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On Friday, March 22, 2024, the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry held their Annual State of the County discussion at Penn Oaks Golf…
The 20 Men Project photo series by Exton-based photographer Sandrien de Bruijn-Mesman aims to demolish stereotypes in Chester County, writes Gina Lizzo for…
15-year old Jordyn Jones-Shakur, a Malvern resident and student at Great Valley High School, has given back to her community for her past…
Editor’s Note: This is a rerelease of a previous article due to new information.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently reappointed one Council of Trustee…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently reappointed one Council of Trustee (COT) member and made one new appointment to West Chester University’s 11-member Council…
The West Chester Food Cupboard has opened an expanded part of its facility at 431 S. Bolmar Street to better deal with food insecurity in…
On Sept. 21, the Encore Shop, a local upscale consignment shop located in Kennett Square, celebrated its 50th anniversary by presenting Chester County Hospital (CCH…
State Senator Carolyn Comitta recently partnered with the Chester County Library System to hold a Library Card Sign-Up Fest, an afternoon of free, family…
West Chester Railroad recently celebrated the official opening of the new and improved single-track railroad grade crossing at East Nields Street with a ribbon…
Water lovers in the region can now enjoy better access to the East Branch of the Brandywine Creek thanks to a new boat ramp at…
As many local students head back to school this week, state Senator Carolyn Comitta met with leaders and educators from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine…
September is Library Card Sign-up Month — a time when Chester County Library System joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind…
Five elementary schools in the Coatesville Area School District will get federal funding to provide fresh fruit and vegetable snacks to students during the school…
Outstanding achievements and significant contributions to the Chester County community are what makes a leader, or in this case, a superstar.
On Thursday evening at…
State Senator Carolyn Comitta is fighting for legislation to ease the effects of hospital closures throughout Chester County and the Keystone State, writes Peter Hall…
Josh and Zach Stehle, Downingtown natives and autism acceptance advocates, recently visited the Pennsylvania State Capitol at the invitation of state Senator Carolyn Comitta, according…
YMCA of Greater Brandywine is welcoming the community to a free Earth Day Festival on April 22 at 10AM. The festival will be held on…
Henderson High School graduate Jessica Keogh, who spent most of her childhood in Hillsborough, N.J., before her family moved to West Chester, is a…
Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry is partnering with the Pennsylvania Chamber to host a regional Civics Bee on April 15, 2023, as part…
West Chester University (WCU) is one of the first recipients of funding through Pennsylvania’s Hunger-Free Campus Initiative, a new program aimed at combatting…
Cleveland-Cliffs Coatesville steel plant has received $1.4 million in state grant funding to support the facility’s track rehabilitation, according to a staff…
Gov. Tom Wolf announced that two projects in Chester County that will provide scenic recreation parks have been awarded grants totaling $4.67 million, writes…
Exton developer, Hankin Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Phoenixville Senior Housing project on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Hankin Group welcomed project partners, as…
Paoli Hospital has been overwhelmed since the closure of both Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals. It has experienced a 16 percent increase in emergency room volumes…
Members of the local land conservation community gathered with elected officials at ChesLen Preserve earlier this week to celebrate successfully championing $640 million in new…
Chester County will receive millions of dollars through the state’s Marcellus Legacy Fund for a variety of environmental projects, writes Fran Maye for the…
In order to empower greater community input and increase public transparency, state Senator Carolyn Comitta is introducing legislation to reform the process around hospital closures…
Children and young people attending summer camps at the YMCA of the Greater Brandywine will now have access to even more innovative environmental education and…
Millions of dollars in state funding will help pave the way for construction of a $65 million mixed-use commercial and entertainment development project in…
On June 12th, the Friends Association in Chester County celebrated its 200th anniversary with a Friends Family Reunion at the Chester County History Center.
