Cooking up ways to feed family on budget
Program at Coatesville Library will stress healthy, economical meals
While the children enjoy Lil’ Critters at the Coatesville Library, parents are invited to participate in free cooking and nutrition instruction.
Cindy Seigafuse from the Penn State Extension will be demonstrating delicious, healthful meals starting Feb. 11 and running through March 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The program,...
More of the same: snow closes schools, county offices
Forecasts of nasty weather Monday morning turned out to be accurate, as wet slushy, heavy snow has closed virtually every school in the area and all Chester County offices.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a Winter Storm Warning early Monday, calling for accumulations in Chester County of between four and eight inches. The snow started just before the morning rush Monday and produced slick...
County offering free master composting classes
Participation in all three, two-hour sessions will result in certification
The Chester County Board of Commissioners, through the Chester County Solid Waste Authority, is hoping residents will dig this offering: free certified master composting classes.
The classes – attendance is required all three weeks to become certified – will be held at the Chester County Library, 450 Exton Square Parkway,...
City police: Man, 58, fights off two masked males
He says men fled in white Cadillac after trying to force him to enter his home
Coatesville Police responded to the 400 block of Valley Road on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 4:15 p.m. for an attempted home invasion, Officer Paul Antonucci reported. The 58-year-old victim said while he was outside his residence, a white Cadillac pulled up and two young black males wearing ski masks got out of the back seat and...
Groundhog, NWS agree: nasty weather inbound
4-6 inches of snow seen Monday; heavy rains, flooding possible Wed.
While groundhogs may be seeing an extended winter, the National Weather Service says Chester County is in for a hairy week of wintery weather.
It appears that the world most famous groundhog — Punxsutawney Phil — and the National Weather Service are on the same page: There’s lots more winter headed for Chester County.
Although...
Art Watch: Sara Bleemer
Photo images from the heart
By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times
Sara Bleemer is a local Chester County art photographer who has been taking photographic images for as long as she can remember, but as her children have grown older, she has been able to spend more time focusing on this artistic passion. For the past four years Sara has shown regularly in most of the local art shows and she has a very...
A rush to bipartisanism amid a few intra-party battles
Is getting along to get ahead back in fashion?
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Let’s face it, bipartisanism is the new black.
If you listened to a lot of political types in Chester County this past week, candidates and elected officials across the political spectrum were working to show their ability to make nice with the other side.
But roiling below the surface are a handful of intra-party battles...
Caln to take action on road deterioration in 2014
Humpton, Fisherville Roads, GO Carlson Blvd. among top priorities
By Kyle Carrozza, Staff Writer, The Times
CALN – The Caln Township Board of Commissioners discussed a number of different road repair projects that the township will undertake this year at its meeting Thursday night.
Township Engineer Jeffrey McClintock presented plans to work on Humpton Road drainage, GO Carlson Boulevard drainage...
State warns of approaching unhealthy air mass
Those with respiratory problems urged to limit outdoor activity Saturday
Harrisburg – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and its regional air quality partnerships have forecast a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day on Saturday, Feb. 1, due to the unseasonably warm air mass moving in this weekend.
DEP and the partnerships urge residents sensitive to air pollution to limit outdoor...
2 area men indicted in federal explosives case
Pipe bombs allegedly made by W. Caln resident, possessed by Downingtown man
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Istvan Merchenthaler
A multi-agency, months-long investigation into a cache of explosives found in a storage locker in East Whiteland Township has apparently led to indictments against two Chester County men that were announced on Friday, Jan. 31, by the U.S. Attorney’s...
