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Chester Co. Families Must Make $93K Just To Make Ends Meet: Study
Families in Chester County face the state's highest costs for basic necessities in the state, a new study says.

Kara Seymour is the Editor in Chief at Patch. She has spent two decades covering community news, working at daily and weekly newspapers in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the Bucks County Courier Times and the Princeton Packet. She joined Patch in 2010 as the local editor for the Newtown, PA Patch and moved on to serve as the New Jersey/Pennsylvania regional manager before becoming Editor in Chief. Kara is a James Madison University graduate.
Families in Chester County face the state's highest costs for basic necessities in the state, a new study says.

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A crash near the Tyler Park entrance closed the road from the shopping center to Swamp Road.
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