Letter: Library board has failed on relocation
To The Editor:
Two decades ago, the Bayard Taylor Memorial Library Board announced the need for a new library facility. This facility still does not exist and apparently will not be available for at least another decade. The Boards over the years have made decisions and proposals that the community simply does not support.
The community rejected the Board’s current suggestion to use the Waywood site...
Winter of 2013-2014 yields nine Kennett heroes
Council approves ‘3rd Thursdays on State Street’ to help merchants recoup lost sales
Kennett Square Borough employees and officials were honored this week for their exceptional efforts during this past winter’s extreme weather. From left: These recipients included John Vernon, department assistant director; John Morris, streets department foreman; Eric Petrucci; Mark “Jake”...
Born Sisters CD release party a hometown affair
Country roots for so. Chester County siblings at Flash, May 31
By Denny Dyroff, Correspondent, The Times
Born Sisters, the Chester County duo of Kristen and Kara Zack, will celebrate the release of their new CD with a special show at The Flash in Kennett Square, May 31.
When the Born Sisters headline a “CD Release Show” at The Flash in Kennett Square on May 31, it will be a hometown event for...
Happy to shoulder blame for ‘Jack’s Fault’
Kennett music teacher one of numerous local links to band
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
The members of Jack’s Fault, a local rock and blues cover band, include Sean Patton (from left), Jo Huxster, Ken Genovesi, and Robert Huxster.
A Kennett Square resident who visited the borough’s La Verona restaurant last month did so at the urging of friends who recommended the band that...
New Garden gets report on permanent police station
Supervisors hear array of options, challenges for new facility
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Former New Garden Township Supervisor Bob Norris (right) addresses the board as Police Chief Gerald R. Simpson, who assisted him in compiling a report on a new police facility, looks on.
Whether the provisionally-housed New Garden Township Police Department remains on its own or becomes...
Thousands turn out for Kennett Run
Annual run raises money for area charities
By Hannah Christopher, Road running columnist, The Times
Runners take off from the start of The Kennett Run, Saturday. The annual road racing in Kennett Square race event helps raise funds for a number of local charities.
KENNETT SQUARE — On Saturday, the borough was taken over by a lively and sporty event involving thousands of people in our area.
Route...
W. Caln tractor trekker gets warm sendoff
Group of first-responders escort West Coast-bound ‘Johnabilt’ out of town
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A West Caln Township resident left the area Friday morning, May 2, on a cross-country trek that a group of first-responders felt deserved some fanfare.
C. Ivan Stoltzfus, a retired farmer and auctioneer, plans to drive his specially modified 1948 John Deere – dubbed...
Kennett’s Cinco De Mayo is area’s best
13th annual festival of food, music and fun looks bigger than ever
By Denny Dyroff, Correspondent, The Times
The food, music and pageantry of Kennett Square’s annual Cinco De Mayo festival will be on full display, Sunday.
If you’re in search of the best Cinco de Mayo celebration in the United States, the most logical place to look would be downtown Los Angeles — especially along Olvera...
Meeting on heroin epidemic postponed
Organizers say free presentation will be rescheduled
Kacie Erin Rumford
A meeting scheduled for Wednesday night, April 30, to raise awareness about the heroin epidemic has been postponed, its organizers said Wednesday.
Andy Rumford, whose 23-year-old daughter, Kacie Erin Rumford, died of a heroin overdose a year ago at their Kennett Square home, founded Kacie’s Cause a short time later to educate...
Possibility of Kennett regional police force advances
Borough Council vote sets up free state study on feasibility
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Kennett Square Borough Manager Brant Kucera (from left) discusses finances as Borough Council President Leon R. Spencer Jr. and Mayor Matt Fetick listen.
A quarterly assessment of finances, an update on the proposed historic district map and ordinance, and an analysis of the feasibility...
