Category Archives: SLEAZY

the sweet smell of overpriced development b.s. in east whiteland…

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Full notice:
EAST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at its regularly scheduled public meeting on January 21, 2025 at 6:30 P.M. at the East Whiteland Township Municipal Building located at 209 Conestoga Road, Frazer, PA, the Board of Supervisors of East Whiteland Township shall hold a public hearing and may take action to vote upon the application of 52 E. Swedesford Partners, LP for a conditional use pursuant to Section 200-39.D. of the Zoning Ordinance, Permitted uses for mixed use development, to develop the property at 52 E. Swedesford Road, identified as UPI No.42-4-260.4, (“Property”) as a multi-family 1-and 2-bedroom unit apartment complex, with a retail component and an office component in one of the proposed buildings, and passive recreation open space. The proposed development will consist of 220 residential units, a separate club house facility, a separate gym facility, separate garage facilities, approximately 12,000 s.f. of total retail space, approximately 12,000 s.f. of total office space, and passive recreation open space. The Property is located in the Office Business Park Zoning District and in the Corporate Overlay District. The requested conditional use approval includes amendment of the existing conditional use decision dated 7/13/16 issued in favor of Swedesford Square Apartments L/CAL Limited Partnership (then the equitable owner and now the current fee owner, with Atlantic Properties Trust as then fee owner) of the adjacent property, 54/56 Swedesford Road, identified as 42-4-260.4A and now known as the Arlo Apartment Homes. Copies of the application are available to the public electronically on the Township’s website or upon request and may be examined without charge. Arrangements can be made for copies for a charge not greater than the cost thereof to be obtained from the Township Municipal Building, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you desire electronic or physical copies of the application for inspection; require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing; or would like further guidance on how to participate in the hearing – please contact the Township Director of Planning and Development at (610) 897-4265 or zbarner@eastwhiteland.org. Steven Brown Township Manager DLN 1/7, 1/14; 1a

Well, happy new year and East Whiteland continues its path to becoming King of Prussia west.

January 21, 2025 at 6:30 P.M. at the East Whiteland Township Municipal Building located at 209 Conestoga Road, Frazer, PA.

land next to a school is not a dumping ground

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This was directed my way yesterday with a message:

Dumped at some point today, on School Lane across from Sugartown Elementary playground fields.

Obviously some really crappy person or persons dumped their construction, and/or flipping house and/or clean out project, here on School Lane.

We’ve left a message with the Township and the Police Department.

I don’t know what’s wrong with people, but this isn’t something that would have fallen off a truck. It had weight to it, and it was placed according to the witness.

This is where people‘s kids go to school and even if it wasn’t, it’s not where it belongs, which is in a dumpster somewhere. That means somebody doing something was feeling cheap and just dumped the trash.

If you know who did this, or if for some reason, you know of a security camera that may have picked this up, or you saw it happening, please call Willistown police at (610) 647-5300.

This is completely shameful and unacceptable.

where’s the beef, wego and wcasd?

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https://chester.crimewatchpa.com/wegopd/53548/post/rustin-high-school

So last week everybody finds out the guy who was the principal of Rustin resigned.

why is it buh byes principal at bayard rustin high school in the west chester area school district??

First, I felt like I was the only person that published anything and then all of a sudden it hit the media.

https://www.fox29.com/news/former-principal-chester-county-high-school-under-law-enforcement-investigation-district-says

https://www.inquirer.com/education/rustin-high-school-principal-michael-marano-west-chester-police-investigation-20241220.html

West Chester Area principal under police investigation after resigning last week

But since then, it’s kind of been crickets. At least from official channels. The school district isn’t talking and the police / DA aren’t talking.

And in the rest of the local world the rumors are flying fast and furious. So people probably just want to know I think what is fact and what is fiction.

And yes, people know that investigations take time but what did they think was going to happen when all of a sudden a principal up and resigns in a BIG school district and the district sends an email to parents essentially saying he’s out but don’t mind the police visiting the school?

Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police I have heard media have stopping in to visit and are being polite…. I don’t think there’s any way that their entire department can be on vacation so why didn’t they just direct them to this listing they slid up on Crime Watch ? and what does this listing they have up mean exactly? Are teachers or students at risk? or is that something to say but not necessarily true?

Also, how is whatever is going on affecting Marano’s wife? Doesn’t she work at East? And then there is the whole connection both Maranos have to Neumann University in Delco, right?

Whatever the case may be, I wonder how long West Chester Area School District and the Chester County District Attorney’s Office and the police can keep a lid on this before they have to talk about it?

What a crazy year 2024 has been.

so….yuletide….first it runs until just after new year’s, now it closes december 23?

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This is a great curiosity of life I think right now. Last year at first people were excited at the idea of Yuletide, but then the reality was less than, correct?

So then we had the whole thing about it was coming back at a golf club on the other side of Montgomery County owned by the Union League. (Liberty Hill.)

I wrote about dissatisfaction with the event just recently.

fa la la la …. flat? yuletide 2024, similar issues, different location?

And now here we are 10 days before Christmas and all of a sudden they’re singing a different tune about closing not January 5, 2025, but December 23, 2024? So if you bought a season pass for this, do you get a partial refund? People are asking this question and it showed up on social media.

And the reviews and people being dissatisfied has only increased. And then, as a friend pointed out, the event people seem to be pushing back on Google reviews, which is kind of amusing.

Also kind of amusing is most of the positive reviews you say are essentially influencers and what not so are they comped? It’s a fair question to ask because the majority of the reviews are actually very negative aren’t they?

I’m just going to share a potpourri of screenshots:

So Yuletide, whose fault is it now?

What’s going on?

If people paid for a season pass and you’re closing early, what are you doing for them?

If you’re closing early, how does that affect the vendors who have committed their time and money to this?

How does this affect the employees that were hired to help run this event, and most of all why are you closing?

Last year (2023) you were at Devon, there really weren’t a lot of straight answers after the fact as to where your contract went etc. were there? So you were supposed to be new and improved and smaller and more thoughtful and more fabulous at the Union League’s Liberty Hill in 2024?

Seriously, what is going on?

It seems like there’s a lot of bah humbug in the house? And if people bought a season pass and you are shortening the season what are you doing for them? After all, if you think about it, after December 23 is pretty much when all the schools are on vacation, so if this was supposed to run until January 5, can’t you consider the fact that people that paid for your season pass were really going to use it in that time between just before Christmas and just after New Year’s?

What is going on Yuletide?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

fa la la la …. flat? yuletide 2024, similar issues, different location?

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So they went from Devon Horse Show in 2023 where they fell flat, to a geographically somewhat undesirable and odd location? A golf club owned by the Union League in Lafayette Hill? What happened to that lease that was supposed to be more than one year with Devon Horse Show anyway? It’s one of the great mysteries of life isn’t it?

Anyway, so it’s happening again and the prices aren’t much different. And then there’s this great disclaimer. Basically can it be said they’re there to take your money, but they’re not responsible for anything?

And I’ve been hearing from people that tried it again that said it’s just the same song different radio station so to speak. Now I know where they’re having it because it was an insurance company owned golf club for a long time. It’s pretty but for an event like this? In my opinion, it’s just not another good location. Except I have to be honest, if they had handled it properly, Devon was actually a great location.

Here are two of the recent reviews I found:

So there you have it don’t you? And this is what I’ve also heard from people that went, but didn’t leave any reviews. They didn’t even bother to post about it on social media.

And the other thing is it’s Christmas and people don’t mind paying a tasty per head charge to walk in the door, if part of it goes to a nonprofit so where’s their nonprofit component this year? Or again it doesn’t exist does it?

I think this is sad honestly because I think it had the potential of being something really cool. But this is a special and magical time of year and if you can’t really bring the magic because you don’t have the true generosity of holiday spirit, then this will keep happening won’t it?

My favorite bad review was the one that said it was a crime against Christmas. Buy that man a peppermint cocoa!

