cuckookatchoo crazy is back in town: be careful chesco republicans….

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I just can’t with these people. I got an email this morning:

Guess who just declared she is running for Chair of the ChesCo Republican Committee?

Ada Nestor. Yep. Nutjob at large. I have never met her but she is one of those people that when I read her writings, they sound legit….until you start looking into it. But lazy people don’t. They take things at face value. And the crazy thing is she has a following.

This woman is dangerous! She belongs to this group that is some kind of political machine. The RCCC will become some kind of arm of a murky group called Keystone Fair Business that is a 501(c)(6) that will control the RCCC for it’s specific donors, basically making the RCCC a lobbying group. And who is her right hand girl? Felice Fein, chair of whatever area has West Goshen, I can’t remember right now, where Ada is now the Vice Chair. 

Anyway, I know you are a fan, so I thought I would clue you in! Re-org is the following Thursday.

She used to love Raffi Terzian until she didn’t. But I’m sure as was the case when she used to go yell at Michelle Kichline at Chester County Commissioner meetings as she thinks her vote means she owns Republican politicians personally, right?

Here’s something off of someplace she scribbles. Just an excerpt:

The screenshots are out of order, probably but they don’t matter because they never make any sense like most things that come out of her mouth.

I love how she’s talking about “success stories.” Let’s start where she lives in West Goshen what Republican success stories do they have there where she is Vice Chair of that Republican Committee? Didn’t they have the guy that scribbled on lawn signs of Democrats and then there was the whole gun raffle ticket at tables at the polls during an election that even appalled the fellow Republicans. Yep so #winning right?

And lest we all forget, this was a woman who thought January 6th and assaulting people at our nation’s capital and defacing our nation’s capital was OK ? And she is part of Klanned Karenhood too?

This is a woman who is a legend in her own mind. She even took to trying to say earlier this year that I was impeding law-enforcement because I wrote about ICE in either Coatesville or Phoenixville or both.

Now the people she brings with her? Felice Fein who has been at the helm of the sinking ship of West Goshen Republicans not knowing her ass from a hole in the wall for how long? And the crazies from Oxford and Tammany Hall politics in the cornfield of Honey Brook Township? Gosh how exciting! (No not really.) These are the people that keep what is left of the Republican party in the toilet. Remember what my pen pal said:

The RCCC will become some kind of arm of a murky group called Keystone Fair Business that is a 501(c)(6) that will control the RCCC for it’s specific donors, basically making the RCCC a lobbying group. And who is her right hand girl? Felice Fein

So it’s up to all of you whomever you are as Republicans. Do you want nutbags to further ruin what national politics has done to local and regional Republican committees, or someone like Dave Buckta who will tell them to sit down and mind their place?

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Did Raffi Terzian set the world on fire as chair of the ChesCo Republicans? No, but at least he wasn’t playing footsie with a politician of Russian descent like one of his predecessors of recent past, right? (https://www.governing.com/archive/tns-pa-gop-chairman-resigns-sexual-misconduct.html)

While Raffi’s politics have never been mine, he is not a bad person. I first met him through the Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust events years ago. He has tolerated an unbelievable amount of constant garbage from the QAnon Princess and those like her. Well, now once again, they want to take over. Why??? Because of the guy Dave Buckta who is in line to be Chair. NO BS about him and they can’t have that, can they? And no, I do not know Dave Buckta, only have actually heard positive things about him and he is not a crazy nutbag QAnon conspiracy theorist who suffers from chronic identity crises.

Dave Buckta who is the current Vice Chair of the Chester County Republicans is too normal, doesn’t live his best fake life on social media, therefore in Ms.- Pretzel -Logic -QAnon- Princess- with- a- Bible- Verse style, he must be bad. That means of course he has probably said no to her or her sidekick Felice- I -Whine -Fein right?

She’s even tried to pervert the data center issues. Going back to her QAnon roots, bless her heart, and everything has a bible verse like it absolves her behavior. (It doesn’t.)

Of course now, Martyr QAnon Princess will rise from the ashes and create a wailing wall about me for writing this. She still never gets her largest impediment to her success is herself, and always will be. She will launch another campaign making me the problem.

