A little birdie told me the other day that pickleball had gotten very quiet at the Upper Main Line YMCA in Berwyn.
And indeed it has.
As previously documented and witnessed at many meetings in Easttown Township, the neighbors have been trying to see an amicable solution that is fair to everyone, not just the Upper Main Line YMCA (UMLY.)
This has been going on for a couple of years, right? And I remember from watching the meetings that the neighbors tried really hard to just be good neighbors and get treated fairly and no one heard them, so now they have filed suit and they have a shark as an attorney.
They have hired I think one of the best land-use lawyers that exists in this area, Phil Rosensweig. He was one of the seven commissioners in Lower Merion many years ago who helped stop eminent domain for private gain. As a matter of fact, he wrote the ordinance revoking its potential use.
Buckle up buttercups, this will be interesting.
UMLY is part of the YMCA of Greater Brandywine family. And the YMCA of Greater Brandywine is no secret to contretemps at times including prior pickleball issues, correct? It was at the Lionville Branch according to a Daily Local article, correct?
Easttown Township should have been better with this issue. Truthfully, Tredyffrin Township a couple of years ago was very proactive on the behalf of neighbors dealing with pickleball issues. And I believe that now today, Pickleball and residence are coexisting fairly peacefully in that municipality.
And just for the record, I’m not against pickleball. I have a lot of friends who play it, but I am also cognizant of the fact that a lot of times neighbors get railroaded over issues where they deserve better treatment.
UMLY could have avoided all of this, couldn’t they have?
Sometimes when I have appointments down on the Main Line, I go back via Radnor Street Road to check on the Wayne Natatorium sign. The reason I do that is I actually do not trust Radnor Township to maintain it even though it’s a state historical marker. And I am the reason it’s there.
But as I was going through today, I noticed that the parking lot that is at the corner of Willow Avenue and Radnor Street Road for Cowan Field was magically FedEx parking.
Funny thing about that lot is it supposed to be permit parking only or if you’re using the park. I can tell you that there was no one in the park when I drove by.
So is FedEx renting parking spaces from Radnor Township? I didn’t see anything like hang tags that would make one think there’s a parking permit involved.
I did have a giggle over this because when I had come through Wayne earlier, I noticed the stealth parking enforcement fairies’ van roaming around so they could hand out tickets. I guess they don’t go all the way over into Little Chicago?
Of course, I also noticed there were plenty of cars parked around Little Chicago in places that aren’t actually legal.
But hey, that’s Radnor Township at its best: inconsistent.
Isn’t this part of Jack Larkin’s ward? He’s still the Ward 1 Commissioner, right?
Anyway, I hope these FedEx trucks have legal permits because otherwise it’s pretty crappy to get chased around by the parking enforcement fairies and there’s a double standard right?
Oh yes, it’s never dull whenever West Goshen is trying to pull something shady as shit.
The latest? They want to erase their meeting videos.
You know just when you think this truly bass ackwards Pennsyltucky municipality has nothing left to make you say WTF, oops they did it again.
Start copying all those videos West Goshen residents if you wish to preserve whatever shady ass record exists or literally they will make a giant April Fool’s joke out of all of you. And oh yeah, get thee to the APRIL 1, 2025 meeting starting at 6 PM.Pack the halls.
Irish Eyez ChesCo is reporting more pothole / sinkhole hell on the 30 Bypass.
This has been going on for weeks.
This has even been on the news.
So I don’t know what it’s gonna take to get PennDOT to actually do something but they can’t wait anymore. And I have to wonder about liability given how many people have reported the holes and road issues and they haven’t been fixed properly yet?
PennDOT really needs to get moving somebody could die here.
