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east pikeland in kimberton has a superfund site and do we know all we need to know about it?

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In January I asked a pretty simple question:

Would someone kindly tell me what is in the water in East Pikeland Township??? And I am not talking about the superfund site (yes there is a fairly large one and where are all of the monitoring wells and plumes and what not?? https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/srchsites.cfm )

Every time you turn around, there seems to be something funky oozing out of East Pikeland isn’t there? My guess is they don’t want anything oozing out of there correct?

Kimberton AKA East PIkeland has a largeish superfund site so why don’t they talk about it much?

Today I add to that is where is whom I thought to be East Pikeland’s Manager, Kim Moretti, whom is still showing on their website as being manager? (https://www.eastpikeland.org/township-administration/directory-listing/kimberly-moretti )

Would she be the one to ask this of? Or would people ask the supervisors led far too long by that unnaturally red-haired old man and his underlings who do his bidding?

https://www.eastpikeland.org/township-administration

https://www.eastpikeland.org/board-supervisors

The thing about superfund sites is there really is no safe distance away from them is there? It all varies depending upon the contaminants, wind patterns, local groundwater flow, and cleanup status, doesn’t it? While the EPA investigates and remediates these areas, studies often highlight according to what I have seen, approximately a 1 to 3-mile radius as an area of potential or actual exposure don’t they? Or is that wrong?

Hazardous stuff can migrate can’t it? I mean that is why people living around the Foote Mineral EPA site in East Whiteland (which isn’t so far from the Kimberton site, is it?) are freaked out by even earth being moved for that planned data center, right?

In 1992, The Philadelphia Inquirer did a pretty big spread of an article on Kimberton and how organic the area was. Laura Quinn the reporter of an article dated August 28, 1992 titled the article “A Place Where The Cows Eat Organic”. Today when I saw that in the archives I had to snort. I will share some screenshots of some dead and buried newspapers about Kimberton I find amusing at the end – just not that Inquirer article as I can’t find an archive link on their website. It is a shame I can’t find it on their website to be able to share a link if you subscribe… but anyway, article did happen.

In 2008, The Philadelphia Inquirer or maybe The Daily News (William Bender?) wrote a small article about the Kimberton Superfund site. The article spoke about this 45 acre site on Coldstream Road being on a national priorities list of well over 1000 properties. It was once owned they said by a company called Ceiba-Geigy, and land was now owned by the Henry Company.

According to this article from 2008, there was a lot of trichloroethene (TCE) dumped into multiple “pools” and oh shades of Bishop Tube which never became a superfund site in East Whiteland and is still contaminated, right? Also the article mentions that back then (18 years ago now) they had been removing lots of “volatile organic compounds” from ground water and then when the waste was filtered and decontaminated or something it went into the French Creek? (umm, ick???)

Also according to the EPA stuff online, supposedly between 1947 and 1959, a predecessor of Ciba-Geigy manufactured epoxy resins and textile products there. Overall research from the EPA etc indicates that chemical residues were primarily trichloroethene (TCE), dichloroethene (DCE), and vinyl chloride. A nice toxic cocktail in organic land much?

When you put this crap into Google, this comes up:

Remedial Cleanup Actions

  • Operable Unit 1 (OU-1 – Drinking Water): EPA mandated an alternate water supply in 1988 due to residential well contamination. Individual local wells were initially treated using granular activated carbon (GAC) adsorption filtration. A permanent public water supply line was fully installed in 1992, removing local dependency on contaminated private wells. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Operable Unit 2 (OU-2 – Source & Groundwater Control): A comprehensive groundwater pump-and-treat system was launched in December 1993. Extraction wells capture the contaminated water before it leaves the property bounds, running it through an on-site air stripping treatment facility. [1, 2]
  • Institutional Controls: Mandatory deed restrictions are enforced to prevent groundwater exposure, block the drilling of new domestic wells, and preserve the integrity of the protective caps over the former lagoons and septic areas. The site achieved Sitewide Ready for Anticipated Use (SWRAU) status in 2018. [, 2]

Then there is Roberts Packing (meatpacking?) which is a CERCLA site. So that I think means it is a hazardous waste location managed under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980).

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0301817

East Pikeland, being East Pikeland and a land of the super secret people doesn’t have much on their website. I found this:

https://www.eastpikeland.org/environmental-advisory-council-eac/page/kimberton-superfund-site

Today I found this “KIMBERTON SUPERFUND MONITORINGWELL RECORD” and it is dated July 24, 2026:

Monsey 2018-2025Download

Here’s a page on “Monsey” which also shows up in the reel of names in Kimberton:

https://sweets.construction.com/listings/monsey-products-co-nst1449/overview

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Here is the link to all of the stuff on the EPA website:

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.docdata&id=0301432

Also not that long ago a resident asked a simple straightforward question:

Then there is this:

Basically you have to wonder what is going on and what has been going on for decades in East Pikeland Township? Ron Graham has been a supervisor since 2008 and chair of that board since 2009, yes? To quote (him) on the website:

Ron believes that efficient and successful governance is based on integrity, open communication, compromise rather than confrontation, and sound fiscal organization.

Mmmkay Ronnie old man (and you are dude complete with unnaturally red hair), if you believe in integrity and open communication, maybe its time for (a) a completely new board of suprvisors (won’t say new chair because the currents do your bidding don’t they?); (b) a ballot referendum to add 3 more supervisors under the 2nd class township; (c) actual transparency and open government; (d) no more bully politics? Also how can this dude been chair of the board since 2009? It’s good to be king right?

