What To Do: Devon Horse Show, classic cars at Hagley

Also: take a trip around the world without leaving the Delaware Valley By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times The Devon Horse Show is one of the area’s most anticipated equestrian events, running now through Sept. 14. There is never a shortage of events on Chester County annual schedule of equestrian events. They usually start when the weather gets warm and end when the temperatures drop...

A Man’s Life: Chris Sanderson – A renaissance teacher and principal

By Linda Banks, Special to The Times Museum collections rarely increase in even steps or in predictable cycles.  The very broad collection of the Christian C. Sanderson Museum remains narrow in one particular way:  Every item on display or archived, with a few exceptions, was personally touched by Chris Sanderson himself.  As diverse and expansive as the assembled items may appear, they share...

On Stage: Unique mix of local performances this week

Bozzio hits the area, Momsen, Thorn headlining By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times Terry Bozzio brings his percussion stylings to the World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington, Sept. 11. In the next few days, there will be shows in this area featuring artists with an amazing variety of backgrounds — a real smorgasbord of styles, influences and personal histories. There is hard rock...

Brandywine Health Foundation adds new board members

Dr. Linda Thompson Adams of Newtown Square (right) and Fred C.Travaglini of Exton have been named to the board of the Brandywine Health Foundation. COATESVILLE — The Brandywine Health Foundation announced the addition of two new members — Dr. Linda Thompson Adams of Newtown Square and Fred C.Travaglini of Exton — to its volunteer Board of Directors, Wednesday. Since its inception in May...

Good news prevails as school board reconvenes

KCSD Board of Education holds first meeting of 2014/2015 school year By Kim Chiomento, Staff Writer, The Times The Kennett Consolidated School District Board of Education held it’s first meeting ofthe new school year, Monday night at Kennett High School. KENNETT – The Kennett Consolidated School District (KCSD) held its first School Board meeting of 2014/2015 school year Monday evening...

On Your Table: All things fungi at Kennett’s Mushroom Festival

While there’s lot to see and do, it comes down to food — and delicious mushrooms By Cathy Branciaroli, Food Correspondent, The Times Servers having lots of fun at the Ferranto food tent plating up fried mushrooms during this past weekend’s Mushroom Festival. KENNETT SQUARE — People came hungry to the 28th annual Kennett Square Mushroom Festival last weekend and it was a good thing,...

I kind of mind the gap

Strahan’s Hall of Fame bust doesn’t get teeth right By Dr. Stephanie McGann, DMD FAGD, Columnist, The Times Are you ready for some football? Nothing shouts fall more than the distant drumbeat of the high school band or the coach’s whistle when he barks “again” to his sweaty players during an early practice. The installation of the new crop of pro football hall of famers in Canton...

Mushroom Festival results

KENNETT SQUARE — The following are the results of various events, contests and competitions from this past weekend’s Mushroom Festival, released Tuesday. Official Results from the 29th Annual Mushroom Festival:   National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship First Place Overall: Molly Schuyler with 11.5 pounds of fried mushrooms in 8 minutes, a new World Record! Second Place Overall: Dave...

Art Watch: Delaware Valley Collage Cooperative

Plus; Art Sales at Chester County Art Association and DCCA By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times The Delaware Valley Collage Cooperative is having a Popup show this Thursday at Galer Estate Winery in Kennett Square from 4-8pm.  One of the original DVAL artists,  Linnie Greenberg, says it was “serendipity that brought a few women together in the winter of 2011” at a collage class on...

The Times Poll: tell us who you support for governor

With election day looming less than two months away, we thought we’d take the pulse of our readers and see where they stand on this year’s gubernatorial race between Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Democrat Tom Wolf in this year’s election. We’ll be running the poll on all five of our local news sites — and after a week, we’ll report back to you on the results, both...