Avondale News

Life on the farm: Above at left, Nicolas Trevino guides a horse back to the barn as Cedric Barfeld keeps watch at the side.

The fatal shooting of two pet short-haired pointers that cavorted on a 100-acre Chester County farm has prompted outrage and a quest for justice.

AVONDALE, Pa. - October 8, 2009 -- Fire companies from Chester County and as far away as New Castle, Delaware battled a large hay bail fire overnight in Avondale, Chester County.

The University of Delaware, in collaboration with Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa., has received a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Christina River Basin as a new 'Critical Zone Observatory' for researching questions relating to climate change.

State police from the Embreeville and Avondale barracks in Chester County are conducting a child safety-seat check by appointment on Monday.

On Nov. 18, 1968, a state trooper on routine patrol found a body that appeared to have been dumped in a Chester County field along the westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

A light, cool draft wafts up the mine shaft at the abandoned, crumbling remains of the Avondale Colliery in Plymouth Twp., and as two dozen people gathered around Sunday evening, the draft seemed to carry the 140-year-old story of how a fire killed 110 men in the mines.

On Sept. 6, 1869, a fire at the Avondale breaker in Plymouth Township trapped 110 men and boys underground and beyond the reach of rescuers, leaving them all to suffocate.

On Sept. 6, 1869, a fire at the Avondale breaker in Plymouth Township trapped 110 men and boys underground and beyond the reach of rescuers, leaving them all to suffocate.

"I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.

On Monday, July 13, 2009 at approximately 9:00am a robbery occurred at the CVS Pharmacy located at 730 Newark Road in New Garden Township, Pa.

A few weeks back, we put together a story about eating and buying locally , complete with a list of local farmer's markets and pureyors and growers from the area.

Residents' complaints led vice investigators to an alleged house of prostitution in southern Chester County, state police said yesterday.

A two-vehicle crash on I-95 north early Thursday sent two drivers to nearby Christiana Hospital, though their injuries were not considered life-threatening, state police said.

"We are excited to have someone with such great enthusiasm and such a strong background in environmental research lead our development program," said CMES Dean Nancy Targett, pointing to Birney's work at Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa.

Sowsan Salaam is 12, a sweet girl with braces and a wide smile. The sixth grader at Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander-University of Pennsylvania Partnership School in West Philadelphia is also a really, really good speller.

A driver ended up in the hospital and a state police cruiser landed on its side, after an accident involving the cruiser and another car in Sadsbury Township Sunday night.