This Kimberton Superfund site gives me the willies. Read that new thing. Test your wells and groundwater. Question it all residents, it is your right. And if you start to flip the board, you can also get township administration and solicitors (including zoning) that you trust, yes?

And speaking of questions what happened with the recent zoning hearing board and the hippies are us thing being planned Altair Eco Village? That is partially on superfund land isn’t it? Has stormwater issues?

https://www.altairecovillage.org

I don’t know but in my opinion, East Pikeland needs a whole lot of sunshine and residents need to question everythng.

My opinions are brought to me by the first amendment. No McPhails need apply, do they? (Yeah I knew about that East Pikeland.)

I also think Erin Brocovitch would also love East Pikeland. maybe if lots of East Pikeland folks contacted her about the Kimberton Superfund site, more answers would be forthcoming?

East Pikeland maybe no more cloudy sunshine free days are in order? Unless y’all are vampires?

Here are the funky newspaper clipping from dead papers:

un senso di tradimento

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Montauk NY’s Pine Barrens. Ravaged by fire and Southern Pine Beetles. 2026 photo.

The photo above is how I am feeling this afternoon. Empty, chewed up, and feeling a little…well…betrayed. I have expressed this in Italian (which is rather embarrassingly rusty) as I am still living with the excellence of Lisa Scottoline’s latest book which made me channel my inner Italian.

So friendship is and always has been a big deal to me. We are only as good as our word in this life. Last night a friend, not an old for decades friend, but a more recently minted variety contacted me and flew completely and undeservedly off of the proverbial handle with me. Flipped out. Accusing me of craziness and “back stabbing” and what are we 12? Is this the 8th grade lunch table or something?

What happened in truth is people who don’t like them being friends with me, whispered in this person’s ear. I have never been anything but honest and straightforward with this person, and a friend. I got the big mad in addition on things where this person ASKED my opinion – I was not offering my opinion, there is a distinct difference. I also got a big mad from them over a conversation we never actually had.

So here we have another case of gossip and the human effect.

The person who flipped out on me sent a text to say they were sorry. That’s nice but what they did? Literally created in me a sense or feeling of betrayal: Un senso di tradimento. Sadly this makes this a trust issue. Which means if this heals, it will take time.

I can’t control what people whisper in someone’s ear. Not everyone has to like everyone else, but it is super sleazy to interrupt another human’s friendships just because you don’t like one of their friends, and it is that simple and you can simply choose not to be around that person when the mutual friend is with them.

I am also not a punching bag. Friends don’t treat friends like shit.

Trust is a big deal, so right now, I have got nothing except literally un senso di tradimento.

you know a politician is having a bad day when they quote me, right joe lewis?

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Joe Lewis is not my guy.

So would somebody please tell this baby Trumpophile that I might not be enamored of Kristine Howard but why am I being quoted on his freaking flyers he’s handing out in Malvern Hunt about data centers?

I mean one minute with Chester County Republicans I am literally the devil incarnate and the next minute they are quoting ME?

FFS so we are crystal clear: I don’t know him and I’m certainly not endorsing him. Let him do his own damn work.

Literally, I have never met this person. He has not reached out and now he can stuff it.

He’s just using my words.

Literally I did not know this guy existed until this afternoon.

And I guess that’s what politicians do, correct? They use the words of others because they can’t find their own?

And if he’s running around town with the likes of Melissa what’s her name who seems to run for something every season and ran her teenage daughter once for school board? Yeah no desire to meet him for that reason either.

Sometimes it is better to ask for permission than to beg for forgiveness.

But I do have to kind of laugh at the idea of anyone quoting me to get elected public office. I guess I must only be an evil blogger on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Enjoy your weekend.

girl if you are going to co-opt something at least pronounce things correctly and know the history, right?

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Oy I can’t with this chick “Carly Closes.” Today it’s like Carly does Wayne, and is that like Debbie does Dallas? Dunno. She is going to say I am a petty beeatch, but this time she is co-opting literally one of my most favorite bits of quirky history. So favorited by me that I got a state approved historical marker that I still check on every time I am in Wayne.

Please note this is a public post a la wants to be an influencer on social media.

Here is my fundraising flyer:

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Here was the sign dedication ceremony invitation Greg Pritchard and Beverlee Barnes designed:

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Let ME get into it. First and foremost, she can’t even pronounce what she’s trying to co-opt to shill with. She is speaking about the Wayne Natatorium in North Wayne. She doesn’t even have the location right. Literally the pool was Willow Avenue in North Wayne, Little Chicago. That’s right— where Willow Avenue is today was the pool. They blocked up the Gulph Creek to fill the pool, as well as utilizing springs underground and it was very popular for a short amount of time.

Natatorium blaze history ‘gone up in flames’

It was the largest outdoor pool in the country and one of the largest in the world at the time. There were swimming championships, and there was ice-skating in the winter. There were ladies and men’s dressing rooms, and there was a clubhouse and at the end of Willow Avenue before it takes the dog leg part of that clubhouse used to exist until there was a fire and when they rebuilt it, I don’t know if they saved any of it because there was a really cool fireplace and that then rental property that was from the original clubhouse.