Most probably don’t remember the movie Finian’s Rainbow. But it is a 1968 American musical fantasy film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and adapted by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy from the 1947 stage musical of the same name. It was about an Irishman and his daughter, who steal a leprechaun’s magic pot of gold and emigrate to the American South, where they become involved in a dispute between rural landowners and a greedy, racist U.S. senator. There was this song in it called “How are things in Glocca Morra” and it always made me think of Narberth Borough in Montgomery County, neighbor to Lower Merion Township.
by Carolyn Davis, Inquirer Staff Writer Published Aug. 2, 2014, 3:01 a.m. ET
For a while after Sean Metrick came in during 2015 as Narberth Borough Manager (he was assistant manager for a year or so before this in Narberth) things were better. There was also a some decent borough council people with local institutional knowledge and not necessarily politically entrenched. For a few years they worked hard to reform Narberth and then Metrick went to West Chester Borough when Ernie McNeely left West Chester for Lower Merion Township. Since Sean Metrick left in 2020 it has been an odd parade of multiple managers.
First up after Sean Metrick left was assistant manager Matt West.
So for some reason they didn’t give this Matt a real shot at being manager and when he left in 2021, they hired a woman named Samantha Bryant. Matt West went to become manager in New Britain Township in Bucks County, while Samantha Bryant came from New Britain Borough in Buck County.
But Samantha was fairly short-lived and two years later poof she was gone…to Maine…quite a difference in salary, except cost of living is probably much less and well, quality of life might be better for her.
So after that great mystery, in came the next manager. A man named Ken Cammilleri. He was barely in Narberth before he was gone. As per his LinkedIn he was literally there 5 months. He came here from the Minnesota
Ok keeping up? Next Narberth Borough bought back former Assistant Manager and acting Interim Manager Matt West for 2024. I still don’t get why they never offered this guy the manager job full time, yet he’s been a pinch hitter what twice? Always the Narberth bridesmaid?
So Matt is now at Plymouth Township and Narberth has yet another new manger as of like today or last week or something.
Fear and hate have propelled the masses of ugliness to victory. God help the US Constitution. And us.
Yes that is how I feel. As of today, it’s still my right to express that.
He’s still not my guy and he will never be my guy.
In my opinion, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. It’s a victory that comes at such a great cost that it’s almost like a defeat.
Kamala Harris didn’t lose. This country did. You had the people who didn’t want either candidate so they didn’t vote. You had the people who were her party, but couldn’t vote for a woman, because I think it was that which was more of the issue versus a race issue. I also think that the Democrats as in the national party shot themselves in the foot by not having a primary. People resented Kamala being plugged in as a pinch-hitter, and that is no commentary on her abilities. It’s the optics and this is something that the Chester County Democrats don’t get and they like to play reindeer games during primaries as well, except with them they like to have it all tied up before there is a primary, so it’s like the fix is in sometimes as far as their optics.
We are now probably going to lose the Affordable Care Act. Social Security. Medicare. And potentially a dismantling of our actual constitution and constitutional rights. And Elon Musk will eviscerate whatever much the way he has eviscerated Twitter. And forget women having the right to choose.
However, there are some bright spots for us in Chester County.
I did see that Chrissy Houlahan appears to have won over notthat Neil Young. Not surprised. That’s what he deserves especially after posing with twisted Wonder Woman and her Wonder toadie in their matchy outfits. He’s still welcome for the prod to have a better haircut.
I will also note the bathed in menstrual-like red Moms for Anything But Liberty endorsed triplets of Mauro, Dicranian, and Ayala seem to have tanked as predicted. Congratulations Melissa Shusterman, Christina Sappey, and reluctantly to Kristine Howard because she still really doesn’t do a lot, it’s simply that the Republicans can’t find anybody resembling normal to run against her.
I do feel confident, however, in congratulating Danielle Friel Otten in her victory over whatever his name was this time.
I also thought Elizabeth Moro had won, but sadly it appears she has not. I say sadly because the seat she was running for needs to be flipped. It’s been in a rut too long. 
More unfortunately however, Pennsylvania seems to have elected a hedge fund manager to the U.S. Senate. We’ve all seen what hedge fund managers have done to our local newspapers, for example.