I will note I found one very glowing lonnngg new positive yet poorly written review and I have to ask: did that person pay for the admission or were they comped because last year weren’t they at the comped preview? Because they are in influencer category ?

Santa’s watching… do people think they’ll be back for a third year?

I posted all the reviews I saw on Google. They match again what I’ve been told by people I know who went. I’m going to say go up to Bethlehem or some of the other great markets for Christmas. One of my favorites is coming up and it is the Clover Market holiday market at Westtown School.

Also I have to ask how do you categorize the reviews family that’s doing this ? They are liking their own festival? I get that but are those real reviews or like familial sock puppets ?

Fa La La La La.

bah humbug in the 19333.

not being a grinch, so stop criticizing my commentary

so “yuletide” is moving…

it’s not the taylor swift effect, it’s just molly mark up greed.

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So the Taylor Swift Eras book is out. It’s being sold exclusively at Target and do we remember when Lily Pulitzer first hit the racks at Target?

OK, if you’re forgotten, I’ll refresh your memory: hordes of people buying as much as they can and reselling it on eBay and elsewhere for the Molly Mark Up ridiculous prices.

It’s the Target Effect . And this is the latest piggy thing that people are going to do with Target purchases this year. 

The book is $39.99 at Target.

Behold a listing I saw on Facebook today:

As May West once said “Welcome Suckers!”

And somebody bought it.

I’m just shaking my head because you can actually get it at Target online right? Do you even get free shipping if it’s over like $35 for a purchase.

Here are some Facebook marketplace listings:

Facebook will ding you for having a post that shares a traditional media publications article about naked bicycle riders that was posted in 2018, but they allow people to price gouge things available at Target for a fraction of the price.

Then there’s eBay:

Taylor is this what you intended? You don’t even get any profit on the Molly Mark Up for holiday 2024. Neither does Target.

And meanwhile, all of these vultures are literally flocking into all the stores and buying all the books up for at a time because that’s all you’re allowed to buy and some little girl somewhere who wants this for Christmas. Might not get it because her mother might not be able to afford the Molly Mark Up.

People this is big BS bag of wrong.

nothing like a stuck truck in wayne at dinner time….and the willows bs (again)

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This.

Eyes rolling.

North Wayne Avenue at the Wayne Train Station. A GIANT stuck looks like an 18 wheeler at dinner time. Nice. Can the driver not read? Does he or she not know the height of what they are driving?

Talk about duh.

Who is paying for what? It’s ridiculous and maybe if Commissioner Moira my brother is an actor Mulroney and perpetually cranky and pale Commissioner Jack Larkin can stop hollering at Jake Abel long enough they can look into this? (Yeah commissioners your off camera and on camera antics are noted by quite a few so you can’t blame me can you?)

Also about The Willows. Is it really financially stable? IMHO, I don’t think so. And what exactly does Will Nord do to earn his salary which at the recent Radnor meeting is supposedly $91K+? He’s a pleasant fellow, but still? And they want to hire an events manager? Why doesn’t the caterer have an onsite events manager? And about that caterer? Peachtree? Are they REALLY the best that the Willows can do? Meh. A few years ago I won pop up dinner tickets with them I think somewhere in Radnor, Pomme maybe? Yeah well, still waiting for them to honor that from 2020 and we will leave it at that. I don’t need a free meal, but I did win it in a contest. So now if they offered it? Yeah no thanks, and that made me decide they are a nope on the caterer scale of life.

And what about the remaining asbestos? That remediation is specific and expensive, correct?

The woman discussing the finances was arch and rather defensive so that means kids, that it’s all really not so hot is it?

And the neighbors sound issues are very real and if Radnor and the Willows Park Preserve think the neighbors are going to go away they will not. Look at the issues in the past until it was worked out at Appleford in Lower Merion. Will Nord thinks everyone is having pink fluffy clouds Kumbaya conversations? The Inveraray neighbors are pissed. I wouldn’t mess with that HOA, would you?