This is a photo from around 2005 I think of the clubhouse fireplace mantel I mentioned

Carly implies with her interpolation that it was like a sideshow circus freak kind of an attraction and it really wasn’t that. It was part of Wayne at the time. So can I say thousands and thousands past through the pool? No, because I don’t think we really know. The other thing is it wasn’t just drought that caused the pool to fade in popularity other things gained popularity like cycling as in bicycles and golfing. While it was open it was popular. And there were swimming championships and exhibitions.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=83377

Drawing attention to history: Citizens apply for state historical markers
Victorian-era pool earns historical-marker status
Ceremony for historic Wayne Natatorium set
Victorian-era pool gone but not to be forgotten

Again, I know about the Wayne Natatorium because I got the sign for it. Yes indeed I really did. I went to the board of commissioners in October 2009 in Radnor Township to get their approval. I wrote the application I raised the money, my nonprofit sponsor was the Radnor Historical Society. But I did the work. The chair of the historical society at the time was Ted Pollard and he told me back then I was on my own because he was focused on getting a sign for Bishop Richard Allen when he visited the Bryn Mawr section of Radnor somewhere off of Bryn Mawr Avenue probably close to where the WaWa is today if I remember it correctly. In 2009 they dedicated a small park on Brook Street in Bryn Mawr to him. At the time, Ted Pollard told me to wait and I said no because whatever the state emphasis was that year for historical markers, I felt the Wayne Natatorium stood a better chance of making it. And in the end I was right. The Bishop Allen Historical marker didn’t actually make it to marker status until 2023.

Two people in particular from Radnor Historical Society were instrumental in helping me and letting me into the archives of the historical society at Finley House. One was Greg Pritchard, who is now history everything with Lower Merion Township and is the Lower Merion’s HARB person. The other was Beverlee Barnes, who is the preservation planner at the Delaware County Planning Department.

Some of my other great supporters of this project back in the day is former commissioners John Nagle and Hank Mahoney, Sam Strike who used to be with the Suburban and Wayne Times, Bob Zienkowski now manager of East Vincent, my late friend Andy Lewis who was on County Council in Delaware County, as well as being a Haverford Township Commissioner during his life, and another dearly departed member of the Radnor Township community, Steve Paolantonio.

So seriously, I really want cool history preserved, and I want people to love the history, but when people co-op the history for personal gain, (and I’m entitled to that opinion, this is a public post across social media platforms) I think that’s wrong.

And if you’re going to speak about local history at least correctly pronounce what you’re speaking on. Otherwise you sound ridiculous and twatwaffleish.

*Note a lot of this was my own research, some of the items came courtesy of the Radnor Historical Society and their archives. The newspaper I showed screenshots of called The Philadelphia Times was in existence from 1875-1902, when I think it was merged into The Public Ledger.*

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Take a walk through history along Main Line

The Wayne Natatorium was written about in defunct Philadelphia area newspapers at the turn of the century and the Philadelphia Inquirer has written about it here and there including August of 1992. That article spoke about Fennimore Lake, Martin’s Dam, Mill Dam, places that no longer exist like Lea’s Lake, Cathcart Lake and the Wayne Natatorium.

Golf, swimming… and cricketWhen weather warmed, Main Liners delighted in outdoor recreation

In January 1896 there was a “Ghost Carnival”. The folks who attended back then we Main Line and Philadelphia notables and executives and families of the Pennsylvania Railroad. (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 1896)

The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1899 also reported on an “enjoyable skating carnival.” (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 1899)

At the end here are my photos and photos friends gave me from when we dedicated the sign – we received commendations from the state as well as Delaware County. We had Radnor Township officials present, my (then) home township folks from Lower Merion Township there, state representatives and a state senator.

So Aesop still says when Carly wants to close her mouth instead of the sound of her own voice, she might actually learn something. But until then she will be just another realtor using the area’s history as a social media marketing tool.

I hope you all have enjoyed actually learning about the Wayne Natatorium today.

Cheers! Hope the Canadian Wildfire smoke clears soon, don’t you?

is this a case of dirty deeds done westtown cheap? is this all tied to westtown wanting to ditch the darlington inn?

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The fantastical green serpentine stone of the Darlington Inn

You know it started out like your basic hotter than hell day in Chester County yesterday. Then it got really hot in a particular township. Westtown Township to be precise.

It started when I was sent this message:

This is the current historic commission:

Now I have to be honest, Westtown Township has an enviable historic commission. They really work their tails off and I know they’ve been desperately trying to save the Darlington Inn.

Let’s chat Darlington for a moment. In 1843, David Taylor, who was a sculptor by hobby and a strong Whig supporter, carved Henry Clay’s face into the stone at Darlington. Henry Clay was the Whig presidential candidate in 1844.

So Taylor bought the house in 1843; he carved the face in 1844. In 1860 he also carved a likeness of his black dog, named “Lincoln” after the 16th president, who was then a presidential candidate. Now this is only part of the fascinating history.

Back to our present in Chester County. As we know, in late April and early May, there was like a big meeting and they put the zoning change for the Darlington Inn on hold.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/crebilly-farm-darlington-inn-westtown-20260425.html

And before we get to that, there’s the endless curiosity I have with odd politics. So that new supervisor, Jodi whatever her name is? She’s been a supervisor for like six seconds and now she’s the chair? I watched her the other night. She can barely do a meeting. She needed a lot of handholding. Daddy instructs her constantly. Did she even finish that “supervisor school” new elected officials take?

