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scott mason charged by feds, so did he exceed what daddy did all those years ago or copy cat?

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Uh huh. Boom, here it is:

Gladwyne Investment Adviser Charged With Misappropriating More Than $17 Million From Clients Through Two Long-Running Fraud Schemes

Friday, January 17, 2025

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Scott Mason, 66, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information with wire fraud, securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, and filing false tax returns, arising from two fraudulent schemes that Mason, through his investment advisory firm Rubicon Wealth Management LLC, orchestrated to divert millions of dollars in client funds in order to finance his lavish lifestyle.

The information alleges that between 2016 and 2024, Mason — who had a fiduciary duty to make investment decisions in his clients’ best interests — transferred more than $17 million from 13 Rubicon clients to an entity that he owned and controlled, and ultimately used that money to finance his personal expenditures, including international travel, country club membership dues, credit card bill payments, and the purchase of an ownership stake in a Jersey Shore-based miniature golf course.

The information further alleges that Mason targeted clients with whom he had a longstanding relationship and who trusted him implicitly, including longtime friends and family members, and he often liquidated those clients’ securities holdings in order to finance the fraudulent transfers. Mason allegedly either forged client signatures on distribution authorization forms or omitted all pertinent details of the so-called “investments” when seeking client authorization for the transfers and instead falsely represented that he was investing client funds in diversified short-term bonds.

In reality, as the information alleges, Mason was converting client funds to his own personal use. He also used a portion of the fraud proceeds to repay another Rubicon client from whom Mason had allegedly misappropriated an additional several million dollars dating back to at least 2014, in order to avoid detection by that victim.

Finally, the information alleges that Mason failed to report any of his fraud proceeds on his personal income tax returns, generating a tax loss of approximately $3.225 million.

If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of 80 years’ imprisonment and a fine of $6,760,000.

The case was investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jessica Rice. In a parallel matter, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against Mason today.

An indictment, information, or criminal complaint is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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Updated January 17, 2025

So are we surprised? What happens to the wifey, Lynne?

So here is the Philadelphia Business Journal article:

Main Line wealth manager charged with stealing millions from clients

By Jeff Blumenthal – Senior Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal

Jan 17, 2025

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And Joe Di Stephano’s article in the Inquirer also is terrific and loaded with information.

Main Line investment manager is charged with stealing millions from his clients

Scott Mason, who operated Rubicon Wealth Management in Montgomery County, is accused of taking at least $17 million from clients’ accounts to finance his Main Line lifestyle. by Joseph N. DiStefano Updated Jan. 17, 2025, 2:47 p.m. ET

So how far has Hobart distanced themselves? Here’s the SEC thing:

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-20

SEC Charges Pennsylvania Investment Adviser Scott Mason With Misappropriating More Than $20 Million from Advisory Clients

For Immediate Release

2025-20

Washington D.C., Jan. 17, 2025 —

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged former Pennsylvania-based investment adviser Scott J. Mason, and his companies Rubicon Wealth Management LLC and Orchard Park Real Estate Holdings LLC, with misappropriating more than $20 million from at least 13 Rubicon advisory clients.

According to the SEC’s complaint, from at least 2014 to 2024, Mason made unauthorized transfers of money from Rubicon clients’ accounts to his own accounts and those of his entities, Rubicon and Orchard Park. As the complaint alleges, Mason used the money for his own purposes, including to pay country club dues, transfer it to other clients, and purchase a portion of a miniature golf course in New Jersey. The complaint further alleges that Mason forged clients’ signatures, made numerous misrepresentations about what he was doing with clients’ money, and concealed his fraud for years by providing fake account statements and tax documents.

“As alleged, Mason’s clients trusted him to invest their money as he said he would but, instead, he repeatedly abused that trust to enrich himself at their expense. He then lied to them and manipulated documents to cover his tracks,” said Nicholas P. Grippo, Regional Director of the SEC’s Philadelphia Regional Office. “This action once again shows the SEC’s commitment to holding advisers accountable when they violate the federal securities laws.”

The SEC’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charges Mason, Rubicon, and Orchard Park with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws.  Mason, Rubicon, and Orchard Park have consented to the entry of final judgments that permanently enjoin them from committing future violations of those provisions and provides that the court will decide the amounts of disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties at a later date. The settlement is subject to court approval.

In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania today announced criminal charges against Mason.

The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Laura E.L. Gavin, Brian P. Thomas, and Norman P. Ostrove in the SEC’s Philadelphia Regional Office. It was supervised by Scott A. Thompson and Nicholas P. Grippo in the Philadelphia Regional Office. The litigation will be led by Spencer Willig and supervised by Gregory R. Bockin. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the FBI.

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26224

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Of course it remains to be seen what happens. One thing I find curious is why did the SEC allow him to be his own compliance officer at RubiCON Wealth Management?

So in the brave new world we are entering with a new administration coming to Washington DC next week, how will this all play out? Historically can it be said the SEC is more stringent in republican administrations? Only time will tell. What happens to the wifey? And he was an off campus student housing slumlord up where Hobart William Smith is in Geneva, NY? Is that oddly apropos, considering?

So what happens to the house in Gladwyne? It doesn’t show as for sale on Realtor.com or am I looking in the wrong place?

This guy. Blows my mind. One would think he learned from what his own father did, right? What did daddy do? Well it was in the papers… even the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/21/archives/52million-total-cited-sec-alleges-bache-aided-in-a-scheme-to-bilk.html

Grab the popcorn…yet very sad. This guy’s greed has brought shame on his family, right? Who else will come forward with a tale to tell here? I feel truly sorry for his children. Again, didn’t he learn from what his father did when he was growing up? And his father is still alive, isn’t he? Where does he live?

This truly is a cautionary tale. And in the end, greed does not pay.

seeking rubicon
19035 is madoff-lite buzzing again…and adding 08008 to the mix?
mind blown: lower merion is new grifter capital of the main line?

the “a” name pharma mysteries: advaite….to avstera? what’s in a name?

