What To Do (New Year’s Eve edition): How to ring in 2025
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Mushroom Drop in Kennett Square
The year 2024 is coming to a close – and it’s going out in style.
The upcoming week features a wide array of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day events.
The primary focus this week will be on New Year’s Eve.
New Year’s Eve is about partying – dining, drinking, welcoming the new year and, well, partying.
On...
What To Do: Catch these Christmas events while you still can
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Winterthur
Christmas Day has come and gone but plenty of Christmas activities will still be happening around the area for a while.
One of the best holiday events in the area is the annual “Yuletide at Winterthur.” This year’s 41st annual staging of the event, which runs through January 7 at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Route...
On Stage: Slambovian Circus of Dreams returns for year’s end tradition
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Music acts in all genres have special holiday shows and tours.
If you’re dealing with the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, there doesn’t seem to be any holiday they can’t celebrate with a show (or series of shows).
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, which has been making music since 1998, features a trio of founding...
Merry Christmas!
From everyone at The Times, we wish you a merry — and safe — Christmas, filled with family, friends and good times.
Phoenixville installs solar panels at Borough Hall
Phoenixville Borough Hall
On September 12, 2017, the Borough of Phoenixville became the first community in Pennsylvania to pledge a transition to 100% clean renewable energy by the year 2035. The Borough made great strides toward that goal with the recently completed installation of solar panels on the roof of Borough Hall. The project included a new 27.26kWDC solar panel array, new ballasted racking...
What To Do (Part II): Holiday events for this week — and beyond
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
This is the last weekend for Christmas shopping. Fortunately, holiday events in the area will not stop on December 25. Many will be open for the next week and some even into 2025.
“Chester County Hospital Lights Up Holiday Weekends in West Chester” (greaterwestchester.com/events/featured-events/holiday-weekends-west-chester) will run through...
What To Do: Holiday events at area zoos, amusement parks and on the rails
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
LumiNature
A great way for kids – kids of all ages — to enjoy the holiday season is by visiting the Christmas events at the area’s zoos, amusement parks and tourist railroads.
Now through January 4, the Philadelphia Zoo (3400 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, www.philadelphiazoo.org) will host LumiNature, a gigantic holiday season...
AGSD announces process for hiring new Superintendent
The Avon Grove School District (AGSD) has begun a search for its next Superintendent. After more than 11 years of service to the Avon Grove School District, Dr. M. Christopher Marchese announced his resignation effective January 3, 2025. He will be moving into the role of Executive Director of the Lincoln Intermediate Unit following his departure.
Dr. Marchese expressed his gratitude for the opportunity...
On Stage: Cheadle, Chavous highlight show just before Christmas
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Laura Cheadle
On the last weekend before Christmas, Jamey’s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, www.jameyshouseofmusic.com) is offering some musical gifts for its audiences featuring concerts by two of the most talented blues/jazz/rock singers in the Delaware Valley – Lisa Chavous and Laura Cheadle.
Chavous will be the headliner...
Commissioners award $450K for new Senior Center Campus in Downingtown
The Chester County Commissioners presented a check for $450,000 to Brandywine Valley Active Aging (BVAA), to support the purchase of a new senior center campus in Downingtown. Pictured left to right: County Commissioner Eric Roe; County Commissioners’ Chair Josh Maxwell; BVAA Downingtown Campus Advisory Council members Jo Taylor, Marge Clements, and Denise Mescia; County Commissioner Marian Moskowitz;...