LOL I am neither Republican nor Democrat. Her followers with speak about how “liberal” I am, but am I really? I have never thought so. I am just not a Stepford Wife. Women like her say they admire independent thinkers and women, but they don’t. Maybe just my opinion, but a lot of that has to do with their insecurities and feverishly wanting to belong, yet always being slightly on the fringes.

Look Chester County Republicans, you have a choice, and if this one gets another insecure foot in the door, you can really and truly kiss the Republican Party good-bye. If you want a better party, don’t let the worst in. Keep the tin foil hats outside, and The Real Housewives of West Goshen cast members OUT.

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fake roofing scam

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I love a good phone solicitation don’t you? No, not really, right. Yes, I get it and neither do I, was just being sarcastic.

I received one yesterday. Another fake roofing inspection one. Ever since some in the area had hail, they have been relentless. Door to door people but mostly phone solicitors.

It’s always Philadelphia roofing something or other or Pennsylvania roofing something or other. And when you pretend to be hard of hearing and ask them to repeat the company name, it’s another company name (that doesn’t exist and none of them exist.)

This turdsticker yesterday started again with the tired old “we are doing work for your neighbors.”

Yeah umm no you are not anymore than the summer seasonal driveway sealing gypsies.

Well this one told me to shut up as in shut up stupid woman I’m speaking.

Yeah that didn’t work so well and this time I called back. Told them off and told them that I was recording the call.

Don’t fall for this BS and I know some people do. Legitimate businesses don’t operate this way, pure and simple.

why much ado about data centers? simple, they will kill what we call home.

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It’s hard NOT to think about data centers. We are living this nightmare, just like pipelines. It is a very crazy thing to realize not enough people in positions of power give a shit about residents in the equation of data centers.

In East Whiteland they never, ever should have said “yes”. The could have IMHO said freaking NO.

In East Whiteland if the supervisors would only find where exactly they left their collective balls, they could still say “no”. But will they? So far it’s the residents are wrong and Papa Government is right.

I am not buying it. It’s like living in a parallel universe, but then again this is the township who few years ago also thought pipelines were nothing to bother about. Of course it doesn’t matter apparently that their residents are still in blast zones.

Then there are things with the East Whiteland that just make you scratch your head. At the recent meeting among other things they had a public hearing where they closed the record before they took a vote….and the solicitor on duty didn’t catch that and WTF?

But the other thing is this: the zoning officer guy for the township (not the zoning hearing board lawyer) was disappeared…in MAY. And WHY? Did he retire? Was he ill? We would have heard right? So what actually happened? And OMG they did NOT like being asked why he was gone and why the current assistant manager was chosen? She was the former manager of East Vincent when the zoning change went through for PENNHURST, correct? What are some of the concerns with how the East Whiteland data center came about? The ZONING. Sorry not sorry. This is how conspiracy theories start and have some actual justification don’t they?

This is exhausting. How do our elected officials except for people like State Senator Katie Muth NOT get data centers? They are getting it in Luzerne County. Look what they just did:

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And State Senator Katie Muth has introduced a data center moratorium bill:

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There is no law on the books that precludes the East Whiteland from saying no to this or anything else but it just has to be legal, right? The supervisors need to believe what they are doing is right and tell the solicitor and staff to find a way but they don’t, do they? Why don’t they argue the supremacy clause to the US Constitution, for example? They are the government and protecting the residents is the right side of this issue, right? Hows about procedural due process right?

Now Judge Verwey bounced an East Whiteland residents’ case yesterday (just one of them) but that is not bad I think because is it quite possibly not merely a procedural bounce but what lawyers will call a complex jurisdictional? Will this not result in a de novo hearing in Commonwealth Court? De novo means a fresh look, doesn’t it? So this was a move on a chess board, not the end of the story. (Maybe just my opinion, but I am allowed it.)

  1. The entry way for Commonwealth Court is Common Pleas Court, correct?
  2. If this was a bad case it would have gotten bounced at preliminary objections. A hearing was had, briefed, argued, yes?
  3. Based on this, this is not a case you consider on the outset, you do it based upon the hearing, correct? Off it goes to be heard elsewhere.

This is why I think this has legs. Maybe just my opinion, but those are some thoughts. This was a case of first impression yes? And it wasn’t immediately bounced in the hearing was it? Verwey chewed on it, and then decided.

