CASD board rejects CCIU for superintendent search

Board members said to be ‘uncomfortable’ with soliciting pubic input Updated: 6:45 p.m., adds comments from Tonya Thames Taylor By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times COATESVILLE — Not so fast, it seems. Less than two weeks after announcing that it would use the Chester County Intermediate Unit to perform a search for a new superintendent of schools, the Coatesville Area School District Board...

Parents protest closure of CCIU wildlife program

Program dropped due to low enrollment; nine TCHS students impacted By Nicole Brown, Staff Writer, The Times As of the end of this school year, the Wildlife and Natural Resource Management (WNRM) program at the Chester County Technical College High School (TCHS) will be cut due to low enrollment for the past five years — leaving the remaining students in the program to find other options for the coming...

Unionville High teens take chance with film and win

Short movie earns second-place finish in statewide competition By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Unionville High students Alan Dembek (from left), Molly Basilio, and Adam Carl show off their second-place prize for “Chances of,” a digital short movie. The boy gets the girl in the film, and its Unionville High creators come up winners, too. “Chances of,” a nearly five-minute...