Chester CountyPRESS
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Covering Avon Grove, Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, Oxford, & Unionville Areas
Volume 151, No. 14
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Holdsworth The fountains named new police dance again at Longwood chief in Kennett
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Square Borough By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Bill Holdsworth was sworn in as the new chief of police of Kennett Square Borough on Monday night, concluding a six-month search process to fill the vacancy.
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After a $90 million makeover, the fountain shows will return to Longwood Gardens this summer, with some spectacular new effects and plenty of behindthe-scenes engineering upgrades. See story on Page 1B.
Holdsworth, who has spent most of his 20-year law enforcement career with the Kennett Square Police Department, has served as the Officer in Charge since July of 2016. He was selected as the new police chief after an
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New Kennett Square Borough police chief Bill Lincoln University holds Holdsworth has worked for the Kennett Square Police open house...6A Department for most of his 20-year law enforcement career.
Route 1 economic Indivisible KSQ commits to providing Hispanic committee introduces new population with information website By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Since its inception a few years ago, the 16-member Route 1 Economic Development Steering Committee has been identifying its initiatives as a “marketing tool” that local townships and municipalities can use for attracting potential economic growth to their communities. Among those ideas has
been the development of a website, specifically targeted to prospective business leaders who are considering the idea of locating along the corridor. On March 28 at the Technical College High School’s Pennock Bridge (TCHS) campus, the committee met over lunch to see the roll out of its official website, which was presented by TCHS senior
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Technical College High School senior Vince DiGiacomo gave a presentation on his design of the committee’s website to the members of the Route 1 Economic Development Initiative Steering Committee on March 28.
Indivisible KSQ, the grass roots group that has galvanized in recent months on the strength of its support of immigrant rights in the Southern Chester County Hispanic community, took another bold step last Saturday morning when it stepped up its efforts to
get information into the hands of the local Hispanic population that gives them advice and counsel about what to do when facing deportation. Before an audience of 100 at the Kennett Friends Meeting House, Diana Rarig, Karen D’Agusto and Maja Murphy of Indivisible KSQ’s Legal Committee gave a presentation that
focused on five needs for the local Hispanic population: finding additional notaries, which are required by Pennsylvania law, in addition to two witnesses for power-of-attorney; developing a handout for those who deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); providing the community with information Continued on Page 3A
Brandywine Battlefield supporters get an early glimpse of new museum Bowden a boon for Kennett By Uncle Irvin Author and screenwriter Mark Bowden, who wrote the book “Black Hawk Down,” that was a New York Times best seller and was made into a movie, has decided to run for a seat on the Kennett Consolidated School District school board. Bowden also wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer for a number Continued on Page 9A
By John Chambless Staff Writer The fate of the United States of America hung in the balance in 1777, and the men who fought and died in Chester County played a pivotal role in whether the 13 colonies would survive. On March 30 at the Radley Run Country Club, in the heart of the area where British and Colonial troops once clashed, a large group of people dedicated to preserving the memory of the American Revolution heard about a big step forward for their cause. Scott Stephenson spoke at the annual meeting of the Brandywine Battlefield Task Force, offering an overview of the soonto-open Museum of the
American Revolution in Philadelphia. Stephenson, who lives in Landenberg, is the vice-president of collections, exhibitions and programming for the museum, which opens on April 19 in the heart of the city’s historic district, near Independence Hall. “This is one of the greatest parts of America to live in,” Stephenson told the audience, “and I feel privileged to live here.” The Museum of the American Revolution has been a decade in the making, he said, and expectations are running high, with 30,000 advance tickets already sold for 2017. “Hang on, because a lot of those people will also want to visit this area, to see where the events actually
took place,” Stephenson said. In his illustrated presentation, Stephenson traced the history of George Washington’s battlefield tents, and how, despite the odds, two have survived. The new museum will exhibit one of them in a
theater of its own beginning on April 19. But the museum also holds a rich variety of weapons, artifacts, printed works and manuscripts from the Revolutionary War, displayed with an eye toward immersing visitors in the Continued on Page 2A
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Karen D’Agusto, Diana Rarig and Maja Murphy of Indivisible KSQ’s Legal Committee gave a presentation on April 1 at the Kennett Friends Meeting House.
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The Museum of the American Revolution has plenty of weapons on display, but will have a much broader reach.