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https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/east-whiteland-data-center-judge-denial-challenges-20260611.html

https://www.inquirer.com/business/natural-gas-whitehawk-data-centers-20260612.html

The government is an adverse party to the citizenry because they should have looked after the residents, right?

It makes me sad. I was thinking about all of this the other day. I actually drove out to the developments the other day to sit on their road and look across Swedesford at the location for the data center. How can they not see this is most simply put a bad plan? Here are some photos. A few were taken by the neighbor of the permits.

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That’s all I have got, and yes this was a meandering ramble. I am just sad that we are dealing with this EVERYWHERE.

We as residents have everything to lose and government is NOT protecting us. Period.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/data-center-ai-democrats.html

If you would like to donate to the legal fund for the data center group, no donation is too small. Here is a link: https://venmo.com/u/communityfriends

Stay cool, it’s hot outside and try to conserve water as we are in a drought warning. Last thought? How would we survive serious drought warnings with data center around here? In my humble opinion, we wouldn’t.

From a RTK request results Ginny Kerslake received

Put that in your proverbial pipe and smoke it. The devil is in the details East Whiteland residents (and neighbors.) Keep fighting.

Ciao for now.

let’s talk about kelly’s in bryn mawr.

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Kelly’s from his history, didn’t start out life as a college bar.

Further back in the 19th century it was originally called the Ivy Inn. Located on the corner of Roberts Road and Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr, it’s always just kind of been there.

The building it is today is kind of a flat roof monstrosity that I’m not quite sure how it ever got built. I remember when the Biggins brothers wanted to expand it and make it something different. All of a sudden it was this unfinished monstrosity and the place that gone belly up. Then the current owners bought it.

Honestly, I swear I’ve heard more complaints about that bar under the current ownership than the prior ownership.

There were lots of joints in Bryn Mawr years ago. Not fancy or pretentious, just bars. Like the Erin Pub and then I swear there was a place called Bob’s Mystical Garden. And also a place called You Bet Your Life we called You Beat Your Wife (then it became Mallory’s and is now and still The Grog.)

Kelly’s seems like it has had a growth of issues with the reincarnation of what was once a dive bar with pool tables in the back. When I knew it. that was fine. It was a joint.

Once the students cleared out for the year, or even certain times of the week there were local characters, some quite sad. One I met by accident once. It was while I was interviewing for first “real jobs” a million years ago. You know those in between days before true adulting started? I will also note that I never got in there underage because I never had fake ID etc.

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Anyway, I literally went this one random day many, many years ago to Kelly’s with one of my friends. Yep we went to check out what they call “day drinking” today. I don’t like beer, so for me not so much drinking. It seemed quite scandalous to do that, and I remember thinking at the time how pissed of my mother would have been – who didn’t like those places to begin with – so that is probably why I did it.

There were some older locals in there that day. There was also a somewhat more refined older and really, really drunk Main Line-ish woman. Blondish hair flirting with the bartender. She was too wasted to drive. Came in that way apparently. I still think she was doing her own crawl. We hadn’t been there that long so we drove the woman home. She lived down College Avenue, on the other side of Haverford Road where the houses get more grand again closer to Merion Golf.

We made sure that she got into her big, overly quiet house and left. Seemed very lonely. Wanted us to come in and have a drink with her and that kind of killed us on the day drinking experience. We figured that when she sobered up, she would call a cab to get her car or maybe a family member would help her. My friend and I commented at the time to each other after we had left of how that could’ve turned out very differently for her if a pair of women hadn’t helped her get home.

That was like 40 years ago and I never forgot that. A lesson learned- what not to become. A very sad and lonely bar fly, whomever she was. And that was a beautiful house she lived in.

But that was old Kelly’s. I was not ever a regular, it was just an occasional place for me. So many people were these devotees of this place and that’s the only place they would ever go. They definitely had a devoted following back in the day. I remember like a giant moose head and a really big jockstrap hanging up. I also remember the old bar and always wondered what it would look like if it was truly cleaned up?

It was of course also a fun place to play pool once in a while. I am and always will be a less than mediocre pool player, but back then it was still fun. However, even my younger self knew residents and small businesses didn’t love the Kelly’s crowd. But I don’t remember the place getting as bad a rap until the current ownership. Or maybe none of us were aware of prior issues because it was before social media and everything all over the Internet?

