Saturday, July 28, 2007

ODDS & ENDS - 7/28/2007

After nearly two months of tweaking by Motorola and contractor Metro Communications, the WCPD radio system is expected to return to operating in digital mode as early as Monday, according to WCPD Chief Dispatcher William Mann. The digital system had been in full-time digital mode since early December after nearly three months of daytime testing before several issues popped up with the system. Now that those problems have been fixed (we hope), WCPD will be able to once again make the most out of its investment in upgrading the radio system...

Earlier this month, I posted some rumors and rumblings regarding the restaurant/bar scene in West Chester. Now, Brian Fanelli posted on his Uptown Ramblings blog that Rex's, the venerable punk rock bar at Gay and Wayne Streets in the West End is planning to call it quits after years of hosting original music. Rex's owner, Donnie Moore, had come before Borough Council in January seeking to obtain a new liquor license for a proposed theatre/music venue on the 100 block of East Market Street. The proposal to bring in a new license for this venue was rejected by Borough Council and the matter is now pending in the Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas; it is tentatively scheduled to be heard some time next year.

Now there's talk that Rex's will be replaced with a Thai restaurant and that another liquor license transfer hearing is scheduled in front of Council within the next month or two. From what I had heard, the owners of Kooma, the sushi house at Gay & Darlington Streets are considering bringing in the new license, though it's not immediately known why there's a need to bring in a new license when there's at least one or two inactive liquor licenses available in the borough at this time.

Should make for some more interesting meetings if everything plays out in the way it was described, but of course everything is subject to change...

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