Minella Blazes to 5th Place in PA Indoor State Meet

Runs a personal best in 60-meter hurdles; Mills 9th in 3K By Hannah Christopher, Track and Field Reporter, UnionvilleTimes.com Unionville's Alicia Minella. Photo by Charisse Ellsworth STATE COLLEGE — Alicia Minella, a senior at Unionville High School and a star sprinter and hurdler, finished fifth in the Pennsylvania Indoor State Track Meet Saturday in the 60 meter hurdles. The meet was held...

UHS Used Book Sale is once again a big success

Organizers think event at least matched 2010; will fund various projects at the school By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com Shoppers pour through books at the annual Unionville High School Used Book sale. EAST MARLBOROUGH — By Saturday afternoon, just after the start of the Unionville High School Used Book Sale, it was wall-to-wall people filling the high school gym, looking to fill a bag...

Popham wins District 1 wrestling title

Unionville senior named most outstanding wrestler of District 1 tournament, moves on to regionals Unionville wrestler Mason Popham Mason Popham, Unionville’s all-time winningest wrestler defended his District 1 title at 135 pounds Saturday, winning a pair of matches to bring home not only his second straight district title, but was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler. ...

Popham advances to District 1 wrestling semis

Mason Popham Unionville’s Mason Popham won his first match of the District 1 high school wrestling tournament and will match up against Coatesville’s Matt Brownback, Saturday, as he looks to defend his Section 1 title. Popham, a senior, pinned Anthony Inzania of Avon Grove at the 2:48 mark at 135 pounds. Junior Scott Seidenberger lost a decision in the opening round at 119 pounds to Garnet...

Surrendering reason for the sake of a headline and greed

When thinking about the Unionville teachers’ contract talks, it’s important to remember that we’re all in this together UnionvilleTimes.com editorial cartoon graphic. Copyright, 2011. All rights reserved. By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com There’s right, and there’s wrong. If you ask 100 people about the current Unionville-Chadds Ford teacher contract negotiations, you’ll...

Teacher contract talks resume after second rejection of fact-finder’s report

Structure and health care plans seen as major hurdle to new deal By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com PENNSBURY — And so the negotiations continue. After district teachers rejected for a second time the framework of a proposed settlement offered by a state mediator, contract talks between the Unionville-Chads Ford School District and its teachers resumed Tuesday. Although both sides have...

Popham wins Section 4 title, sets career win mark for Unionville

Mason Popham BOYERTOWN — There have been a lot of good wrestlers to come out of Unionville High School — and Saturday night, Mason Popham made the argument that he might just be the best ever. Popham, a senior, won the Section 4 135-pound title over Boyertown’s Peter Jones — and became the all-time winningest wrester in Indians’ history with 132. The win was second straight for Popham,...

Unionville girls lose playoff opener to Council Rock, 48-34

Cami Redfern led Unionville with nine points — on three three point shots. HOLLAND — Despite a furious third-quarter comeback that got them within three points, Unionville Higb School’s girls basketball team could not hold off the higher-seeded Council Rock South team, losing the opening game of the Distrct 1 playoffs, Saturday. The Golden Hawks ran out to a 13-4 first quarter lead, as Indians...

Unionville girls’ hoops, wrestlers open postseason Saturday

The Unionville High School Girls’ basketball team will have to open its postseason on the road when the playoffs start Saturday afternoon. The Indians drew the 23 seed in the District 1 tournament and travel to Council Rock, the No. 10 seed. Game time is 1:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the Unionville wrestling team starts off the Section IV tournament at Boyertown, Saturday morning, starting at 9:30 a.m. ...

Food service study may be put on ice

Efficiency study likely to be rejected by board, Feb. 22 By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com A proposed study that could lead to privatizing school lunches appears likely to rejected by the Board of Education on Feb. 22 EAST MARLBOROUGH — It looks like the efforts to privatize the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District food service may be as frozen as a decade-old Salisbury steak. While...