For those who have not already heard, the next court date for oral argument has been changed to Monday, May 6th at 1 p.m. in Pittsburgh. Yes, Pittsburgh. The decision to move the court date from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was appealed by Westtown Township solicitor, Patrick McKenna, and sadly denied, leaving no other alternative. It seems Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh have a week long, rotating…
Anna Martelli, 98, of Kennett Square, died Friday, April 12, at Linden Hall. She was the wife of Anthony J. “AJ” Martelli, who died in 2004, and with whom she shared 45 years of marriage. Her first husband, John David Burke passed away in 1953. Born in Northbrook, she was the daughter of the late DelmarShaw and the late Tressa Smith Shaw Oatman. She was…
My cousin cried at the table. I did not understand why until my mother explained why she herself cried, too. The Passover seder invites learning, traditions, symbolic foods, and all the things that family gatherings might entail. The seder also invites, though, a recognition of darkness that we tend to undervalue. Early in the seder, we hold up the dry, flat cracker known as matzah and…