Students, prospective employers meet at TCHS career and training fair
Students interviewing with prospective employers at the TCHS Career & Training Fair held in March 2022.
On March 15, 324 Chester County Technical College High School (TCHS) students and 138 employers from local businesses and industry partners gathered at the TCHS Brandywine Campus for the annual Career & Training Fair. The Career & Training Fair allows students to have personal one-on-one...
What To Do: Easter events dominate local event calendar
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Easter is almost here.
For some, it’s an important religious holiday.
For many, it’s just a commercial holiday focusing on Easter baskets, chocolate candy, decorated hard-boiled eggs and the Easter Bunny.
No matter how you look at Easter, reality is that it’s just a week away and special Easter activities are popping up (and hopping up) all over.
Highland...
Chester County Studio Tour returns in May
Since the last County Studio Tour in May 2021, local artists have gone back into hibernation mode. We have been in our studios developing our ideas, nurturing our intuition, and perfecting our skills. Once again, we will emerge this May to share our creative environment and new artwork. This creative hibernation has blossomed into an official two-day event with signs, banners, and a catalogue highlighting...
Coatesville’s Wylie to make pro boxing debut at Parx in May
Karl Wylie
Karl Wylie, a lightweight fighter from Coatesville, PA, and a former Golden Gloves winner, will be making his professional boxing debut at Parx Casino® on Friday, May 13.
“Boxing is the only thing I could get up and do every day and not complain about and it’s terrible because of what you put your body through,” said Wylie. “I could do this and not complain about it.”
With a passion...
YMCA to hold hiring events this week
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine, an association of eight YMCA’s located in Chester County, is hosting hiring events throughout the month of April for a variety of available careers and summer job opportunities.
As the leading non-profit dedicated to building connections, imagine going to work each day knowing that what you do has a positive impact on your community. At the YMCA, you can support...
What To Do: It’s Spring! Get out there an enjoy it
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Longwood Gardens
Forget that the temperature dipped to 24 the other night and erase from your mind those snow flurries you saw the other day.
It’s spring. It has been spring for almost two weeks. March 20 was the day of the vernal equinox.
Warmer weather has arrived. Outdoor garden attractions are staring to open for the season and spring events are...
Brandywine Hills Point-to-Point, April 3
A favorite spring outing for families in Chester County and beyond, the 79th running of the Brandywine Hills Point-to-Point sponsored by Radnor Hunt Foxhunters & The Hounds Foundation is slated for Sunday April 3rd at the picturesque grounds of Brandywine Red Clay Alliance’s (BRC’s) Myrick Conservation Center on Route 842, located approximately six miles west of West Chester and three miles...
What To Do: Festivals, events come roaring back after disruptions
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Annual Philadelphia Mineral Treasures and Fossil Fair
Many of the area’s annual events such as food fairs, pet shows, jewelry expos, collectors’ gatherings and ethnic festivals never happened in 2020 and never happened again in 2021.
We all know why.
Fortunately, COVID numbers are going down and special event numbers are on the rise.
Several annual...
Mushroom festival grant of $3K to Adult Literacy Program
The Adult Literacy Program at the Kennett Library was awarded $3,000 by the Kennett Square Mushroom Festival to assist with providing adult students materials for classes in English as a Second Language (ESL), American citizenship, and high school equivalency diploma testing (GED), the organization announced today. The grant comes from proceeds from the 2021 Mushroom Festival.
While the Mushroom Festival...
McKenna receives Chester County Bar Association Awards for service to public and legal profession
Chester County Bar Association President Michelle Bernardo-Rudy presents Gawthrop Greenwood attorney Patrick McKenna with an award for outstanding service to the public and legal profession during the Bar Association’s annual President’s Dinner.
Gawthrop Greenwood attorney Patrick McKenna is being recognized by the Chester County Bar Association for his service to the public and legal profession....
