Letter: DA’s back pre-K to fight crime
To The Editor,
The passage of the 2014-15 state budget included an important funding increase for future crime prevention – a $10 million increase for PA Pre-K Counts.
What does Pre-K have to do with crime prevention?
Considering that approximately 70 percent of our nation’s state prison population failed to receive a high school diploma, education is a pivotal factor between incarceration and...
Art Watch: Jasmine Alleger
Painting & Collage combines words and images that Pop! plus what’s going on this week in art
By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times
Painter Jasmine Alleger will be exhibiting this Thursday July 31st at Galer Estate Winery for a Pop up show from 4-8pm. Alleger’s newest series of collage and fine-painting combinations are tied to specific word and image allusions. Her “Behr Premium...
Supervisors give The Barn at Spring Brook extension
Deal means facility can remain open, while addressing township’s, neighbors’ concerns
By Kelli Siehl, Staff Writer, The Times
The Barn at Spring Brook in Pocopson will be able to remain open — serving handicapped children — after a agreement was reached with township supervisors to extend some conditional use deadlines, Monday night.
POCOPSON — No large crowd and no fanfare, just...
Patton teacher attends Discovery workshop
Robin Martin
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Robin Martin, a teacher from Charles F. Patton Middle School in Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, joined 149 esteemed educators from across the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, for a prestigious week-long professional development experience hosted by Discovery Education’s Discovery Educator Network (DEN).
The six-day...
TCHS health students compete at conference
Glendalis Guadarrama won the bronze medal in the Nursing Assistant category at the 2014 HOSA National Leadership Conference.
JENNERSVILLE — Four students from the Technical College High School (TCHS) Pennock’s Bridge Campus recently competed in the Health Occupation Students of America’s (HOSA) National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. Over 7,000 students from around the country...
Meet author Kelly Corrigan, my twin. Sorta.
We’d never met, but she was like an old friend
By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times
On Wednesday night I got the amazing opportunity to meet author, Kelly Corrigan!
She is an incredibly smart and REALLY funny woman who writes about her life experiences (the joy and tragedy of it all) in such a way that you feel like you know her. Which, we sorta do because she grew up in Radnor where her...
Kennett boxer fights at MSG tonight
A win could mean a shot at the cruiserweight title
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
Kennett’s Anthony Caputo Smith (second from left) fights Ola “Kryptonite” Afolabi in a 10-round cruiserweight bout tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York.
There are many great venues for boxing matches but none as great as Madison Square Garden.
The Garden, which is located a few blocks away...
Alban winner of 2014 Legacy Award
Miguel Alban
WEST CHESTER — When Miguel Alban arrived in the U.S. in 2005, he couldn’t speak English, but in just a few short years, he’s become a pillar of the community in southern Chester County area, helping local hispanics, serving on various local boards. As such, Alban was named this week as the winner of Chester County Community Foundation’s 2014 Legacy Award.
Each year...
Brandywiners show support for National Guard
The cast and crew of Annie — now performing at Longwood Gardens — as put on The Brandywiners, signed a statement of support for National Guard and reserves during a recent rehearsal.
At a recent rehearsal for their upcoming production of the musical “Annie”, the cast and crew of THE BRANDYWINERS took an ‘intermission’ and signed a Statement of Support on behalf of the National Guard and...
Letter: GOP pension claims ring hollow
To The Editor,
The claim made in the recent OP/ED that Southeast Pennsylvania’s GOP backed Corbett’s pension revamp rings hollow. What the GOP fears is that Corbett is likely to be replaced by Tom Wolfe in the next election and some of them will go down with Corbett.
Frankly, it will serve them right. If the GOP had truly supported revising the pension system for the teachers union...
