What To Do: Fiddlers take center stage at Hibernia

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times One of Chester County’s most popular annual events is edging closer to the century mark. The Chester County Old Fiddlers’ Picnic (Hibernia County Park, off Route 340, Wagontown, 610-383-2812, www.chesco.org/parks), which is scheduled for August 12, is celebrating its 94th anniversary this year. Known originally as the “Chester and Delaware Counties’...

What To Do: Downingtown Good Neighbor Parade

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times  Good Neighbor Parade Downingtown has always been a neighborly town – so neighborly that it has an annual event schedule that includes Good Neighbor Day each summer and Good Neighbor Christmas (downtown Downingtown, http://www.dtownchristmas.com) every winter. On December 11, Downingtown will host its annual Good Neighbor Christmas Parade beginning...

What To Do: Busy holiday — and non-holiday — event schedule this weekend

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times March In at Valley Forge Which is harder to do right now – go 10 minutes without being bombarded by holiday advertising or finding a non-holiday activity on the area’s event calendar? The Christmas season seems a little different this year. The holiday spirit is in the air but the traffic around malls and shopping centers is almost normal —...

What To Do: Chester County Restaurant Festival celebrates 40 years

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times The Chester County Restaurant Festival The Chester County Restaurant Festival (Gay Street and downtown area, West Chester, 610-436-9010, http://www.downtownwestchester.com/view_program.php?id=293) is celebrating 40 years of treating visitors to the borough with the opportunity to sample a wide variety of gourmet treats for almost 40 years. This year,...

Commissioner present check to Mill at Anselma

Chester County Commissioners present a check for $1,000 to representatives from The Mill at Anselma in Chester Springs. Pictured from left are: Chester County Commissioners Terence Farrell and Kathi Cozzone; Mill at Anselma Board Member Ernie Holling; Will Caverly, Executive Director Designate for the Mill at Anselma; and Chester County Commissioners’ Chair Michelle Kichline. The Chester County Commissioners...

What To Do: Good Neighbor Christmas in Downingtown

By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at Downingtown’s Good Neighbor Christmas. Downingtown has changed a lot over the years but is still a neighborly town. It always been a neighborly town – so neighborly that it has an annual event schedule that includes Good Neighbor Day each summer and Good Neighbor Christmas (downtown Downingtown, http://www.dtownchristmas.com)...

What To Do: Summer Solstice at TLC, Chadds Ford

First weekend of summer is packed with family-friendly events By Denny Dyroff, Correspondent, The Times The Chadds Ford Historical Society hosts a “Colonial Faire,” this weekend as part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Barns-Brinton House. Swim clubs have had their pools open for several weeks already and schools have all finished the course years but summer will not officially...