Backpack Drive in Coatesville aims to prepare students for success
1,500 backpacks given to CASD students
By Lauren Parker- Gill, News Editor, The Times
Aja Thompson of the CYI helped six-year-old Giselle Nunez pick out a new backpack for first grade.
COATESVILLE – Hundreds of families in the Coatesville Area School District gathered at Scott Middle School last week for the fourth annual Coatesville Back to School: Prepare for Success event, where they received...
On Stage (Extra): The Bangles keep it relevant
80s power pop group celebrates new album with show at the TLA
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
The Bangles. Photo by Karen Filter.
There are a lot of bands from the 1980s that are coming back on the scene but they have little relevance to the bands they were three decades ago — or to what today’s music is all about.
The Bangles, one of the era’s steadiest hit makers, are back on...
Willistown man faces sex abuse, child porn charges
Lawrence Jamieson
A Willistown man faces charges of sex trafficking, child pornography, sexual assault, conspiracy, and related charges, following a search of his home by authorities and are asking any other potential victims to step forward and alert authorities.
Lawrence Jamieson, 57, and a Norristown man, John Brown, 25, are alleged to have had a large cache of child pornography, as well as had...
UCF formally moves to investigate school start times
Timeline, study process formally adopted in district goals
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — The framework of a process to look at potentially changing the start time for high school and middle school students in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District as soon as the 2017-18 school year was more formally laid out during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
The investigation...
On Stage: 55th annual Philly Folk Festival on tap
Folk stars shine at Delaware Valley institution
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
The Hello Strangers
Thankfully, the oppressive heat wave that has blanketed the area lately seems to have reached its final stages. That’s good news for everyone — especially for the thousands of music fans who will be attending this weekend’s Philadelphia Folk Festival.
The Philadelphia Folk Festival...
Tempers flare over Pocopson’s Barnard House
Debate over building gets ‘personal’
By Karen Cresta, Staff Writer, The Times
The fate of Pocopson’s Barnard House sparked a heated debate during Monday night’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Times’ file photo.
POCOPSON – “I’m leaving. This is starting to get personal…,” said former township supervisor and former member of the disbanded Barnard House Steering...
Art Watch: Members’ show at Oxford Art Alliance
Broadway comes to West Chester
By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times
The 2016 Oxford Arts Alliance Member’s Show starts this Friday, August 19th, with an opening at their Third Street gallery from 5-8pm sponsored by Armstrong Cable Company.
“This year’s Member’s Show is a real community art show, exhibiting art by the professional artist to the weekend amateur – which is...
On Your Table: Take corn beyond the cobb
Try pasta with a creamy corn sauce and summer vegetables
By Cathy Branciaroli, Food Correspondent, The Times
Enjoy corn pureed and used as a sauce over pasta dressed with fresh summer vegetables.
The saying goes that corn should be “knee high by the fourth of July”. Well this year’s crop certainly has surpassed that standard here in the midst of August. Today, driving down a rolling country...
CASH Marching Band to perform in 2017 National Independence Day Parade
Nominated by Congressman Pat Meehan
By Lauren Parker- Gill, News Editor, The Times
The Coatesville Area High School marching band was nominated by Congressman Pat Meehan as the only band from Pennsylvania nominated to perform in the National Independence Day Parade July 4, 2017, in Washington D.C.
CALN – The Coatesville Area High School marching band recently received the honor of being the only...
Op/Ed: The Constitution and why it matters
By Dan Truitt, State Representative, 156th District)
State Rep. Dan Truitt (R-156).
The longer I have been in Harrisburg, the more often I’ve found myself voting against pieces of legislation because I believe they violate the state or federal constitutions. Hanging directly above the computer screen in my West Chester office is a copy of the oath that I first took in January 2011: “I do solemnly...
