Old-school reporters like me still scan the small-print "legal notices" in the classified ads on the remote chance that an interesting municipal ordinance is being proposed. Occasionally our compulsion is rewarded, like earlier today when I saw that the borough of Kennett Square is revising its "animals and fowl" regulations. They are redefining "fowl," "livestock" and "run at large" and adding a subsection "regulations for the keeping of fowl." I'm assuming this is in response to residents' concerns about neighbors raising chickens in some parts of the borough. Borough council will be holding a hearing on the matter at the Red Clay Room starting at 7 p.m. Monday, July 21.
In another municipal note, a fellow reporter who covered a local township meeting recently told me how surprised he was to see one of the township supervisors wearing a polo shirt and shorts instead of his customary business suit. "For anybody else, it would be like they walked into a meeting wearing a Speedo," he explained.
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