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I remember there was this roof deck thing when it first reopened and I remember there were actually pictures that the neighbors had taken because it was so loud at night and lots of people on these roof areas, and I think the Bryn Mawr Civic Association was trying to deal with it and I know this is actually true because I found an old email that I had been sent. It’s completely random that I had this email because it was from 2011. Not sure if it was prior or current ownership, but there were a flurry of court cases back then.

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Recently I noticed in the media coverage of Kelly’s issues at present, they (the owners) feel like they’re being targeted, but are they really? Or is this just a continuation of past issues?

And the college-age behavior (and bars) is something that has always existed, but the attitude of some of the students now I think is different. Big senses of entitlement, yes? I also still think this has to do with the school, in this case Villanova University, because in my opinion they’re rather hands-off about their students off of campus and they’re a big presence in the area so I don’t know that they really can be anymore can they?

And do the students behave the way they do off campus because they feel that the school does not really care about their behavior in the community anyway? I mean, look at Mount Pleasant in Tredyffrin? It’s back to business as usual over there with new student rentals. Delta Chi frat bros in some of the rentals, and oh the richness of the other fact that a couple of the ones charged with disturbing the peace from the last round pled not guilty and are taking this to court because you know it’s fine to scream whore (among other behaviors) at a full time resident in the middle of the night, right?

Now to be honest, we tried going in there a couple of times over the past few years because new look Kelly’s advertises themselves as a pub and you can get lunch, etc. etc. Well I thought the food sucked. Both times we went there was like a Saturday and it was also empty. I don’t think school was in session both times we were there.

So maybe the people that own the place should be honest as you know people aren’t going in for the food and gastropub-ish ambiance, and it’s not really catering to the entire community just the student community, correct?

The bottom of their online menu says it’s the only place you’ll ever want to be. No, not really. And if they actually really tried to make them themselves an all age more inclusive feeling pub, maybe they would have different reception from the community and the police and the local townships?

I also had to giggle at the bar’s recollection of the history on that site when it opened as “The Ivy Inn” in the 19th century. I don’t know that it was ever completely respectable, and you weren’t going to find people on the Main Line staying in their “summer cottages” there in my opinion. I mean maybe the gents on occasion but definitely not the ladies as it would not have been socially acceptable. I kind of mentally did an eye roll on that. Yes the place started in the late 19th century but to me it was probably more of a location for the average Joe working man, versus fancy-schmancy.

I do remember reading a thread online at some point in time where somebody had a elderly relative that remembered it had a side door for ladies.

And it’s a bummer because I can’t seem to find any old exterior or interior photos or anything of even the late 20th century rendition of Kelly’s before they turned it into what it is today. And I honestly do think these old joints play a part in local history not just the fancy houses. I’m not looking for people partying it up in there, I was looking for what it looked like inside. When I was cruising around the Internet for old shots, I found one random photo from 1985 and you can’t even really see the bar or anything it’s just a bunch of people.

Now, when I was looking to see if I could still find some of these old threads about the history, I came across a guy remarking about something that happened in 2018 and it was some kid basically was followed from the bar and stabbed in Bryn Mawr.

College bars are college bars. Yet they need to co-exist in the regular world which they are a part of. If Kelly’s Taproom has a bullseye on it then they need to take some responsibility don’t they? Based on the past it’s nothing new.

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Maybe Bryn Mawr doesn’t want college bars anymore? What about hookah bars? Are they still in existence?

I am going to share the recent media. But in my humble opinion it is not so simple as a college bar merely being targeted. Lower Merion’s s current police superintendent doesn’t start these things unless he has proof. I might not know what the heck is really going on, but I do know that much.

Also as I went this morning to noodle around for more for this post that there is a petition circulating by the owners to stop foreclosure. Didn’t know there was a current issue with foreclosure? Also a bit of a Hail Mary?

https://c.org/8nPQMVtwds

Sharing links on present and past.

And again, I don’t have a problem with the old joints so to speak. Like one of the best hamburgers you will still ever get anywhere is Roache and O’Briens in Haverford. Somehow they have managed to survive just the way they are since 1933. Kelly’s should take a page out of their book.

