Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors awarded a contract to Martin Paving for oil and chipping, and fog sealing six roads as part of the 2025 Road Program. There were two bids, according to township Manager Dan Boyle, with Martin being the low bidder at $164,686. The roads are Whitestone Lane, Raven Lane, Parkersville Road, Graychal Lane, Cheryl Lane, and Chadds Ford Knoll. In July, supervisors…
Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors on Wednesday honored members of the Kennett Regional Fire Department for their rescue of a 15-year-old trapped in a burning house. The fire was at a home on Jacobs Way on Saturday, Nov. 9, and the youth was trapped in an upstairs bedroom. Supervisors’ Chairman Aaron McIntyre, who is also on the EMS Commission, was able to view a body…
Pennsbury Township now has a new supervisor replacing Dan Boyle. Kay Ellsworth was sworn in at the beginning of the Feb. 19 meeting. She will serve out the remainder of this year when Boyle’s term would have ended, and she will run for her own six-year term in November. Ellsworth has lived in Pennsbury for four years and has been on the Planning Commission for…
Pennsbury Township supervisors made quick work of a short agenda Wednesday night. They granted conditional use approval for a coffee shop on Ponds Edge Drive and authorized the township engineer to start looking for a company to repair a sinkhole in the Chadds Ford Knolls. The conditional use hearing was held on Sept. 18 for FRU Property Management and Little Brothers Coffee Roasters. They propose…
Kathy Howley has been working for Pennsbury Township for almost 46 years. Now she’s retiring and said, “It’s been a wonderful ride.” Her expected last day on the job will be Aug. 5 and her replacement will be current Supervisor Dan Boyle who will have to step down from the board when he takes over as manager. That change for Boyle is to be officially…
Pennsbury Township supervisors reversed their decision and have now denied the application for a bed and breakfast for the Gables restaurant. That reversal came during the board’s May 15 meeting. Gables’ owners Ann Kolenik and Alfredo Giannaccari sought conditional use approval to have a B&B at 1301 Brintons Bridge Road. There are two structures: the former Brandywine View Antiques store and an adjacent carriage house.…
Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors gave unanimous approval to the Gables Restaurant for a bed and breakfast operation in two buildings on its adjacent property. The restaurant will also be changing its name in time. Approval came after Wednesday night after two sessions of a conditional use hearing. Township solicitor Tom Oeste read a list of 29 conditions that Gables’ owners Ann Kolenik and Alfredo…
Pennsbury Township opened a conditional use hearing Wednesday night for the owners of the Gables Restaurant to possibly have a bed and breakfast. The B&B would use two adjacent structures next to the restaurant. Those two structures are a stone house and a carriage house at 1301 Brinton’s Bridge Road, on the corner of Brinton’s Bridge and Route 1. The stone house — the former…
Hillendale Elementary School is returning to the Pennsbury Township Zoning Hearing Board for an application that was already approved in May. The reason is to avoid litigation. The hearing board approved a special request application for an outdoor pavilion/classroom for the school on May 31 (see story here) but one neighboring resident — Kathleen Carmody — who was a party to that proceeding opposed the…
The owners of The Gables restaurant want to turn the old stone house next to the restaurant into a B&B. But the process might not be cut and dried. Mike Shiring, the attorney representing owner Ann Kolenick and her partner, said turning the old historic house into a bed and breakfast is a perfect idea for adaptive reuse, but added that it’s “a complex zoning…
Pennsbury Township supervisors are taking a favorable view at a request for a special exception by Hillendale Elementary School. The school wants to construct a pavilion to serve as an outdoor classroom. Hillendale is the one elementary school in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District that doesn’t have an outdoor learning space. Hillendale Principal Joshua Leight said the need for the outdoor space became apparent when…