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Two Quaker Valley students make headlines for assisting in the capture of a New Hampshire robber. See Page 13.
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Our series continues with a trip to the groomers, where every dog is special.
See Page 3.
SPORTS
YUIEI'IDE
MEET THE Yuletide 2005 Princesses and Princes, who will light up the night this Friday on the Variety Stage at Beaver and Chestnut streets, Sewickley. Posing for their first royal portrait at Cuttings Flower and Garden Market, they are (from left) Zoe Stanley, Addison Gould, Kristopher Wright, Sophia Poppenberg, Joe Straka and Julia Poppenberg.	'Photo	by Tim Edmonson
Legendary Quaker Valley soccer.	ALEPPO -
coach Gene Klein resigns to take	■ ■	-----~—	_	m
tssis- Board president calls for resignations
See Page 31.
By Inufu Holloman___________________
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—.....	1 A meeting between an Aleppo comrais-
Local News..................2	sioner, the township’s manager and ousted
Opinion.....................6	township solicitor Bernard Rubb has once
Tempo........................13	again left township officials at odds with
School.............	18-23	one another, and with commissioner Gloria
OhihmriM..............ofi o? Vish calling for resignations.
..........	"	The	meeting	in	question,	which	took
Sports .....................31 pjace af(-ei. jj0urs aj. township building
Real Estate................35	on Friday, Nov. 18, included commissioner
Linda Talmon, borough manager Mary Louise Bittner and Rubb.
Stating the meeting was “inappropriate and unethical,” Vish asked for Bittner and Talmon’s 'resignation at the Aleppo commissioners meeting.
“I pointed out that this was a personnel issue and that we should go into executive session,” said commissioner Oliver Poppenberg.
“I stopped her (Vish) and asked if she realized that discussing a personnel issue
could open up another possible lawsuit.” An executive session was called and as commissioners and interim solicitor Harlan Stone met briefly, Poppenberg left the meeting early.
“I was getting yelled at and being told that if I don’t like what they had to say to just get out,” Poppenberg said.
Stone said that “technically” Poppenberg was asked to leave the executive ses-----------------------Continued on Pago 9