Thanks for stopping by.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/kellys-bryn-mawr-bar-investigation-villanova-students-20260605.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/popular-bryn-mawr-bar-under-041214238.html

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east whiteland data center goes to court

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Today the East Whiteland Data Center had its court debut. This case:

I am about to share exclusive court recollections by an East Whiteland resident who sent me a report:

June 4, 2026 – Hearing to request court to stay any work on site of foote mineral/data center

Mr Schneider began by reading a prepared brief and going through 18 exhibits.  Judge early on asked him if he had any witnesses or any case law to support his brief.  Andy said no because the language of the law speaks for itself.  Judge admonished him for that and said there should be case law to support his position.  Then proceeded to let him read his testimony and go through the 18 exhibits as he went.  Andy’s arguments were consistent with things he had presented at township meeting on data center.  Argued that two entrances meant one entrance right across from Malvern Hunt would have to be built first and would be used by machinery to move earth and cause dirt to be blown around into Malvern Hunt.  Andy quoted EPA website to claim that site is not finally remediated.  Judge asked if he had witness from EPA and other exhibits along the way.  Andy also mentioned that the plan that was approved expired 90 days after it was approved and court should find subsequent actions invalid because plan was already expired.  

Mr Colagreco started by asking the hearing to be dismissed and the judge denied his request.  Mr Colagreco then stated that he had submitted a brief to the court so he wasn’t going to read the brief and the judge said that the court had already read both briefs prior to the hearing.  Mr Colagreco then argued that for the first time in history there is no case law to support a section of code that was in dispute and tried to cast doubt on Andy’s reading of the code. Mr Colagreco also mentioned that there was no harm in allowing them to proceed with moving dirt because Mr Schneider had not presented any evidence to this effect and had not presented any evidence at all other than his legal brief.  Also said that the time for Mr Schneider to appeal was within 30 days of the 2024 approval and that he can’t appeal any longer because he missed that window.  Mr Colagreco also said they are under a 2 year deadline and that time is ticking and that any effort to delay via multiple lawsuits from Mr Schneider could harm them because it could cause them to miss this deadline if they aren’t allowed to start work.  Judge asked Mr Colagreco if they had started any work on the site since 2024 and Mr Colagreco admitted they had not so Judge observed they could have been working all that time if it was important to them.

Judge then heard the township lawyer who is paid by supervisors Directors and Officers insurance it appears.  That lawyer, I don’t remember his name, said that he agreed with everything Mr Colagreco said on behalf of Sentinel.  Didn’t say much other than that.

Judge allowed Mr Schnieder rebuttal and Mr Schneider said that events in March 2026 created need to appeal and that no criteria existed in 2024 to appeal because the events in March 2026 created the need to appeal.  At the end of this, judge offered Mr Schneider the opportunity to submit his exhibits into evidence.  After some back and forth, Mr Schneider did accept the Judge’s offer and submitted his 18 exhibits into evidence.  

Judge then closed the hearing.

– Recollection of East Whiteland resident Tim Caban during the hearing.

No, those two captioned screenshots above are two other court cases. They are pending. I don’t know in what order they will be heard or what will happen.

No decision was made today. I found that interesting. I’m taking that as a positive.

Someone else is an observer of this mess for lack of a better description said to me today (and I quote):

You get to the hearing stage, arguing for a dismissal is almost a waste of time…The guts of the argument is whether or not townships can make it up as they go along, and effectively rewrite the statute through bad process.. which is a denial of due process to the community.

I found that interesting to ponder.

Tonight is the environmental advisory council meeting a.k.a. EAC. Ironically on their agenda this evening is Foote Mineral. And of course, this is also the site for the data center. I’m going to share a document I was sent today relative to that and interesting.

It ain’t over and Captain Green Fig must be twitching, no? It makes you wonder if his snazzy New York developer investor will stick around long-term doesn’t it?

This is the Foote Mineral thing I mentioned. I will also note that this person who wrote this and sent a message. I’m about to share is an environmental lawyer. Next is the message and following that his attachment and that is the end for today for me on my reporting of this ongoing issue.

Message:

John’s message

I have attached the Comments I plan to file before COB on Friday June 5, 2026 with US EPA Region 3 in Philadelphia. If upon your review you agree with the content of the Comments, and you would like to join in the Comments, please let me know by email, stratred14@gmail.com. Send me your name, street address and township. I will add you to the list of Commenters. I will send an updated list of Commenters to the EPA, as needed, over the next two weeks.