And if Peachtree is selling a house party vibe, they are not correctly marketing the property and Peachtree has full exclusive control as a caterer, so sorry not sorry they do indeed have responsibility towards dealing with any issue, including noise, don’t you think? Are they spread too thin with locations at the Willows, Pomme, Portico at Awbry, and Parque at ridley Creek State Park and again I ask if they are making the dough ray me as an exclusive caterer at FOUR venues why can’t THEY pay for the events planner needed? Usually an events planner is hired by the site if there is NO as in ZERO exclusive caterer.

I think the Willows Park Preserve is a hot mess and sinking further. And yeah, asbestos remediation? Check back through paperwork Radnor Township and I think you will find it is definitely not al complete. And what about the cottage? All of the money wasted on that and NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT AND WHY?

And let’s talk some more how you wanted to use eminent domain against a church?

Damn Radnor Township, you can’t get out of your own way.

old school dirty radnor doings: will it be eminent domain in wayne?

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Wake up Radnor residents! Monday, October 28 it’s more tricks than treats on the schedule for the commissioners’ meeting at 6:30 PM. These commissioners with ONE exception do not know their arses from a hole in the wall. The one exception is Commissioner Jake Abel who had the courage of his convictions to say NO to eminent domain as Radnor Township’s arsehole purported “negotiation” tactic….with a church.

That “negotiation” tactic is eminent domain against Wayne Presbyterian Church because they had the temerity to want more money after faithfully renting their land to Radnor since circa 1954. That means they went decades without really wanting much more, correct ? I mean that’s really nice isn’t it?

But noooo, Radnor Commissioners, seemingly led on an eminent domain field trip by cranky unpleasant to the plurality commissioner with an odd looking pallor, Jack Larkin, who seems to have morphed into a cold unfeeling jerk who seems to wish to punish the world and why is that? Is his life outside of being a commissioner a little messy? And why does his bio at Radnor still say how many years later he is still at a certain law firm yet LinkedIn and elsewhere indicates somewhere else? Does he not want people to know about working for that billboard company?

Oh and Radnor and commissioners? I am entitled to my opinions.

I think potentially Radnor hasn’t been so sleazy since the days of Bashore, and I am not even sure most of these commissioners actually know what happened then because most of them seem to know so little about Radnor’s political and other history as in the past 30 – 40 years since that matters just as much as the historical origins of the township.

The board sat there at the last meeting and were kind of horrible to a church and their members. They all tried to say eminent domain is a “negotiation” tactic. It is not. It’s a greedy, nasty, bullsheit bully tactic. And the Wayne Business Association is supporting stealing from a church? If this happens you betcha a lot of people will boycott Wayne.

radnor township want to exercise eminent domain for private gain over wayne presbyterian church. that’s bollocks.

Radnor, I know first hand what eminent domain for private gain does to a community. I was part of a group that fought it until we won in Ardmore PA with the help of the Institute for Justice in Washington, DC. And this might be something that you try to couch as eminent domain for public purpose, but since you’re doing it really for the Wayne Business Association businesses, isn’t it really eminent domain for private gain? My opinion is it is. And actually, it doesn’t really matter what it is categorized as, it’s still wrong. That is the beginning and end of it.

And Wayne Presbyterian Church? The lawyer who you really want for this is Philip Rosenzweig. Phil is the one who as a newly elected commissioner wrote the resolution in Lower Merion to end eminent domain in Ardmore.

And Radnor residents, that’s the other thing that we at the Save Ardmore Coalition did because of the threat of eminent domain: we replaced half of the board of commissioners in one election cycle because of it.

Radnor residents you have the power you don’t use enough, and I suggest you get busy and replace some of these toadstools at your earliest opportunity. You deserve better commissioners and a better manager. Who would think after years like 2010, Radnor Township would find itself in odd situations again?

Oh and for those who live near the center of Wayne do you know to add insult to injury regarding the upcoming development involving that AT&T lot is also on the agenda? I mean, imagine the parking you might have available in Radnor in Wayne if this site was not going development? (Just sayin’)

So here’s the link to Radnor’s agenda:

Click to access 8b293b7ae08e9bd1f931ec5546490a0b0.pdf

The meeting starts on Monday, October 28h at 6:30 PM.

