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Covering Avon Grove, Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, Oxford, & Unionville Areas

Volume 150, No. 19

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

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Norris tapped to fill vacancy on Kennett School Board By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Bob Norris was unanimously selected to fill a vacancy on the Kennett School Board on Monday night. Norris, who previously served the New Garden Township community as

a supervisor, will serve in the new position until the school board reorganizes on the first Monday of December in 2017. He is representing Region A. School board member Michael Finnegan said that district officials previously had the opportunity to work with Norris when

the district’s Bancroft Elementary School project was moving through the land-development process in New Garden Township. Finnegan said that Norris was able to fairly balance what was in the best interests of the township Photo by Steven Hoffman and what was in the best Bob Norris was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Continued on Page 4A

Kennett School Board.

London Grove Presentation offers new Township reopens library name option dog park Kennett Library at the Bayard Taylor Commons?

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer When branding expert Carl Francis first came on board three months ago as a consultant to help develop a new name and identity for the library on State Street in Kennett Square, he likened the warring factions he heard Photo by Richard L. Gaw Carl Francis, the CEO and chief strategist for Envisian to the Hatfields and the Strategic in Malvern, met with local residents at the McCoys. On one side were those Kennett Township Building on May 3 to discuss the possible name change of the Kennett Public Library.

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer All over London Grove Township and West Grove Borough, there is the jingly sound of dog leashes and the whip of wagging tails again, because after a month-long period of hibernation that some local residents thought was an unfair slap on the wrong wrists, the popular dog park at Goddard Park has been reopened. At their May 4 meeting, the township’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reopen the dog park, much to the delight of a dozen dog owners in attendance, who encouraged them to do so. It was an exact reversal of what transpired at the last supervisors meeting on April 6, when a 4-0 vote closed the

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Class ranking takes another turn in U-CF School District By John Chambless Staff Writer As the much-analyzed issue of announcing class rankings for graduating seniors at Unionville High School heads to a final vote at next week’s meeting of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board, some final debate on May 9 put a new wrinkle in the proposed plan.

After months of meetings and sometimes heated arguments between parents, board members and administrators, there is a new proposal to list only those students with a GPA of 4.5 and above. Ken Batchelor, the assistant to the superintendent, told the board at a work session on Monday evening, “Two months ago, the board voted on a new policy

for class ranking. After that vote, there was some discussion about whether we should continue to look at how the administrative guideline should work. We’re recommending that we move forward with the guideline as published at the time of that vote. “This has been a challenging issue for all of us,” Batchelor said. “The initial discussion was about

removing any kind of decile rank, and having nothing as we move forward. The compromise, in the vote that came forward two months ago, was in favor of removing deciles. Right now, the only change that we’re recommending is changing ‘principal scholars’ to the term ‘Unionville scholars.’ We will continue to monitor this next year.” Continued on Page 3A

The ‘future of learning’ on display at Avon Grove High School Students help unveil the high school’s new television studio By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer Jake Zebley stood in the middle of a room filled with more than two dozen television monitors, each one playing an event that was livestreamed by AGtv, and talked about his career aspirations. The Avon Grove High School junior wants to work behind the scenes in television production one day. He has the opportunity

to be involved in all aspects of television production as a result of a state-of-theart television studio at his school. “I can’t even put into words how much this has helped me,” Zebley explained as Avon Grove High School officially unveiled its $125,000 studio—which Photo by Steven Hoffman was constructed entirely Zebley offered tours of the television studio. Brian by students, teachers, and Gaerity, the vice president of the Avon Grove School maintenance staff—on Board, said that he was very impressed by the televiContinued on Page 2A

sion studio and the work that the students are doing.

East Marlborough roads deplorable By Uncle Irvin Uncle Irvin has lived in East Marlborough Township for 50 years, and the road I live on is basically the same as it was in 1970. I’m talking about Line Road, which was a nondescript farm road in 1970 and now is a shortcut for many, many commercial vehicles and commuters, plus school, business and local traffic from three housing developments. Line Road maintenance is shared by East Marlborough, New Garden and West Marlborough townships. The very worst part is Continued on Page 3A © 2007 The Chester County Press


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