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Tredyffrin greenlights seizure of derelict site in Chesterbrook, advancing plan for a new township park

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Looks like Tredyffrin will get its first pocket pickleball park – but don’t be jumping up and down just yet, pickle ballers.

This project’s going to take a while – years, perhaps.

And it won’t come cheap.

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Amid rising panic, you’ll see little sign of it on the Main Line.

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Celebrated with flag raises and solidarity marches around the world, Transgender Day of Visibility on the Main Line will largely pass … invisibly.

“I’d love to say we’ll mark it in some way,” says a Devon mom of a 16-year-old transgender boy. “But the truth is: things don’t feel safe these days. A flag in the yard may put a target on our backs. We will mark it in our hearts.”

She’s not alone.

Roiled by the removal of ‘unsuitable’ books from Radnor H.S. library, RTSD reviews handling of parent book challenges. Plus, hot headlines and This and That

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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.

New plan for prime real estate – philanthropist Dodo Hamilton’s property & grounds in Wayne

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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.

Uneasy over Barnes & Noble’s surprise return to Bryn Mawr, Main Line bookstore owners unite, plan ‘give back’ week to local causes

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The Main Line’s independent bookstores have surmounted a sea of challenges: Amazon, e-books, the pandemic.

But then, out of nowhere, a tidal wave: Barnes & Noble crashed ashore in Bryn Mawr on Feb. 12,  returning to the very same building it had left 18 years ago.

A new park in Chesterbrook? Tredyffrin makes moves to seize former swim-and-racquet club by eminent domain

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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.