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Avelo Airlines Extends Schedule, Cuts Routes
Avelo Airlines has extended its flight schedule through the 2024 holiday season. However, six domestic markets will lose service later this year:. Capital Region International Airport (LAN), Michigan. Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (AZO), Michigan. Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ), Iowa. Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA) Greater Binghamton Airport (BGM), New York. Brownsville...
Maker's Market offers food, fun & history
Greenbank Mills and Philips Farm will host vendors at their Maker's Market from 3 to 7p.m. every second Thursday of the month until October. Attracting vendors to the farm helps inform the public about the historical property that is still in use and educating people today. Greenbank Mills and Philips...
Horses not the only entertainment as Delaware Park hosts festival weekend
Delaware Park is hosting 8 stakes races in a rare complete weekend of action, but track officials hope fans will stick around for more entertainment after the final horse reaches the winner's circle. The Stanton oval is hosting the "Delaware Handicap Festival of Racing" on Saturday and Sunday, combining their...
Kennett Square Life: Saving Pennsylvania’s bluebirds, one trail at a time
An unhappy Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” wistfully sings, “If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow—why, oh why can’t I?” Bluebirds have often been associated with happiness and good luck. The bird is simply beautiful with its vivid blue back, rusty breast, and soothing warble. Pennsylvania is lucky to be home yearlong to these lovely birds, but it hasn’t been without heartache.
Sweet Summer Memories Await at Dole's Essential Snowballs
We are in the heart of summer, and there’s no better way to beat the heat than with a refreshing visit to Dole's Essential Snowballs in North East. Located at 2280 Pulaski Highway, right in front of Karen Michael's State Farm Insurance building, this charming, family-owned stand offers a delightful array of treats that are sure to please everyone in the family.
BILINGUAL TEACHING ARTIST & PROJECT LEADER
People’s Light seeks a Spanish and English speaking theatre teaching artist to lead an NEA-funded collaboration with Mighty Writers El Futuro, a non-profit educational organization serving students in the Kennett Square area. With the mission of helping migrant farmworkers and their children, Mighty Writers’ bilingual programming includes both academic and social-emotional learning goals.
Chadds Ford Life: Q & A with Carly Simmons
Carly Simmons is a Chester County-based singer armed with the musical artillery of live performances, an unmistakable stage presence and a handful of songs and videos that are making the rounds of the country music industry. I caught up with her last December, when she was on the bill at the Whiskey Jam in Nashville -- a gig that has become a rite of passage for anyone looking to crack the scene.
Landenberg Life: Tim Bolt and Mary Schleuter of The Haven Social
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with husband-and-wife Tim Bolt and Mary Schleuter at their new restaurant, The Haven Social in Landenberg. Owners of Great Big Jerk & Full Circle Food, Tim and Mary have brought their ample restaurant experience to The Haven Social and given it a diverse menu of great food and mocktails and a cool-vibe ambience. I sidled up to the restaurant’s well-appointed bar to ask Tim and Mary about the inspiration behind their ambitious and well received BYOB restaurant.
Iron Hill's Brewery & Restaurant: Mouthwatering Burgers
Fine handcrafted beers, creative yet informal cuisine, and friendly, attentive service in a casual, upscale atmosphere. Where Handcrafted Beers Meet Mouthwatering Burgers. Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant is renowned for its exceptional handcrafted beers and creative, informal cuisine. However, their burgers deserve a spotlight of their own. Combining high-quality ingredients, innovative flavor combinations, and a commitment to freshness, Iron Hill's burgers have become a beloved staple on their menu.
Kennett Square Life: Stay, dream, read: The literary comfort of the Bookhouse Hotel
In 2023, soon after Stephanie Olenik saw that a former bookstore on Union Street in Kennett Square was zoned to be the future site of a hotel, she arrived at the site and was greeted by 5,000 books that had remained there from the previous owners. From those stacks –...
Fever Dream Dinner: A Yelp Review of The Bear
There are certain fine-dining establishments you walk into where you just know: The weight is off my shoulders. For the next three hours and nine courses, I can sit back, relax, and experience a culinary adventure, a marvel of modern hospitality …. The Bear in River North is not that...
Kennett Square Life: Inspired by teachers and comic books and Wyeth and his own faith, Kennett Square artist Neil Carlin has shared those influences with his students at the Carlin Academy of Fine Art for the past 27 years
In 1997, the artist Neil Carlin was on a train at one o’clock in the morning, careening past northern New Jersey towns on his way back to Kennett Square after having spent another Friday in the company of figure painter Michael Aviano at Aviano’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Landenberg Life: If you build it, they will come
With their deep blue backs and rusty-colored breasts, bluebirds are one of the prettiest songbirds in Pennsylvania. If a yard has an open or grassy space, bluebirds can be neighbors. It is easier than most people think. Many local bird species build open-air nests in trees and bushes. Others are...
Kennett Library receives $500,000 grant to enhance makerspace facilities
Since its opening last August, the new Kennett Library has enhanced its forever mission to serve as the hub of curiosity and creativity for residents in the townships and municipalities it serves, and at any time during the day, the wheels of that mission are in full spin, perhaps nowhere as visible as in its two makerspace facilities.
Discover History and Nature at Hagley Museum This Summer
Looking for a summer adventure that combines history, nature, and fun without the hassle of beach traffic? Head to Hagley Museum and Library along the scenic Brandywine River! Hagley's unique indoor/outdoor format lets you explore centuries of history at your own pace, with daily demonstrations of water turbines, machinery, and gunpowder explosions adding excitement.
Landenberg Life: The Potter of Landenberg
Down a ways from little central Landenberg, in a converted olden-day schoolhouse nestled in a wooded hill within a walking distance from the roving, burbling White Clay Creek, lives a potter named Jenny Wood. She works out of a tiny room that contains little more than a table and chairs,...
Kennett Square Life: Trevor Blyden of the Beyond Limits Fitness in Kennett Square has redirected his life, and is now providing opportunities for others to do the same with theirs
It is not an uncommon scene. Trevor Blyden bolts into Beyond Limits Fitness in Kennett Square – he has owned it since 2016 -- completely breathless, and actively removes his tie as he runs to his office and pulls a Clark Kent level transition from business attire to gym rat. He is less than a decade removed from the life he once knew – that of a prison inmate -- and he has accomplished more than many who didn’t have to restart their life several times. His best advertisement for training, for motivation, is himself.
Freckled Feather Hats: Local business owner pursues passion and purpose
Freckled Feather Hats: Local business owner pursues passion and purpose [2 Images] Click Any Image To Expand. Owning a boutique and making hats for a living may not have always been Oxford resident Tanna Walker’s expected career trajectory, but then again, passion has a way of changing things for the better.
Avelo adds early holiday travel deals, announces exit of 6 domestic markets
CORRECTION: The airport code for Greater Binghamton Airport was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. The correct code is BGM. Good news, Avelo travelers: The airline has extended its flight schedule through the 2024 holiday season. ...
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