Bridge Academy to host ‘Night of Hope’ on Nov. 9
Grammy-nominated rap musician to be featured speaker at fund-raising dinner
The Bridge Academy and Community Center in Coatesville is hosting a fund-raising dinner on Nov. 9.
A hub of activity at all hours of the day and night, the Bridge Academy and Community Center (BACC) in downtown Coatesville is hosting its First Annual Bridge Academy “Night of Hope,” a fund-raising dinner designed...
Art Watch: Karen Delaney
Sparks fly with Delaney’s welded steel sculptures
By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times
This week’s local art watch celebrates the unique steel works of noted local sculptor Karen Delaney. For the past twenty years, Karen has been creating magnificent steel sculptures from here to Prague, and has also continued to teach and volunteer in the arts as well. She is “inspired by architecture and forms...
Offense, defense, special teams score in 42-20 Coatesville win
Coatesville remains undefeated to earn chance for Ches-Mont title next week
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
Tyler Burke makes a first quarter sack. Burke, who has been Coatesville’s best defensive player all year, went on to return an interception for a touchdown.
CALN – To be a team means not just relying on one player to do all the work. It means having multiple threats that can...
Chester County SPCA touting special ‘Pumpkin’
Agency offering promotion to educate public about misunderstood pit bulls
Just in time for Halloween, “Pumpkin,” a favorite of the Chester County SPCA staff, is available for adoption.
Among the spookiest, scariest creatures of the season, here’s one that the Chester County SPCA says unfairly sparks fear and shouldn’t: pit bulls.
To celebrate National Pit Bull Awareness Day on Saturday, Oct....
CASD board rejects CCIU for superintendent search
Board members said to be ‘uncomfortable’ with soliciting public input
Updated: 6:45 p.m., adds comments from Tonya Thames Taylor
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
COATESVILLE — Not so fast, it seems.
Less than two weeks after announcing that it would use the Chester County Intermediate Unit to perform a search for a new superintendent of schools, the Coatesville Area School District Board...
MoGreena arts fest fuses area artists, businesses
Waste Oil Recyclers look to channel locals’ energy to create energy for locals
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
Artist Paula J. Myers-McDevitt discusses her work with an observer.
MODENA – Electricity, art, food, fuel, creativity, cultural movement—all of these things require the management of energy.
At their site in Modena, better known as MoGreena, Waste Oil Recyclers channeled...
CASD hires firm to investigate potential obstructions of justice
Conrad O’Brien to look into claims Ellison stalled DA’s probe
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
CALN – The Coatesville Area School Board voted to hire the law firm Conrad O’Brien to investigate potential instances of board solicitor James Ellison obstructing the district attorney’s ongoing investigation of the school district at its meeting on Tuesday night.
The decision...
Op/Ed: Lessons from CASD: School policies can promote a culture of discrimination
By Solomon Hunter and Rhonda Brownstein, The Education Law Center
When one or two individuals in an organization blatantly act out in discriminatory ways, it’s easy to imagine that dealing with those individuals, primarily by removing them from the organization, solves the problem. The message, often, is that these individuals were outliers and in no way reflect the views of other members of the...
Volunteers sought for earth-shaking initiative
1,400 trees to be planted in East Fallowfield Township
The Brandywine Conservancy is taking the lead on a project to plant 1,400 trees in East Fallowfield Township on Saturday; volunteers are needed.
Conservationists hope area residents will dig this important environmental activity: planting 1,400 trees in East Fallowfield Township on Saturday, Oct. 26.
The Brandywine Conservancy, Guardians of the...
Hogan: CASD board, Ellison may be ‘obstructing’ investigation
Calls for hiring of independent counsel, legal billing records to be turned over
Updated at 11 p.m. with CASD statement
Updated, 5:20 p.m., 10/22 with Rhoads & Sinon statement
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
WEST CHESTER — Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Monday that the Coatesville Area School District Board of Education and its solicitor may be actively obstructing an ongoing...
