Monday’s Wallingford-Swarthmore School District board meeting was the first to be led by the district’s new superintendent, Dr. Wagner Marseille. Marseille opened the meeting by described his administration’s goals in big-picture terms. Free to read and share
Contributor Stafan Roots offers an opinion piece about Covanta’s Chester trash incinerator plant, and how Covanta’s talking points are not passing his smell test any longer. Free to read and share
he Swarthmore Centennial Foundation awards the $6,000 Edmund Jones Scholarship to an outstanding high school senior who resides in Swarthmore. Mr. Jones, former Mayor of Swarthmore, was a founding member of the Centennial Foundation and was the creator of this scholarship that has been awarded to a high school senior every year since 1993. The scholarship winner is selected based on the student’s citizenship, community service, and academic achievement. This year’s winner is Marie Lowry, and this is her essay.
It’s summertime, the time of year when we ask you what books you recommend to others and what else you plan to devour over the next few months. We’ve got quite a list, so let’s get to it. Free to read and share
Rotary Club of Swarthmore gathered for its annual recognition and installation ceremony - its first in-person event since March 2020 - where incoming president Dr. Kathryn Jones outlined ambitious goals for the coming year. Free to read and share
Independence Day activities in Swarthmore are back in full swing this year. They are scheduled for Monday, July 5. Here’s the complete schedule of events. Free to read and share
This Saturday, June 26, resident-consumer advocacy group Priority: DelCo Thrive will focus its efforts on Swarthmore. The group is a collection of hundreds of Delaware County residents who visit a specific neighborhood/town in the county in a show of support for local businesses. If you are visiting Town Center this Saturday, you will surely see more visiting neighbors. Free to read and share
A community newspaper, at its best, is a reflection of the community it serves. It can inform, educate, and on occasion even influence its readers, but ultimately it is, or should be, a mirror held up before its readers. In this way, it can help us better understand our town, our neighbors and, sometimes, ourselves.
Sunny skies smiled upon the Strath Haven Class of 2021 on Thursday, June 10, as they came to the end of their school journey in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District. Commencement exercises took place on the George L. King Field at Strath Haven High School. Free to share
Swarthmore College student Trinity Townsend’s Instagram project documents the lives of her fellow students during Covid.
A Swarthmore College senior dreams up a community quilting project to hold onto a sense of community during Covid-19. Free to read and share
Kaycee Conallen is celebrating a decade as the proprietor of Kaycee Conallen Design. This profile explores the roots of her business and of her personal approach to working with clients. Free to read and share
Editor Rachel Pastan recommends this documentary to watch during Pride Month and recalls the meaning the movie had for her when it came out in 1984.
Two families try to manage not just online school but also personalized health care and educational support services for their students with disabilities. This is the third article in our series about how Covid-19 has affected people with disabilities in our community.
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When Dorothy Briscoe read our March 16 article that described her experience about how Covid-19 is affecting people who are living with disability in our community, she told her support person from Values into Action — a Delaware County organization that provides services and support to people with disabilities — that the piece had gotten some things wrong. To help set the record straight, here is Dorothy Briscoe telling some of her story in her own words.
In this portrait of a solo cellist, revered teacher, and Swarthmore resident, Amy Barston talks about how her musical family didn’t think she was cut out to be a professional; how she responds to students’ individual needs; and why performing is like story telling. Free to read and share
The story of three people living in a Chester homeless shelter when Covid-19 struck. This is the second article in our series about how the pandemic has affected people who are living with disability in our community. Free to read and share
This profile of Sean Bruton and his new Swarthmore shop, Lunch Break Vintage, tells the story of how the idiosyncratic store came to be, and what you can find there. Free to read and share
We are saddened that a conversation we had with our editor about the paper’s editorial balance is being misinterpreted as an effort to limit coverage of matters of social justice. Our Editor Rachel and our Associate Editor Satya have chosen to resign. We have counted ourselves among their biggest fans throughout their tenure and are grateful for their efforts to help make the paper what it is today.
Jane Billings, who has served as Swarthmore’s borough manager since September 1990, will retire in February 2022. Borough Council President Mary Walk announced the news at the council’s May 3 work session. Free to read and share