Many…
A decades-long dream to bring a performing arts space to downtown Oxford is one step closer to reality with renewed hope for the Oxford…
Jessica Keogh, a special education teacher at Fugett Middle School in the West Chester Area School District, received a nice surprise from The Hartford earlier…
Not long after Russian forces invaded Ukraine and initiated the largest military assault on a European country since World War II, the staff at Chester…
Elk Township and Brandywine Conservancy officials gathered, along with Chester County and state of Pennsylvania representatives, recently celebrated the preservation of the 162-acre Martin…
The West Chester University Dance Team recently brought home gold as the Open Division Hip-Hop champions at the 2022 UCA & UDA College Cheerleading…
With Brandywine Hospital having closed at the end of business yesterday, Jan. 31, atop the Jennersville Hospital exit last month, the activity level of those…
To ease the increased caseload resulting from the situations with Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals, Harrisburg is providing $2.1 million in state funds for expanded…
State and county investments in farmland preservation have helped permanently preserve more than 150 acres of agribusiness real estate in Cochranville and Oxford. A staff…
More than 150 acres belonging to Starr Farm were commemorated by a Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant of $1.2 million. Michael…
Tower Health has found a new owner for Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals that will keep both facilities open as acute care hospitals, writes Lisa Scheid…
During the Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce annual fall luncheon on November 4, key speakers focused primarily on the road to economic recovery amid…
West Chester’s 150th-anniversary celebration this weekend recognized its history as it looked toward a bright future for students.
To West Chester University President…
As the Sept. 16 due date quickly approaches for contract bids to build the new Coatesville Train Station, the city is poised to mark another…
Anyone in the HVAC industry will tell you that geothermal heating and cooling is not just the sleeping giant of renewable energy, but also essential…
The Chester County Hospital Gala at Longwood Gardens is an annual tradition at which friends of the hospital celebrate its mission and support community outreach…
All three Chester County Commissioners and a number of elected officials joined Chester County Health Department staff and volunteers in a phone bank on Saturday…
State Sen. Carolyn Comitta honored Dr. Brenda Allen, President of Lincoln University, with a special citation at the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce’s…
The Fame Fire Company of West Chester will receive a $1 million grant from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP).
“Fame Fire Company…
As coronavirus cases continue to surge, there is hope that we might be seeing the worst of it now as the first limited batches of…
The Chester County Library System has been awarded $387,500 in state funding to improve and grow services across the county.
The Pennsylvania Department of…
Updated as of 2:20 PM on Friday, November 6.
With partial vote counts from the County’s 230 election precincts recorded, the following is…
The Pennsylvania Library Association recently presented State Rep. Carolyn Comitta with its 2020 Elected Official of the Year Award.
The Chester County Library System nominated…
Many nonprofits depend on membership dues and in-person fundraiser events for revenue. So how do they keep generating revenue in the virtual world of…
Thanks to its valued supporters, including its Board of Directors, Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center has raised $350,000 toward its $500,000 goal.
The…
The Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce has announced the fall session of the GWCC/WCU Marketing Partnership Program. This initiative between the chamber and…
The Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce has announced the cancellation of the 2020 Autumn Gallery Walk presented by Sunset Hill Jewelers & Fine Arts…
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is embarking on a $500,000 campaign to sustain its operations until it can open again.
As a performing arts…
On Monday, July 13 at 7 PM, Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is opening its doors to the public for its first indoor event since…
Celebrate the Fourth of July weekend with family and friends at the “Drive Up!”
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is bringing the movies outdoors. Bring…
Having twice been the beneficiary of Fame Fire Company’s Rescue Task Force, State Rep. and former West Chester mayor Carolyn Comitta has a unique…
Mark Yoder has resigned as president and CEO of the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce, a position he has held since 2012, to accept…
By Terence Farrell and Ken Knickerbocker
We’re all doing the same thing. Watching the news about the pandemic, paying attention to what states are…
All non-essential businesses in West Chester are being urged to close for two weeks as an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus, writes…
Three Democratic candidates will be vying for the seat of State Sen. Andy Dinniman in April primaries, writes Bill Rettew for the Daily Local News…
Do you have an amazing, accomplished woman in your life?