However Jodi Nawrocki (I finally looked up her last name because I figured I really can’t refer to her as supervisor -Jodi -what’s -her -name) sure seems to have loved the Darlington Inn and the serpentine stone when she was running for office, didn’t she? so one would think she would be appreciative of a historic commission that was advocating for its survival and what not? But I do think that’s worth mentioning. So maybe it’s pertinent?

So how did she become instant chair of the supervisors in Westtown after just being elected? Was it like a cup of soup salt barf ramen noodles just add hot water?

Oh wait I forgot to mention something else. It seems like Westtown Township and Tredyffrin share the same solicitor? I find that very interesting if it’s true. I always find that crossover interesting don’t some of you?

Anywhooo….it seems at some point in June a Supervisor named Ed Yost resigned. He was moving out of Westtown so he literally had to. And when I was checking out this most recent meeting there seem to be a lot of contretemps about how a new supervisor was appointed. Someone named Frederick Manger. I also think he came from the historic commission and as the Saturday Night Live Church Lady would famously say “isn’t that special?” Also I have to ask the question is he a buddy of that one supervisor who’s like the cheese stands alone and is in control? So was this all by design even him going on the historic commission in the first place? And the supervisor who never seems to be able to leave Westtown might not like my questions, but there is nothing illegal about them

It is time for an intermission after a fashion before I circle back to what Westtown is actually trying to do to their current historic commission. Kindly allow me to give you a few snippets of the recent July meeting. I found them illuminating, fascinating, and like watching a municipal train wreck. I guarantee watching their meetings will create municipal gaper delay.

I hope you enjoyed the intermission or interlude, now it is time to go back to the whole historical commission thing. I posted the little screen message I got and I started getting other private messages from township cheerleader types:

Then an article came out yesterday afternoon in the Inquirer. A giant a-ha moment. Truly.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/crebilly-farm-darlington-inn-historical-commission-20260714.html

According to the article, the message I was sent seems kind of true, doesn’t it? And someone else after I posted the message essentially told me that this was about the Darlington Inn. That’s what the article says too, doesn’t it?

According to the article, there’s also an email that went out to this volunteer board, saying basically the supervisors were going to vote on their removal forthwith and they were being told as a courtesy. Apparently this was all stated in some email shared with the paper that was from the township manager Liudmila (Mila) Carter (the one on the meeting recording who sounds like Yvonne from the Bullwinkle cartoon.) It seems as if there will be a public lynching at the next supervisors’ meeting, and that some upcoming historic commission meeting has also been canceled by the Westtown Township.

Oh, but if they really wanted to keep their volunteer positions, they could reapply for it. Needless to say no one in Westtown was available for comment to a regional newspaper. It seems when the article was being written again to quote the Church Lady “isn’t that special?”

And of course, none of this was supposed to get out in the public purview, but it has. Because when things are rotten enough, they can’t be hidden any longer, can they?

Now let’s go to the July meeting that I have the snippets posted up above. I don’t have the whole meeting up, but also with that meeting or maybe it was another one (I’m not really sure) the township solicitor suggested easements to help protect the Darlington Inn. Jodi with an “i” didn’t think that was a great idea. (This is all in the Inquirer article too by the way I’m not making this up.)

Isn’t it kind of fun that Jodi with an “i” had the Darlington in her campaign when she was running for supervisor but now that she is supervisor I guess she doesn’t think it has the same amount of luster because she didn’t want to add what the solicitor suggested?

Here is the entire July meeting- what the heck I will post it and hopefully it doesn’t disappear:

Here are their June meeting recordings:

So now I’ve set the stage right? There’s trouble in paradise in Westtown. In my opinion, it’s a very interesting political scenario over there. You have one supervisor with lots of experience like Wiley Coyote and two novices? (Yes, I can have that opinion. I figure I’ll get that out-of-the-way since I heard that Westtown supervisors can still be rather petty.)

Anyway, it makes you wonder about who really is the puppeteer here and why they really want to get rid of the historic commission? And I have to ask does someone in particular want the Darlington Inn gone in Westtown Township?

I can also tell you how some of the made up stuff that’s floating around and is not true.

My sources tell me that the purported sunshine violations are bunk. Apparently it’s stems from historic commission members who want to go to some historic preservation network dinner? They are being told going to a historic preservation event is a violation of the sunshine laws?

Are. They. Freaking. Kidding. Me?

A social gathering is not violating the sunshine law. Talk about desperados grasping at straws.

Here- think I am making this up? I have emails and this is what you need to see (below in light and dark because I don’t know which is easiest for people to see.)

And it’s something that can be obtained on a right to know it’s not anything privileged. These are emails from the township manager, who apparently is also the head of building and planning and zoning and how can she effectively be a manager of a large enough township and do that as well?

I mean, call me crazy but I have gone to those Westtown Day things at historic Oakbourne and the historic commission people are all always there talking about the history of that township. I mean it was because of them and talking to them about the wonderful history of Oakbourne Mansion that we chose to get married there. So is THAT a violation of sunshine law too?

In my humble opinion the answer to that is no. This isn’t a violation of sunshine laws at all. It’s just bull twaddle.

And appointing a new supervisor in private and having to correct it is kind of wild, right?

