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Volume 152, No. 19
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East Marlborough supervisors hear details of auto service center planned for Route 1 By John Chambless Staff Writer
The Kennett Run special section
Newark Life Magazine
Wine tasting room opens in Toughkenamon...3A
Two abandoned homes that have been a dead spot on the busy Route 1 corridor in East Marlborough Township will be demolished and replaced with a Quick Lane auto service center and a retail building if the developer can work out a list of approvals with the township and PennDOT. The East Marlborough Board of Supervisors heard details of the project at their meeting on May 7. The property sits on the north side of Route 1, adjacent to the Wawa store. There are five parcels at the site, which will be combined and re-divided into a 10,300-square-foot auto service center and a 5,000-square-foot retail building, both of which will face Route 1. The Quick Lane service center will be owned and operated by Garnet Ford. The retail
space is currently proposed to be a Mattress Warehouse store. The project got conditional use approval last May. The board saw architectural renderings of both buildings, which will sit between Pennock Avenue and Orchard Avenue. A fence will be installed on the back of the property to block it from nearby homes. The Quick Lane has an orange stripe that runs around the building that is part of the company’s branding. Brick has been added to the plans at the request of the township Planning Commission, but the supervisors asked if more brick could be added along the bottom of the windows facing Route 1, instead of being ground-toceiling glass shown in the drawings. The orange stripe may also be removed from the back of the building at the request of neighbors. The developers were seeking waivers that
London Grove Township to convene special meeting to seek solutions
Development’s residents share stories of vehicle violations with board By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer Oxford tops Avon Grove, 4-0...9A
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In 2011, Stephen Edwards was part of a wave of people with young families who began to flock to the Preserve at Inniscrone in West Grove. The lure of the new development seemed too perfect to pass up: The homes were within a mile or two of nearby schools, and close enough to each other to promote a neighborhood connection that was soon seen in the scores of young children who developed friendships along Inniscrone Drive. On May 2, supported by nearly two dozen of his neighbors, Edwards stood before the London Grove Township Board of Supervisors and told anoth-
er story, one that sounded a different tone than the storybook one that danced in his head when he moved with his family there seven years ago. Edwards said that speeding along Inniscrone Drive has turned the lane from a quiet thoroughfare where children ride bikes into a speed lane for delivery and construction vehicles, and automobiles that have repeatedly disobeyed the 25-mile-per-hour signage. The severity of the situation in the development was recently made even more serious, Edwards said, when an eighth-grade student was was struck by a speeding car on the road. The child was immediately taken to a hospital emergency room, where he was treated for Continued on Page 3A
included not installing sidewalks on Pennock or Orchard avenues to reduce foot traffic into the nearby neighborhood. The steep grade of Pennock Avenue will also be reduced at its intersection with Route 1. The project still needs PennDOT approval since it will be affected by the proposed widening of Route 1, and a temporary construction permit must be worked out with one homeowner, along with other permits. The supervisors approved the preliminary plan, with several conditions. Attorney John Jaros, who is representing the applicants, told the board, “We would like to be back next
Art in the studio
Photo by Richard L. Gaw
The Landenberg studio of painter Nanci Hersh will be one of 64 art studios available to visit at the Chester County Open Studio Tour, on May 19 and 20. For a complete story, see Page 1B.
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Local scouts team up to repair neglected cemetery By John Chambless Staff Writer A long-neglected cemetery on Little Creek Road in Lincoln University is getting a clean-up thanks to two local Boy Scouts, their families, and their fellow scouts from Troop 44 in Oxford. Elkridge Cemetery, at 399 Little Elk Creek Rd., is owned by someone outside of Pennsylvania, and they have given permission for the cleanup, according to Colby DeHaut, one of the two prospective Eagle Scouts working on the project. The other is Luke Winand, who
lives in West Nottingham Township. “I will be starting to clear Elkridge of downed trees, and trees that are posing either a risk of falling, or could cause future issues,” DeHaut said last week. “Then I will be clearing out an old church foundation that’s full of dirt, brush and tree saplings. Then I will be putting in a sitting area and flagpole. “Luke’s project is clearing up the brush and the dead underlayer of grass and leaves within the cemetery, with the goal of restoring the gravestones to the best of his ability, along with finding any sunken gravestones, if possible.”
The church structure burned down years ago, and the site has been overlooked and vandalized. Some of the graves are for people born in the 1820s. The earliest documented death is 1842. The two scouts are both working on their Eagle Scout projects at the site. They are independent projects, but focused on the same site. The scouts learned about the neglected cemetery from local resident Bert Nilan, who contacted Bob McMahon, an adult who is part of Troop 44. The group started cleanup work at the site last Continued on Page 2A
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Scouts and volunteers began the cleanup project last weekend.
Reflecting on 1968, a year that changed a nation Dick Winchester, a retired Lincoln University history professor, concluded his series of talks with a look back at 1968 By Steven Hoffman Staff Writer 1968 was a pivotal time in the history of the United States. Fifty years have passed since the tumult and turmoil of that year, but the events of those twelve, uneasy months—shaped by civil unrest, political turbulence, and violence—still resonate today. Dr. Richard Winchester, a retired history professor, chose to complete his series of three talks at the Oxford Public Library by focusing on 1968, a year that included the Tet Offensive and a growing
anti-war movement; the stunning assassinations of two iconic figures in Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; and one of the most extraordinary presidential elections in U.S. history. The May 1 talk attracted a large audience—so large, in fact, that library director Carey Bresler spent the first few minutes of the program bringing in additional chairs to accommodate everyone who turned out to hear Winchester, an engaging and informative speaker who honed his talents over the course of his 39-year
Attendees were provided with handouts of timelines of events that occurred as early as 1950 and as late as 1980 to illustrate just how pivotal 1968 was—events that occurred 20 years earlier played a part in shaping 1968, and some of what transpired that year had an enduring impact on the country. On Jan. 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive began, with North Vietnamese ~ Dr. Richard Winchester the launching a massive military campaign against including his experiences as involving the audience in several major cities in a white college professor the discussion throughout South Vietnam. There was Continued on Page 2A at one of this nation’s best the evening. career as a history professor at Lincoln University. Winchester interspersed his presentation with his own memories from 1968,
historically black colleges, and as a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He also insisted on class participation,
‘I think one of the consequences of 1968 was the fundamental distrust of government.’