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Residents push back against sewer system sales, fearing cost
By ANDREW MAYKUTH, The Philadelphia InquirerMay 15, 2021 GMT
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (AP) Lisa Lilick and Carol Smith struggled to get fellow Conshohocken residents to pay attention to their campaign opposing the sale of the borough’s sewer system. Who wants to think about boring wastewater when there’s a pandemic going on?
“Then Carol, she did the little thing with a toilet,” said Lilick.
The “little thing” was a simple image that Smith dug up on a Google search, a cartoon commode with a worried expression and the palm of its hand held up. “No to sewer sale,” the cartoon toilet intoned. “Bad for residents, seniors, fixed income.”
The frenzy of acquisitions in Pennsylvania is driven by a 2016 state law that encourages the consolidation of smaller water and wastewater systems under private ownership.
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Nick Whitney, a 2015 graduate of Plymouth Whitemarsh High Schools, hopes to serve on Plymouth Council with his former government teacher Christopher Manero. (Shutterstock)
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, PA Every government teacher hopes to improve civic engagement in the student body. But not too many wind up holding elected office together.
That s exactly what could happen on the Plymouth Township Council as voters head to the polls for the Pennsylvania primaries on May 18.
Nick Whitney, a 2015 graduate, was taught senior year by Christopher Manero, who is also the Plymouth Township Council Chairman.
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Nick Whitney, a 2015 graduate of Plymouth Whitemarsh High Schools, hopes to serve on Plymouth Council with his former government teacher Christopher Manero. (Shutterstock)
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, PA Every government teacher hopes to improve civic engagement in the student body. But not too many wind up holding elected office together.
That s exactly what could happen on the Plymouth Township Council as voters head to the polls for the Pennsylvania primaries on May 18.
Nick Whitney, a 2015 graduate, was taught senior year by Christopher Manero, who is also the Plymouth Township Council Chairman.
Subscribe His class is what got me engaged in politics, Whitney, now 23, said. It was all, here s the information. You synthesize it. You analyze it and you reach your own beliefs.