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So Advaite….a bit of a thing, right? It was the next best thing after sliced bread and dark chocolate….until it wasn’t….

Advaite Deploys COVID-19 Rapid Antibody Test Kits To Chester County And Collaborates With Pennsylvania Companies To Scale Up ManufacturingDownload
bring the popcorn to chester county….

So the beat goes on in Advaite and it is STILL in court, because remember when the Emperors New Clothes of it all happened, it went to court…..

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Yeah so then there is this other thing going on, no more website.

It once looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

But…But….wait there is more. Now there is a new company at the samey same address in Malvern???

So what’s in a name when the players are somewhat the same?

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Anyway it’s a Hardy Boys Mystery this one: The A Name Pharma Mysteries.

So what is going on here? Did Chester County ever get any money back? Inquiring minds want to know….

Taa Taa For Now dear readers….

More of the not so distant past on Advaite below and gosh you would think Chester County would have updated residents right? But have they? I can’t find anything recent-ish can you? Will this be like getting blood from a stone for Chester County?

https://www.phillyvoice.com/covid-19-antibody-tests-chester-county-sues-company-advaite

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-19-antibody-testing-fiasco-prompts-chester-county-overhaul-procurement-systems-20210121.html

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/chester-county-coronavirus-antibody-tests-false-positives-20200911.html

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/chester-county-advaite-coronavirus-antibody-tests-lawsuit-20210119.html

https://www.inquirer.com/news/good-government-or-gag-order-chesco-new-ethics-policy-muzzles-county-workers-20210301.html

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/insurance/diagnostic-lab-sues-loews-insurance-unit-over-covid-19-test-row

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000162828020015862/R12.htm

https://www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/2022/03/philly-area-advaite-sending-supplies-ukraine-after-receiving-plea-war-torn-country/364189

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465924063049/tm242989-1_pre14a.htm

https://biopharmguy.com/company.php/Advaite

chesco vs advaite amended-complaint…..
seeking commissioner clarity in chester county politics

it’s about shiloh in westtown

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I used to write about this cemetery from time to time. Mostly blips on the blog’s Facebook page. I wrote about Shiloh on this website in May of 2024:

the fight for shiloh

Shiloh is a church that no longer exists….but there are still black civil war soldiers and others buried on what is now private property. I just do not understand why the property owner wouldn’t allow for the dead to rest properly. It was one of those places where I was told headstones disappeared over time. The church itself closed in the 1920s and then around 1960 the land was first (?) sold and the church razed and graves too. I remember when I first found out about it. I have always wondered if any headstones are under the earth over there? But again it is PRIVATE property so you can’t go wander.

Anyway there is a group – Friends of Shiloh AME and they need the help of the public to find descendants of the old souls buried there.

Can you help?

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Shiloh predates Ebenezer – it’s so historically important.

Here is the find a grave link:

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2390668/shiloh-african-methodist-episcopal-cemetery

If one of your people over time was laid to rest here kindly email Shilohamefriends@gmail.com

What is really truly sad? There are lots of babies and little buried here. Not just adults. Not just at least 12 black civil war soldiers.

Solutions sought for black soldiers’ final resting place
Really old article. This has been going on for years

Here’s the property ownership. It says the owners live up in the York area? So who lives there? It’s two separate parcels, same owner. Guy with same name in Shrewsberry Township in York County PA is on the Agricultural Review Committee and someone with the same name own an unassuming cute little house in Cape May NJ too?

The property sits on some historic list for Westtown.

West Goshen is across the road from part of this property and on the West Goshen website I found this written by Stephen Lyons:

[ARCHIVED] Shiloh and the Beloved Community

A Little Black Church, Bayard Rustin and the Bird in Hand.
(Part I in a series of stories highlighting Black History in our Community)
-Written by Stephen Lyons West Goshen Historic Commission

When you stand at the intersection of an old stone wall built by Scots-Irish and a road called “Daisy Lane” in the place known as “Falcon Crest” you can almost hear a whisper among the pin oak through the valley…‘Shiloh’. It is Biblical word which almost sounds like a prayer. I remember as a young boy about 5 or 6 climbing that stone wall and a breathtaking vista of a golden meadow on what was Forsythe land in the 19th Century.  Just over the hill in Westtown Township at the intersection of Shiloh and Little Shiloh Rd. a historic black community once thrived for 100 years and a little black church known as Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery. While this Historic Church and Cemetery lies within Westtown Township members of this Black Community lived and worked in West Goshen. Shiloh Church was built of simple Brown Fieldstone in 1807, for the White Methodist church and deeded to the AME Church in 1817. It is believed to be one of the first, possibly the first ‘connection’ Churches established after the famous Mother Bethel in Philadelphia was officially organized in 1816 by Rev Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Famous Preachers such as Rev Jarena Lee and Rev Henry McNeil Turner preached here. There were Grand ‘Meetings in the Woods’ held within West Goshen, oftentimes including both Blacks and Whites. There are 140 Graves within this ½ acre parcel of Earth including 15 United States Colored Troops. The sad reality is this hallowed Ground has been desecrated for generations by neglectful property owners who attempted to erase this Hallowed Ground by demolishing the remains of the Church and removing the headstones left to disappear within the weeds of time hoping that Townships and communities would forget.

A Group of concerned citizens have not forgotten and will not forget…

On May 25, 2024 in front of the old Courthouse in West Chester, the Friends of Shiloh AME Church and Cemetery sought to honor and bring recognition to the 15 USCT Veterans buried at Shiloh. On that extraordinary day commemorating Decoration Day the precursor to Memorial Day highlighted the Veterans buried there and to draw attention to the enormous Historical importance of this forgotten space. It was likely the first time in 100 years that any kind of formal recognition had taken place for these Veterans. Isaac J. Winters was one of the 15 United States Colored Troops buried at Shiloh. He was the Church Sexton for some 60 years. He lived across the Street in West Goshen Township and operated a Station on the Underground Railroad out of the Church basement and in his home. Many of the families of Shiloh also worked at the Westtown School for generations. There are multiple threads to this History.

