SAVVY MAINLINE

A bombshell decision made in secrecy and kept under wraps  – the removal of three graphic novels from Radnor High School’s library – is now – you guessed it – the talk of the town.

Hundreds weighed in on social media after first reading about the book bans in a newspaper article.

Emails were fired off to school board directors and administrators.

Teachers were buzzing after the superintendent informed them en masse a full eight days after an ad hoc committee voted to remove the books.

Superintendent Ken Batchelor’s explanatory letters to parents came a week later. His emails filled in blanks but for some only raised more questions.

When Campbell’s Soup heiress Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton died in 2017, the fate of her expansive Strafford estate was anyone’s guess.

Would her elegant home, outbuildings, greenhouses and specimen plantings go to her heirs?
Or would they become a nature preserve? A suburban offshoot of the PA Horticultural Society? A small school, perhaps?

One thing was certain: the land – more than eight acres in a prized spot behind Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – was valuable.

Tredyffrin Township is taking steps towards an historic move: using eminent domain to take land in Chesterbrook. We say “historic” because the last time Tredyffrin seized land was 60 years ago – for a sewer line, according to the township’s solicitor.

This time, Tredyffrin proposes to take over the old Picket Post Swim & Tennis Club on Chase Road, a 4.8-acre eyesore, and turn it into a public park.