Girls HS Golf: Unionville beats Downingtown East, wins Ches Mont title

The Unionville “Lady Longhorns” defeated  Downingtown East in a High School Girls golf match at the Whitford Country Club. Today’s win put Unionville at 9-0 in the league and solidified another Ches-Mont Championship for the Longhorns golf program. Low score in today’s round was Unionvile’s team captain Mary Dunigan who shot a 36 (even par round). Senior Mira Patel...

County awards 1st round of American Rescue Plan grants

Chester County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz (center), Josh Maxwell (second left) and Michelle Kichline (right) meeting with the County’s ARPA advisory teams at their inaugural meeting in February. In the first round of award announcements, 73 Chester County groups and organizations will be receiving ARPA grants totaling close to $40 million. Chester County Commissioners today approved the first...

400 riders attend ‘Bike The Brandywine’ event

400 riders enjoyed ‘Bike The Brandywine’ this past weekend. The Brandywine Conservancy’s “Bike the Brandywine” event returned for its fifth year on Saturday, September 17 with nearly 400 cyclists enjoying a sunny day along the Brandywine Creek Greenway and surrounding Chester County countryside. This year’s event featured three scenic loops filled with stunning views of the area’s...

Big crowds enjoy Coatesville Grand Prix

Thousands of fans came out this past weekend for the Coatesville Grand Prix this past weekend. Thousands flocked to the City of Coatesville for the sixth annual Coatesville Invitational Vintage Grand Prix. Fans were treated to the thrill of watching drivers of vintage racing cars and motorcycles dating from 1900 to 1977 compete individually over a challenging 2.2-mile road course that wound through...

Downingtown East football game on Fri. to inspire inclusivity

Members of the Downingtown High School East Best Buddies wear hats provided by the Eagles Autism Foundation during the first Best Buddies mixer of the 2022-23 school year. The Downingtown High School East chapter of Best Buddies International is partnering with the Eagles Autism Foundation to celebrate the school’s 10th annual “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign on Friday,...

ChristianaCare: West Grove campus emergency dept. site won’t open for at least a year

The former Jennersville Hospital will reopen as a medical campus, operated by ChristianaCare. But the initial phase, which calls for emergency medicine, is still a year from opening, company officials say. Leaders from ChristianaCare and local elected officials provided an update last week on the status of the former Jennersville Hospital which the health care company purchased in June and expects...

Three Owen J. Roberts seniors National Merit semi-finalists

Three Owen J. Roberts (OJR) High School seniors were named by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation as semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. All semifinalists are eligible to compete for more than 7,200 National Merit Scholarship awards worth nearly $28 million, to be awarded in spring 2023. The program honors students who meet exceptional academic ability standards...

What To Do: Rev those engines! Coatesville Grand Prix is back

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Coatesville Grand Prix This is a weekend in which summer events are gone from the schedule and harvest and Halloween activities have yet to arrive. There is still a full slate of attractive events representing a wide range of genres such as cars, food, pirates, ethnic, hot air balloons, arts and crafts, trains, scarecrows and lots more. The Coatesville...

On Stage: Harper brings sounds from down under to blues

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Harper Many, many blues bands have performed at Jamey’s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985,www.jameyshouseofmusic.com) in recent years, but none have had the musical line-up of this week’s headliner. On September 16, Jamey’s will host the area debut of Harper and Midwest Kind. The band’s founder/leader is an award-winning...

Boys HS Golf: Unionville holds off Avon Grove

The Unionville boys varsity golf team played Avon Grove today.  The match result was: Unionville 196     Avon Grove 223 Nate Lyons led the way for the Longhorns with a score of 37. Unionville’s record remains at 5-2 in the CM-American league. Unionville’s next match is Monday, Sept. 19th at 3pm.   It is against Oxford, and it will be held at Wyncote.    Send article...