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Wednesday, April 12,1978
Voi. 79 No. 15
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Sewickley Borough Council has advised .he U. S. Postal Service that a recently purchased site below the Ohio River ■Boulevard is the worst alternative for a new post office.
■ In a letter to John S. Sorenson, realty (Manager and acquisition specialist for the stal service, Frank J. Sacco, Jr., resident of Sewickley Borough Council sked Sorenson to reconsider the use of its resent site or, ‘ ‘at the very least consider satellite office in Sewickley Village.”
The text of the Sacco letter sent ta orenson’s Columbia, Md. office and dated
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Two Sewickley men have been ominated to fill vacancies on the llegheny County Common Pleas Court, n April 4, Gov. Milton J, Shapp tapped ormer Judge William H. Colbert of ewickley to fill a vacancy created by the lection of Judge Rolf R. Larsen to the Pa. upreme Court in last November’s election. Colbert is a Republican who ran unsuccessfully in November.
Also nominated was Robert S. Grigsby, Bell Acres Democrat. Grigsby would succeed retired Judge Maurice Louik,
The Governor nominated Lawrence W. Kaplan, a Pittsburgh Democrat, to fill a vacancy created by Jodge John P. Hester’s successful bid for the state’s Superior Court.
The names of the nominees must be confirmed by the Pa. Senate. Each would serve until January 1980,
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Mar. 21 is quoted below:
“We reviewed at our February 27,1978 Borough Council Meeting your February 17, 1978 correspondence advising us that the Postal Service has-identified the property owned by Mr, William V. Hovis at-the corner of Chestnut and Kramer as the proposed recommended site of the new Sewickley Post Office.
‘‘Although we understand that this site was the-only site out of four possible alternatives, namely, (1) to remain at the present site and increase the building size, (2)-to relocate to the Elementary.School property, (3) to relocate to the Griffith property or, (4) to relocate to the Hovis property that proved to be the most economically appealing and /the least difficult to negotiate, we feel very strongly that the relocation of the Sewickley Post Office to the Hovis property is the least appealing of all the alternatives to both, the Council and the residents. Not only will this relocation move the Post Office facilities further from our downtown commercial area, but it will also, by its ' relocation south of the Ohio River Boulevard, cause the residehfs living north of the boulevard either to cross the boulevard to use 'the new facility (historically the boulevard intersections in
" Sewickley are the sites of the most numerous ana severe automobile' ac-cidents), or to travel two miles to the Leelsdale Post Office. Considering the majority of Sewickley residents live north of the boulevard, this particular point is of great concern to us.
“All in-all, the choice of. the Hovis property as the site for the Post Office relocation, in our opinion, is the worst alternative considering the. preseht development of our Borough.
“Although we understand the Post Office’s constraints in searching for a new' site, we still hope that the Post Office can reconsider the use of its present site or at the very least place a Satellite office in our downtown area.”
Celebrity luncheon

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?D RAISER. County Commissioner Robert N. Peirce of Edgeworth 'Rented Allegheny County as a Celebrity Luncheon at the Variety Club m »«rgh honoring singer Frankie Avalon, Peirce will appear on a Channel 11 «on on the weekend of April 15 and 16 to raise funds for crippled children m m «‘roughout the county, including the D.T. Watson Home.
SEWICKLEY’S POLICE DEPARTMENT will never be the same after extensive alterations to house, a radio equipment , center that will ^service Valley communities. The work at'thè departments office in headquarters'in the Municipal Building began on April 10 with funds from a federal and state grant of 567,000 applied for by Chief Walter J. Brannon. Police departments to be accommodated at the localjbase are Sewickley Heights, Edgeworth, Leetsdale, Leet Twp., Bell Acres, Aleppo and Glenfield.
(Photo by Margaret Marshall)
Quaker Valley planners debate formation of COG
Debate on whether to form a council governments continued at the April 3 meeting of the Quaker Valley Regional Planning Commission.
When president commissioner Anthony Persuitte of Leet Township asked fellow commissioners to prepare themselves to join committees, Bell Acres representative Floyd McKelvy expressed opposition, stating that the commission could not act without directives from local council,
“To get this group into another phase we have to convince our councils to get this (whether to join a COG) straightened out. I’m saying prepare yourselves for committees so we can get off our fannies and get moving,” Persuitte replied.
After hearing a presentation on COGs from Keith Robb, state Department of Community Affairs representative, the commissioners debated the issue further. “I think some of us were expecting a miracle out of (forming the QVRPC) and we just haven’t got it,” Paul Palitti, Harmony Township representative said. Ambridge representative Georgianne Mansell called for the five municipalities to hold a joint informational meeting. Palitti’s motion to inform the municipalities and ask them toparticipate in such a meeting passed unanimously.
Because other municipalities expressed Interest in joining the five-community planning commission, Palitti asked planner Julie Rascal of Green International if the new communities would first need a comprehensive plan. Kascal
said no, that comprehensive plans are needed only to determine the local needs of municipalities.
Open forum
on public safety
Sewickley residents will have a chance to air complaints and make suggestions to the borough’s public safety committee at an open meeting on Saturday, April 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the second floor council chamber of the municipal building.
Plans for the session were announced by Councilman James K. Maloney at the borough's regular March 20 meeting. Both Mayor Williiam C. Gourley, Jr., and police chief Walter J. Brannon, will be in attendance, Maloney said.
Senior citizens' housing discussion
The Sewickley Planning Commission and William Marra will discuss his senior citizens housing proposal for the school property at a meeting on Wednesday, April 12 at 7:30p.m. in Council Chamber of the municipal building. The meeting is open to the public.