Downingtown’s Sharma wins county spelling bee

Pictured above is 2017 Chester County Spelling Bee Champion Sid Sharma from Downingtown Middle School, with second place winner Aakash Narayan and third place winners Ritish Kodali from Katheryn D. Markley Elementary School and Lineesha Kamana from the Marsh Creek Sixth Grad Center. (From left to right: Ritish Kodali, Aakash Narayan, Sid Sharma, and Lineesha Kamana). DOWNINGTOWN — “E-s-t-r-e-p-e.”...

Pennsylvania American Water announces 2017 scholarship program

Pennsylvania American Water announced its 2017 Stream of Learning Scholarship program offered  HERSHEY – Pennsylvania American Water announced that applications are being accepted for its 2017 Stream of Learning Scholarship Program to provide financial assistance to high school seniors who are planning to pursue careers in the water and wastewater industry. The program is designed to support...

Art Watch: ‘Art Spirit and Beyond’ with Karl Kuerner

By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times West Chester University’s John H. Baker Gallery will be celebrating a lifetime of encouraging the artistic spirit with the exhibition “Art Spirit and Beyond.” The exhibition will include works by artist Karl Kuerner and 50 of his students more than 500 students from over the past 30 years, on display from January 23-February 24 2017. Dr. Kuerner’s...

Local students trained in suicide prevention

WEST CHESTER — On the morning of October 19, the entire ninth grade class in the West Chester Area School District was trained in the suicide prevention program called QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer). Designed much like CPR or the Heimlich Maneuver, QPR is a nationally acclaimed program that teaches participants how to recognize warning signs of a suicidal crisis and how help.

STEM students complete internship at Y-Prime

DOWNINGTOWN — Knowing the value of hands-on learning, the experts at Y-Prime, Inc., the leading supplier in eClinical solutions, completed their second summer internship program with the students of the Downingtown STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Academy. This was the second year Y-Prime partnered with STEM in offering a summer internship program for students in their career pathways...

The students are ready to be back in school, but we parents…

Confessions of a mom struggling to keep up with a new school year By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Aaaaaah, another school year has begun!  While I am sad to see summer end, I always appreciate the structure and routine the fall semester brings.  By mid-winter, I’m over it, so, best to embrace these happy feelings now. I feel extremely lucky that our boys receive their education...