Some W. Caln residents advised to boil water after main break
Pennsylvania American Water routinely monitors the conditions in the distribution system. Late last night, we experienced a loss of positive water pressure due to a main break in West Caln Township along Route 340. A loss of positive water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back pressure or back siphonage....
Christmas fire damages West Caln home
Local residents faced an unwelcome guest on Christmas, an electrical fire.
On Friday, approximately 11:40am the West Caln Township Police Department responded to the 100 block of Penn Drive (Imperial Mobile Home Park) for a working fire. Upon officers arrival, officers used fire extinguishers and a garden hose to contain the fire until fire personnel arrived.
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W. Caln woman charged with injecting teen daughter with heroin
Faces various child endangerment, drug charges
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Jessica Lynn Riffey
A West Caln mother is accused of injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teen with heroin.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced charges Monday against Jessica Lynn Riffey, 34, for allegedly supplying heroin to her 14-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old boy and injecting the drug...
Police: Three die in W. Caln house fire
WEST CALN — Township police said Monday afternoon that three people had died in a house fire on the 300 block of Hill Road.
According to information from Police Chief Curt Martinez’ office, emergency responders were called to the house just after noon Monday, where they found a home fully engulfed with flames with three people trapped inside the house. All three — police did not issue further...
Natural Lands Trust awarded $5.7 million in grants
Money will fund improvements to projects such as Sadsbury Woods Preserve
Natural Lands Trust (NLT), which has helped area communities raise $2.7 million for their own conservation efforts, has been awarded $5.7 million in grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and the Marcellus Legacy Fund administered by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, a NLT news...
County residents bracing for another onslaught
Officials urging public to stay off roads – expected to be treacherous
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Like many Chester County residents, this robin is probably hoping the next round of bad weather doesn’t include ice. Photo by Dave Lichter
The $899 price tag was no deterrent for customers determined not to endure another prolonged power outage, no matter what the cost....
