Tag Archives: Quaker Valley High School

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

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A September of Consequences

As is typical when summer begins to wind down and school begins to wind up, so do all manner of other processes related to community activities, politics, and the business of government. Here’s some things that have happened or are … Continue reading

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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A key historical reference point in the continued opposition to the construction of a new Quaker Valley High School is the 2006 landslide at the construction site of a Walmart, on the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

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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

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Quaker Valley School Board Election – The Long and Short of it

Happy Halloween, indeed. Scary… Leslie and I attended, in person, the October 19 meeting of the Quaker Valley School Board. The total number of audience members present in the middle school auditorium amounted to three. There were numerous online attendees … Continue reading

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