Downingtown News

Responding to citizen complaints, state police initiated a three-month probe into activities at a Downingtown spa that resulted in two prostitution arrests, police said yesterday.

Wayne County Court notes run Tuesdays in The Times-Tribune. DIVORCES SOUGHT - Leonard Griffiths Jr., 382 Belmont St., Waymart, v. ElisaA beth Griffiths, 326 Sawmill Road, Hamlin; married May 7, 2005; Alfred Howell, attorney.

A young man who opened fire inside a crowded Manheim Township bar, shooting and critically wounding another man, was sentenced today to 21 to 42 years in prison.

Gymmie recommends we check out this big summer meet. Looks like fun! The 2009 YMCA National Championships was hosted by the Phoenixville branch of the Freedom Valley YMCA at the United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

Traffic alert Only southbound traffic will be allowed on Park Avenue between Penn Avenue and Ruth Street in Sinking Spring.

A Downingtown driver multiplied the risks of causing casualties when she got behind the wheel in April with a cell phone in hand and a small plastic bag of marijuana for delivery, authorities allege.

Police say the driver of a car was speeding and texting just before a crash that killed a pregnant teenager and her unborn baby April 14 in Philadelphia's western suburbs.

Yes, there is a beer event tomorrow at Wegmans in Downingtown, PA ! I'd known about it for a few weeks now.

Two catalog sales next weekend, one at Freeman's, the other at Pook & Pook Inc., will offer auctiongoers the chance to bid on works by such studio artists as Thomas Hart Benton and Fern Coppedge - as well as those of a prolific Pennsylvania woodcarver in the folk-art tradition.

An assistant prekindergarten teacher in Tredyffrin Township has been charged with theft of a controlled substance, police said yesterday.

When Patricia McGlone graduated from Boston College in 1973, the cost of a four-year higher education was $6,800, the single mother of four told a Senate Education Committee sitting in West Chester yesterday.

UA Grant Plaza 9 Bucks, PA AMC Neshaminy 24 Regal Barn Plaza 14 Regal Richland Crossing 12 Chester, PA Regal Downingtown 16 Delaware, PA AMC Marple 10 Clearview's Bala Theatre Burlington, NJ Regal Burlington Cinema 20 Camden, NJ Cinemark Movies 16 - Somerdale Showcase at the Ritz Center Gloucester, NJ UA Washington Township 14 AMC Deptford 8 ...

Abitimo Rebecca Odongkara has a dream for her school in northern Uganda. On a recent afternoon, in her quietly dignified voice, she tried to explain that vision to students at Philadelphia's High School of the Future.

Reading Eagle: Abby Drey Alex Conzaman, 6, a kindergarten student at West Wyomissing Elementary School, tells the Wilson School Board on Monday night how much he would miss his friends and his school if the district closed the facility.

Thank you, Inquirer readers, for your many interesting comments about my Sunday story on the closing of the Reynold's packaging plant in Downingtown, putting as many as 150 people out of work.

Sitting in a front pew, Dawn McMichael fanned out three credit cards - J.C. Penney, Fashion Bug, and her beloved Lord & Taylor.

New exhibitors at this year's Pints for Pets: Pennsylvania-based Blue Canoe Brewery, Titusville Rock Bottom, Pittsburgh and King of Prussia Sly Fox, Phoenixville Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown Yard's Brewing Company, Philadelphia Out-of-state Ithaca Beer Company, Ithaca, N.Y. Atwater Block Brewery, Detroit Shiner Beers, Shiner, Texas Bell's ...

For more than 50 years, workers at the Reynolds Packaging plant in Downingtown have been printing packaging for consumer goods -- from pouch tobacco to chocolate milk.

Third in an occasional series. The plant's printing presses, which had clattered loudly day and night, sat strangely silent.

The weather is changing. It's getting warmer, with longer and longer days. Soon enough there will be baseball games, barbecues and trips to the beach.