This is the kind of crazy town bullshit that causes things to go south in a township. Who will be the fall guy or gal when that happens? You would’ve thought that elected officials in this municipality would have learned when they had to be talked into saving Crebilly in the first place, right?

I hate to say it, but if you live in Westtown or you care about the Darlington Inn, it’s time to start storming the Bastille over there because there’s something really wrong happening. These yahoos don’t have actual cause to divest themselves of their historic commission. It would just be more convenient for them to load up a board full of people they can control, wouldn’t it?

So are people, residents, taxpayers going to allow this to happen or are they going to call bullshit on these supervisors? Maybe the supervisors are the ones who should all be replaced?

I mean it’s getting to the point people that you have to wonder what municipality has not lost its damn mind in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

A recap before I leave you, followed by a delightful array of screenshots.

Westtown Township residents need to get busy. As was the case with Crebilly, in my opinion, rather troubling times once again. Meet your supervisors who wish to cancel your entire historic commission over trumped up BS.

First you have the new gal who ran on putting residents first along with the sentimentality of the history including the Darlington Inn. She is being led around like a puppy in a leash training class by the old timer who is literally on and off of the board and can’t stay away, can he? And then there is number 3. Buds with the old timer, correct? Once on the historic commission (isn’t that special and how’d he come to get there?) they tried to slide him in behind closed doors June-ish, correct? Kind of stealth and why didn’t the solicitor stop it and correct it then? I mean a solicitor should know, right??? So then number 3 was adjusted in during the July 6 meeting, correct? That’s neat shoehorning CYA if politicians can get it, right? Well his bio was up and then it was down right? Caught an important snippet still showing on a Google search that disappears when you click on it.

So now these people wish to magically erase the ENTIRE historic commission on made-up stuff? Hmmmm there’s something rotten in Denmark err Westtown and it seems obvious right? Like it’s 0”politically motivated retaliation or retribution? And what is the township manager actually doing about it? Shouldn’t she and the solicitor stop hiding about this?

Enjoy the screenshots snippets which in my opinion are so illuminating:

A good residents’ to do list should include start filing right to know requests in Westtown again ASAP.

Start with ALL communications between the supervisors (including the one who recently departed), the township manager, and the historic commission.

Ask for everything under the sun surrounding the Darlington Inn.

Talk to those who fought to save Crebilly to see what they might have vis-à-vis information that could be helpful.

Start looking into ways that the State Attorney General’s office could look into this board of supervisors.

Start checking out who would be good to replace all of these people who are currently supervisors with. How are their ethics going with the current supervisors? Are they violating oaths of office?

Stand up and stand with the current Westtown Historic Commission, they deserve your support. Westtown residents you have to stand up and make some noise, and you should want to. This is pure, unmitigated bullsheit.

Stay cool.

happy (?) 250th birthday america (?)

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Today I was greeted by media images and footage of a white supremacist types in white masks, marching in our Nation’s Capital.

That’s not my America.

I think the deadly horrible hot weather is a reflection of the emotions and sentiments of the ghosts of our founding fathers.

This is what 250 looks like, America? We should all be ashamed. We are probably as divided as we ever have been in that saying something, considering the Civil War, etc.

I love this country, but I don’t love this point in our history. We are standing on the edge of a crumbling, dangerous precipice. I’m tired of politicians talking. They need to do something about this.

This country has all but forgotten from whence it came and do average people now actually know what it means to be American?

People are going to read this post and say “She’s not a patriot. She’s bad.”

Patriot is now an overused trigger word that has lost its meaning because people now have a distinct lack of understanding of the term and our US history, good bad, and indifferent.

No, I’m not bad. But I am fed up. I’m fed up with the pablum being shoveled at us from politicians on both sides of the aisle. I am tired of the ugliness, the divisiveness, the overt racism, and just anything ugly that you can attribute with a stereotype of what an ugly American looks like. I’m tired of the faux Christians who think they’re actually Christian. They are not. They are lizards who slither back and forth from under rocks.

Our country is in the toilet economically. The Wizard behind the curtain would like us to believe it is hunky dory but ya know how they are trying to reframe social security? We’ve paid into this our whole lives and it could be out of money or seriously cut by 2032.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/your-social-security-benefits-could-be-cut-by-a-quarter-in-2032-heres-what-to-know

https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/social-securitys-financial-outlook-deteriorated-in-part-due-to-trump-policies

The funny thing is I remember the Bicentennial. I was just a kid. and I remember people complained about it. And it wasn’t perfect, but I remember it was a real celebration and both sides of the political aisle came together for the greater good. I got to ride in a covered wagon to and through Valley Forge Park.

I saw an Inquirer article about the reenactment of the 2nd Continental Congress of some sort that was down at Independence Hall within the past couple of days and it was pathetic. Face it, today’s Congress couldn’t do anything that those men did 250 years ago, they simply don’t have it in them.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/independence-hall-250-congress-ceremony-20260702.html

Congress returns to Philadelphia to mark 250 years since America’s first vote for independence

My country ‘tis of thee, don’t let a mad man subvert our liberty.

I will end with posting the Declaration of Independence because what else can we do but remind people what our founding fathers fought for ? Why? Because otherwise the future is bleak house.

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

as the sword of damocles hangs over our heads

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Resident photo, East Whiteland Data Center Site NOT TRESPASSING!

The Sword of Damocles. I think that’s a good and applicable metaphor for those of us in any community throughout Pennsylvania dealing with the issue of data centers. We live in a state of eventual peril, and our elected officials don’t really seem to get it and or really care. Or if they care at all, do they care enough?