I don’t understand why the property owner won’t allow the graveyard to be cleaned up. According to Find A Grave there are 156 records. So that is at least 156 people. It just seems eternally cruel somehow. Maybe the property owner will change his mind. I sure hope so. It’s not his fault the land was cleared, etc as that was prior to the current ownership. But a great legacy for this small bit of land would be to restore it sort of. You will never get all the headstones back, but maybe some sort of memorial might rise in the future? Well we can all dream of that, right?

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/memorial-day-black-civil-war-veterans-cemeteries-shiloh-ame-church-westtown-20240517.html

Here is the list of the inhabitants of what was once a cemetery:

Memorials in Shiloh African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery – Find a GraveDownload

I have no idea who will read this or who will care. But people should. And I wish the property owner would. Anyway, there is nothing to be done with that for now, so if you have an ancestor on the graves list, let Friends of Shiloh know please.

r.i.p. jimmy carter

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His beloved wife Roslyn died in late 2023. I didn’t think former President Jimmy Carter would last too terribly long after she passed. Well today, Jimmy Carter passed away. He was 100.

https://www.jimmycartertribute.org/

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Passes Away at 100

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dec. 29, 2024

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. He was 100, the longest-lived president in U.S. history.

President Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Rosalynn, and one grandchild.

“My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son. “My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

There will be public observances in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., followed by a private interment in Plains, Georgia. The final arrangements for President Carter’s state funeral, including all public events and motorcade routes, are still pending. The schedule will be released by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region at 

www.usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil.

Members of the public are encouraged to visit the official tribute website to the life of President Carter at www.jimmycartertribute.org. This site includes the official online condolence book as well as print and visual biographical materials commemorating his life.

The Carter family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to The Carter Center, 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway N.E., Atlanta, GA 30307.

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Media Notes:

All logistics and credentialing related to coverage of the official ceremonies will be handled by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region. The Carter Center is not credentialing media to cover official ceremonies.

Rights-cleared photos and video of President Carter’s life, provided by The Carter Center and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, will be available at www.jimmycartertribute.org/downloads.

Contact: media@cartercenter.org

He was not a perfect President and he was in office during another tumultuous time in our country. He had an embarrassing relative – his brother Billy (remember “Billy Beer”?)

I actually met both of the Carters as a kid when Philadelphia hosted the reenactment of Continental Congress.

Here is a great article from when Roslyn Carter died:

https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna101303

Jimmy Carter was a man devoted to humanitarian and public service.

Rest in peace, sir. We need a world where there are more like you.

Click to read this afternoon’s NY Times Op-Ed

west goshen adaptive reuse retail gem on pottstown pike: melangell antiques

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I have been writing about Melangell Antiques since they opened. They are located at 1133 Pottstown Pike, West Chester, PA 19380 in West Goshen Township.

This business is in an old estate hunting lodge. A rather famous one to local history buffs. Also known as “Wrangley Lodge”, in an amazing century-plus old Arts and Crafts style designed by Charles Barton Keen as part of the original Greystone Estate. This is special to me because one of my very close friends and honorary other mothers is his granddaughter.

And those who know me know I love a good adaptive reuse, and some of my favorite antique stores have been in restored old houses! (You know like another favorite business down in Chadds Ford, Brandywine View Antiques.)

Anyway, I stopped in this past weekend because I knew that the store had some strands of vintage mercury glass garland, which I use on my trees.

Once again, when I walked in the door, I marveled at the sheer beauty of the place. And it’s not just what the business owner sells, it’s the restoration. This place really has been transformed. It’s a beautiful serene space. The building glows inside and out. No not literally, it’s just a feeling you get when you go inside and it’s lovely.

And what I also realized this weekend is they’ve never been honored or commended publicly by West Goshen Township or any of those supervisors there for what they have done. This is an adaptive reuse business that works in a historic asset.

I guess West Goshen doesn’t do historic preservation awards? Do they even celebrate local small businesses or are they only about Target and Chick Fil A? I mean, I like both stores, but they need to celebrate their small businesses too.

I also decided to research the name. Melangell is Welsh and was the name of a Saint. That I already knew, but the rest of the history was fascinating. 

The name Melangell has its origins deeply rooted in Welsh culture and language. In Welsh, mel translates to dear, while angell relates to angel. Combining these elements, the name Melangell signifies Dear Angel. This name has a rich and intriguing history, closely tied to the story of Saint Melangell herself.

Saint Melangell was the patron saint of hares and rabbits. She was a Welsh hermit and abbess. She possibly lived in the 7th or 8th century, although the precise dates are uncertain. According to her hagiography, she was originally an Irish princess who fled an arranged marriage and became a consecrated virgin in the wilderness of the Kingdom of Powys.

According to legend, she was known for her devotion to nature and for providing sanctuary to a hunted hare (rabbit) , thus earning her saintly status. As time passed, the name Melangell became associated with this valiant, compassionate figure, and it found its place in Welsh folklore and traditions. The Shrine Church of Pennant Melangell is reported to be one of the most beautiful little churches in the UK.

Anyway, this store is filled with wonderful treasures if you’re looking for a gift or something for your home or something for the holidays. Art, antiques, and fun. The place is just simply beautiful and I think we can all use a little more beauty in our lives and they definitely have Christmas magic.



You can follow them on Instagram.

Their hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 AM until 6 PM .

1133 Pottstown Pike, West Chester.

610-624-4577

in a pickle in easttown

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Well I know this has been brewing a while but wowza. I feel sorry for the neighbors. I don’t play pickleball, so it means nothing to me. I have friends who play and love it. However I do know that it is unusually noisy.

I did a little nosing around and found out this has been going on for a while (as in more than a year? Maybe two years almost?) AND if you listen to the entire meeting somewhere a neighbor says pickleball courts were built without permits? I did a screen record of the meeting because Easttown has their meeting on You Tube but unlisted so that makes me think they could disappear so….

I found the Upper Main Line Y response ineffective. I am told that the Brandywine Y (which I guess owns them now?) has or has had similar issues? I remember a big issue when they wanted to put pickleball in Lionville a year or so ago.

