Some W. Caln residents advised to boil water after main break
Pennsylvania American Water routinely monitors the conditions in the distribution system. Late last night, we experienced a loss of positive water pressure due to a main break in West Caln Township along Route 340. A loss of positive water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back pressure or back siphonage....
Christmas fire damages West Caln home
Local residents faced an unwelcome guest on Christmas, an electrical fire.
On Friday, approximately 11:40am the West Caln Township Police Department responded to the 100 block of Penn Drive (Imperial Mobile Home Park) for a working fire. Upon officers arrival, officers used fire extinguishers and a garden hose to contain the fire until fire personnel arrived.
W. Caln woman charged with injecting teen daughter with heroin
Faces various child endangerment, drug charges
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Jessica Lynn Riffey
A West Caln mother is accused of injecting her 14-year-old daughter and another teen with heroin.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced charges Monday against Jessica Lynn Riffey, 34, for allegedly supplying heroin to her 14-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old boy and injecting the drug...
Police: Three die in W. Caln house fire
WEST CALN — Township police said Monday afternoon that three people had died in a house fire on the 300 block of Hill Road.
According to information from Police Chief Curt Martinez’ office, emergency responders were called to the house just after noon Monday, where they found a home fully engulfed with flames with three people trapped inside the house. All three — police did not issue further...
Medicine-disposal boxes coming to permanent area sites
Joint initiative will enable residents to avert risk unused prescriptions pose
In the past, residents’ best option for disposing of unwanted medication was to take advantage of the semi-annual collections, such as the one that Coatesville Police Sgt. Rodger Ollis helped organize in the city.
For years, government officials have seen mounting evidence that drug abuse often originates in home medicine...
At least two new CASD board members elected
Eight votes separate five candidates in So. Coatesville council race
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
There will be at least two new members of the Coatesville Area School District Board of Education and it could be days or even weeks before its is known if there will be one more new member, because of write-in votes. The same is true for who the winners are in a razor-thin Borough Council race in...
State police probing theft from W. Sadsbury vehicle
Police said windows were smashed to gain access; iPod stolen
State police from the Embreeville barracks reported the following incidents recently in the Coatesville area.
Police are investigating a theft from a vehicle sometime between 9 p.m. on Oct. 19 and 10:28 a.m. on Oct. 20 on Upper Valley Road in West Sadsbury Township. Police said windows were broken in two vehicles and an iPod was stolen. Anyone...
Questions persist over ambulance fuel costs
Meeting tomorrow between W. Caln and W. Brandywine may resolve issue
By Jamie Richard, Staff Writer, The Times
A dispute continues over fuel costs for the Westwood Ambulance service.
WEST BRANDYWINE – A dispute over paying fuel costs for the Westwood ambulance service continued at Thursday’s board of supervisors meeting.
At a Sept. 6 meeting, supervisors from West Caln gave a presentation before...
W. Caln again seeks fuels costs from W. Brandywine
Townships still in dispute over paying ambulance fuel costs
By Jamie Richard, Staff Writer, The Times
West Caln supervisors are asking West Brandywine supervisors to chip in on fuel costs for the Westwood EMT unit that covers the two townships. Since replacing the Martins’ Corner EMT unit, West Caln has paid all fuel costs for both townships.
WEST BRANDYWINE – Thursday’s board of supervisors...
PennDOT: Steer clear of traffic troublespots
Line-painting and bridge detours may slow travel
Line-painting trucks, lane restrictions, and lane closures are among the potential traffic-jammers on tap for area residents, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.
The agency said slow-moving painting vehicles will be working throughout the county from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. next week. In addition, PennDOT identified the...
