WEST MARLBOROUGH: Roadwork and violations

The February meeting of the West Marlborough Township Board of Supervisors was a brief one.
Roadmaster Hugh Lofting Sr. reported that the township road crew had salted the roads several times. He said the long-delayed project to shore up the bank of Buck Run along Rokeby Road was "well underway" and the engineering work had been completed for the project to fix a small bridge on lightly traveled Runnemede Road.
Supervisor Bill Wylie reported that on Jan. 30 the township sent a letter to the owner of the properties at 429 and 431 West Street Road, telling him that he was violating the zoning code for the Village Residential Zone because he was "running a commercial business, estate salvage, sales and scrapping out of the property. Exterior storage. Business being run outside of dwelling. Non-compliance for No-Impact home based business." The letter said that to comply with the zoning regulations he would have to shut down his business, remove all items from outside the buildings, and stop burning trash except for yard waste. The board gave him until March 1 to comply.
The township Planning Commission did not meet because they had nothing on their agenda.

NANNY STATE: Tilda got carded

It's been decades since I've been carded, and never before has it been for trying to buy a box of matches. Yet the other day at the Giant I slid a three-pack of wooden kitchen matches across the scanner and up popped a message on the screen asking me to show my ID to the clerk.
I looked at her, baffled.
"Yeah, you're OK," she said, with a chuckle. 
It seems that sales of matches to minors are restricted by law because they are considered "smoking aids."

NEW GARDEN: Brown Derby for sale

Considering the restaurant has been shut for a few months, it was no surprise to see a "for sale" sign go up in front of the Brown Derby at 1470 West Baltimore Pike in Toughkenamon. Asking price is $1.125 million. The liquor license alone is selling for $425,000. Berkshire Hathaway has the listing.

UHS: Get your donations in

A reminder that the PTO's big annual used book sale in the UHS gymnasium is coming up on Feb. 23 and 24, and donations of books, audio books, music CDs, DVDs and videogames are being accepted at all the Unionville Chadds Ford School District schools until Friday, February 16.  One of the volunteers told me that "we have a great selection of unusual books, kids' books and every genre of books for adults from SAT prep and text books to travel, art, mystery and fiction."
The sale will be held Friday, Feb. 23, from 4 to 9 p.m. , and Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (with the "bag sale" to follow from 3 to 5 p.m.).