East Whiteland in particular I’m beginning to find especially frustrating. With everything it’s no we couldn’t possibly, it’s never maybe we can investigate that as a solution.

Every time you turn around yet another community is being faced with a potential data center, or inadequate bad pablum smeared data center ordinance language developed by people who are really in it to get data centers in communities. And yes, I can have that opinion because it’s the truth in my opinion.

The developers are your typical developers and this could be a warehouse or an apartment building or condominium complex or bad stick frame townhouse development. They don’t really care, they’re just in it to make money. and like typical developers they will build their build and move on to the next community whose lives they are going to impact negatively.

There seems to be a couple of court cases pending, so there’s no actual data center building going on at the moment in East Whiteland, but it never should’ve gotten this far. This township had the ability when this first started to say no, but they lost their balls along the way.

This started in 2018. I know because I was following it and so was Ginny Kerslake. It was around the same time that the developer tried unsuccessfully to get a hydrogen hub in West Whiteland next to where he wanted the data center in East Whiteland.

When I asked about this then and asked them if they had ever heard of Loudon County Virginia or how bad this could be the response was along the lines of (and I’m paraphrasing), “It couldn’t be that bad.”

I warned officials in this township then that a human tsunami would arrive when they least expected it about this data center. And the human tsunami is here and the residents are not backing down, which is something this township is not used to because there isn’t a lot of staying power on certain issues. But with this the issue of data centers, residents are united.

And it’s not just the residents of East Whiteland. It’s the surrounding communities who would be affected by this data center or who are going to be affected by another data center. This issue is non-partisan. People just don’t want them, and if you study the fine print in our electric bills, we’re already paying for data centers. We’re paying for what we didn’t ask to have dumped on us. That’s just classic isn’t it?

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A truthfully, we shouldn’t have to have it. There’s an opportunity right now in Harrisburg thanks to State Senator Katie Muth to pass a bill that would allow for a moratorium on data centers. It wouldn’t be forever, but it would give people breathing room, but of course the lobbyists and the politicians, who have swallowed the Emperor’s new clothes as being spun by Governor Josh Shapiro, just don’t get it, and their ignorance (or deliberate obdurance) could cost us our communities, our health, our environment, our home values, and more.

State Senator Katie Muth is the only elected official who seems to give a damn most days.

Who is going to take care of us when our wells run dry? Who is going to take care of us when we don’t have enough energy for our use because it’s being hogged by a data center? Who is going to keep us from literally losing our minds from the noise of a data center which will also affect our children, our pets, our wildlife?

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I’m tired of being Sister Mary Sunshine on this issue. It’s wrong and when did our government become people who didn’t protect the people who elected them in the first place? Do any of them have courage? That remains to be seen.

Now there’s this narrative being spun in East Whiteland that Foote Mineral really isn’t a super fund/EPA site any longer. Don’t know what they’re smoking, but it really must be good, huh?

Yes. It. Is.

That Foote Mineral site is a bad site and this is a greed driven bad plan. Data centers are not good for any community. And yes I can have that opinion.

And a brief segue to Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and Salem Township. Does anyone really believe that the data center land owners give a crap about the cats living on one particular parcel I mean, where are they going with them? Are they just making them disappear? Doesn’t the potential for animal cruelty matter either?

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/friends-and-ferals-removed-from-salem-township-data-center-properties-while-rescuing-cats-berwick-qts-salem-township/523-d8709ca6-4fac-418a-8948-b21a5153e2e5

My greatest fear with these data centers is the reality that our local governments and our state government is creating a Logan‘s Run scenario for the future. And that’s not as crazy as it sounds if you look at what’s happening with the negative effects of data centers in other states already.

https://www.eastwhiteland.org/government/departments/planning_development/sentinel,_green_fig_data_center_on_swedesford_road.php

East Whiteland Township among other municipalities still has the opportunity to grow balls and do the right thing.

But will they?

Signing off utterly disgusted.

I don’t know what we’re celebrating on July 4 but it seems like this country is on a bad track and data centers are just part of it.

Logan’s Run here we come.

Make sure you read Ginny Kerslake’s editorial in the Inquirer.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/data-centers-moratorium-shapiro-katie-muth-pennsylvania-20260701.html

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gladwyne folks had best pay attention to the uncertain fate of saint peter’s village

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I remember the first time I saw Saint Peter’s Village as I guess a teenager. My father wanted to see it, so one day we went. I thought I had stepped into a magical place. It has felt like that every time I have been there since. It is in Warwick Township and has a cool history.

is a preserved 19th-century industrial company town located in a narrow gorge along French Creek. A company town. Much like the Village of Gladwyne, hence the reference. In the 1840s, iron ore was discovered there.

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https://theclio.com/entry/154077

Allow me to quote a Times Herald article from 2008:

Cradled in the hills surrounding French Creek State Park was a run-down, sad-looking town called St. Peter’s Village. It’s cheerless, empty shops and crumbling walks hid this little Victorian hamlet’s history and charm.Originally founded and built as a ‘company town’ by Davis Knauer to house and provide services to workers of his Black Granite Quarry at French Creek, this picturesque Victorian community began to take shape in 1880.

For many decades families flocked to the village to ‘jump’ the rocks and picnic by the stream. 