For those of you who do not know me, I am simply a concerned citizen, like you. I am not being paid by any entity for this work, nor am I a member of any group that has formed in opposition to this or any other data center project. My career has been in environmental law, so I am familiar with the Superfund process, and redevelopment of brownfields. Hence the arcane nature of my comments.

Thank you for your consideration.

John P. Judge
stratred14@gmail.com

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end of an era: ardmore’s sherry tillman retiring and past*present*future closing after 50 years

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It just doesn’t seem possible. And I shed quite a few tears over this news when I wasn’t on the phone with Sherry Tillman.

Once upon a time and 50 years ago, a young artist named Sherry Tillman had an idea. That idea came to be Past*Present*Future.

It started as a one of a kind cool place for special handmade toys and creations and it became the business we have loved for so long.

Sherry is retiring and the business will be closing, so stay tuned for special opportunities to come in for one last visit and shop and reminisce.

Sherry has been such a part of all of our communities (and lives) and she will continue to be in Ardmore, it’s just for the first time in her life, I think she might actually relax for a little bit!

Sherry has been a big part of my life personally for so many years and I love her so very much and I wish her the best and I hope all of you go in and shop when she starts her sale and if you have any questions, just hit her up.

Special sales in advance of a well-deserved retirement start June 8th at 11 AM!

Past*Present*Future

610-642-4040

15 W. Lancaster Avenue

Ardmore, PA 19003

the nature of bulltwaddle and horse manure?

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Eye rolls galore and sorry not sorry. Willistown isn’t stealing the farm are they? They just want to fix the stormwater issues and upgrade what already exists correct? I know where this property is I know this isn’t the “front yard” per se. It’s more like a corner of the property and there are adjoining neighbors and they don’t seem to be kicking up a fuss so what’s the deal for real? I actually was on the property a few years ago as someone I knew was renting the barn etc.

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From a friend who lives there and has a culvert that was updated. They said:

…a lot of the culverts put in in the past are vastly undersized. It’s not a matter of draining wetland so much as it is handling storm water.

A resident of a neighboring street that cannot get emergency services to their road because of all of this said:

The area in question is so small. I don’t know the dimensions of the 2000 sf area in question but think about 40’x 50’ is 2000 sq feet. When it floods I can not either get to my house or leave my house. Emergency vehicles unable to access half the homes because of massive flooding on road

There was an article recently in the Daily Local that could have been better with more research as opposed to quick publishing.

Willistown Township battles against landowner over property rights

So I’m sharing some photos and stuff of Spring Road in Malvern because I think the recent Daily Local article left a lot out.

The subject or main person of the article is seemingly litigious by nature, and if he is so big on the freedoms of Pennsylvanians, he’ll realize what I’m about to say, falls under the first amendment.

I think his little schtick in front of the county commissioners every month makes him like a mosquito. Buzz buzz buzz.

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Willistown IMHO most certainly does NOT want to exercise eminent domain from what I have followed of this issue but for how long is that road supposed to be closed because essentially he is not cooperative? And I am allowed to ask that question. And if you’ve ever watched any of the videos of the public meetings when this has come up, you might have a very different view of this than just this one article. Note video snippets for the consideration of my readers.

(And again, I’m allowed to say that it’s opinion covered by the First Amendment)

One of the things I am most strongly against is eminent domain. But this would not be eminent domain for private gain. It would be for public purpose because they have to make the roadway safe and the little bridge there safe the flooding is literally insane and it makes the road dangerous during the flooding events and after as it crumbles away. If you live there, wouldn’t you want that to be safe?

If the County Commissioners wish to wade in and help negotiate a non-eminent domain solution, that’s terrific but there’s a bigger story here and that’s my opinion.

I encourage people to go walk by the area being discussed on the PUBLIC roadway – I am not advocating trespassing as that is against the law. But there is a real need to fix this road. Again, I am not for eminent domain AT ALL, except this is public purpose and has been an emergent situation….for quite a while. Again, that is my opinion and it is allowed.

AND NO ONE IS PROPOSING A CONDEMNATION OF AN ENTIRE FARM, ARE THEY?

And I believe climate change has a lot to do with this because storms have changed dramatically over the past years as we all know.