Stealing land from a church is just so ugly.

#StopTheSteal #NoEminentDomaininWayne

radnor township want to exercise eminent domain for private gain over wayne presbyterian church. that’s bollocks.

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Heavy handed leverage. That’s what a retired real estate lawyer said.

And Radnor Township is trying to wield the ultimate thug tool against with Wayne Presbyterian Church, eminent domain. And given this is for the Wayne Business District, this in my humble opinion, this makes it eminent domain for private gain. That’s bollocks.

Can we talk about how combative and rude Commissioner Jack Larkin is? I guess his life experience over the past couple of years has not taught him to be kind or humble. He should discover both qualities, after all pride goeth before a fall, Commissioner Jack Larkin. Try being pleasant and not a bully.

If Radnor Township was acting in good faith, they would not have enacted an eminent domain ordinance, and it is pretty much that god damn simple. And they are doing this against a church.

radnor township eminent domain over wayne presbyterianDownload

I have not had such distrust of Radnor Township since Dave Bashore was the manager and that is saying something. Radnor needs to clean house again from commissioners to manager. There are few things that upset me more than eminent domain. I know the realities of it. First hand. We saw it in Ardmore. We saw it Coatesville. We saw it in Long Branch, NJ. We saw it in New London, CT. Just ask the Institute for Justice.

You know what is worse then eminent domain for private gain? Eminent domain for public purpose that really has private gain driving it. And THAT is what Radnor is attempting which is why I categorize as really being about private gain. And in Radnor’s meeting last week, the Wayne Business Association said they support the actions of Radnor Township.

I can tell you as long as an eminent domain ordinance lurks against a church in Wayne, no one I know will be going to Wayne to even buy a cup of coffee.

A relatively newer resident spoke up, after hearing this. Not sure why he was at the meeting, but hooray for common sense:

And then there was Commissioner Jack Larkin’s grandfather I guess it is. Even HE said eminent domain was wrong. So Larkin listens to no one except himself on this it seems, so will grandpa’s thoughts matter?

This is another bad plan from Radnor Township. They seem to be making these bad plans more and more consistently.

Radnor residents and supporters of Wayne Presbyterian Church and haters of eminent domain? The clock is ticking. get those card and letters and emails and calls going and attend the meetings. This is wrong, and what is not wrong after all these decades is the church wanting to see more revenue.

Here is Radnor’s staff directory: https://www.radnor.com/government/staff-directory

And oh by the way? This meeting also had some updates about the Willows? Radnor Township should take the neighbors’ noise concerns seriously and so should the caterer in residence. I don’t think much of them anyway. I won tickets to a pop up dinner with them once, and they never honored it. I won it during COVID, end of 2019, early 2020 and it ultimately got postponed and then they essentially ghosted me. Actually I think the Willows is a hopeless mess and that is a subject for another day and it is so sad. And what about the cottage? No one ever wants to talk about that debacle and waste of a one time restoration.

Back to Radnor Township being a municipal bully. Here is the SAVVY or it all plus an article from Main Line Times. Read both and remember: eminent domain is a thug tactic, not a form of negotiation. No more Wayne for me until this is settled. Eminent domain has no gain.

A separation of Church and State in Wayne? Radnor Township makes moves to seize Wayne Presbyterian Church property. But talks have resumed.

October 21, 2024 / By Caroline O’Halloran /

Radnor Township has taken the first step toward seizing by eminent domain the parking area it leases from Wayne Presbyterian Church (WPC), a sizable section of the large Station Ave. municipal lot.

Radnor Commissioners voted 4 to 1 at their Oct. 14 meeting to move forward with an ordinance (below) that would authorize the township to file a “declaration of taking” in the Delco Court of Common Pleas in November.

READ MORE HERE.

Radnor considers eminent domain to take church parking lot

well… the letters are real-ish but who actually wrote them?

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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.

To me, this is just another version of fake news.

The boogeyman is not coming.