Wednesday, October 31, 2012
This is exactly why downed power lines are still so dangerous. A homeowner catches the scary scene on video as it unfolds on her front lawn.
Just before 4 p.m. Tuesday, a wire that had fallen on the front lawn of a Tredyffrin Township home caught fire, the homeowner reported. According to the Fernfield Circle resident, a downed tree fell onto the wires of a utility pole overnight, causing the wire to fall across the street. The electric was turned on Tuesday afternoon and the now live wire started sparking and caught on fire, burning part of the lawn black. Luckily, the grass and leaves did not catch on fire because of wet conditions, the resident said. No injuries were reported. Tredyffrin police and Radnor firefighters responded to the scene. PECO was called to turn off the live wires. PECO also had to deal with another flaming wire on Fernfield Circle. Houses away, a wire …
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, July 28, 2012
Are you better off trying to sell a house in Tredyffrin or Easttown? TE Patch's newest blogger has the inside story and the numbers.
- BUSINESS
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
After seven years as Tredyffrin Township Manager, Mimi Gleason is reportedly calling it quits.
In a surprise announcement Tuesday, Tredyffrin Township Manager Mimi Gleason says she is resigning, effective September 17, according to a report by Tredyffrin Community Matters and TE Patch Blogger Pattye Benson. The move comes just a few hours after the Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors held a marathon four hour monthly meeting Monday night where Gleason gave no indication of her plan to resign. According to the blog post, Gleason, who served as Assistant Township Manager for three years before being promoted to Manager, wants to take her life in a new direction. Read Pattye Benson's blog post, including a wide-ranging interview with Gleason by clicking here. TE Patch is following this developing story and will have new details on Gleason'…
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A grassroots effort takes a close and non-partisan look at the best ways to make Tredyffrin Township and the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District better.
Big ideas sometimes take time and a lot of effort to turn into reality. Sean Moir and Richard Brake have a big idea: Bring ‘everyday’ Tredyffrin citizens together to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the community. To start the process the pair sent out a survey asking citizens: to list recommendations for stimulating economic growth and to describe what they consider the greatest challenges for long-term economic growth in the township. In terms of improving the T/E School district, the survey asked citizens to list recommendations for improving student achievement and to describe the greatest challenge to improving educational quality in T/E. The pair held a town hall meeting on President’s Day. About 35 people attended to …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tredyffrin Township wants to help homeowners help the township manage flooding.
Every time there's a major rainfall, there are major worries about flooding in the streets, yards and low lying areas that surround Trout Creek. Residents in the Glenhardie area of Tredyffrin saw major water problems last year as the remnants of Hurricane Irene soaked the region, but it doesn't take a hurricane to cause big headaches. A posting about the issue on Tredyffrin Township's website sums up the problem this way: For a number of years, Tredyffrin Township has been working on solutions to the flooding problems in the Glenhardie area. The challenge is that a number of large properties are needed for basins or other stormwater management facilities that would hold back runoff during heavy rain, thereby reducing the volume of water in…
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Traffic could be affected on several local streets.
Aqua Pennsylvania is scheduled to begin several water main construction projects in Tredyffrin Township this week. According to the Tredyffrin Township website, the projects could disrupt traffic at times, but there will be flagmen to direct traffic. Crews will be working from 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Water main construction projects are scheduled for: •Contention Lane (between West Wind Drive and a point 290 feet north of West Wind Drive), •Churchill Drive (between Coldstream Drive and a point 200 feet north of Coldstream Drive), and •Winston Way (between West Wind Drive and a point 135 feet north of Coldstream Drive). The projects are expected to be completed around the end of February. The posting on the Tredyffrin Township website says any…
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Special meetings Tuesday night in Tredyffrin and Easttown.
The elections are over, the new year is here and that means new Boards of Supervisors will get down to business in both Tredyffrin and Easttown Tuesday night. Both boards normally meet on the first and third Mondays of the month, but will meet Tuesday this week because of the January 2 legal holiday on Monday. Tredyffrin's New Board of Supervisors In Tredyffrin the new board will be made up of seven Republicans after a total GOP sweep of the supervisors races in November. Kristen Kirk Mayock will be the only 2012 freshman member of the board. She won the an at-large seat vacated by retiring Supervisor Robert Lamina. Lamina was also the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, leaving a vacancy for the job. The chairmanship will be filled …
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
When your office is (partially) your car you see a lot on the roads of TE.
Sure thousands of cars and trucks roll down the roads of Tredyffrin and Easttown every day. Spend nearly a year on those roads, virtually every day and you'll see some unsual vehicles and some that tell stories. Here's some that caught your TE Patch editor's eye but that you may have missed.
Friday, December 16, 2011
New details emerge on why Tredyffrin's police chief was suspended for four days.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Bob Byrne
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Tredyffrin Police Chief Andrew Chambers' son got into an accident while driving a township police car on a closed training course on November 23. According to a report on Philly.com Chambers didn't report the incident to the Chairman of the Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors until December 5. The report quotes Township Solicitor Vince Donohue as saying that delay factored into the supervisors' decision to sanction the chief with a four day suspension. The board suspended Chambers after meeting in a closed executive session on Tuesday (December 13). Click here for the TE Patch story that includes the township's official statement on the incident. The Philly.com story also reports that about 15 people were interviewed during the course of the …
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