Life-saving expertise honored at banquet

Annual EMS Council ceremony recognizes more than 100 By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Earl Taylor (third from left) poses with EMS officials after receiving the BLS Provider of the Year award. More than two dozen Chester Countians are alive today because the county’s emergency services community intervened in their behalf during the past year. Twenty-three residents survived a near-death...

Willistown Conservation Trust co-founders honored

Pair will receive award from Chester County Fund for Women and Girls  Bonnie Van Alen, president and executive director of Willistown Conservation Trust, and Alice Hausmann, vice chair as well as chair of the trust’s Community Farm Program Committee are being honored. Two co-founders of the Willistown Conservation Trust have been named the 2014 recipients of the Chester County Fund for Women and...

Democratic commissioner won’t enter 6th District race

Citing family impact, Kathi Cozzone declines to run for Congress  By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Chester County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone A potential battle between Chester County Commissioners for the Sixth District Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach won’t happen, a news release from Commissioner Kathi Cozzone said. “After several weeks of careful...

PECO, Natural Lands Trust celebrate partnership

Chester County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone (second from right) participates in the outreach, extending thanks to the volunteers for their help in caring for the popular trail. Volunteers join forces to spruce up popular county trail Volunteers from PECO and Natural Lands Trust pruned trees and shrubs, painted visitor restrooms, and placed protective tubes around trees at the Church Farm Lane trailhead...