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Here’s the contact list at “UMLY”: https://ymcagbw.org/locations/umly/staff

So things about the meeting that made me laugh out loud: kind of asking Eattown to pay for or pay towards noise mitigation with some special fencing? Umm I am still wondering HOW they built the courts without permits?

Back to the meeting. The residents were well spoken and polite. Many of the Upper Main Line YMCA (“UMLY”) supporters and patrons…less so.

One person, can’t recall her name, was as rude and dismissive as could be…and is the apparent chair of the Willistown Planning Commission? Well we all know how Willistown residents get so wonder how she would be feeling if it was next door to her ?

Some of the patrons of UMLY were pleasant-ish and polite, as I mentioned. But so many of the others? Asshats with a misplaced sense of entitlement. I did not hear any neighbor say take away the pickleball courts, only that the noise HAS to be dealt with. Some of the most immediate neighbors, like on Longcourse Lane (a great street, incidentally) are showing by my research as being in Tredyffrin. So accomplishing anything is harder because UMLY is in Easttown.

Here is where UMLY is on the zoning map. Notice the R-1 AKA Residential:

Here is the another attachment – a land use table- I found in e code 360 on zoning:

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Here’s a little blip out of Easttown’s own zoning on r-1:

R-1 Residential District. The R-1 Residential District is intended to:

(1) Provide for low-density single-family residential units on lots of sufficient size for on-lot sewage disposal systems.

(2) Foster protection of sensitive natural resources and areas conditionally suitable for on-lot sewage disposal systems.

(3) Provide for the preservation of natural resources, historic resources, and open space through lot averaging development options.

I am not a Zoning officer and don’t play one on TV or the Internet. Here are some interesting chapters in Easttown Zoning:

Township of Easttown, PA Noise disturba…rohibited; general stands; exceptionsDownload
Township of Easttown, PA Outdoor lighting Environmental ControlsDownload

So again, not a zoning professional. Not an attorney. But I can read. And I have to ask if UMLY is playing a game they can win? And yes I suggested a land use lawyer to a friend to pass along to the residents. Ask the residents in Narberth and even Willistown who have used this man and they will tell you worth every penny.

I added the lighting component of the zoning code because that is also a consideration. Hypothetically, lights might be on later than needed in part to liability concerns. However, I also have to ask WHY those courts are not locked up at the close of every day and even seasonally when it’s too cold to play pickleball or tennis for example? I am asking because residents said at this meeting where pickleball was continuing AFTER operating hours at UMLY? And I will note at present in Radnor an elite private girls school is being rude to neighbors with super daylight bright lights at night shining into windows of neighbors. They lock their courts but say they have to keep lights on and they are not down shielded so I have been told you can wake up at 1 AM and it’s like noon. That is light pollution and that also has serious environmental impacts. It affects bird migration and other things.

Residents are entitled to a reasonable expectation of quiet enjoyment, and people might like playing pickleball at UMLY but the residents do indeed have to be considered. And they are not being considered. Neighbors have apparently been trying to deal with this for a couple of years? These neighbors are far nicer than UMLY deserves. Personally I would have given them six months.

UMLY needs to be told a cautionary tale: the tale of Dink City Pickleball that opened for a brief time at Valley Forge Military & College….and closed because the neighbors in Tredyffrin had enough of the noise rather quickly.

Dink City Pickleball was forced to close due to a violation of the township’s R1 (residential) zoning code. The business received a notice of violation in July 2023, giving them 30 days to appeal or cease operations. No appeal was filed, and the business announced that August 14, 2023 would be its last day.

In June 2023, Savvy Main Line had the scoop on Dink City opening:

Finding the holy grail – a place to play pickle – just got easier, Main Line.

Two enterprising locals just opened what they say is the largest pickleball facility in the northeast: Dink City Pickleball at Valley Forge Military Academy & College.

And unlike YMCAs, country clubs, and Malvern’s new Bounce Pickleball, you pay only for your reserved court time. No need for a membership….With the tagline “community at play,” Dink City is more than cushioned courts, painted lines and regulation nets.

“It’s all the social things around pickleball that we offer – that’s the differentiator,” Norton tells SAVVY.

Think food trucks, corn hole and music on weekends, plus lessons, clinics, leagues, tournaments, pro shop, private events and birthday parties….“I love getting out on the court and getting a good sweat on,” says Norton who’s played pickle for nine years. “But just as much as that, I like hanging out with friends and family afterwards, maybe having a beverage or a taco or something from a food truck. That enhances the experience for everybody.”

The courts have lights for evening play and will be available year-round. “There are some hard core pickle-ballers out there who will play in the cold,” Norton says. “It’s like paddle – once you get moving, you warm up a bit.”…The two decided to cash in on the craze but make it community-oriented rather than an exclusive club. A real estate broker connected them to Valley Forge Military, which has been seeking new revenue streams to offset falling enrollment. (Since 2010, VFMAC has sold 20 acres to Eastern College, five acres to Bentley Homes, and most recently, 23 acres to developer Rockwell Custom for a new senior living complex.)

“The quickest win,” the partners say, was repurposing the lightly-used tennis courts on Radnor Road in the Tredyffrin section of campus. They loved the “heart of Wayne” location – a stone’s throw from St. David’s Golf Club and close to multiple schools, campuses and country clubs.

And if all goes well, outdoor courts in Wayne could just be the beginning for Dink City. VFMAC is in early talks to turn its equestrian center into a sports complex that might include Dink’s first indoor courts. Craft and Norton are also looking at properties in and around Philly and Maryland – although they haven’t yet quit their day jobs.

Yeah and then a few weeks later, it was sayonara Dink City, again I refer to Savvy Main Line:

IN A PiCKLE IN RADNOR. Just two months after they cut the ribbon on a popular new 16-court pickleball facility at Valley Forge Military Academy, Dink City Pickleball is closing.

The trouble began with a “handful of complaints” about noise from neighbors, according to Tredyffrin Zoning Officer Erin McPherson. When she investigated, she found the commercial business was operating in violation of the township’s R1 (residential) zoning code. She sent a notice of violation on July 14, giving Dink City 30 days to appeal for zoning relief or cease operations. No appeal was filed, she says, and today Dink City announced that Monday Aug. 14 will be its last day.

