Downingtown Country Club completes renovations
Downingtown Country Club recently completed several significant course renovations aimed at enhancing overall playability and improving course conditions for all golfers. Beginning in 2022, The club has added drainage, cleaned up bunkers, and, most recently, undertook a tree removal program and added and resurfaced nine tee boxes.
Eliminating the traditional labels placed on tees, Downingtown has adopted...
What To Do: Only in Chester County — Blobfest
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Blobfest
There are many interesting events scheduled for the area this weekend. Some of them range from unique to common and from hysterical to historical.
Phoenixville is hosting an event that is unique — and loaded with hysterics.
Two of the most over-used and often incorrectly used worlds in the English language right now are “literally”...
YMCA announces opening of pickleball center in Downingtown
Players hit the courts at the newly-opened YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown.
YMCA Pickleball Center at Downingtown, operated by the YMCA of Greater Brandywine (YGBW), opened its doors earlier this month. The brand-new facility featuring nine indoor courts is already making history as the first YMCA facility in the country devoted to pickleball.
“We are thrilled to bring this type of facility –...
Spring City Improvements League partners with local artist to create mural
Spring City Improvements League (SCIL) is announcing their partnership with local artist Ellie McIntosh and the completion of a brand-new large-scale mural on Main Street.
McIntosh has been painting commercial and residential murals for the past 15 years, both in the US and abroad. She has a passion for visual storytelling through mural painting. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture...
Kendal~Crosslands Communities award $18,500 to local high school students for future higher education
Two years ago, Kendal~Crosslands Communities created a new and innovative staff benefit – – a tuition assistance program exclusively for their high school student culinary staff members. In the second year, they are happy to report that most of their twelve graduating high school staff members received $1,000 to $2,200 towards their future college or trade school education.
“As a prominent...
Cronin takes helm at DCCC
Marta Yera Cronin, Ed.D
On July 1, Marta Yera Cronin, Ed.D., formerly president of Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles, Oregon, began her role as president of Delaware County Community College. She is the College’s fifth president since its founding 56 years ago.
After an extensive national search, in January 2023 Dr. Cronin was chosen by Delaware County Community College’s Board of...
What To Do: Summer fun in the sun
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
ChesLen Preserve
Summer has officially arrived and that means the event calendar is loaded with summer festivals.
This weekend, there will be special events at two Natural Lands locations.
On July 8 from 8-11 p.m., ChesLen Preserve (1199 Cannery Road, Coatesville, 610-486-6288, www.NatLands.org) will host a special event known as “Pints on the Preserve.”
East...
Downingtown to host preseason kickoff block party July 22
Philadelphia Eagles Rookie Safety Sydney Brown will join Downingtown’s first ever Preseason Kickoff block party.
Get ready for an exhilarating day on July 22 as Downingtown hosts its 1st Annual Preseason Kickoff Block Party, bringing together the Downingtown community for an unforgettable event. This exciting occasion will take place at the E. Wallace Ave. and Mill Alley Courtyard, right next to...
1,469 pets find new homes at BVSPCA adoption event
Some of the adorable pets that were up for adoption this past weekend at the BVSPCA Mega Adoption Event.
The Brandywine Valley SPCA (BVSPCA) announced today that the weekend’s Mega Adoption Event resulted in 1469 adoptions, breaking the record of all past Mega Adoption Events. The event, held at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, brought in families from across the Greater Philadelphia...
What To Do: Holiday weekend full of fireworks, fests and fun
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Downingtown Good Neighbor Day
This is Fourth of July Weekend and that means it is time for parties, festivals, picnics and a lot of fireworks displays.
The 43rd Annual Downingtown Good Neighbor Day (www.GoodNeighborDay.com) will be held on July 4 at Kerr Park in Downingtown starting at 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Activities will get underway with a “Prayer and...