Winter sleigh rides and festivals were a constant as was, in later years, the sound of old Aunt Lena playing the saw. The village’s fascinating history and the memories of thousands who visited could not preserve it from the descent that followed the closing of the quarry and the subsequent selling of the village by the Knavery family in the late 1970’s.

For over 20 years this charming Victorian town sat neglected with its magnificent Inn deteriorating into a shabby shadow of its former grandeur. But all that has now changed.

Tom Drauschak of Earth Companies, the builder of the nearby Stone Wall Golf Course, and his partner, Vince Piazza, the father of future baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza, purchased the Inn as well as several other buildings in the village two years ago and already life has come back to the town. Paver sidewalks were installed, the quarry had what can only be called a ‘face-lift’ and working with the Chester County Historical Society, existing structures have been restored to their 1880s Victorian charm and are now occupied. The historic Inn at St. Peters Village (http://theinnatsaintpetersvillage.com/), which first opened in 1881, has been radiantly restored…The best part, however, are the careful measures that are being taken to maintain the historical integrity of St. Peters. Mr. Drauschak is working with the historical society to ensure that the new construction will be representative of the architecture of the era, thereby making this lovely neighborhood fit seamlessly into the charming village and its setting. Home site reservations at pre-construction pricing are now being accepted. So, what happened to St. Peter’s Village? It’s Renewed, Revitalized and Open for Business!

Wellllllll….I had not really paid attention to the whole thing that this little village always had overlords err owners and then the news broke:

https://www.phillyvoice.com/historic-st-peters-village-chester-county-auctioned

St. Peter’s Village, a 19th-century industrial town along French Creek in northern Chester County that’s protected under the National Register of Historic Places, is being put up for auction by its owners.

The sale includes the Inn at St. Peter’s Village and accompanying restaurant, 121 residential and 13 commercial properties and subterranean mineral rights to the land, according to Philly-based Traiman Auction Company. The village will be sold Sept. 30 at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern.

~ Molly McVety
PhillyVoice Staff/ June 29, 2026

June 29 is ironically the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul.

AUCTION???? yeah this gets an oh fuuuuuuuuck for sure. The auction house has tried to be coy about ownership but Philadelphia Business Journal burst that cherry:

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2026/06/30/saint-peters-village-auction-piazza-chester-county.html

An entire 83-acre village in Chester County with a hotel, shops and over 100 developable home sites is being put up for auction by Piazza Management Co.

The historic St. Peter’s Village will be auctioned off Sept. 30 with no reserve price at the Desmond Hotel Malvern. At that time, the village will be sold to the highest bidder, no matter the price, and with no set starting bid.

~By Ryan Mulligan – Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal

Jun 30, 2026

https://www.saintpetersvillageauction.com

Philadelphia Business Journal also pointed out that this is the SAME Piazza tearing up Ardmore in Lower Merion Township for a mixed use development that will supersize and citify.

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2025/12/29/piazza-ardmore-development-radnor.html

Radnor Property Group is set to begin construction on a mixed-use development in Ardmore that will add hundreds of apartments to an area drawing attention from multifamily developers looking to build near transit hubs.

The $187 million, 270-unit development at 100 W. Lancaster Ave. is planned to have about 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 480 garage parking spaces, including 108 for public use by retail customers. The project is named The Piazza at Ardmore after property owners Daniel Piazza and his family.

Radnor Property Group CEO David Yeager said he and Daniel Piazza view the project as an opportunity to “create a gateway” into downtown Ardmore.

Those are my photos from when I was in Ardmore recently and I was horrified. Another fun fact? Former East Whiteland Supervisor Rich Orlow works for Piazza, who also has a seemingly stalled project in East Whiteland – a car dealership.

According to the auction website:

Engineer’s plans, plot plans, and other property details will be available at the property.

Description

Owner has directed an Absolute Auction for their portion of its property located in historic St Peters Village, Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Step into a one-of-a-kind opportunity in the heart of St. Peter’s Village, a nationally recognized historic destination in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This mixed-use development invites major builders, venture capitalists, and historic preservationists. Located in a growth corridor, this intriguing property sells at absolute auction to the highest bidder. The offering includes 121 Home Sites, consisting of 33 single-family homes, 33 twins, 34 town homes, and 21 expansive 2-acre home sites; also a wastewater treatment plant that services the existing structures, which must be improved by the buyer to accommodate the full build out. Thirteen historic and commercial village buildings—totaling approximately 43,500+/- square feet—create exceptional potential for retail, hospitality, or adaptive reuse. The property also conveys valuable subterranean mineral rights, including documented iron ore deposits, adding a rare investment dimension.

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It’s all being sold “as is, where is”.

Now someone has to ask the question is Saint Peter’s Village being auctioned off to pay for Ardmore?

Well?

Last year part of the road was closed by PennDOT, does that have anything to do with this? After all it is no great secret in Chester County that PennDOT road closures can help kill businesses, right?

St. Peters Road in Warwick Township closes May 22 until next spring
St. Peter’s Village to be put up for auction

According to Evan Brandt at The Mercury, the sewage treatment plant has major issues:

The small sewage treatment plant nestled into the hill behind St. Peter’s Inn discharges directly into French Creek, an “exceptional value stream” that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is charged with protecting.

The sewage treatment plant has had serious problems over the years with aging pipes that allowed stormwater to infiltrate. Every time it rained, the plant would not be able to handle the flow, and thousands of gallons of raw sewage were discharged into French Creek.

