What To Do (New Year’s Eve edition): How to ring in 2025
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Mushroom Drop in Kennett Square
The year 2024 is coming to a close – and it’s going out in style.
The upcoming week features a wide array of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day events.
The primary focus this week will be on New Year’s Eve.
New Year’s Eve is about partying – dining, drinking, welcoming the new year and, well, partying.
On...
What To Do: Catch these Christmas events while you still can
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Winterthur
Christmas Day has come and gone but plenty of Christmas activities will still be happening around the area for a while.
One of the best holiday events in the area is the annual “Yuletide at Winterthur.” This year’s 41st annual staging of the event, which runs through January 7 at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Route...
Merry Christmas!
From everyone at The Times, we wish you a merry — and safe — Christmas, filled with family, friends and good times.
What To Do (Part II): Holiday events for this week — and beyond
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
This is the last weekend for Christmas shopping. Fortunately, holiday events in the area will not stop on December 25. Many will be open for the next week and some even into 2025.
“Chester County Hospital Lights Up Holiday Weekends in West Chester” (greaterwestchester.com/events/featured-events/holiday-weekends-west-chester) will run through...
What To Do: Holiday events at area zoos, amusement parks and on the rails
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
LumiNature
A great way for kids – kids of all ages — to enjoy the holiday season is by visiting the Christmas events at the area’s zoos, amusement parks and tourist railroads.
Now through January 4, the Philadelphia Zoo (3400 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, www.philadelphiazoo.org) will host LumiNature, a gigantic holiday season...
Newlin Foundation seeks partners for CASH scholarships
The Newlin Foundation, dedicated to providing comprehensive guidance and scholarship opportunities to students living in the Coatesville Area School District, invites individuals and organizations to partner with the Foundation to create named scholarships that benefit qualifying Coatesville-area students.
For nearly 15 years, the Newlin Foundation has aided students within the Coatesville Area...
What To Do (Part II): Long-running holiday events to enjoy
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Longwood Gardens
Spending a day enjoying an annual Christmas event in the Brandywine Valley has become a family tradition for many. Visits to sites such as Brandywine Museum, Longwood Gardens and Hagley Museum are highlights of the family holiday calendar.
Longwood Gardens (Route 1, Kennett Square, 610-388-1000, www.longwoodgardens.org) has shifted...
What To Do: Nutcracker, live events highlight this weekend’s holiday schedule
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
It’s less than two weeks until Christmas and the holiday craziness is going on all around you — heavy road traffic, crowded stores, ridiculous lines at checkouts and long waits at restaurants – and Santa showing up everywhere. And, of course, there are guys with cauldrons ringing bells to solicit a donation everywhere you turn.
With that...
Downingtown West Best Buddies Chapter and girls’ varsity basketball team host Inaugural ‘Everybody Belongs’ basketball game
Members of the Downingtown High School West Best Buddies Club, Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team, and Cheerleading Team come together to celebrate belonging and community at the inaugural “Everybody Belongs” basketball game.
On Tuesday, Downingtown High School West’s (DHSW) Best Buddies Club, in partnership with the DHSW Girls’ Varsity Basketball Team, hosted the inaugural “Everybody...
What To Do (Part II): Holiday events for this weekend
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
The Coatesville Christmas Parade
Finding a holiday event to check out is difficult around here.
That is finding which one, two, three or more that you want to check out.
This area provides a Smörgåsbord of Christmas activities to whet your appetite.
The Coatesville Christmas Parade (www.coatesvillechristmasparade.com), which is Chester County’s...
