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Who trims the trees overhanging the road?
+ books 📚 and chill 🍦 + something for the runners 🏃🏼♀️ + 🩸 donation + more
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Hike: Alapocas Run State Park Trails
👣 Hike of the Week 🥾
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
📚 a dinner for the books, so come and bring friends!
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A new hot spot to stay cool
+ 🍅 tomatoes and 🥒 cucs + ☀️ golden rays + 🚲 bikes + 🎤 mics + 👣 hikes
Read the latest
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Got blood? Can you donate at the blood drive?
An easy way to be a good neighbor
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Gardens of Chadds Ford: Nourishing bodies and souls
While tomatoes from her garden stewed on her stove, Chadds Ford neighbor Sam Reiner and I chatted about the expansive garden she and her family have been diligently curating since moving to Chadds Ford many years ago. Sam wasn’t always a gardener. Before moving into her current home, she and her young family were caretakers…
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Wine, massages, and movie nights: support the library fundraising dinner
Time for the annual library fundraising dinner.
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A charming night out with Brandywine Cool Girls
Meet Sarah James + Brandywine Cool Girls
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Yo Craig, your hubris is showing
Unspinning fact from fiction
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Meet IONNA at the Wawa in Chadds Ford
A new kind of EV charging in our neighborhood
Meet the creator, a Chadds Ford resident

Jen Panaro
Hello! I’m Jen Panaro, Chadds Ford neighbor and creator of this little corner of the internet. I’m a writer, reader, mom, community volunteer, eco-nerd, and more.
I created Connect Chadds Ford as a space for neighbors to connect. Let’s work together to rebuild community, advocate for collection action, and spark civic engagement in the service of renewed resilience in our local spaces.
There’s no bad time to shop local, see what’s going on at a municipal meeting, get to know your neighbor better, or bake them an apple pie, just because.




