Coroner’s Office hosts training for first responders on Xylazine
More than 160 people, many representing the first responder community, attended the Chester County Coroner’s Office xylazine training event.
The Chester County Coroner’s Office hosted Xylazine: Arrival, Trends & Effects of this Prevalent Drug, its first-ever continuing education training seminar/webinar, on Friday, September 15.
Xylazine is a large animal sedative used as an adulterant in illicit...
What To Do: Dressage at Devon, Downingtown FallFest
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Dressage at Devon
Quite a few events on this weekend’s calendar are welcoming the fall season but one is closing out an annual spring and summer tradition in the Brandywine Valley.
Chester County’s annual schedule of equestrian activities is getting near the end – but it’s not quite there yet.
The annual Dressage at Devon (Devon Horse Show grounds,...
On Stage Extra: People’s Light opens ’23-’24 season with ‘Bonez’
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Keith A. Wallace
This weekend, People’s Light (39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, www.peopleslight.org) is celebrating the opening weekend of its 2023-2024 season.
From September 22-October 15, People’s Light opens the new season with the world premiere of “Bonez” by acclaimed actor, director, and playwright Steve H. Broadnax III.
An Associate Artistic...
On Stage: Maci Miller brings jazz stylings to Uptown!
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Maci Miller
Maci Miller, one of the Delaware Valley’s premier jazz singers, is known for her topflight albums and her spellbinding club dates.
This week, Miller will perform an infrequent theater concert here in Chester County.
On September 21, Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, www.uptownwestchester.org) will...
Time for a calm, measured look at what happened at Chester County Prison
By Rich Heiland, Columnist, The Times
DANELO CAVALCANTE is in custody. In Chester County, our 14-days of living with some level of fear, being couch potato voyeurs has ended. Mega congratulations are due for all the law enforcement personnel and others who worked tirelessly to track him down including Yoda, the police dog that locked onto him.
But what now? I would hope a calm and professional debriefing...
What To Do: Fall into fun, WC restaurant fest, Coatesville Grand Prix and so much more
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Coatesville Invitational Vintage Grand Prix
It seems that autumn weather has arrived. This is a weekend in which summer events are gone from the schedule and harvest and Halloween activities have yet to arrive. There is still a full slate of attractive events representing a wide range of genres such as cars, food, pirates, ethnic, hot air balloons,...
On Stage: After more than 50 years, Clannad is saying goodbye
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Clannad
It’s been 53 years since Clannad formed in County Donegal in Ireland. It’s been 50 years since the masters of traditional Irish music first performed in America.
Over that time, the band has released more than 20 albums and built up a strong large legion of devoted fans.
“Mat the road rise to meet you” is an Irish blessing that has been...
After 40 years, somehow, I’m still doing this
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa
On Sept. 13, 1983, I walked into the newsroom of Suburban Trends in Butler, N.J. — a twice-weekly newspaper — for my first shift as a sports assistant.
Forty years later, how different things are now seems difficult to absorb.
I was a college sophomore at William Paterson College and had been pestering the editors of The Trends for work since I...
GOT HIM! Cavalcante captured Wednesday morning
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa
Danelo Cavalcante seen earlier this week.
After a two-week manhunt, escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante was taken into custody Wednesday morning by law enforcement officers.
Cavalcante — convicted of the 2021 murder of his girlfriend last month — was captured just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, after a hunt that started in the southern portion of the county...
Escape shows being cheap can be very expensive