. The federal disaster assistance will…
Days after the January blizzard, teams of volunteers spread out across affluent Chester County, searching for residents who often operate below the radar: the homeless. The effort, part of a national initiative called the Point in Time Count, found that 682 people lacked permanent shelter on the evening of Jan. 27 into the early morning of Jan. 28, according to a report compiled by the…
Residents in southeastern Chester and southwestern Delaware counties will benefit from a $2.4 million vegetation management investment to trim trees and remove vegetation along 310 miles of aerial electric lines, said a PECO press release. The work is underway in Bethel, Birmingham, Chadds Ford, Concord, East Marlborough, Kennett, London Britain, New Garden, Pennsbury and Thornbury townships, and the Borough of Kennett Square. It will be…
At its meeting on Wednesday, March 23, the Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors heard differing views on whether township business is relaxed or hectic. Codes Enforcement Officer Russell Drumheller reported minimal activity for the month. “It’s slowed up a lot,” he said. But that lull is likely to be short-lived, based on the presentation from Planning Commission Chairman Dennis Smith. Smith described “a big month”…