At one of the May Chester County Commissioners, he referenced an attorney out of West Chester named James Tupiza, Esq. filing something against the PA Bureau of Land Preservation? That would be filed in Dauphin County, right? So was anything filed? What commercial horse business was he referring to? Renting the barn and stuff? And how many hives constitute an apiary? Is there more than one bee hive? How can he see the road from his house?

And this is literally a corner and like NOT the whole front lawn right? I think it might be 20′ x 20‘ or something approximately given what was in the article?

Look I went to county records. I don’t get what he’s talking about. No one is taking his whole farm that I can see. What I see is they want to deal with one small area of a large parcel and aren’t they doing it so they don’t have to keep doing this? This has been going on for years. And it can’t be a one lane road, can it?

No one is stopping him from playing gentleman farmer or whatever, it’s just about fixing the problem and opening a PUBLIC road isn’t it? The Willistown Meeting on this is June 4, 2026 at 7 PM in the township building.

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yass developers are not listening hard enough

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A photo sent to me during recent civic association meeting…

I spy with my little eye a new Inquirer article on the 19035. No not about the grifters currently visiting Club Fed or wherever that the civic association didn’t want mussing up their “vibe” but the article is about the equivalent of the hypothetical company town owners.

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/gladwyne-redevelopment-new-buildings-green-space-jeff-yass-20260525.html

(Inquirer article has a pay wall and you have to subscribe to read it, unless they are still allowing people a few free reads a month?)

What do I say company town owners? Easy. In part this reminds me of our history when it come to factory / mining / mill towns when they were first settled (think 19th century.)

These company towns were controlled by the owners of the factory / mining / mill towns. They built the houses, school, local store, etc. etc. (Related aside: Gladwyne already once was a mill etc. town once upon a time, so is that the rich man poor man vibe the developers are going for again?)

Anyway these company towns had the ability to control every single person. They had literally a monopoly on everything. Workers and their families were dependent upon the owners of factory / mills / mines for their survival, which was a great way to control these people yes? Of course, history refers to boom and bust cycles with these towns which is why tourists visit ghost towns out west to this day, yes?

If you are interested in learning more about these types of towns see:

The Earliest Mill
The Mills Of Lower Merion
Company Towns: 1880s to 1935
Corridor Company Towns

https://www.killinglyhistorical.org/museum/village-vignettes/life-in-a-19th-century-mill-town

About

https://www.easttown.org/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/385

Yeah I know you think I am off on a tangent but the origin of the Gladwyne Village is HELLO a MILL TOWN. Do the upwardly mobile of nouveau 19035 really want to be owned again in a sense? Sociologically it’s a fascinating point to ponder.

Gladwyne

So the article also talks about the mythical green space that is so fake sounding I can practically feel the sickly sweet taste.

Here is a link to what they presented to HARB at the beginning of May, which is what they presented to the 19035 gated community errr I mean Gladwyne Civic:

https://app.sharebase.com/#/document/281645/share/166-goqbZQoneNCIbX2j2C4VBgk3MX4

(I will tell you that Lower Merion Township’s website sucks, it’s as if it was designed to hide things, but I digress.)

So once again they are with the green space and fakakta gazebo with parking butting up against existing residents’ homes like it’s a city and WHY? Do they not see the big assed park that is 14.8 acres DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET?

I mean I am told that developer guy Andre worked in the village as a kid before he became an Andre? Does he have selective male Alzheimer’s or something? Are they literally BLIND as to the amount of green space, open space, natural water features, etc etc that ALREADY FREAKING EXIST IN GLADWYNE FOR ALL TO ENJOY? Are the residents also green blind?

Literally WTF in Gladwyne?

They don’t need a developer manufactured pocket park in essence….there is one across the street that is HUGE. Then there is Rolling Hill, Saunders Woods, Flat Rock Park, need I go on?

So these people and Lower Merion Township are either not listening hard enough, not caring enough to hear, or are just freaking green blind aren’t they?

Do the historic preservation and adaptive reuse. Rebuild the Gladwyne Pharmacy etc building, as that was probably just a favor for some pal that Walter Durham designed it in the first place because he designed houses, not mini malls. But leave the zoning alone which will threaten a well established historic district that is recognized on a local, county, state, and federal level. (Unless of course they plan to add a Trump Arch like planned for Washington DC?)

Listen harder and hear developers.

Don’t tart up the village. Do better, be better.

