UCF Board tables HS band mandate
Board votes to wait until January to decide about ending marching band requirement
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
The Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education isn’t expected to make a final decision on repealing the requirement of high school music students to participate in marching band until January, after tabling a proposed change to district policy, Monday night.
EAST MARLBOROUGH —...
Two die in Rt. 41 crash with tractor-trailer
Police said Wilmington pair had just left Mexican restaurant
KENNETT — A crash between an SUV and a tractor-trailer Sunday evening proved fatal for the two people in a gray Toyota Highlander, state police said this morning.
Police from the Avondale barracks said Matthew Petke, 39, of Wilmington, was attempting to make a left-hand turn to head south from the Taqueria Moroleon restaurant on Rt. 41...
BVA gives Pocopson open space award
Pocopson Township Supervisor Ricki Stumpo with an award recently presented to the township by the Brandywine Valley Association for its efforts in open space preservation.
POCOPSON — At a recent Board of Supervisor’s meeting township officials showed off an award the township received for its open space preservation efforts.
Supervisors’ Chair, Steve Conary proudly displayed the 2012 Brandywine...
Drumroll, please: Hillendale celebrates top scores
School’s combined PSSA math/reading result was highest in state
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Fourth-grade teacher Todd Picard leads Hillendale students in the wave during a “special spirit” assembly.
For several hundred students filing into the gymnasium of Hillendale Elementary for an assembly, the subject matter was top-secret.
Spearheading the espionage?...
Police seek help in case of murdered Marine
Buried in Kennett Square, he was unidentified for more than four decades
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
State police are looking for the public’s help to solve the 1968 murder of Cpl. Robert Daniel Corriveau.
For nearly 44 years, the remains of an unidentified murder victim lay in Longwood Cemetery, but the case was never forgotten, state police said.
On July 29, 2009, members...
Drug deception to cost GlaxoSmithKline $90 million
State attorney general: Pa. will receive $4 million of Avandia settlement
State Attorney General Linda Kelly announced that Pennsylvania will receive $4 million of a national $90 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline.
HARRISBURG –Pennsylvania will receive more than $4 million as part of a national settlement with GlaxoSmithKline that resolves allegations that the company unlawfully promoted its...
‘EXITS’ to make entrance at art association
Nonprofit agency to host two new exhibits, one a group show, the other solo
“Running of the Bulls, Arles” is one of the photos in an exhibit for Darcie Goldberg, executive director of the Chester County Art Association.
Two new exhibits of the same name will make an entrance starting this evening at the Chester County Art Association.
“EXITS,” a group show of about 100 works in all...
Suit: Attempts to avert foreclosure thwarted
Marshallton preservationist says bank rebuffed repeated efforts to modify mortgage
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Linda Kaat’s suit said her repeated efforts to avert the foreclosure of her Marshallton home were stymied by JPMorgan Chase representatives.
A Marshallton woman recalls painfully reassuring her dying mother that their financial nightmare would soon be resolved...
Marching band requirement poised for elimination
Unionville school board likely to adopt change making band a voluntary extra-curricular activity
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
The Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education is expected to approve a change Monday night that would no longer make participation in marching band part of the school’s academic music program.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — For music students at Unionville High School, marching...
School board seeks to calm sick day fears
Elimination of support staff policy doesn’t signal unwillingness to discuss sick day reinstatement for bus drivers, board members say
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education members stressed Monday night that elimination of policies specifying support personnel benefits shouldn’t be taken as an unwillingness to discuss reinstating sick days for the district’s...
