Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: Gathered around the fonts of type in the Chester Times-Morning Republican composing room, the employees of every department responded to a man from the Third Liberty Loan drive. The spontaneous way every one replied to the “call to arms” left no doubt where the “Fourth Estate” stood.
75 Years Ago – 1943: A 7-foot stone monument, probably the first permanent memorial to be erected in Chester to the servicemen of the second World War, will be dedicated in Sun Village next month. The memorial, honoring all men from Sun Village in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine or other branch of armed service, will be erected on a plot at 11th Street and Morton Avenue, donated by the Sun Oil Co.
50 Years Ago – 1968: The Chester School Board adopted tentatively a $25 million, 10-year master plan for new schools. The plan – 17 months in the marking – now goes to the public for inspection and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction for approval. It is the board’s third attempt at a master building plan acceptable to the DPI. The plan is designed around a “K4-4-4” setup which would institute a five-year “primary” school, a four-year “middle school” and a four-year high school.
25 Years Ago – 1993: As demonstrators picketed outside the Delaware County Resource Recovery Plant in Chester, company and county officials were finalizing a deal that will deliver much of the trash truck traffic away from Thurlow Street.
The solution: Building an extension of Harwick Street and making it in the primary access route to the trash-tosteam plant.
10 Years Ago – 2008: The Chester Upland School District Empowerment Board gave the green light last week for Superintendent Gregory Thornton to start putting his district overhaul plans into action. He is proposing wholesale changes: Dividing the high school into three different “themed” high schools; extending almost every elementary school from pre-kindergarten up to eighth grade; building a new West Side elementary school; incorporating in two new partnership schools; and redistricting.