I do also see Carolyn Committa prevailed against Duane Milne’s attempt to seek relevance again. Duane, although a nice enough person, never really was relevant to begin with. Also when the whole Bishop Tube nonsense started back when he was FIRST elected State Representative he really did absolutely nothing didn’t he? My experience with him when I moved to Chester County was that he kind of showed up for photo ops and you can be a nice person but if that’s all you’re going to do why are you an elected official? I did not like during this election when he posted a photo the other day of his son voting as in in the voting booth doing his ballot and you’re not supposed to do that. You’re not supposed to take pictures back there and he supposed to know that he’s been an elected official. I also didn’t like the phoniness of it because that was no kid speaking no matter how educated or eloquent or how much of an honor student, he may or may not be, those are the words of a middle-aged someone.
And fingers crossed because it looks like open space won in both East Whiteland and Uwchlan.
Speaking of East Whiteland someone needs to speak to the Chair of the Republican Party. She seemed to think yesterday at People’s Light that it was ok to physically BLOCK people’s paths on their way into vote. It’s not and her behavior was kind of off the hook behavior-wise. I am told people took photos.
Actually, both parties in Chester County need a bit of a makeover. I’m not letting either one off the hook. It’s hard to be a regular person and want to vote for any candidates. These parties BOTH play reindeer games.
We the average Americans are Malcolm in the middle, Malcolm without access. Face it you’re only as good as the size of your check for a donation.
I sign off this post as a 60 year old woman who is a breast cancer survivor and active cancer patient living in the blast zone of a pipeline. I don’t have a crystal ball. I will note however, as someone else pointed out today that in a couple years, a certain someone will become a permanent lame duck, and that’s a good thing.
The sun was shining, but the mood is cloudy. Now the sun has gone away and it’s looking November although it feels like June.
So a little while ago I was on WCHE with my friend Barry. And yes we are friends who can disagree and walk away friends. One area where we disagree is him having Neil Young on a second time (as in the guy running for Congress.)
Once again, he followed in my wake, assuming he has the last word and in a sense today, trying to ride on my coattails. It was amusing. I am so far in his head he couldn’t keep my name out of his mouth.…only I am not running for office and have no desire to. And yes I have been asked over the years…by both sides.
This is pretty amusing to me. But again, at least he learned he needed a better haircut. Maybe it’s a female thing. We notice haircuts. Apparently our friend Neil might be a little insecure having had to follow moi not once but twice on the same radio show? Sorry not sorry.
But that isn’t the funniest thing. He says how he reads my blog etc. etc. yet his campaign Facebook page block’s my blog’s Facebook page? I don’t block the page, I checked. That didn’t work so well for Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale once upon a time and others Not merely referring to my blog, but all of the people who have disagreed with politicians when there is case law about it.
Whatever. It’s not the first time it has happened, and I honestly do not care, it’s just amusing. It’s also amusing when you know you have been blocked and say it and then you are all of a sudden not blocked at some point. It’s just social media.
Just like it’s social media and election season when candidates for political parties that do not actually believe in affordable housing, imply they are.
And although a candidate should actually truly as in daily LIVE the area they are running in, someone who moved into an area for college and stayed, or moved here to raise a family, or moved here because of a job but stayed are not any less important than someone who was born in a particular area. Neil it’s about the actual living here part, not when you arrived or like the fake living here as is the case with Dave McCormick, Rick Santorum, and Dr. Oz for but 3 examples.
And Neil your district extends well beyond the boundaries of Downingtown and Coatesville High Schools.
As an example of moving here, there is former Congressman Jim Gerlach was born in Ellwood City, PA which is not too far from West Virginia and Ohio borders yet he was an amazing Congressman to the 6th district. He came into the district originally to take a job in Chester County. Also important? He served in the state house and the state senate before running for congress. He didn’t just wake up and decide to run for congress. He had huge bi-partisan support when he ran for congress. He had that in his constituency all of the way through. You sure don’t.
But Neil sweetie, you will have to get up a lot earlier to get the last word on me. Sign me still not buying what you’re selling.
Kiss kiss.
That silly man thinks he gets the last word with me? LOL
Dave Woodward was an employee of West Goshen Township for over two decades. He committed suicide in July, 2023. As per the Daily Local:
In July, John David Woodward committed suicide at his home in southern Chester County, days after he and three other directors in the township were placed on unpaid administrative leave for their part in supervising the “snow time” policy in their departments.
