KCSD approves 2012-2013 ‘Status Quo’ budget, outlook dubious
Kennett Consolidated School District Board passes budget, calls for 3.89% tax hike
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
KENNETT SQUARE — With proposed changes in state education funding system and the elimination of the Accountability Block Grant by Gov. Tom Corbett — some school districts were hit harder than others.
While neighboring Unionville is feeling very little...
Kennett releases quarterly financial report
Township officials review first quarter numbers
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer Kennetttimes.com
KENNETT — During the township Board of Supervisors meeting for the month of May, the township’s treasurer, Lisa Moore, delivered a quarterly financial report — not to be confused with the full 2011 audit expected to be presented during the June meeting — to residents and officials gathered...
Residents voice nearly unanimous plea not to privatize Pocopson Home
More than 200 attend county commissioners’ 2nd information session
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Special to KennettTimes.com
About 230 local residents turned out for a meeting Monday night about the future of the Pocopson Home, with most supporting continued Chester County operation of the 275-bed facility.
DOWNINGTOWN — The venue was larger and the crowd a bit smaller, but the message to the...
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No 2012 tax hike for Chester County
Spending cuts offset losses of tax revenue, federal funds
WEST CHESTER — The Chester County Commissioners approved today a budget for 2012 that results in a zero tax increase for county residents.
“This budget reflects the county’s ongoing commitment to provide the best services at the lowest burden to the taxpayer,” said Commissioners’ Chair Terence Farrell.
The operating budget for...
Letter: Wake up, Mr. Nale
To The Editor:
Just like Rip van Winkle, Mr. Nale appears to have been asleep. (referring to his letter of last week). He failed to notice that our township residents have been celebrating the addition of a new 90 acres of preserved land less than a year ago.(Auburn HeightsII) There was NO help from Kennett Township. Yes, in four years the scorecard is:
Letter: Kennett taxes too high
To The Editor:
Kennett Township residents, our taxes are too high! Our Township Supervisors, led by Allan Falcoff, claim our taxes are the 4th lowest of the surrounding Townships. Don’t be fooled. The Supervisors conveniently do not include the .5% Earned Income Tax (EIT), which dwarfs our Township property taxes, in their figures.
The Township’s 2011 budget projects that property taxes...
Kennett residents demand accountability
A push from a local residents’ organization has resulted in the distribution of Kennett Township’s bursary statistics to the public
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
KENNETT — Patriotism in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson was alive and well at the township Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday night which met under the watchful eye of Bill Hewton, Chairman of the Kennett...
Op-Ed: Choices Ideological Not Budgetary
Tom Houghton
In The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes “the United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country. Alas, we’ve forgotten that lesson at home. All across America, school budgets are being cut, teachers laid off and education programs dismantled”.
Kristof refers to education...
Column: the fundamentals of economic failure
Summer of discontent has voters asking ‘what’s going on here?’
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Welcome to the summer of economic insanity.
More than likely, you’ve heard about the madness in D.C. on the debt ceiling and it has more than a few of us scratching our heads, being more about political theater than good governance.
But…leave it to Gov. Tom Corbett...
