It’s a bird, it’s a plane: No, it’s a giant mushroom

700-pound spore to descend on borough for New Year’s Eve By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A sketch shows the mushroom that is being fabricated for Kennett Square’s New Year’s Eve celebration. Move over, Manhattan: Kennett Square is poised to supplant Times Square as the go-to destination for New Year’s Eve. After all, who wants to watch a boring ball when the...

Hero Plaque program honors fallen officer

Avondale trooper was memorialized with a ceremony and  bronze plaque at historic courthouse By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times The widow of a state trooper killed in the line of duty in 1985 already had compelling evidence that members of the Avondale barracks had not forgotten her husband. A bronze plaque commemorates the service of Pennsylvania State Trooper John J. Brown, who...