Yep, Amtrak is out along the Main Line for it's annual rape and pillage of the landscape. This is yet another great reason to attend the TRANSIT SUMMIT Congressman Gerlach's office is getting together in Lower Merion in October...October 2, is the date we're hearing, but we'll keep you faithful apprised....Imagine, having Septa and Amtrak in the same room and having to answer questions?

Posted on Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Rail neighbors are not all aboard with Amtrak's spraying
By Cheryl Allison

Now the Danieal Kelly case is a horrible thing we've had countless media reports on. People, understandably had quite the reaction when Radnor School Board Member Eric Zajac made front page news by taking on a civil suit that smells to high heaven. This week's local papers are showing some damage control. But the basic question which has never been answered is : Why did he take the case, really? As a civil action, Mr. Zajac had the free will to turn it down. And he should have. Is this case really worth all the problems he is going through by deciding to take it?

Cheryl Allison at Main Line Life gives SAC some props over our exciting grant news, so read all about it:

Save Ardmore Coalition granted some good news
By Cheryl Allison

Please read this and contact your elected officials in PA accordingly. Do it for the dogs. And many thanks to Tom Murray for just being an editor with a heart...
Main Line Life: Posted on Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Have a heart and do it for the dogs
As I see it
By Carla J. Zambelli

So the chatter up here got the better of a SAC member, so they went out to investigate the student house that has cropped up like a weed on Rose Lane in Rosemont. The house is now owned by the man who owns Samurai Restaurant in Rosemont. This man tells neighbors he owns lots of properties and rents to students frequently. Ok, so mebbe he wants to be the Donald Trump of student housing, but how does this play into a piece of real estate, a house in a small neighborhood of good sized affordable twins? We're not sure, but we are certain this has never been a student rental before.

So, should student rentals just be allowed to pop up? And how many students are too many students? And what is really going on over here? is it just about one house, or is there a larger project waiting in the wings? We're curious.

We're also curious as to how a neighborhood that does indeed represent affordable housing will be protected? Is this the next small neighborhood at risk in Lower Merion?

Here is a photo of the house in question courtesy of a friend:

So we told you we're having this swell event Friday September 5th at the VFW, right? And we told you we're getting a grant awarded to us, right? Well guess who is coming to hang out with us and all of you? You got it! The coolest green dude in Philadelphia....THE PHILLIE PHANTIC!

This senior citizen popped for solicitation used to be an upstate police chief. One article said he was nabbed at 5:20 p.m., so I am guessing there is an "early bird" special that applies? LOL.

Posted on Wed, Aug. 27, 2008
Ex-chief, 81, charged with solicitation

EASTON - A former eastern Pennsylvania police chief is facing a charge of soliciting a prostitute.

So I guess I have this right: the people who make our daily newspapers possible (not the owners, the worker bees) in this economy to say no to a raise right now in order to save the paper and cut costs? Pretty freaking amazing. Hope ownership appreciates and remembers this gensture. Diane Mastrull rocks. She's a real leader.

Posted on Wed, Aug. 27, 2008

Who knew? Not as much fun as here.....but still worth mentioning:

http://www.narblog.com/

You know, alot of these decrepit neighborhoods full of blight border Montgomery and Delaware County communities locally. Read this editorial, and wonder like I do why municipalities are SO wasteful?