If these developers want their legacy in the 19035, they need to respect the legacy that already exists. Right now they are merely paying it lip service in my opinion.

yo’ gladwyne be grateful for the charm that exists: no need to tart it up.
back to the 19035 and the “plan” that still appears problematic….
BIG meeting for gladwyne civic tonight?

brunch at the desmond.

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We went to brunch at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern. We used to go there years ago. They had a fabulous brunch back then and the hotel has been for sale for a year, and it’s clean and it’s still wonderful staff (they have always had really nice staff.)

But although the place was clean and fresh, it was kind of a pedestrian brunch and I expected better.

Now, maybe that’s my fault for going with the brunch on display instead of ordering right off of the menu, but the eggs were cold, the French toast was barely lukewarm, the bacon and sausage were cold, the salad dressings were too processed and pedestrian, the pork loin they served at their meat station should’ve been wonderful, but my husband had it and it was dry and I didn’t even go near the turkey because you could see that that was dry.

They had these shrimp that had been roasted in some kind of a chili sauce and they were actually delicious.

The salad bar had some nice fresh options, but again the salad dressings were over processed and just blah — for example the balsamic vinaigrette was so over emulsified it kind of gelatinous and it was a mixture of being really sweet and too salty so in other words, it’s a super processed dressing. I suggested they add plain old oil and vinegar for people as an option. The fruit salad wasn’t anything to write home about as it was very institutional.

I ended up having a salad because when I had first gotten my plate, I wanted breakfast food and because it was cold, it kind of lost its luster so I got something else.

The pastries looked good, but I suspect again more institutional quality versus a pastry chef in the kitchen.

Now the prefixe buffet was like $29 a person which is I guess modest, but for charging close to 30 bucks per person they should’ve had more attention to detail to the food. And again, it’s really a shame because they really have nice staff.

The hotel is for sale and has been for a while so I don’t see them realistically putting more into it except they really should because it might be a better return on investment.

We used to go there for years for brunch and it was fabulous and it’s just a shame that it’s not the way it was.

And again, they are taking the time for presentation, etc. but the taste and things like basic food temperature and taste just aren’t there.

They had a young kid running the omelette station, and he kind of knew what he was doing. I was watching him, but he was very chintzy about what he was putting in the omelettes. I mean, nobody wants an omelette that’s so over-stuffed that it falls all over a person when you’re eating it, but still you need enough cheese, for example, to make it do that little gooey thing when you cut into it.

But if this is their food these days, I wonder how many weddings they are actually booking because they talk a lot about their wedding business and brunch something that should kind of be a no-brainer.

https://vista.today/2025/09/desmond-hotel-malvern-for-sale/

Desmond Hotel is now a Hilton property

things that make you go hmmmm

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Once upon a time until but a year or so ago that was this cute stone rancher, (or maybe it was just stone faced rancher) for sale in Tredyffrin.

I remember the listing because I had a friend that was interested in it and then all of a sudden it was off the market. At that point in time it had been a little overpriced, but it was a super cute house. However, it’s drawback to my friend, (which is why they hesitated) was the location. Old State Road and Contention Lane.

Sorry not sorry, it’s odd right there. When I first went back there years ago to photograph a historic property near there for a house tour, it just felt kind of cut off, like a place people only occasionally pass through. And a little isolated.

We all know it now that this was the location of where nurse, mom, friend, sister and wife Megan Nieberle was murdered in cold blood by Steve Jahn.

https://people.com/man-allegedly-shot-nurse-after-telling-cops-people-following-him-11924583

Slightly off of the beaten path, highway adjacent. Yet some interesting houses. Modest and historic and older developments.

But this rancher? Cute and on a generous corner lot. It’s sold at a sort of bargain basement price only to be knocked down.

It’s quite a big house. With oddly small windows.

What’s happening is quite interesting at 809 Contention Lane (UPI 43-5Q-9) in my opinion.

Tredyffrin has NOTHING online easily found except a note from a 3/24/26 EAC meeting mentioning issues of equipment within 5-10 feet of stream in the floodplain and a request for code enforcement to go out. Has code enforcement gone out? What was the result?

How was this approved? Was this truly by right? Why doesn’t it seem like Tredyffrin doesn’t put their land development plans online?

It just seems really big considering what used to be there.