Birmingham supports continued mapping of battlefield
Agrees to issue letter of support for Chester County effort to seek grant funds
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
BIRMINGHAM — The township’s board of supervisors agreed Monday to support a Chester County effort to get grant funding to continue mapping of the Brandywine Battlefield, a large portion of which is in the township.
The board met briefly to reorganize Monday at midday —...
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Unionville girls struggle, lose in tourney final
Outgunned by Haverford, Indians drop a 60-39 decision
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Unionville's Kelsey McDonald drives to the hoop against Haverford during the finals of the Unionville Holiday tournament. The Indians lost, 60-39.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — As the old saving goes, sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes the bug. You’ll excuse the Unionville High girls’ basketball...
Unionville girls advance to tournament final
Indians knock off Frankford, 54-39, play Haverford Wednesday night
Susie Pancoast, seen here in action earlier this year against Oxford, led Unionville Tuesday night. Photo courtesy, Unionville HS Girls basketball.
EAST MARLBOROUGH —Unionville’s girls’ basketball team enjoyed a fairly easy win over Frankford, Tuesday — and now is poised to play for the Unionville Holiday Tournament...
Winter storm skirts Unionville, hammers Philly, NYC
Most roads clear; disruptions seen as minimal
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
The Unionville area got off light during Sunday's snowstorm. Roads in Willowdale were open and clear by midday Monday.
While New York and Philadelphia ere buried by a severe winter storm, much of the Unionville area appears to have ducked the worst of the storm.
Snow totals ranged between 2.5 and four inches...
Teachers’ request for non-binding arbitration gets OK
40-day process by state-appointed ‘fact-finder’ will create new settlement proposal by end of January
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
The Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Association — the teachers union — has asked for a form of non-binding arbitration to break the currently stalled negotiations for a new contract between the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District and...
Chadds Ford approves zero tax hike budget
Township slashes spending by 9% to make up for lost tax revenue
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Township supervisors opted to cut spending, rather than raise taxes or dip into Chadds Ford's surplus for the 2011 budget.
CHADDS FORD — As expected, the board of Supervisors voted Wednesday afternoon to approve a 2011 budget calling for no local tax increase — a feat that required a...
Aqua issues boil order for some Newlin residents
NEWLIN —Aqua America is telling some township residents who get service from their Embreeville well to boil their water through at least Thursday, Dec. 23 after a chlorination system this week.
A breakdown in the disinfection system at the Embreeville well in the Aqua Pennsylvania (Aqua) Spring Run Water System was discovered on Dec. 20. The chlorine feed was repaired and the required chlorine...
Commentary: Politics trumps common sense in open space cuts
County commissioners finesse budget when bolder moves are needed; choices will lead to higher school, local taxes, more sprawl later on
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Slashing open space spending was a gift only the Grinch and the Chester County Commissioners would see as a good move.
The good news, I suppose is that Chester County seems to have pulled a rabbit from a hat and now suddenly...
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