The four employees were allegedly accused of payroll fraud in implementing the policy, which gave public work staff time off for the hours they spent on snow removal in the township. The suit contends the department heads, including Woodward, were left believing they would be fired for implementing a policy they say had been approved by former township officials….The suit, originally filed on Oct. 19, asks for unspecified damages for negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress over the July death of Woodward, days after he and three other directors in the township were placed on unpaid administrative leave for their part in supervising the “snow time” policy in their departments.
According to the suit, Woodward committed suicide in their Kennett Square home. He reportedly left behind a note stating that “I can’t take any more of this waiting around to be fired from a job that was my life.”
So to be clear: I am not breaking ANY new ground by talking about this. This is a court case that has been being fought in Federal Court with zero media eyes on it, which is somewhat inconceivable. I am posting things publicly available from that case on PACER.
Why am I doing this? for the simple fact it needs to be out of the shadows. I feel sorry for Woodward’s family and all that they have endured.
West Goshen is secretive and shady in my humble opinion, and I am allowed that opinion. I think the media out there owe this a look see.
I am not posting everything, just a few things. Again, anyone can obtain these on PACER. You do not even have to file a formal Right To Know.
I am not seeking to sensationalize this poor man’s suicide. But his family deserves closure at a minimum, and the community is owed answers. This happened. This was real and again, maybe in my opinion alone which I am allowed, but the community deserves answers as to whether or not West Goshen caused this by their own shadiness or not, ok?
Even if the truth is not what West Goshen wants out there, whatever that ends up being, in order for people (including the family) to heal, West Goshen needs to have accountability don’t you think?
There’s a person who likes to post anonymously in some groups out here in Chester County and I think people have pretty much unmasked her, but she shared something that has showing up on a couple of weird news sites. As in fake news sites.
This letter is supposedly being mailed to people with Trump signs on their lawn. The letters have plenty of mistakes in them and are very poorly written so I have to wonder like everyone else who actually wrote the letter?
The letter was supposedly received down around Penn Valley in Lower Merion Township. I came from Lower Merion Township, and I know the current superintendent of police so I sent a quick email and simply asked are people actually reporting receiving these letters? I don’t want to know who is receiving them I don’t want copy of the police report I just wanted know if they were real.
Well, apparently they are. There have been a couple reported. And I think that’s just completely screwy.
I am going to be completely honest, and I think this is like the red herring sent through the mail.
I know the screenshot is hard to read and that’s all anybody is posting so I took screenshots of that and tried to make it more discernible:
I don’t know who is sending these letters, but I don’t think they are Democrats. The spelling errors and the grammatical mistakes, and the phraseology is just saying to me that who you think is sending is actually not.
I think the letter is being sent by Trump supporters to unsuspecting Trump voters to create fear and wreak havoc a couple of weeks before the election.
So what I think needs to happen with these letters is if you receive one turn it into the police envelope and all. If you have security cameras, they can show your mailbox, check your cameras.
But above all else, this is just not the hallmark of someone who is a Democrat to do something like this. Even the Taylor Swift neurosis is in the letter.
So take off the I’m with stupid t-shirts and use your brains. Who has the most to lose if he loses the election? Duh. This is about as intelligent as January 6th was and do you remember the misspellings, inflammatory language, and bad grammar in social media posts leading up to January 6th and after? How the day didn’t happen and it was made up?
Come on people, same thing.
Welcome to a conspiracy theory in a new outfit. And why do I think this is a Trumpy thing? Simple. Who is the guy that put the joy in USPS so you couldn’t possibly have the resources to actually have them look into it? I mean, if it was really perceived as a threat, one would think some postal inspector would be looking into it. Or that is what they used to do before DeJoy.
So yes, to put a lid on it, the letters are real. They are not widely being distributed as of yet, but their origin is somewhat murky.
This is not the hallmark of the DNC or a Democrat. It’s just not and that assertion is laughable.
Last week people erupted into ridiculousness because Chair of the Willistown Supervisors and lifelong Republican Bob Lange, along with his wife, appeared in a commercial saying why they had made the personal choice and decision to vote for Kamala Harris.
