Southern Chester County Weeklies

14/01/2023

Residents raised concerns focused on local development and its impact on infrastructure, including traffic, at this week’s borough council meeting.

17/12/2022

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CAROLING IN KENNETT SQUARE FRIDAY NIGHT- Featuring Leon Spencer and Joan Holliday

Featuring Leon Spencer and Joan Holliday

14/11/2022

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03/11/2022

KENNETT SQUARE—At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Thursday Nov. Kennett High School received a bomb threatt, forcing the evacuation of the school and students were dismissed early. In coordination wit…

02/11/2022

Thirteen new windows will be installed at the new Good Samaritan Services site, 342 East Birch Street, Kennett Square, by the end of the year thanks to the generosity of many faith communities in t…

27/10/2022

KENNETT SQUARE—As part of Kennett Square Rotary Alliance’s efforts to assist the greater Kennett Square Community, the Longwood Rotary Club is holding its third Annual Grub Grab Great Rotary Restau…

13/10/2022

PENN TOWNSHIP—This week, federal funding of $2.5 million was allocated to help restore health care services to southern Chester County. The funding will go to ChristianaCare to support reopening of…

30/09/2022

IN WITH THE NEW
The old Unionville logo (left), and the new one (right)

28/09/2022

KENNETT SQUARE — Ground broke for new luxury apartments on West State Street during a windy afternoon ceremony on Tuesday with executives from Berger Rental Communities uniting with borough officia…

27/09/2022

NEW GARDEN — Aaron Rivero, a seventh-grade student at Upland Country Day School, delivered a bilingual speech at Tick Tock Early Learning Center of Toughkenamon in celebration of a special donation…

26/09/2022

Hispanic Heritage Month, along with Mexico Independence Day was celebrated on Saturday, September 17 at Anson B Nixon Park. It was a glorious day weatherwise and the event could be described in the…

19/09/2022

EAST MARLBOROUGH—The Unionville Community Fair Queen and Princess Pageant, the traditional kick-off event for the Unionville Community Fair, will take place Thursday, Sept. 22, at Unionville Elemen…

19/09/2022

CHRISTMAS SEASON HAS BEGUN!
At Lowe's in Avondale.....

23/08/2022

Rudolph Karkosak, president of the Kennett After-School Association (KASA), has announced the appointment of Paola Rosas as Executive Director of KASA and its acclaimed program, After-The-Bell. Ro…

16/08/2022

Over the weekend, the Pop-Up Library on Pomeroy Avenue was vandalized, with the door ripped from its hinges and books ripped to shreds.

13/08/2022

KENNETT SQUARE—Hundreds of underprivileged students will not go to school unprepared this year thanks to a Longwood Rotary Club book bag project. The bag and supplies are expected to save each pare…

09/08/2022

WEST GROVE—On Sunday, Aug. 28, local balladeer Charlie Zahm and fiddler Tad Marks will perform both traditional and original music outside in the walnut grove at historic Primitive Hall, 830 North …

04/08/2022

KENNETT SQUARE —Kennett Square, widely known as a destination town with its many brewpubs and annual events such as the Mushroom Festival and Kennett Run, has become one of the most popular municip…

01/08/2022

How many Kennett residents have noticed some brightly colored costumed dancers at recent parades and events? The group that I am referring to is the Tenochtli Dance Troupe or Danza Tenochtli de Cas…

23/07/2022

WEST CHESTER — Four years ago, Kerri Downes, 22 at the time, was concerned when she discovered a lump in her right breast. She went to a nurse practitioner on March 29, 2018, and was told it was be…

19/07/2022

Earlier this year, my “Story of Kennett” partner, Joan Holliday wrote an information rich article on where we stand with low-cost housing in Kennett after the pandemic. There is a consensus that Am…

12/07/2022

Have you seen any good photography lately? With the volume of photos being taken by everyone’s I-Phone, it seems the artful skill of photography is being lost. At the same time, when one sees a gre…

25/06/2022

NEW EXHIBIT COMING TO LONGWOOD GARDENS

The nighttime spectacle Light: Installations by Bruce Munro opens June 30 at Longwood Gardens. Created by English/Australian artist Bruce Munro, Light features eight installations, spanning indoors and outdoors. Highlights include the luminous Field of Light featuring 18,000 illuminated bulbs stretching across the landscape, a flamboyance of 1,000 flamingoes wading near the Chimes Tower, and C-scales, a shimmering canvas of 8,960 CDs in the Exhibition Hall that reflect colorful projections inspired by Longwood’s water gardens. For tickets, visit longwoodgardens.org.

WHEN: On view June 30–October 30. Thursday through Sunday evenings. The exhibition can be viewed beginning at dusk.

TICKETS: Members require free timed reservations if arriving after 3 pm Thursday– Sunday from June 30 through October 30. Admission is $35 for adults (ages 19+); $32 for college students and seniors; $19 for youth (ages 5–18), and free for ages 4 and under.

23/06/2022

KENNETT SQUARE—Earlier this month, 334 students descended the stairs of Kennett High School for the last time. A crowd of their closest family and friends greeted them below to celebrate their grad…

20/06/2022

As a stream of bad news continually comes across the media, Kennett Blooms Floral Flash and the planting of the Meadowitos was just what our town needed. This has been a refreshing break and remind…

14/06/2022

We need to build a safer process that controls how we access and use guns. Kennett Borough tried to address gun safety a few years back, but it’s against the Pennsylvania state law for municipaliti…

07/06/2022

The book, The Story of Kennett: Shaping Our Future One Child at a Time has always been about the kids, keeping them safe and providing the opportunity for them to become the best version of themsel…

31/05/2022

May 24 was a coming together of celebrations. The presenting event was an Open House for Mighty Writers El Futuro, an organization that serves families and youth in Southern Chester County. They we…

24/05/2022

One never knows who is going to show up at a Bridging the Community meeting and this May 11 was no exception. Carin Bonifacino came to tell us about the non-profit that she and two other women, Ela…