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...

CASD vote exacerbates rancor, outrage

Initially confused, residents then angered by abrupt end to meeting By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Before the 6-1 vote, Board President Neil Campbell asked his colleagues if anyone wanted to separate any of the items for discussion on its lengthy, 13-page agenda from what would become a collective vote; none did. So the decision to accept the resignations of former Superintendent...