Symbolic wreaths will pay tribute to veterans
Ceremony will take place at Oxford Cemetery on Saturday
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
On Saturday, Dec. 14, wreaths will be placed on veterans’ graves in more than 850 communities across the country as part of the Wreaths Across America project. In Chester County, a ceremony will be held at Oxford Cemetery.
Ask yourself what your life would be like were it not for the many...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane: No, it’s a giant mushroom
700-pound spore to descend on Kennett Square for New Year’s Eve
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
A sketch shows the mushroom that is being fabricated for Kennett Square’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
Move over, Manhattan: Kennett Square is poised to supplant Times Square as the go-to destination for New Year’s Eve.
After all, who wants to watch a boring ball when the sky...
Lies, damn lies and talk about Common Core
Kennett event drifted into propaganda, rather than a clear-eyed look at the facts
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
KENNETT — I came, I saw, and frankly, I left scratching my head.
Setting aside the oddity of complaining about the teaching of global warming on a day that four-plus inches of rain fell on the southern part of the county, closing roads and bridges, it was a complicated night of facts,...
The lies that kill