Friday, November 9, 2012
A published report indicates that not as many Tredyffrin Supervisors as one may have thought actually a saw a controversial letter before it was posted on line.
A report published Thursday on Main Line Media News indicates that few of Tredyffrin Township's seven elected members of the Board of Supervisors may have actually seen, let alone signed off on, a controversial letter posted in September on the Township's official website. The letter on township letterhead (which inlcudes the names of all seven Board of Supervisors members) and posted on the township's website was written by Board of Supervisors Vice-Chairman John "J.D." DiBuonaventuro. A copy of the letter is attached to this article as a pdf file. In the letter DiBuonaventuro took pointed political shots at Pattye Benson, a private citizen and blogger. Benson's role as "Community Matters" blogger (whose blogs often also appear on TE …
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tredyffrin Township Supervisors, manager come under public fire as a blogger and a former T/E School Board member demand apologies.
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- 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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Monday, September 17, 2012
Outraged Tredyffrin residents plan to bring it on Monday night. Why this matters to YOU.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Discussion of zoning issues and First Amendment rights aren't normally the stuff of big headlines in Tredyffrin Township. Today those issues, and how they impact the lives of every resident are front and center and the residents at the center of the two separate, but now intertwined issues say it's worth your attention. They're right. If you live in Tredyffrin Township what happens at tonight's Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors meeting could impact you either directly or indirectly. The Tredyffrin Township Board of Supervisors meets Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Tredyffrin Township Municipal Building. The agenda, as posted on the township's website is available by clicking here. Issue One: Commercial C-1 Zoning in Tredyffrin …
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Uncle Floyd
3:13 pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
No wonder Ramblings referred to our township as the "Peoples Republic of Tredyffrin", link http://chestercountyramblings.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-in-tredyffrin/. I guess here freedom is not free but, at the discretion of TT BOS. As a Vietnam War Vet, when I returned home, I experienced what many of my brothers did, total disrespect and abuse. … more ›