Step Into Our Studio is a series of virtual creative workshops – on the visual arts, music, and poetry — led by teachers at Chester Charter Scholars Academy, and featuring students demonstrating their own work. This family-friendly series is an opportunity to experience the school’s approach to arts-integrated virtual learning, challenge your creativity, and learn new skills.
A new exhibition at the Community Arts Center, “Educate: Delaware County Higher Education Teaching Artists,” features two- and three-dimensional work by 16 teaching artists who work in the art departments of six Delaware County colleges and universities.
Tyler Arboretum is expanding its hours this year. From now through October 31, it will be open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. This change means 16 more open hours a week than in previous seasons, which will give members, volunteers, and the public more time to enjoy the arboretum’s collections and landscapes.
The Swarthmore Public Library presents its fifth annual Book It 5K Walk and Run, in celebration of the library community. To adhere to social distancing guidelines, the race will be held virtually this year. After registering online, participants will walk or run a 5K anytime between April 24 and May 2.
In this installment of “In the Garden with Andrew” horticulturist Andrew Bunting describes a variety of local pines.
A profile of novelist Kyle McCarthy, who grew up in Swarthmore. Her new novel, “Everyone Knows How Much I Love You,” focuses on a dangerous friendship between Rose and Lacie, two women in their early thirties, partly in the present and partly when they were teenagers. The story is set mostly in New York City, but crucial parts take place in the borough. Free to read and share
The Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board unanimously approves a plan to reopen elementary school for 4½ days of weekly in-person instruction for families who want it. Other new aspects of the plan, including a change to quarantine requirements, take effect immediately.
What dessert would you make using Girl Scout Cookies as the star ingredients? That’s the challenge my fellow troop leaders and I posed to the sixth- and seventh-graders of Swarthmore Cadette Girl Scout Troops 50220 and 51125. The girls — all students at Strath Haven Middle School or Delaware Valley Friends School — held a bake-off, which was judged by a panel of local experts.
The public safety committee of Swarthmore Borough Council discussed the current informal arrangement the police department has with Swarthmore Collision to tow cars after accidents and arrests, as well as concerns that tow trucks are frequently slow to show up.
Associate editor Satya Nelms recommends Alyssa Cole’s new novel, “When No One is Watching.”
A profile of Aissata Kone, a tenth grader at Strath Haven High School and a serial entrepreneur who credits her family for her drive and work ethic.
In our latest Unscientific Survey, 36% of respondents self-identified as cord-cutters (or “cord nevers”) who watch either by streaming services or old-school antennas.
As local organizations begin to prepare for summer even in the midst of winter, the Swarthmorean is preparing for our annual Summer Camp guide advertising supplement.
The Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board approves the 2021-22 calendar and passes a preliminary budget.
Local libraries adjust to the pandemic and find new ways to connect with their patrons.
This admonition comes from the Third Act Project, an online community and information resource for older men. Sam Bittman, the project’s co-founder (with Swarthmore resident Bill Davis), will be the guest speaker at the Swarthmore Senior Citizens Association’s Lunch and Learn program on February 24.
Swarthmore becomes the first municipality in the commonwealth to purchase renewable natural gas.
The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College will host a virtual performance series, Zoom Tunes, that brings prominent guest artists to the Swarthmore community over Zoom on Sundays at 1 p.m., beginning on February 21.
At a 5½-hour board meeting, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board heard the details of a proposed transition plan that would bring many elementary school students back into schools nearly full time. Two CHOP PolicyLab experts and over 60 community members weighed in.
In this installment of “Andrew in the Garden,” garden columnist Andrew Bunting takes a second look at evergreen magnolias.