The Southeast Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey Division of the March of Dimes is seeking nominations…
The Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce celebrated event caterer John Serock Catering, State Rep. Carolyn Comitta, and the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center as…
State Rep. Carolyn Comitta, John Serock Catering, and Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center will be celebrated as some of the best in West Chester at…
Once a year, the Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce gathers its members together to celebrate those outstanding citizens and businesses that stood above the…
Matt Holliday, the Chester County Prothonotary, spoke with VISTA Today about moving 13 times while growing up in Greater Philadelphia region, getting his working papers…
The inaugural Chesco Teen Filmmakers Showcase, hosted by East Goshen Township and the Movie Tavern in Exton, debuted last week to rave reviews, according to…
The Department of Political Science at West Chester University has named State Rep. Carolyn Comitta as its Legislative Fellow for the 2019-2020 academic year…
West Chester Mayor Dianne Herrin spoke with VISTA Today about growing up in Drexel Hill, the lessons she learned working at Burger King in Broomall…
“I didn’t want my daughter to pass away and no one remember who she was and what she stood for.”
These are the words…
The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls hosted its inaugural Girls in Action Summit at the Business and Public Management Center at West Chester…
The Southeast Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey Division of the March of Dimes is seeking nominations for its 30th Annual Salute to Chester County Women of…
Ker-Feal
Natural Lands, the region’s oldest and largest land conservation organization, has placed a conservation easement on 137 acres of the historic Ker…
VISTA Today speaks with Lani Frank about growing up in Queens, her first job as a data entry clerk for her father, her regrets she…
As she battles one-term State Representative Eric Roe for the right to represent the 158th District in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives, Christina Sappey…
Brandywine Airport in West Chester and Chester County G.O. Carlson Airport in Coatesville have received substantial funding from the state for upgrades to improve…
Here is a quick run down of national and state election results across Chester County:
US Senator: Incumbent Senator Bob Casey carried Chester County 59…
Dennis Davin, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Community and Economic Development, enjoyed a tour of West Chester led by Business Improvement District Executive Director Malcolm Johnstone…
Prompted by the shooting death of local teenager Bianca Roberson in West Goshen last year, State Rep. Carolyn Comitta has introduced legislation to ban carrying…
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, the 241st anniversary of the legendary Battle of Brandywine, the Brandywine Conservancy commemorated its acquisition of a key piece of land…
West Chester Mayor Dianne Herrin, West Chester University Director of Sustainability Bradley Flamm, and other local legislators joined PennEnvironment last week to hold a clean…
Coatesville resident Derran Smith has spent most of his adult life in and out of prison.
Now, his love of cooking has turned into a…
Maternal and Child Health Consortium, a private nonprofit organization serving Chester County and surrounding areas, raised approximately $30,000 at its annual spring luncheon – entitled…
Claudia P. Hellebush, President and CEO of United Way of Chester County, was inducted into the Chester County Business Hall of Fame at the 2018…
The Transportation Management Association of Chester County helped make the holidays special for local veterans by delivering more than 2,500 gifts to the Coatesville…
The Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center in West Chester has received the 2017 Public Impact Award from Preservation Pennsylvania, according to a report in the…
State Representative and former West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta had big aspirations from an early age, writes Emily Pisano for The Unionville Times.
