{"id":7595,"date":"2013-06-18T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:48:13","slug":"borough-lauds-fire-chief-taps-into-brewery-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=7595","title":{"rendered":"Borough lauds fire chief, taps into brewery trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordinance amendment delineates sizes, types of craft-beer operations<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kennett Square Police Chief Edward A. Zunino (from left, and Mayor Matt Fetick pose with Kennett Fire Company No. 1 Chief Steve “Monk” Melton and his Certificate of Appreciation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kennett Fire Company No. 1 Chief Steve \u201cMonk\u201d Melton was less than thrilled when Police Chief Edward A. Zunino told him that he would be receiving a citizen\u2019s Certificate of Appreciation at Monday night\u2019s Borough Council meeting.<\/p>\n

Not that Melton didn\u2019t appreciate the recognition; however, couldn\u2019t he just meet Zunino in some private location and avoid any public hoopla? No way, Zunino said he told him.<\/p>\n

Instead, the chief told the audience at the meeting that Melton had played an invaluable role in apprehending a burglary suspect while off-duty. Zunino said Melton had remembered a detailed description of the man, saw someone who matched it, followed him to a residence, called police, and then waited for officers to arrive.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Zunino said he could not be more specific because the case is pending; however, he said the charges could not have been filed without Melton\u2019s assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank you for your incredible service to the borough that goes on and on \u2026\u201d added Mayor Matt Fetick after he and Zunino presented Melton with his award.<\/p>\n

In other business, Borough Council toasted the growing craft-beer industry by unanimously approving an ordinance amendment that adds a host of \u201cbrewery\u201d definitions, including brewpubs, microbreweries, nanobreweries and wine bars. For example, a microbrewery is defined as producing fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually with 75 percent or more sold off-site while a nanobrewery produces fewer than four.<\/p>\n

Borough Manager Brant Kucera explained that the ordinance was designed to attract appropriate businesses to the right locale, depending on the size and scope of the operation. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to allow a large manufacturing brewery in the center of town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Council also voted to approve four special-event applications: the Mushroom Festival Parade on Sept. 6, the Mushroom Festival from Sept. 6-8, the Brewfest on Oct. 5, and a June 27 family picnic at The Garage.<\/p>\n

Borough\u00a0Council President Dan Maffei said he and other council members recently enjoyed attending the annual gala hosted by the Historic East Linden Project. He said the fund-raiser helps sustain valuable programs such as the after-school \u201cStudy Buddies,\u201d which is currently coping with 12-year-old computers. He also encouraged members of the audience to check out the new historic plaque that was unveiled at the entrance to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Mary Hutchins, executive director of Historic Kennett Square, said that three brewery businesses had expressed recent interest in the borough. With the passage of the ordinance, she said that the interest might now accelerate into a proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordinance amendment delineates sizes, types of craft-beer operations By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Kennett Fire Company No. 1 Chief Steve \u201cMonk\u201d Melton was less than thrilled when Police Chief Edward A. Zunino told him that he would be receiving a citizen\u2019s Certificate of Appreciation at Monday night\u2019s Borough Council meeting. Not that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2708,1537,998,217],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-borough-council-president-dan-maffei","tag-borough-manager-brant-kucera","tag-brewfest","tag-mushroom-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}