MEDIA – A group of Delaware County neighbors who alleged that an adjacent contractor’s materials-crushing operations were creating a private and public nuisance and violating a local township ordinance for noise and air quality, recently settled their claims with that contractor.
Chester’s receivership team is sounding the alarm on the city’s parking contract with PFS VII, which it found to be “very one-sided in favor” of the vendor.
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Buses from Chester Upland School District await dismissal from Chester High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
The Chester Upland School District is on the cusp of being dismantled and replaced with charter schools which would make it the first district in Pennsylvania to be almost completely under the control of charters. To a crowd of displeased parents and teachers, three charter school networks presented their proposals at a school board meeting Thursday night.
With a substantial number of families outraged and a parent-driven legal intervention aiming to impede the process, it’s important to understand how Delaware County’s only city became the epicenter of what many consider an education catastrophe.
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The DELCORA building in Chester (Google Maps)
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 19
A panel of administrative law judges has recommended that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission toss out the pending $276.5 million sale and resulting privatization of Delaware County’s wastewater system, known as DELCORA, to Aqua Pennsylvania.
The PUC must sign off on the sale, and the panel’s recommendation is considered likely to carry weight in the final decision.
The two-judge panel cited Aqua Pennsylvania’s failure to establish how the deal benefits the public, the legality of the agreement, and the absence of a rate-stabilization plan in the application as reasons for its decision.