Local youth rowers compete at Indoor Championships
VILLANOVA — Twenty Kennett/Unionville-area youth rowers from Newport Rowing Club (NRC) competed with a strong showing at the Mainline Slide, Philadelphia’s Indoor Rowing Championships at Villanova University. The annual event drew more than 500 rowers with an age span of 12 to 89 years old. Several area rowers brought home top honors and almost every NRC rower broke a personal record...
Pileggi plan taken out by a piano teacher
State Senate Majority Leader — and our senator — taken to task for poor lines, poor time management on redistricting
By Mike McGann, Editor, KennettTimes.com
Pity poor state Sen. Dominic Pileggi.
It’s been a tough week for our beloved state senator, who also happens to be Senate Majority Leader. Friday, he essentially got pretty badly slapped around by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Free tax preparation help
It’s tax season again — but you don’t have to spend valuable time figuring out how to prepare them on your own.
The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is here to help by offering free, confidential services to assist in preparing your Federal, State and Local tax returns. All tax preparers are volunteers who received extensive training and have successfully passed an IRS certification...
KAPRB Spring Sports registration open
KENNETT SQUARE — The Kennett Area Park and Recreation Board is now offering registration for its spring and summer programs. Please visit www.kaprb.com for more information or call 610-444-6314.
KAPRB High School Recreational Basketball: This league is open to all boys and girls in grades 9-12. The league will have games once a week in January, February and through the middle of March. ...
KCSD earns high marks on district report card
Kennett Consolidated School District continues to show improvement in across the board tests show
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
KENNETT SQUARE — Parents of Kennett Consolidated School District students should not only be proud of the high marks their children are earning, but also of the grades that the district is bringing home, as evidenced in the 2010-2011 District Report...
Troop 619 explores good citizenship
Kennett Square’s only Hispanic Boy Scout troop sat in on Tuesday night’s Kennett Square Borough Council meeting
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
Boy Scouts from Troop 619 attended this week's Kennett Square Borough Council meeting as part their work on citizenship. Pictured: (back row) Scout Master Joseph Leightner. Jesus Melendez, Jose Luna, Asst. Scout Master Ed...
‘Ghost’ auditor still haunts Kennett
Old financial questions still remain unanswered in the township, prolonging the debate
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
KENNETT—It started months ago with the release of the township’s 2009-2010 audit. It escalated when questions were raised concerning the authenticity of the audit. Finally, it grew into a wildfire when—after months of petitioning and citizen inquiries...
Stevens sworn in as Kennett Township supervisor
Scudder Stevens becomes the first Democrat to earn a seat on the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
New Kennett Township Supervisor Scudder Stevens takes the oath of office Tuesday night.
KENNETT — In front of a packed crowd including residents, committee heads, police and fire officials, and the township government, newly elected Kennett...
Headlines of 2011: a retrospective
A look back at a year in local news from the greater Kennett area
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
Scudder Stevens became the first Democrat elected Township Supervisor in Kennett Township in generations — just one of many news headlines that we saw in 2011.
The New Year: a time for new beginnings, a time for fresh perspectives, but also a time for recollection. From its...
Unionville, Kennett to team up on MLK food drive
KENNETT SQUARE — A massive food collection for the benefit of the Kennett Area Community Service’s Food Cupboard is planned by the Martin Luther King, Jr. CommUNITY Breakfast Committee. Committee organizers are reaching out for food donations and seek volunteers to assist with distribution and collection of the boxes and to organize the donations.
Collection boxes will be placed in local...
