Countywide, 159,644 ballots were cast, from 377,759 registered voters, for a 42 percent turnout. Most, 116,550 residents, voted in person. As of late morning Wednesday, all of those votes at the polls had been tallied.
Seven of eight candidates for Downingtown School Board attended a forum Monday night, Oct. 9, 2023 held by the Chester County League of Women Voters. Candidate Jane Bertone was not present.
Dave Barry in 2012 (Provided photo â Charlie Cowins, via Wikimedia Commons) What began as a simple story assignment for a school newspaper ended up a trigger for parental hysteria and a brush with comic genius. It involved an “encounter session” guidance counselor Marjory Volk had conducted in four sociology classes at the high school in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, a town of about 7,000 people 33 miles west of Philadelphia and the location of the 1958 sci-fi classic “The Blob” starring Steve McQueen. I was the student writer given the assignment in January 1972, my first year on the paper. If I’d had some experience or even some common sense, I’d have talked to the guidance counselor and the sociology teacher for their explanations of an encounter session, and then asked them for the names of some students who could offer informed comments.
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