West Chester

On Sunday afternoon, enjoy folktales and songs as the Kennett Symphony Orchestra presents its children's concert "Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Orchestra Favorites" at West Chester University. The annual show will begin at 2 p.m. under the direction of Australian-born composer Melissa Dunphy. Movements to be performed are "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon by Handel; "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo by Aaron Copland; and "Jack and the Beanstalk," composed by Dunphy in 2010.

Zach Higgins' overtime goal helped West Chester East erase a two-goal deficit on Wednesday and top Downingtown West, 3-2, at Ice Line in West Chester in the first round of Flyers Cup Class A. The senior forward scored 5 minutes, 29 seconds into the extra period with an assist from Kevin Cleary. Pat Ward had tied the score at 2 late in the third period off an assist from Carter Dwyer. A freshman defenseman, Dwyer also scored a power-play goal in the second period. Tyler Percival posted 36 saves for the win. Joe DiGinto and D.J. Barbato scored in the first period for the Whippets.

Mark Hickman knows about speech impediments; he has a lisp. Rather than impede him, however, that lisp helped lead him to a career in oratory. Since 1997, he has been director of forensics in the communication studies department at West Chester University, where he is in charge of its highly accomplished speech and debate units of the forensic team. Last month, the team won the 2013 Pennsylvania Forensics Association competition, held at West Chester. "My tongue is a little longer than normal, so it causes me to press against the back of my teeth on S sounds," he said.

It was all a whirlwind for West Chester Rustin girls' basketball coach Leah Kim. An assistant at Episcopal Academy for six years, Kim got her first head coaching job in September, and the Golden Knights began practice in November. Excited to get started, she emphasized a team concept and worked on getting her young squad acclimated to the system. It must have worked. Ever since, Kim and the Golden Knights have been achieving things that a Rustin girls' basketball team had never accomplished before.

Once in a while, Brittany Moore explained, the Spring-Ford girls' basketball team holds an impromptu dance party in the locker room to pump itself up for game time. But if you hung around the locker-room area Wednesday expecting to hear a bit of the Harlem Shake, or any other top-40 hit, you were out of luck. "We didn't dance today," Moore said. "It's getting a little more serious now. " Spring-Ford looked the very definition of a serious team in a 63-30 rout of West Chester Rustin in a PIAA District 1 Class AAAA semifinal at Norristown.

The West Chester Borough Council approved the purchase Wednesday of "quiet zone" signs to be posted in several neighborhoods, among initiatives to ease residents' concerns over noise at night in student-heavy downtown areas near the West Chester University campus. Installing about 240 signs will cost $4,230, Councilman Jordan Norley said. The signs will indicate that the area is a "quiet zone" between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. and warn passersby that they risk a minimum $250 fine if they make too much noise.

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Four Chester City residents have been charged with criminal homicide and other offenses in the killing of alleged drug dealer Jamal Scott in West Chester on Jan. 25, Chester County District Attorney Thomas P. Hogan said Tuesday. Charged are Anthony J. Brightwell, 24, of the 2100 block of Edgemont Avenue; Sergio J. Droz, 20, of the 700 block of East Ninth Street; Tyrone Palmer, 21, of the 100 block of West 22d Street; and Calvin I. Thompson, 21, of the 500 block of Lloyd Street. Arrest documents allege that Brightwell got into a car driven by Scott and shot him. Droz then walked up and fired three more shots at Scott, police said.

Five Delaware County men have been charged in connection with the robbery and murder of a West Chester man. Jamal Ahmed Scott, 24, became the county's first homicide victim of 2013 when he was shot late Jan. 25, in the borough of West Chester. Scott, a borough resident, apparently drove himself to Chester County Hospital after he was shot numerous times while sitting in his car. He was later taken to Paoli Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

The West Chester Borough Council approved the purchase Wednesday of "quiet zone" signs to be posted in several neighborhoods, among initiatives to ease residents' concerns over noise at night in student-heavy downtown areas near the West Chester University campus. Installing about 240 signs will cost $4,230, Councilman Jordan Norley said. The signs will indicate that the area is a "quiet zone" between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. and warn passersby that they risk a minimum $250 fine if they make too much noise.