Protestors push Pitts on immigration
Police break up peaceful Willowdale event after neighbor complains
More than two dozen Chester County residents gathered Monday morning to tell U.S. Representative Joe Pitts (R-16) to support the proposed immigration reform bill in the U.S. House. The peaceful event was ultimately broken up by police after a neighbor complained.
Updated: 4:30, adds comment from Rep. Pitts.
By Mike McGann, Editor, The...
County completes rock-solid 9/11 tribute
First-responders collect relics from 3 crash sites to memorialize at training center
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Jim Werner (left), a Uwchlan Ambulance Corps EMT, and Ed Toner, past president of the Chester County Fraternal Order of Police, display the shale from the Flight 93 crash site that will be memorialized at the Chester County Public Safety Training Center in South Coatesville.
When...
Jury commissioners taking fight to high court
Commonwealth Court denied bid to block law that has eliminated position
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
As expected, a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel denied the Pennsylvania State Association of Jury Commissioners’ bid to declare a law eliminating the office of jury commissioner unconstitutional, paving the way for an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, the jury...
Birmingham mosquitoes test positive for West Nile
Five townships produce first evidence of virus in county this year, says Health Dept.
A Southern House Mosquito, one of a number of breeds of mosquitos known to carry the West Nile Virus.
Mosquitoes trapped in Birmingham Township have tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV), the Chester County Health Department reported Thursday.
Tests on mosquitoes collected in Birmingham, Schuylkill, Thornbury,...
Charges multiply against former foster parent
D.A. calls defendant, a former URA coach, ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A 1995 photo of Leroy K. Mitchell may help identify other potential child sex-abuse victims, District Attorney Tom Hogan said.
Five additional child victims have surfaced in the sexual-abuse case against a former coach, foster parent, and corrections officer, Chester...
State police: Septuagenarian’s scooter stolen
Sometime between 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, a thief grabbed a red and black Jazzy Scooter that belongs to a 78-year-old Chadds Ford man, said state police from the Avondale barracks.
The alleged theft occurred on Hillendale Road between Rosedale and Greenwood Roads in Kennett Township, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call the barracks at 610-268-2022.
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County libraries plug into new children’s resource
Interactive e-reading program pairs fiction, non-fiction for ages 3-8
Chester County Library patrons now have free access to new children’s e-reading technology made available by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the library announced Tuesday in a news release.
BookFlix, an online e-reading program from Scholastic that pairs classic fictional storybooks with similarly themed nonfiction e-books...
Upscale brewpub coming to Kennett Square
Victory Brewing Co. said borough facility will also boast on-premise production
Victory Brewing Company’s Kennett Square brewpub will be located in Magnolia Place, a mixed-use development under construction at Mill Road and West Cypress Street. An architect’s rendering shows what the brewpub should look like when it opens in 2014.
Victory Brewing Company’s Kennett Square brewpub will...
Couple strives to sublimate anguish with outreach
Diaper drive will pay tribute to the infant son they lost
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Shane Brant and his wife, Suzanne Campos, pose with their daughter, Alex, now 9 months old, and a photo of their son, Max Athan Brant, whose legacy is helping other children.
The euphoria was painfully short-lived. An hour after giving birth to a healthy-looking son, a Sadsbury Township couple...
Police: Woman cited for duck-biting dog
State police from the Embreeville barracks cited a Kennett Square woman on Thursday for failing to confine her dog. Police said a dog owned by Brooke Holloway, 24, got loose and bit several geese and ducks owned by a West Chester man in the area of the 200 block of Brandywine Drive in Newlin Township at 6:12 p.m.
Police from the Avondale barracks said a trooper stopped a Chadds Ford woman on...