“This is not the end,” wrote owners Bryson Craft and Robbie Norton in an email. “Dink City will be back better and stronger than ever.”

The partners – both young local fathers and pickleball enthusiasts – had leased four lightly used tennis courts from Valley Forge Military Academy and invested big $$ converting them into a state-of-the-art pickleball center with leagues, clinics, “Dink and Drinks” nights, summer camps and more. (See our story in the June SAVVY – link in profile and scroll down.)

“We tried to resolve the issue with the township but they wouldn’t accept our proposals,” co-owner Craft tells SAVVY.

Dink City will refund Open Play memberships and any account balances as of Aug. 15

Pickleball noise is a real problem. There is even a group on Facebook devoted to it – all areas of US and Canada:

Pickleball Noise Relief

 ·This group has a whole file section on pickleball noise etc.

Like this file:

Pickleball Noise – A qualitative description of the psychological and physiological effects on nearby residents (5)Download
PICKLE BALL NOISE AWARENESS RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE – NOISE VIOLATIONSDownload

They also posted this:

IMPULSIVE/IMPACT SOUNDS: By definition, an impact sound is simply the solid collision between two objects, such as hammering, dropped objects, a door slamming shut, metal-to-metal impacts, etc. Impulse sound is defined as the product of a force and duration with which the force is applied. More specifically, impulse is the time integral of force from an initial time to the final time, the force being time dependent and equal to zero before the initial time and after the final time (ANSI S1.1–2013). – ……. The measurement of impulse noise is becoming increasingly common within the industrial hygiene field. Issues for measuring impulse noise issues include dynamic range, frequency range, anti-aliasing, microphone/preamplifier/power supply, sampling rates, etc.. Whether an SLM, dosimeter, or computer-based recording system is used, good impulse noise measurements are not trivial to make. The limits of the microphones may be reached. The influence of nonlinear acoustics can dramatically affect the measurements. – Taken from The Noise Manual, 6th Edition.

https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/its-time-to-admit-we-have-a-problem-pickleballers

It’s Time To Admit We Have a Problem Pickleballers

by Jason Flamm on July 23, 2024

Like many pickleball players, when I hear (another) story about how noisy pickleball is, I simply roll my eyes and spew a few snarky remarks about how some people just can’t let others have any fun.

So, you can imagine my response when I discovered there was a Facebook Group called the “Pickleball Noise Relief Group.”

My eyes rolled back, my lips curled, and I prepared to write something blasting a bunch of Karens for wanting to shut down pickleball.However, after a few conversations with the group’s leader, Nalini Lasiewicz, and actually listening to what they had to say, I realized that automatically labeling them as a pickleball hate group that just wanted to ruin our sport was completely off base.

And my preconceived notions about people complaining about pickleball noise couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Basically, I was … I am wrong. And so are many of us who think that pickleball doesn’t actually have a noise problem.

Because for these people and many others who are too afraid to speak up, it’s a serious problem that’s causing them health and mental issues.

Pickleball players: it’s time we admit that there is a pickleball noise problem.

Meet Nalini Lasiewicz

Nalini Lasiewicz is a resident of a Los Angeles suburb who first got involved with pickleball noise issues during the COVID lockdown….Nalini says this exact scenario has played out countless times since she became an administrator of the Facebook Group created by Rob Mastroianni, a Cape Cod resident who had to sell his family home due to the noise becoming too much to deal with.

Mastroianni’s story was featured on ABC News in August 2023.

The group is dedicated to finding and supporting others across the country in similar situations. For many, it’s a platform that allows them to find ways to regain the peace they’ve lost in their neighborhoods.

Look, NO ONE IS SAYING NO PICKLEBALL. But UMLY needs to do right by the neighbors. And that doesn’t mean Easttown Township and taxpayers should be paying for noise mitigation. And If Tredyffrin shut it down at Valley Forge Military Academy and College, zoning is not so different from municipality to municipality given that the Municipalities Planning Code of the Commonwealth of PA guides it all, correct?

I have no horse in this race, but I have been watching pickleball issues out of curiosity for a while. So Easttown and Tredyffrin residents near UMLY, I hear you and I am not hearing anything other than wanting your environment back. You aren’t being unreasonable. But UMLY and Upper Main Line Y? They are. And still I ask…how did they build pickleball courts without permits if that is indeed true?

A shout out in general to YMCA of Greater Brandywine. YMCA of Greater Brandywine needs to quit playing possum because it’s not their first pickle problem is it?

Easttown Township needs to deal with this and not play kick the can. Tredyffrin Township could step into help residents if the supervisors can stop contemplating their collective navels long enough, yes? Expectation of quiet enjoyment? It’s a real thing. So pickleballers? This is a real issue. It’s not the noise you all are hearing, it’s what the residents are hearing and that is NOT the same thing.

Easttown residents, also see https://www.quietcommunities.org/les-blomberg and https://www.nonoise.org/index.htm

Pay attention to the Model Noise Ordinance video I embedded here. They talk about the expensive anti-noise fences/barriers. They are discussing how it doesn’t work….

Ok Christmas is not going to decorate itself around here. Have a good night.

it’s not “nimby” to be sick of all of the development in chester county

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Today I had posted something from another blog (Cara at Hello West Chester) about development in West Chester Borough .

4 New Developments Set to Hit West Chester

The comment I am about to share has sent my teeth on edge and if you don’t want to listen to my rant, get off of this post now:

Chester County Ramblings my current neighborhood is not a dense borough, is not walkable, and has no restaurants/shops/galleries/etc. Regardless, I’m fine with development and don’t object to new neighbors. Not everyone is a NIMBY.

I don’t agree with everything you post but you are definitely “in the know” and I appreciate the updates.

As soon as my kids finish HS, I’ll be moving to a new place and WC Borough is on the list. I hope it has more apartments, nice buildings, restaurants, etc. by that time. It keeps getting better as it gets redeveloped. Maybe it will even have restored train service in a few years but I’m not holding my breath.