In 2008 and 2009, the DEP stopped expansion work at the sewer plant that it said was being done without a permit. 

Evan also mentioned the ghostly was to be a development where only about 5 model units were built. Today he remarked only a couple seemed occupied.

https://tomdrauschak.com/projects/st_peters_village (this website which was old, disappeared overnight after I had found it)

Anyway….GLADWYNE PEOPLE like the good for nothing civic association and Lower Merion Township sit up and pay attention as this could be the fate someday of Gladwyne Village. You have a new owner turning it back into a company/mill kind of town. Don’t say it couldn’t happen in 19035, it certainly damn well could.

I am sure I am not the only one extremely worried about Saint Peter’s Village which to be honest has started to look a little run down in the past couple of years. If residents and preservationists don’t get busy and pay attention who knows what could happen here and it might be on the National Register of Historic Places but how many times have things on that register been demolished for “progress”?

No rest for the historic preservation weary, I’m afraid. Only potential profits for developers, right?

#SaveSaintPetersVillage (pass it on)

what to do about the gladwyne of it all?
should gladwyne’s historic village be reimagined to be like peddler’s village-lite?
yo’ gladwyne be grateful for the charm that exists: no need to tart it up.
The Trendy St. Peter’s Village is Full of Fascinating Ruins
Neighbors report St. Peter’s blasting problems

https://tomdrauschak.com/projects/st_peters_village

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Chattin’ with Uncle Elver: Progress in St. Peters to maintain its Victorian charm
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being involved in your community.

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I’ve written about this so many times I don’t know why I’m bothering to do it again but I am.

There are no better advocates for a community than the members of said community. It takes a lot at times, sometimes it’s easier.

But people ask, how do you do these things? You gather together. It starts with that.

I think the biggest problem I see that people have with local governments today are the poor decisions, and trying to hide things from people.

Sometimes it takes a while, but the truth always does come out. But there are things that I don’t understand today that comes out of the mouths of our local elected officials. Elected officials are the ones that are driving the bus of the municipality, yet they can’t contemplate their navels without being told what to do by staff.

Now of course they’re just places where the elected officials are just off. Do we call them corrupt or are they just stupid? I think they are stupid a lot of the times because they think their residents are stupid?

If you don’t like the face of who governs you change it, one of your most powerful tool in a citizen toolbox is your vote, along with your voice.

My friends and I have done it. It’s often a slog. Pure and simple. And while it is great to have t-shirts, catchy phrases and acronyms and lawn signs, that is literally the fun part. The crazy rest of it? It’s like having a second unpaid job you didn’t sign up for.

In East Whiteland and East Vincent and Limerick and Plymouth and West Conshohocken and Upper Merion it’s the blasted data centers. In Chaddsford, Radnor, and Malvern Borough and some other areas it’s unwelcome development.

In Easttown things are a little below the radar right now, but I keep getting inklings that things are simmering.

And Willistown is its own hot mess. You have unresolved major development issues with Rockhill Farm. And the guy who won’t let the township fix a culvert on Spring Road. And every once in a while you have people who pop up wanting sidewalks on absurd roads. In some places sidewalks are helpful, but the can’t be on dangerous roads that are not safe for walking or sidewalks to nowhere right? And the eternal thing of who pays for sidewalks when they are installed is an issue that the sidewalk advocates have no realistic answers to.

Another example I’m going to use today is Tredyffrin – what are these people thinking?

Residents are asking for transparency because everything they get is talking in circles, a non-answer, clear as mud. Like how is a supervisor named David Miller able to just write a check for a big chunk for the park being formed out of Picket Post Swim Club? The Chase Road Park but does that check really buy naming rights? (Watch the meeting)

https://www.youtube.com/live/wQ_L-VTRLmo?si=YHmswdPbfx29QvWE

Just the other day after sharing a concern from a resident in Mount Pleasant, a sitting supervisor, replied the following:

So let’s review: she is a sitting supervisor. Her job is to help her constituents and residents of this township. What I’m sharing is a resident asking for help. What she’s sharing meaning the supervisor is she couldn’t possibly. She can call about a leaky fountain, but she can’t also say to the township manager and traffic safety “Hey, we have a problem and there’s going to be a fatality or a really bad accident if we don’t improve the signage in Mount Pleasant.”

But hey, it’s Mount Pleasant right, so why give a damn?

I see you lazy supervisor and so does everyone else.

I will also note this is the woman who actually lives extraordinarily close to where Megan Nieberle was murdered and did we ever hear a word out of her about that?

Now another weird thing in Tredyffrin. Humble brings up Hans van Mol and he’s a curiosity to me. He likes to play parliamentarian at meetings right? So why does he not recuse himself from Parks and Rec stuff? His mama, Diane van Mol is the chair of the Parks and Rec Board is she not? Isn’t that a conflict if he doesn’t recuse himself? And has he recused himself?

And let’s talk America 250? If Tredyffrin is so proud of their flag why did Sharon Humble have the attitude of a cold wet noodle when Michelle Kichline was there. How could she not recognize Michelle’s service to the township as a supervisor for years, she was a chair and she was a county commissioner and a chair there as well!

Tredyffrin residents are waking up. Residents in other Chester County communities are waking up. Government needs to realize that we are all not sheep on this big bus of life.

Ciao.

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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