Thorndale Giant employees volunteer at Honey Brook Food Pantry

GIANT Thorndale manager Mike Smith, store team members Liane Colon, Sue Rambo On Wednesday, February 24, team members from The GIANT Company’s Thorndale store spent the morning and evening volunteering at Honey Brook Food Pantry, sorting food items and distributing them to food pantry clients.  Thorndale store manager Mike Smith also surprised the pantry with $1,000 in GIANT gift cards, and donated...

Caln Police save life, thwart robbery

Officer saves colleague, Downingtown man from onrushing train CALN — A township police office is being called a hero today, after his quick response may have saved the life of a Downingtown man as well as a fellow police officer, Wednesday. Officer David Wardle pulled another officer – Jason Culbertson — and a robbery suspect, Ryan Keith Dolph, age 19 from the path of an oncoming Amtrak train,...

Why is the CASD rushing to buy a building?

Special meeting just weeks before new board members take office has rightly angered community By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times CALN — Elections, they say, have consequences. That’s why it’s a little disturbing to see the Coatesville Area School District Board of Education in a seeming rush to buy a building for new administration offices. You see, in little more than a couple of weeks at least...

D.A.: Caln Twp. teen now murder defendant on lam

Authorities say 19-year-old fatally shot his stepfather Monday night By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A homicide warrant has been issued for Deviane J. Scott, 19, of Caln Township, in connection with his stepfather’s fatal shooting Monday night. Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Deviane Scott, 19, is accused of murdering his stepfather, Joseph Durham, 36, after an...