I’m curious as to why you choose to live in the suburbs of a major city when you frequently lament growth, development, and change? Wouldn’t some place like Forest County be a better fit? Or do you simply want access to the amenities this region offers by virtue of having the density and wealth of being near a city but not the development and congestion that come along with that? You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

Also this comment:

Y’all hate when someone builds something on an empty lot 😂

And this one:

That was a historic parking lot though! George Washington parked there!

And this one:

Chester County Ramblings I own a home in the borough, drive or walk past these sites multiple times a week, doesn’t bother me one bit. I lived in Chestnut Square when it was first built and it was awesome, brought a lot of young people into the town, everyone was proud to live there and the property was always well taken care of. It brings more people to our local businesses and restaurants, more money into the borough. The only people I see complaining are the ones too high and mighty to live near “renters”. No one will convince me that replacing an empty concrete lot or an abandoned Burger King with a brand new, nice, apartment building is a bad thing.

And this:

All the NIMBY’s know is unhappiness about any sort of growth and change. They are perfectly content with this region stagnating and declining while the rest of the world flourishes and advances. I can see being against a 5-floor apartment complex on a farm in West Nantmeal Township, but on an empty parking lot in a walkable town with amenities?

I’m really tired of having the same conversation over and over and over again.

While some are reveling in their ignorance of what they think are funny comments, they are missing the point and the point is there are too many apartments.

NONE of these developments are even attractive at this point . The development can be along I 95 in Philadelphia or in Chester County and it all looks the same. Cheap looking Lego boxes.

Too many apartments are creating a transient aspect to society out here. It causes issues with other types of real estate. It encourages predatory real estate investors, etc.

It’s just whatever the developer can suck out of the plot of land. If these folks all want to be part of the conversation, they’re welcome to be part of the conversation but if they’re just here to be ignorant, they can F off.

I’m just tired of it. We can’t have intelligent conversations about anything.

People can either constructive and polite even if you are on the other side of the issue, but they are not . Does anyone think these apartments are doing anything in the long run? They aren’t. They cause more kids to be in already bursting at the seams schools and they cause other stresses on infrastructure which is human and otherwise so it’s services like utilities, and then it’s emergency services like fire and police, etc and roads.

So if anyone out there would like dense buildings next to you, give the developers your address I’m sure they can oblige.

We can’t handle everything that’s being built literally. And our municipalities can not afford it. They get the short term high of ratables, but then we’re all on the hook.

There is no pace. There’s no real design. There’s a lack of human scale in most of these developments and issues with setbacks as well. Find open space? Not if they can help it. You know how you get open space in any of these new developments? If they can’t build on all of the land correct?

And then there are the developers that shove these plans down the throats of people in various municipalities and then they just let everything sit there and rot Today we have seen in Berwyn what happens with that. See my post on Berwyn Square.

what’s up with roof collapsing at “berwyn square”?

Yes, communities have to grow and evolve to survive. But the growth shouldn’t always hurt so much and how about plans that are less dense and not so many rentals? That would probably be welcome just like anything other than a cram plan of apartments or townhouses.

What about affordable housing? I mean, basic average houses that people can downsize to who are getting older but raised their families and possibly even grew up themselves in a particular community or area. I’m also talking about what used to be called “starter houses” for people who grew up somewhere and came back to raise their own families and start their adult lives in a particular community. And by affordable housing, I’m also referring to low income housing. The state of the current supply of low income housing in Chester County is deplorable.

These developers aren’t building for a sense of community. They’re building for a sense of their own bank accounts. This is why you saw two municipalities this past election put an open space referendum on the ballot – East Whiteland and Uwchlan. Both referendums passed.

We don’t live in Chester county because it’s just some random suburb, we live here because we love the history of our county and we don’t want to become what Montgomery County and Delaware County have become and we’re pretty much there. It’s becoming too much development, overcrowded schools and an urban feel which is not what most of us signed up for. Bucks County too. Basically pick a county.

The Municipalities Planning Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is something I have written about so many times before I’ve lost count. This is the state level zoning bible, the guides all municipal zoning throughout the state. This weighty tome came into being when the definition of suburb and exurb was very different than today. this thing has not been comprehensively updated since around 1969. We’re at 2024. That’s 55 years.

Supposedly there was a big update in 2022, but I don’t remember anyone in Harrisburg enacting an act of the state constitution to do it?

What changed in 2022? Things most people didn’t even realize happened:

Act 41 of 2022

Amended Title 53 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to establish the Municipal Boundary Change Act. This act also defined changes to real property that don’t require the assessment office to adjust an assessment

Act 97 of 2021

Amended Section 509 of the MPC to clarify the amount of financial security that municipalities should retain to cover the cost of remaining improvements on a subdivision or land development. This amendment took effect in February 2022

What we’re looking for in our communities among other things is more open space preservation, historic preservation that actually has teeth, and meaning, means to slow down the pace of development and have better control in our communities over the types of development we’re seeing. we want to be able to say we need to pause dense development and we want tools that our municipalities can legally have to help us preserve the feeling of where we call home.

It feels like every square inch of where we live is getting developed doesn’t it and as soon as you say, I really wish there wasn’t so much development you’re called NIMBY.

That’s bullshit. And the reality is the pace of development currently is not sustainable long-term and the stuff being built it doesn’t have staying power. The finishes and building style is just put it up as fast as you can. It doesn’t last. What is being built is not inexpensive and it looks cheap.

Parcels of land are built out to every inch possible. If any thing is retained as “open space” half of the time it’s not billable so you think a developers being magnanimous, but they really aren’t.

And then with all this development, especially in places like West Chester Borough you have people that’ll say “but we need workability and then maybe we’ll get the train back .”

Do you have two dollars? I can give you a piece of my bridge. I don’t really own a bridge. It’s a turn of phrase. All I’m saying is people are so gullible that they want to believe just about anything, but it doesn’t mean anything is based in reality.

