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Tag Archives: Leet Township
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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Political Weather Alert
The National Windbag Service has issued a Flash Mud Warning for the greater Quaker Valley area, including Leet Township and surrounding locales. Spotters report that increased mudslinging from certain candidates for office has extended unchallenged into the local online/print media … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Education, Government, History, Humor, Local, Media, Politics, Schools
Tagged Bud Smith, Carolyn Verszyla, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Martin McDaniel, Michael Molinaro, Missy Walls, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, QV Taxpayers for Strong Schools, QVGOP, William Jasper
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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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Election Postscript: I’d Rather Have a Ballot in Front of Me than a Cholecystectomy
(Apologies to Dorothy Parker et al) With all of the lead-up to the May 16 primary election, I was looking forward to working that morning and coming home afterward so that Leslie and I, as is our past practice, could … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Civil Liberties, Community, Government, Health, Justice, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools
Tagged AHN Wexford, Allegheny County, Bud Smith, Carolyn Verszyla, Corinna Garcia-Skorpenske, Donna Adipietro, Dorothy Parker, Franklin Park Borough, Geoff Bsarnes, Gianni Floro, Giuseppe Rosselli, Jessica Webster, Joe Rockey, John English, Joseph Bellissimo, Katherine Longwell, Kristie Shelton, Leet Township, Leet Township Police, Magisterial District Judge, Martin McDaniel, Matt Dugan, Melissa Walls, Michael Molinaro, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Robert Ford, Sara Innamorato, Stephen Zappala, Suzanne Filiaggi, Todd Hamer, William Jasper
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Emergencies In Our Midst
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. – Attributed to Abraham Lincoln … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community, Environment, Government, History, Local, Media, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Technology, Transportation
Tagged East Palestine, Emergency Management, Fair Oaks Fire Department, Justin McIntire, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Leetsdale Industrial Park, National Weather Service, Norfolk Southern, Police, Quaker Valley School District, Sean Sluganski, Wildland Fire
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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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Leet Township Zoning Board Documents Show Impassioned, Credible Disagreement
The next steps in the regulatory dance that is the proposed Quaker Valley High School belong to the 3-person Leet Township Zoning Hearing Board. When the Sewickley Herald reports on an upcoming government meeting a full two weeks ahead of … Continue reading
Election Postscript – Readin’, ‘Ritin, Repudiation, Resolve, Renewal
I’ve known some luminous people in my time, and what distinguished them was their enduring enthusiasm and hopes and aspirations, and I recommend the same to you. When I was your age, I learned the arts of sarcasm and ridicule, … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Community, Government, Local, Media, Politics, Schools
Tagged Elections, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Borough
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