Saturday, October 27, 2012
Don't wait. Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships ask residents to prepare NOW by taking steps at home and doing one critical thing to help reduce the potential for flooding.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships are asking residents to prepare NOW for the possibility of Hurricane Sandy or its remnants to sock the region with heavy winds and soaking rains. In addition to preparing your own property by bringing in any outdoor items that could be blown around, the number one request for community assistance at this point (early Satursday afternoon) is to help clear storm drains. Falling leaves, which have increased dramatically in the past few days, present one of the biggest threats to draining storm waters from streets. When contacted by TE Patch on Friday afternoon Easttown Township Manager Mike Brown echoed the requests being made this weekend by Tredyffrin and Chester County officials. If you live on a street …
The Berwyn Fire Co. released this list of flood prone areas to avoid.
- PUBLIC SAFETY
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
These are some areas to avoid in Tredyffrin Township if you are on the road at any point during the storm. This is not an all inclusive list, but these are areas that usually will flood first during a major rain event. We strongly discourage your from traveling in this storm unless it is an emergency. Walker Rd. Trout Creek Bridge between Glenhardie Rd. & General McIntosh Rd. This information is provided by the Berwyn Fire Co., which also has more tips on what to do during a flood and who to call should your basement flood.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Bill Martin is no stranger to Tredyffrin or the Upper Main Line.
When Bill Martin takes the reigns as the new Tredyffrin Township Manager next month, he'll be bringing something new to the job in recent history. He is not only going to run the township's day to day operations, he also lives in Tredyffrin. Martin is currently Burough Manager of Bridgepot. He also spent a decade working for Radnor Township. Martin was appointed Monday as manager of neighboring Tredyffrin Township. The Long Island native is a ten-year resident of Tredyffrin and lives here with his wife, Marie and their children, Kate and Will. “I’m really looking forward to it,” Martin said Tuesday from his office in Bridgeport. He has been borough manager there for more than a year. “I’m very excited to start there and serve the residents…
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Something about the new manager is very different than his predecessors.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Community Matters and TE Patch Blogger Pattye Benson reports that Tredyffrin Township's Board of Supervisors has appointed a new Township Manager to replace Mimi Gleason, who left the position in September 17 after ten years with Tredyffrin Township. William Martin is currently the manager of the Borough of Bridgeport in Montgomery County. Before that job he spent several years in the township government of Radnor. What sets him apart from Gleason and others who have served as Tredyffrin Township Manager is that Martin is a resident of the township. Full details on the new manager can be found here on Pattye Benson's Community Matters/TE Patch Local Voices blog post.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
A new deal and a new appointment announced Monday night could impact thousands of local residents.
Monday night proved to be a critical for major developments in two big TE stories. Teachers and the Tredyffrin Easttown School District ratified a new contract Monday night. Click here for to read details of the contract and its costs that was kept under wraps until Monday night. Meanwhile, Tredyffrin Township has named a new township manager, who is different from his predecessors in at least one big way. Read the story here on TE Patch.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tredyffrin Supervisors hear three hours of public comments before taking a 4-3 vote on the Trout Creek Overlay District.
A controversial proposal to clear the way for a new deveopment in a flood-prone section of Tredyffrin Township came to the very last vote Monday night at the Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors meeting. Hundreds of area residents poured into Keene Hall and the lobby outside as the controversial Trout Creek Stormwater Overlay District ordinance came up for a seventh and final public hearing and vote. In the end, the measure passed 4-3 as Supervisor Kristen Kirk Mayock cast the final and deciding vote to approve the new ordinance in a room full packed to overflowing with citizens who opposed the measure in the form as approved. This was no simple matter, as more than two two years of community discussions and page after page of …
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Downed wires forced detours.
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- Bob Byrne
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Update: As of 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday Old Eagle School Road has reopened to traffic. ______________ Old Eagle School Road is closed this afternoon in Strafford as crews work on downed utility lines. The road is currently closed between Meadowbrook Road and Forrest Lane. It was not immediately clear how soon the road will be re-opened to traffic.
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Tredyffrin Township Supervisors, manager come under public fire as a blogger and a former T/E School Board member demand apologies.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
In her last official moments as Tredyffrin Township Manager Mimi Gleason and members of the Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors came under fire in two pointed, blunt and direct no-holds-barred public statements Monday night. The statements were made by Community Matters Blogger Pattye Benson and former three-term Tredyffrin Easttown School Board member Andrea Felkins. Felkins is a Republican who has lived in TE for three decade. Benson ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Board of Supervisors as a Democrat in 2009. That is relevant to the story because the letter at the heart of the First Ammendment controversy was posted on the township's taxpayer funded website by Board Vice Chairman John "JD" DiBuonaventuro. He is a Republican. In his …
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Her criminal case ended but then a First Amendment firestorm erupted in Tredyffrin Township.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The case of a Tredyffrin Zoning Board member accused of public drunkeness and disorderly conduct ended in a not guilty ruling over the summer. The case and the verdict touched off a firestorm of controversy and led to a police investigation and an internet showdown over the First Amendment right to free speech. The not guilty verdict was declared after two Tredyffrin Police officers failed to appear in court. A police investigation found human error, a clerical mistake, was the reason the officers did not appear as scheduled in court. That was the official finding of the internal police investigation. The case raised some questions in the news media about whether or not the woman benefited from outside influence because she at one time …
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors clears the way for new senior assisted living development on small site on Lancaster Ave.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
After more than a year of discussion in the community, and months of hearings at the Tredyffrin Planning Commission and finally the Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors, a controversial change in the township's zoning law has won approval. The change in the C-1 Zoning Ordinance will allow developers of a proposed 93 bed assisted living facility to begin the process of developing the former Jimmy Duffy Catering site on Lancaster Ave., across from the Daylesford Train Station. The Capital Health development led by Ed Morris of Tredyffrin must still meet all the requirements for the site, including parking, building size and storm water management. The vote Monday night clears the way for Morris, who also developed the Symphony Square …
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Lala Buy
9:57 am on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
There was one major point missed by all authorities when they requested the public's help in preventing flooding from clogged storm drains - removing leaves off the paved surfaces both on your property and on the street in front too. The leaves already on the roads in front of people's properties are the ones that will be swept away by the rains, not the leaves on lawns. My neighbors dutifully … more ›