And people always want to just say I’m NIMBY and I hate all development. There have been developments in the past I’ve actually liked. but those plans are few and far between or in some cases never actually happened because they were too good to be true.

Plans for development need to fit the communities in which they are going to be located. which of course is why I am worried about what is planned for the Weston tract in West Whiteland of W. King Rd. It’s why I am also concerned about whatever warehouses are being planned for the corner of Phoenixville Pike and W. King Rd. in West Whiteland.

Another thing I’m concerned about is whatever will happen with that random 15 acres that are partially in East Goshen and West Whiteland that were part of Schiffer Farm that the West Chester University Foundation is selling to a developer which backs up to a sweet older neighborhood on Old Phoenixville Pike.

And things like Lionville Station Farm are still in play aren’t they? And what is it about Downingtown Area School District that you don’t really know what’s going on with what the latest buyer is actually going to do?

And then you go past what used to be Happy Days Farm. The scale and just size of those warehouses is insane and no more farm.

If you want to see what negative impacts are occurring with all of this development try to drive through Ardmore or Wayne. Look at all the apartments in Tredyffrin, including along 202.

All of the development is overly dense and it’s about maximizing developer profit. It has nothing to do with community. It has nothing to do with any of us who were here first.

Again, all of this development is not sustainable. All of the rentals don’t foster a sense of community but they do create a more transient society. But go ahead, call me NIMBY if it makes you feel better. It’s not the truth.

what’s up with roof collapsing at “berwyn square”?

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I mean, yikes! So much for Berwyn Square being the fabulous addition to Easttown Township, right? I mean, how long is Easttown Township going to allow this to go on? This affects property values of neighboring properties, residential and commercial. It looks like a slum.

I was tipped off today when I saw a post:

So the entire roof hasn’t completely collapsed as of earlier with photos sent to me, but you look at the photos being shared here that residents sent to me today and you tell me if you think that looks safe? And how about there’s no construction fencing around this entire project and does police tape, and those sawhorse / barricade things keep people out?

Residents have expressed concern for quite a while now haven’t they? Haven’t among the complaints been not only does the site look like a slum, people have questioned it being secure as in. They’re worried about people getting into it?

I posted about this in June 2024 :

“berwyn square” and isn’t it boooteeeful?

I think I first wrote about this in 2019 and that would’ve been under the prior developer. The meetings caused such a huge resident turnout that they had to cancel one of them and reschedule.

easttown residents turn out in droves, zoning meeting at hilltop house postponed

Residents have been against this super sizing since this first began and I think that was what 2018 or so? I’ve lost count because this has been going on and been a consternation for so many years at this point.

https://vista.today/2022/01/berwyn-square-interest-sold/

Much ado about development: the latest in Berwyn, Devon; Fallout from Radnor’s fallen trees; Cutting-edge beauty/wellness in Paoli; Uh-oh in Ardmore; Happy B-day Campli Photo & BMFI; Cool new companies & more
Local builders propose new Berwyn Square development around Handel’s

https://savvymainline.com/tag/berwyn-square/

This is the website for DP Partners who own this obviously dilapidated development site:

About

I have to ask how can they say? They actually care about the community around this site and how can Easttown allow this to continue? This is ridiculous. There isn’t even cyclone fencing up around this site. Haven’t residents been worried before about middle schoolers and other kids getting in there?

OK, everyone gets it. The site will be developed, but what was there before obviously needs to be taken down ASAP no BS. They need to clear that lot and make it look neat and safe. Now I realize in order for Easttown Township to do the cleanup themselves they might have to take the property via eminent domain, but wouldn’t that be for public purpose at this point because it doesn’t look quite safe? And I don’t like eminent domain, but they’re not taking care of the property and they’re not moving forward on the project right now, are they? Now I also wonder if Easttown could force the unsafe structures to come down as a matter of public safety without taking the property because I remember East Whiteland did that on two dilapidated properties two different times in recent memory.

The neighbors deserve better. The residents of Easttown in general deserve better.

It seems like no matter what municipality you live in you are living with development sites that haven’t quite popped yet and they just sit there rotting don’t they? 

Giddy up Easttown and DP Partners, giddy up. This is BS. This developer likes to tell people at meetings how he’s one with the community, well dude do you want this across the street from your house?

Rant over.

operation holiday needed!! the regency park apartments in coatesville are not looking unsafe!

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Regency Park Apartments in Coatesville located at 699 Victoria Dr, Coatesville, PA 19320 describes their complex like this:


Regency Park is a Low-Income Multi Family community that offers 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments. 
We are conveniently located to public transportation, with easy access to dining, entertainment, & shopping. 
The apartments offer a well lit private entrance and include modern appliances. 
We have a very active Full-time Social Service Coordinator that provides services & programs for all Residents. 
Our community includes an on-site laundry facility, community room, beautiful community garden and playground. 
With our great location in Coatesville, Pennsylvania  not only do we have privacy as a community but we also have the convenience of various shops, restaurants, entertainment, pharmacies, and more just minutes away.

So do the photos people in Coatesville are starting to post look nice to you?

Not to me.

I have been seeing these images increase and conversation online. Over the years, my experience has been that those who live in rent controlled or low income housing don’t really open their mouths unless it’s so bad it’s completely untenable because they fear they will be evicted or punished or worse.

Even people in regular apartments that aren’t section 8 or HUD or anything or loath to complain to a landlord especially if there’s someplace that is somewhat safe for them to live. Years ago, when I was still single and living in Lower Merion Township, I lived in a crappy apartment in a safe neighborhood and you couldn’t get the landlord to do anything unless the township had been through on a rental inspection. You had to play games just to survive.

My kitchen floor back then in my former apartment completely flexed as in you could feel it move when you walked on it because I think there was termite damage underneath. Only it was never repaired. The township back then told them to fix it, they never bothered. The floor had duct tape on it because it was bowing and everything so badly that the tiles kept popping up. Our doors in and out were not exterior grade doors. They were just interior doors and none of the windows locked in any apartments. Some tenants didn’t even have doors that actually locked properly.

