Community Voices: My family of punctuation marks
Editor’s Note: Today, we introduce a semi-regular feature, Community Voices, featuring writing by members of the Unionville community on a wide range of topics. Many of the writers — as our first three writers this week — will be students and we think they have interesting insights. Our next installment will run Wednesday. Let us know what you think.
By Alice Liu, student, Patton Middle School
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Fords 22-4 run, ends Indians’ District One bid, season
Haverford size and experience too much for young Unionville squad
By Dave Conard Sports Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Indians guard sophomore Allison Lewis had a game high 18 points, but would gladly trade them in for a win.
HAVERTOWN—If you would have told Unionville head coach Tony Zambino prior to the Indians PIAA District One opening round game that his squad would allow the high scoring Fords...
Local youth rowers compete at Indoor Championships
VILLANOVA — Twenty Kennett/Unionville-area youth rowers from Newport Rowing Club (NRC) competed with a strong showing at the Mainline Slide, Philadelphia’s Indoor Rowing Championships at Villanova University. The annual event drew more than 500 rowers with an age span of 12 to 89 years old. Several area rowers brought home top honors and almost every NRC rower broke a personal record in the...
UCF settles with Stevens on property
$476,000 deal ends nearly five years of dispute over Doe Run tract
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
EAST MARLBOROUGH — After years of litigation and some public controversy, the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District and a local property owner have reached a deal with Charles Stevens over a parcel of land next to Patton Middle School.
Although it has been a matter of discussion for more...
Polar Plunge raises money, awareness
Annual BVA fundraiser is a frosty good time for local groups
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Snowflakes and frosty temperatures didn't stop hundreds of folks from enjoying a dip in the Brndywine, Saturday.
EAST BRADFORD — It was a perfectly lovely February day. A gentle snow was falling, with the temperature hovering in the low 30s.
While it was the kind of day most of us would want...
URA Girls: Terps edge Canes, Irish stun Bears, Vols ‘D’ up on Heels
POCOPSON — The season is coming down to the wire in the Unionville Recreation Association’s Girl’s Senior Division – Grades 6-9, which plays weekly at Pocopson Elementary School. Here’s a look at last Saturday’s action, as always, courtesy of Dan Block:
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Indians pin down a championship in an elite field
Unionville set the mark and hit the road as Trojans and Pioneers battle to decide title By Dave Conard Sports Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Unionville's John Hartz puts Avon Grove's Matt Capenter to the mat in action Friday night
LOWER POTTSGROVE—Sometimes you need a little help from your friends, occasionally even ones you don’t know that entirely well.
Friday night was no exception...
‘Race To Nowhere’ screening Feb. 23
FOCUS sponsors film, panel discussion following on whether achievement is trumping learning
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
EAST MARLBOROUGH — How much is too much?
That’s the central question asked in the award-winning documentary Race to Nowhere, which examines the culture of parents pushing their school-age children too hard, creating an educational environment where grades and scores...
Lego League winners meet with Pitts
Congressman meets with young robotics stars from Chadds Ford Elementary and Patton Middle School
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts (R-16) meets with 6th graders Austin Hwa, CJ McClure, Jonathan Nguyen, KC Simmons and Dev Singh from Charles F. Patton Middle School and 4th grader Thomas McClure from Chadds Ford Elementary School.
WASHINGTON D.C.– Rep. Joe Pitts (PA-16) met Tuesday with students from Chadds Ford...
Redistricting madness leaves elections in confusion
Court’s decision, Justices’ junket to Puerto Rico means no one knows exactly what comes next
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
You can’t make this stuff up.
Just when we thought that redrawing the lines on Pennsylvania’s election-district lines couldn’t get sillier, events went into the truly surreal this week.
For those of you catching up, the state Supreme Court tossed...
