WCDF Grant Application Now Open
WEST CHESTER- The West Chester Downtown Foundation (WCDF) has announced the application period for the 2024 Community Grant is now open. The WCDF provides financial support for worthy, non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations in the Greater West Chester Community with a maximum grant of $2,500. The WCDF’s Grants Committee evaluates applications for their ability to meet human needs in our community, the...
Honorees announced for the Greater West Chester Chamber’s October 2024 Annual Banquet
2023 Community Service Organization of the YearL-R, Past Fire Chief Jon Brill, Past Fire Chief Don Herb, Assistant Fire Chief Justin McClure, Fire Chief Mark Scanlon, Assistant Fire Chief Michael DiMeo, Assistant Fire Chief Greg Witmer and Past Fire Chief Michael McDonald.
CTDI, Mac Neilon and The West Chester Fire Departments will be celebrated at the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce’s 2024...
Oxford Arts Alliance Annual Members Show, July 5
July’s exhibit in the Gallery at the Oxford Arts Alliance is our Annual Members Exhibition
The Oxford Arts Alliance Annual Members’ show is a vibrant celebration of creativity and community, welcoming artists of all skill levels and backgrounds to submit and exhibit their work. Open to every member of the Alliance, this eclectic showcase features an array of mediums, colors, subjects and...
What To Do: Fireworks, fun for Fourth of July
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Downingtown Good Neighbor Day
This is Fourth of July week and that means it is time for parties, festivals, picnics and a lot of fireworks displays.
The 44th Annual Downingtown Good Neighbor Day (www.GoodNeighborDay.com) will be held on July 4 at Kerr Park in Downingtown from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Activities will get underway with a “Prayer and Flag Ceremony”...
On Stage: Celebrating 13 years of Better Than Bacon
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Better Than Bacon
The weekend’s attractive line-up of live entertainment starts early this weekend with a local comedy favorite in West Chester, a prog rock band in Kennett Square and an unusual circus in Bensalem.
Better Than Bacon is coming back to Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, www.uptownwestchester.org)...
CCIU celebrates groundbreaking of new Great Valley campus
From left, CCDC Principal Dr. Bruce Tinor, CCIU Executive Director Dr. George F. Fiore, student Evan Range and his mother Molly Rang, student Jake LeSage and his parents Stacey and Wayne, and CCIU Learning Center Principal Dr. Don Mangan celebrate the groundbreaking of the Child and Career Development Center’s new Great Valley campus on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.
The Chester County Intermediate Unit...
Kennett Library receives $500K grant to enhance Makerspace facility
Kennett Library announced the receipt of a $500,000 grant from the Longwood Foundation to enhance and expand its makerspace facilities. This generous grant will enable the library to provide state-of-the-art resources and innovative programming, further establishing the library as a cornerstone of creativity and learning in the community.
Enhanced Makerspace Features:
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Inner Nature: Matter matters
By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times
In this article, I will extend the topic begun last month on the constitution of the universe as we currently understand it and simplify (or at least try!) the simply overwhelming vocabulary that attends this topic. And just to be clear about what the universe’s composition has to do with biology or bees…it has everything to do with biology and bees. Living...
3 WCU students to sign pledge to teach in their home districts
Dr. Desha Williams (center), dean of West Chester University’s College of Education and Social Work, is pictured at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School with recent WCU education graduates/former PRIZE Ambassadors Devin Davis (back row/left), Imere Williams (back row/middle), and Equity and Advancement Officer for Colonial School District Melissa Figueroa-Douglas (back row/right).
For West Chester University’s...
There’s a crisis out there and it is coming for everyone regardless of politics…