Health & Fitness
What Will Happen To The Wyola School House?
The historic barn at the Newtown Grill is to be demolished. What will happen if the Wyola School House is sold?
At Monday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting, on the property. It seems that the barn has become a danger and it would be costly to rehabilitate it. It is another piece of Newtown’s history that is likely to go away. And yet, it would seem that this should and could have been saved.
When the previous owner sought to build Terrazza, one of the conditions of approval was the rehab of the barn. However, Della Porta sold the barn as part of the Newtown Grill property sale before he had restored it. Unfortunately, neither party was held accountable by township officials for the barn’s condition.
Why is it that township officials create conditions of approval that can then be ignored? It worries me that the Wyola School House could face the same fate. The township is seeking approval to allow the .
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Here is the most recent public notice about the Wyola School House sale:
NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION OF NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP FOR APPROVAL OF THE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY FREE OF USE LIMITATIONS IN RE: PETITION OF THE WYOLA SCHOOL - TOWNSHIP OF NEWTOWN NOTICE is hereby given that on April 27, 2012, Newtown Township filed with the Orphans' Court of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a Petition for Approval of the Sale of Real Property Free of Use Limitations, In Re: Petition of the Wyola School - Township of Newtown, Docket No. 268-2012, for approximately 0.41 acres of land with improvements thereon situated at 556 N. Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and identified as Delaware County Tax Parcel No. 30-00-01807-00, and commonly known as "Wyola School" (the "Property"). A Hearing on the Petition will be held on June 5, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. at the Delaware County Court House, Media, Pennsylvania, courtroom to be determined. Richard C. Sokorai, Esquire HIGH SWARTZ LLP 40 East Airy Street Norristown, PA 19404 610-275-0700 Solicitor for Petitioner
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Appeared in: Delaware County Daily Times on Monday, May 14, 2012.
There is still time to let township supervisors know that you do not want them to sell the Wyola School House.
Email the Township Manager Mike Trio at triom@newtowntwpdelco.org and let township officials know that you are against this sale. Rather than their abandoning township history, you can ask the Board of Supervisors to choose to save Newtown Square history.
