Other Times, our long-standing Page 2 feature in which we revisit what was happening in Delaware County 100m 75, 50, 25 and 10 years ago, remains one of the most popular features in the paper.
Today, for instance, we learn that 25 years ago the Chester Water Authority made settlement on a tract of land to house a $4 million pumping station needed to increase the firm's water flow from 45 to 60 million gallons a day.
Chester Water Authority continues to make headlines today. You might have heard that the iconic business that has delivered sparkling water from the Susquehanna River and Octoraro Reservoir on the Chester-Lancaster county border to 42,000 customers in Chester and Delaware counties for more than a century, is in the fight of its life.
It is fending off a move by the city of Chester to sell the company. And the specter of huge public utility Aqua that continues to hover over the scene, seemingly eager to swoop in and buy the company.
The latest bit of information on this saga comes from a couple of towns served by Chester Water in Chester County.
We talk about it on today's editorial page.
And Chester Water is not the only Delco water firm undergoing some drama.
DELCORA, the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Authority, which handles the county's wastewater, has entered into talks for a possible sale of the company.
And guess who wants to swallow them up?
Yes, that also would be Aqua.
Today we hear there will be a meeting at DELCORA headquarters in Chester where managers will be briefed on some of details of the deal.
But we're also hearing that the rank-and-file, some 130 workers who are opposed to the deal, are planning to crash the meeting and make their voices heard.
We'll let you know what happens.
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