Choosing which meeting to cover last night was like choosing which bowl of vanilla ice cream you want to eat.
Between the Spring-Ford and Owen J. Roberts school boards and the New Hanover Township Supervisors, there wasn't much chocolate fudge worth picking one over the other.
The plan had been to go to New Hanover because a vote on the Gibraltar Rock Quarry loomed, but that vote has been delayed. Given that the rest of the meeting was a budget workshop for a town that hasn't raised taxes in 12 years that didn't lean much to chew on newswise.
When stringer extraordinaire Laura Catalano confirmed she would be covering the OJR meeting, it was off to Royersford I went.
Speaking of Royersford, Spring-Ford Superintendent David Goodin showed a slick student-made video of the district's participation in the borough's community day.
Here it is:
Other than that, the meeting was fairly routine with one exception. Three mothers of Pope John Paul II students, Melissa Dougherty, Lisa DiRico and Colleen O'Brien, were on hand to complain about the lengthy bus rides their children must endure in the morning.
Dougherty said her son spends nearly an hour on the bus each morning when he lives just two miles from Pope John Paul II.
Superintendent David Goodin said it is unavoidable because of the different start times and the need to make bus routes efficient.
We'll have more on this topic in a future article in The Mercury.
In the meantime, here are the Tweets from the meeting:
Magic School Bus
Well covered. Very informative.
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