So I feel for these people who don’t really have a choice they can’t just pick up and leave, they can’t just move. And where would they move to? It’s not like rentals are particularly affordable at this point even in Chester County. And is it true that this building has lots of single moms? Are they actually safe?

Apparently, Coatesville knows there are problems as in the city of so why don’t they act? How can the county turn a blind eye? It seems that a company out of Camden NJ runs the place, the Michaels Organization ?

They had me at Camden. SMH. Anyway I took a look at their executives on their website. Wonder if any of them have ever been to the property in Coatesville?

I don’t know anyone who lives in these apartments in Coatesville. But while things like the Daily Local’s “Operation Holiday” is running around why don’t they look into some folks who could use help? Or any other print or television media out there? Only a media spotlight will help and they could be the difference because the bad optics during the holiday season might mean these people will get help.

And Chester County Commissioners while you’re out raising taxes maybe do something about this? You like photo ops in Coatesville so go out with your inspectors and whomever is supposed to be in charge of affordable housing?

https://www.liveatrp.com/

Ok I hope these people get attention. According to social media they are planning a peaceful protest on December 2 at 3 PM. 699 Victoria Drive Coatesville in front of “home office.”

I am not the media, just a blogger, and it should not be so hard for these people to get help. But hey, it’s a media desert out there.

So Michaels are y’all awake yet? Chester County? Coatesville? This place looks disgusting and a coat of paint will not address all that ails this complex will it? And I will note that the ONLY email Michaels lists for EVERYTHING is info@tmo.com

Sign me disgusted and grossed out.

west vincent needs a quorum and they need a real manager. like yesterday!

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Ok look I have to ask: how can this one remaining supervisor in West Vincent Township sit here this past week at a gathering with bumble the solicitor and everything that is old is new again manager who was exited a bunch of years ago not because he was fab and came back as an interim with straight faces? They literally just held a meeting without a quorum which is really just a gathering right? How can you hold a meeting about the business of a municipality without a quorum? The answer is you’re not supposed to. It’s a second class township. This is the big flaw in the structure of second class townships because although you can have five supervisors too many places only have three like here.

You have one supervisor that I suspect people are not going to see again (Sara Shick) and you have another one also with obvious health issues (Bernie Couris formerly a Republican Borough Council person in West Conshohocken) given the gray pallor at the meeting they were last attending wearing a giant hospital mask and then leaving after 20 minutes. You may not see him again either, right?

Now many things people do not know about Bernie Couris is he was in the papers years ago for a heart transplant. I have never found him to be my type of politician either in West Vincent or West Conshohocken, but he had a heart transplant I want to say 1990-ish, and went on to run marathons etc, and that I do find truly amazing and inspiring. That being said, if he is not well, that could be super serious, right? (And if you don’t believe me check South Jersey papers archives, Inquirer, Daily News, etc.)

And Sara Shick is a breast cancer survivor – used to be a peer counselor at Living Beyond Breast Cancer which is actually one of the few breast cancer charities I believe in. BUT given the way she looked at meetings the past few months (wheelchair, suddenly a hair covering, looking frail, and a very wobbly voice) something is up and hasn’t been to a meeting or part of one since September?

Look, I am not being mean, these people are UNWELL and this township doesn’t have a quorum. So both of them need to put what is rumored to be some sort of competition or not getting along aside for the good of their township, don’t they? It is OK to say you are sick or whatever and step aside and release that stress from your lives if you have a medical condition that requires attention and less stress, correct?

back to west vincent. the supervisors aren’t doing so well, are they?


So who is running the township?


And I realize government in West Vincent can’t escape being Pennsyltucky once in a while, but you can have a meeting and just say you’re getting together so everybody can see literally who’s left! They’re not actually doing anything because legally they can’t do anything without a quorum can they? And that is exactly what the remaining supervisor Dana Allen did. Had a meeting without a quorum and did not know the basics of you can’t post minutes that have not been approved by quorum?


And then you have to wonder if any of the former supervisor(s) that people fought so hard to rid the township of are just waiting in the wings, looking to be placed as the pinch hitter(s)? Now one pinch hitter I would approve of is Mike Schneider, for example. Or even George Dulchinos, right?

I have to ask should the state be stepping in here because I think this is crazy town and if I was living or working in this municipality and they don’t even have like the audit from the prior year finished yet let alone how can they really be talking about 2024 because they can’t really do anything with that either, can they?


Because again…broken record time… there’s not a quorum now, so wouldn’t you be anxious as a resident ? Or even as a township employee? Truthfully residents shouldn’t be just anxious, they should be up in arms. And before anybody jumps down my throat and says I am unsympathetic to people dealing with health issues, that’s not the case at all. This is a broken down system in this municipality once again, and that is not fair to anyone is it???


Again, supervisors who are not at the table and haven’t been at the table now in one case for several meetings, and in another case for a couple of meetings need to do the right thing. It is OK to say their health comes first and they are sorry they cannot serve any longer… but you can’t just pretend nothing is happening here, can you? And should you?

And let’s talk the everything old is new again interim manager? A right to know uncovered he is billing $75 /hour. How is the recruitment going and how can they appoint a manager without a quorum of supervisors anyway?

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So then there is why are they using Keystone Municipal Services for manager searching when The Meyner Center at Lafayette has the better track record? Here, check this link because the Meyner Center has the track record IMHO:

Executive Recruitment

Here is the job posting for a new West Vincent manager, but again, without a healthy Board of Supervisors HOW do they interview and hire one??? Picking a new manager is not just playing that child’s card game of match, is it?

A resident asked at the meeting asked the question of what if there was no quorum in December and the solicitor basically told her not to worry her pretty little head about it? I mean for real?

And of course because there really is no local journalism anymore you have nothing about this in the Daily Local and I doubt the Inquirer even knows there’s a problem.

West Vincent is careening in my opinion. I am glad I don’t live there but oh hell if this is not a reason for second class townships to go to a five member board everywhere in PA, I don’t know what is.

West Vincent is Crazy Town and not in a good or productive way.

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lawd have mercy, it’s groundhog day in west vincent!