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Tag Archives: Edgeworth Borough
Winter Digest – Reorganization, Resolve, Revelation…and Rachmaninoff
I hope you’ve had a good year thus far. Over the last few months I’ve been collecting ideas for new stories, revisiting old ones, and reviewing developments locally and elsewhere that stand to embellish both. They will make their way … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Community, Development, Energy, Environment, Government, History, Local, Media, Money, Music, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Technology, Zoning
Tagged Big Sewickley Creek, Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Association, DEP, Devlin Robinson, Edgeworth Borough, Elder Vogel Jr, Emily Kinkead, Hadley Haas, Harshman CE Group, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, PA Environmental Hearing Board, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Quaker Valley School District, Rachmaninoff, Rob Matzie, Sewickley Borough, Valerie Gaydos, William Jasper, Yuja Wang
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2023 Campaigns and Beyond – Quaker Valley School Board
Your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true. – Galadriel, from The Fellowship of the Ring by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Economics, Education, Government, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Security, Youth
Tagged Bud Smith, Edgeworth Borough, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Melissa Walls, Muottas, Quaker Valley GOP, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull, William Jasper
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October Shorts – Books, Babies, Backpedaling, and Basketball
Banned Books Week – Muted Locally? This corner has made banned books a focus, especially over the last year or so. As such, the recognition of Banned Books Week here should be of no surprise to any regular visitor. This … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community, Development, Economics, Environment, Government, Growth, Health, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Sports, Youth, Zoning
Tagged Allegheny County Library Association, Allegheny Health Network, Andy Sheehan, Ashley Birtwell, Avalon Public Library, Banned Books Week, Blacksmith's House, Buncher Commerce Park, Citizens Concerned for EMS, Edgeworth Borough, Heritage Valley, KDKA-TV, Kris Mamula, Leetsdale Borough, Leetsdale Industrial Park, Little Sewickley Creek, Miller's House, Moon Township Public Library, Norm Mitry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Preserve Edgeworth, Rize Sports, Ruth Neely, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley Public Library, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull
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Summer Shorts: Walmart Taketh Away…and Giveth?
A key historical reference point in the continued opposition to the construction of a new Quaker Valley High School is the 2006 landslide at the construction site of a Walmart, on the site of the former Dixmont State Hospital in … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Development, Government, Growth, History, Local, Media, Politics, Schools, Traffic, Youth
Tagged Aleppo Township, Citizens for a Great School, Economy Borough, Edgeworth Borough, Emergency Management, Kilbuck Township, Leet Township, Ohio Township, Plum Borough, Quaker Valley COG, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, Walmart, William Jasper
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Summer Shorts: EMS *IS* Public Safety, and Other Inconvenient Truths
Every couple of years stories appear in the media concerning the challenges faced by Emergency Medical Services providers, who are largely dependent on health insurance billing for the bulk of their operating revenue. This year has seen increased media coverage … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Economics, Government, Health, Justice, Local, Media, Pittsburgh, Politics, Public Safety, Security
Tagged Aspinwall Borough, Beaver Valley Regional Police, Bellevue Borough, Ben Avon Borough, Edgeworth Borough, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Service, McKees Rocks Borough, Quaker Valley Ambulance Authority, Ross/West View EMS Authority, Sharpsburg Borough, Southern Allegheny Valley Emergency Services, Valley Ambulance Authority, volunteer fire departments
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Post-Election, Pre-Holiday Observations and Other Things
A little girl is singing for the faithful to come yeJoyful and triumphant, a song she loves,And also the partridge in a pear treeAnd the golden rings and the turtle doves.In the dark streets, red lights and green and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Development, Government, History, Local, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Zoning
Tagged Christian Nationalism, Democratic Party, Doug Mastriano, Edgeworth Borough, Fire, Fundamentalism, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Lyric Keys, Preserve Edgeworth, Quaker Valley School District, Republican Party, Sewickley, Sewickley Academy, Valerie Gaydos, Wylde Lightner
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Sewickley Academy – Securing the Future, Calculating the Past
Happy October. With the topic of school security in the wake of Uvalde still occupying the news cycle, and Quaker Valley taking a leadership role in establishing best practices in security and preparedness, it’s good that the Sewickley Herald provided … Continue reading
Loose Ends For a Better Year, Part 3 – Nothing New Under the Sun
All things are wearisome, more than one can say.The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.Is there anything … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Community, Family, Government, History, Internet, Media, Personal, Politics
Tagged AE Works, Dundee Farm, Edgeworth Borough, Hussey Copper, Leetsdale Borough, Leetsdale Industrial Park, Sewickley Borough, Sewickley Heights Borough, Sewickley Planning Commission
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February Digest: Fickleness, Fate, Folly, and the Future
The first months of the new year have brought with them new resolve around our house – a need to renew old efforts, blaze new trails, reset and try to re-energize relationships and living arrangements that too often can grow … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Government, History, Justice, Local, Media, Movies, Politics
Tagged Edgeworth Borough, Elise Truchan, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Muottas, Sewickley Borough, Thomas Tull
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Quotations, Tribulations, and the Carol of the Bells
I hope that your holiday season was joyous and uneventful. It’s been quite a while since I last posted here, and by many accounts since then our world has changed dramatically with the results of November’s election. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Community, Government, History, Local, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Radio Hobby, Schools
Tagged Allegheny County, Beaver County, Bell Acres Borough, Camp Horne Road, Dixmont, Donald Trump, Edgeworth Borough, Leet Township, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley, Thomas Tull, Village Theater Company
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