Growing up…
West Chester may be one of the best places to live in the United States, but despite its picturesque Main Street and beautiful neighborhoods, it…
On Thursday, Sept. 14, the Maternal and Child Health Consortium (MCHC) hosted its 2nd Health Insurance Gathering at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester…
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross Tri-County Chapter will celebrate the heroes of Chester County who have saved lives, committed selfless acts of…
Christopher M. Fiorentino was formally installed as West Chester University’s 15th president during an investiture ceremony in the Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall on…
By Barry Rabin
In a startling turn of events, the Borough of West Chester announced yesterday that the historic “Barclay Grounds” will be turned into…
Emerge Pennsylvania – an affiliate of Emerge America, which works toward helping women get into government positions – is pleased with the political success of Chester County…
Even after Chester County’s Board of Elections recently voted, 2-1, to reject 14 provisional ballots that were time-stamped after the Oct. 11…
A hearing was held Tuesday morning in an attempt to determine who ultimately won the race between Dan Truitt and Carolyn Comitta for state representative…
According to an email obtained by VISTA Today, Carolyn Comitta, the West Chester Mayor and candidate for the 156th State House seat, has initiated a…
So, as you’ve probably heard by now, Hillary Clinton carried Chester County in yesterday’s election. And she did so by a sizable margin…
In what pundits are calling one of the most stunning political upsets in all of American political history, Donald J. Trump has triumphed and will…
Thanks to its dedication to providing safe and walkable streets, improved housing and transportation options, and opportunities for residents to participate in community activities, the…
Last Friday afternoon, Governor Tom Wolf made a short visit to the Olive Branch Tapas Restaurant in West Chester to show his support for Mayor…
After having gone missing from Marshall Square Park for six decades, the upper tiers of its historic park fountain have returned in all their glory…
Come one, come all! There’s a place for everyone within West Chester, especially retirees.
West Chester Borough has just been officially designated as a…
Because of the county’s relative demographic homogeneity (wealthy, white, and educated), all eyes are on Chester County as voters here consider whether they will…
West Chester is making a bold statement in the face of hate speech and discrimination: Community members are signing a pledge to address incidents in…
The heartbreaking news of protests and provocations against police around the country has prompted Chester County residents to fight back with heartwarming acts of kindness…
We’ve added Uptown! Entertainment Alliance’s high-quality video of last week’s event to our own reporting on the Daily Local News story…
By Carla J. Zambelli,
Richard “Dick” Yoder, a native son and two-term Mayor of West Chester, passed away on Tuesday. He was 79 years…
Yesterday 140,825 Chester County residents filed into precincts to take part in an unusually important primary. Their reward? Plenty of rain, a few rainbows…
In the face of gross overcrowding, impossible parking and fast-rising real estate prices, the Borough of West Chester will soon be going from “BID…
The Southeast Pennsylvania Division March of Dimes will honor three outstanding women from Chester County at the annual Salute to Women of Achievement event on…
When close to 10,000 flower bulbs are donated to West Chester parks, the Borough takes notice and took the opportunity to recognize this extraordinary…
Nicholas Branton Joins Swope Lees Commercial Real Estate
Swope Lees Commercial Real Estate, the West Chester based commercial real estate brokerage and consulting firm that…
Carolyn Comitta, Mayor of West Chester, speaks to VISTA today about growing up in West Chester and moving to West Bradford when she was thirteen…
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West Chester Mayor, Carolyn Comitta, announced her candidacy for a seat in the Pennsylvania House on Wednesday at East Goshen Park, in front of her…
The Barclay Grounds Preservation Alliance has cause for celebration, as its three years of effort to save West Chester’s Barclay Park from development has…
March of Dimes, the non-profit organization which works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature births and infant mortality, will…
Business Briefs are a quick way to stay up to date with what’s happening around the county. This Morning:
Chester and Delaware County SCORE…
If it gets passed, Pennsylvania House Bill 809 sponsored by State Representative Susan Helm of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties would prevent local municipalities from regulating…
From coast to coast and finally to Downingtown, Vince Liuzzi, EVP and Chief Banking Officer of Downingtown-based DNB Financial, has worked in banking and…
Yesterday, VISTA Today highlighted Citadel’s annual report. Today the focus shifts to DNB Financial Corporation, the 155 year-old Downingtown-based institution asserting its…
The West Chester Downtown Foundation (WCDF) recently presented Bricks and Mortar and Preservation Service awards to those whose projects helped highlight and preserve West Chester…
The Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry will host their annual Women-in-Business Dinner and recognize Kymberly Robinson, female business leader of the…
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