PennDOT: Road spruce-ups continue around holidays
Scheduled work includes Birmingham, Newlin, Pocopson and East, West Marlborough
Area roadwork has been scheduled this week, said an announcement on Friday, Dec. 20, from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). PennDOT wants motorists to be mindful of possible delays.
Utility installation on U.S. 1 in Concord Township will result in lane closure between Brinton Lake Road and Rt. 322...
Magness breaks national record in 200-meter freestyle
Patton 7th grader bursts record for 11 & 12 year olds
LANCASTER — Unionville’s Matt Magness broke the national record for 11 & 12 year olds in the 200-meter freestyle this past weekend competing at the TYR Cup at Franklin & Marshall College.
Magness, a seventh grader at Charles F. Patton Middle School, broke the five-year old record of Nick Silverthorn’s 11-12 U.S. National...
Ellison is out and so is the Tea Party
One — the former Democratic power-broker — knows he’s done, the other is oblivious
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
As we head into the holiday season — and hopefully, a couple of weeks of relative quiet — a few notes and thoughts on local political stuff and other news items.
Maybe the topline item this morning is that James Ellison is out at Rhoads & Sinon — meaning he will no...
Girls basketball: Coatesville edges Unionville, 33-25
KENNETT — Hannah Timmons scored 13 points to lead Coatesville’s girls basketball team past Unionville, 33-25, in the opening game of the Kennett Girls Basketball Tournament on Friday. The game was the season opener for both squads,
Coatesville ran out to an early lead — 14-4 after the first quarter — and was able to hold on despite a furious Unionville comeback.
Nafisa Saunders helped power...
Unionville Art Gala is a big hit
By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times
A display of art work by the Unionville High School Art Gala’s featured artist, Jeff Schaller. Once again, the event brought artists from around Chester County and beyond to show their works and offer them for sale.
The 2013 Unionville Art Gala held at Unionville High School in Kennett Square was a great success drawing large crowds during the Friday Night...
Smith, UHS girls grab Ches-Mont cross country title
Perfect weather, challenging course for local runners
By Hannah Christopher, Running Editor, The Times
Runners enjoy the beauty of the Willowdale Steeplechase course — used for part of Friday’s Ches Mont Cross Country championships — with the Unionville High School girls winning the girls’ team title and West Chester Henderson winning the boys’ title.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — If you...
Rt. 82 speed limits cut to 30 MPH in Unionville Village
Multi-year effort to slow traffic in area bears fruit
Traffic should be moving through the village are of Unionville a bit slower pace soon, after East Marlborough Township Supervisors formally approved a reduction in speed limits to 30 on Route 82 from the roundabout to Mill Road.
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Township supervisors approved a reduction of the speed limit in...
$325K lottery winning ticket sold at Landhope Farms
Cash 5 winner worth some $325,000
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Someone in the greater Unionville area is going to have enough cash for a lifetime of hoagies after hitting all five numbers in the Cash 5, on a ticket sold at the Landhope Farms at the intersection of Routes 926 and 82, Pennsylvania Lottery officials said — but as yet no one has stepped forward to claim the...
Unionville powers past Kennett, 45-7
Indians’ explosive offense continues to produce on the ground and in the air
Unionville’s David Daly races for the endzone in the first quarter, as the Indians dominated neighboring Kennett, 45-7, Friday night. Jim Gill photo.
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Kennett’s Nick Dunlevy had just raced 69 yards down the right side, silencing a raucous Unionville homecoming...
After three years, just two words: thank you
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
On Oct. 1, 2010 Unionville woke to flooding in the wake of Tropical Storm Nicole and a new source for local news and information, The Unionville Times.
We launched that gray October morning with no staff, little resources and not much more than a conviction that there was a better way to do local news, digitally, on the Web.
Through the last three years, that one site...