The horrible things people have said are astounding in their ignorance. Some of the most amazingly ignorant comments have come from Willistown which isn’t a shocker.
It’s really simple: Bob Lange (and his wife) made a choice that he felt strongly about as an American. No one coerced him. Like everyone else I didn’t know about it until somebody slipped me the ad, and then I actually thought good for him for standing up for what he believes in —- if people cannot deal with a man who is an adult standing up for the courage of his convictions then they need to sit down and shut up basically.
And in Willistown they should be more concerned about what jerks some of them seem to be to the rational world. Yes I am talking about that article in Philadelphia Magazine.
Yes it’s time for a segue. You know I live for those.
And no, I didn’t know that article was coming out either, until it did. I will admit I was delighted and found it amusing that they referenced my blog and they’re welcome. However, they did get one thing wrong. I am actually the one who figured out where that nasty postcard for Wildflower Farm came from. As in where it was printed based on the postal permit on it- not who paid for it.
I was also amused at the magazine’s choice of tour guide, but hey she needs to be big woman on campus with a rooster, right? Of course, that whole rooster issue and Willistown is just ridiculous and eventually they’re going to have to deal with it. The bottom line there is roosters don’t belong in regular old residential non farm neighborhoods. There’s not enough space. But maybe they should start with getting a better zoning officer? They always seem to pick the wrong ones.
Willistown gets messy. I used to think West Vincent was messy, but Willistown gets world champion domination messy. Which, bringing this back around again to what is happening to Bob Lange now, is not a surprise. And they do like to crucify him on occasion in Willistown, like they did over the whole sewer sale of it all. I bet some anti-sewer sale folks from back then are busy sucking up now, right?
Ok so yes, he’s going to vote for a Democrat, because the Republican Party is so polluted that even life-long actual Republicans, as in the party of Lincoln, can’t just say “We’ll just vote for Trump.”
What is at stake here is huge and Trump has not actually really done anything for anyone. The only one Trump is interested in is himself because he has a malignant narcissist and he has shown people since he emerged on the scene in the 70s that this is who and what he was. Nothing has ever changed about Donald Trump.
The Republican party is currently cochaired by his twat waffle daughter-in-law, so does that give you an idea of how far the party has fallen?
Do you think it was easy for Bob Lange or his wife to make this decision let alone make it public? But make the decision they did based on what was best for them.
Even Barry Dee who is Republican agreed with me on Friday on WCHE that no matter for whom people choose it is their right as an American and that is the beginning and end of the conversation except for one last word: Bob is from the socioeconomic playground that you would thinkwanted Donald Trump, but more and more of them do not. What goes on in Willistown of course is a completely different story because nobody knows how to behave most of the time anymore anyway.
If Bob Lange is not voting for Trump, maybe people around here might want to think about that. I was a lifelong Republican myself until 2016 when Trump became the nominee. And when he became the nominee, I realized as a woman with a brain, I could no longer be a Republican.
Actually, when I was on WCHE with Barry Dee on Friday and I ended my segment with a simple thought: I believe it is incumbent upon the leaders of the Democrats in Chester County and the Republicans to step forward and tell people to put an end to this nonsense of harassing and bullying people over who they are choosing to vote for. We all know they won’t have the balls to do that though.
People have a right to vote for whomever they are comfortable with. It’s personal choice, not lock step like a dictator told you to.
I will also note that Barry Dee on Friday told the story of a Republican business owner in West Vincent who put a Trump sign up at his business, and he started getting harassed and threatened by Democrats. So freaks exist on both sides and everyone needs to STOP letting the freaks speak for ANY of us.
Also for the record, I’m not and never will be in Bob Lange’s inner circle. But I have a brain, so this isn’t so hard to figure out. Move on, people.
Part of our inalienable rights is not only the first amendment right to our opinion like this blog post. For example, we are also entitled to vote for whom we feel most comfortable voting for.
If we are currently living in a world, where people can’t safely express for whom they choose to cast their vote for, then how can we say this is the United States of America in the first place? Chew on that for a while.
Just vote like Ruth sent you and it will be good. Kidding, but it is the truth.
