Michael P. Columns

This is a place where you can read the columns that I write for the Daily Local News, the West Chester, Pa., newspaper of which I am a senior staff writer.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

The Summertime Blues

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This appeared Aug. 27, 2006 During the past week, while you and the rest of the Chester County public have been glued to whatever news o...

Ironically Speaking

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This appeared Aug. 13, 2006 Not that I am what anyone would reasonably call a combative person, but I do find myself occasionally berating r...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

A Tribute to Judge Sugerman

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This appeared on Aug. 6, 2006 Sitting on my front stoop last week, watching the asphalt on South Church Street melt like a bar of cheap ...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Mongo Mania

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This appeared July 30, 2006 You live, you learn. No, I'm not talking about one of those life lessons that appears on a soft-focu...

Not A Normal Night

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This appeared July 23, 2006 "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." I was remin...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

An Odd Exchange

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This appeared on July 16, 2006 Recognizing that many of you readers are pressed for time today as you get ready to make appearances at both ...
Monday, July 17, 2006

The Readers Speak

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This appeared Sunday, July 2, 2006 (Editor's note: For those of you who don't get around West Chester too much, the names of the jud...
Monday, July 03, 2006

Welcome Home....

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This appeared on June 25, 2006 There are people in Chester County who don't know where they live. Not that they've forgotten what th...
Friday, June 23, 2006

It's All In The Resume

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This appeared on June 18, 2006 Dear Common Pleas Board of Judges: (Scratch that.) Dear Guys and Gals: Some of you I know, some I'm meeti...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Going, Going ... Gone!

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This appeared June 11, 2006 This was supposed to be a column about the monstrosity township officials in West Goshen are attempting to pa...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Bridgid for Burgess?

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This appeared June 4, 2006 I'm at the Market Street Grill and Kerry walks by. He owns the place. "How am I going to kick start this...
Monday, May 29, 2006

West Chester Olympics Games

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This appeared on May 28, 2006 I don’t think that we have to argue over the proposition that I’m one of the better parallel parkers in Cheste...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Rellahan for Commissioner

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This appeared on May 21, 2006 Now that the ground has stopped shaking and the sky has stopped raining frogs and the sun is back to rising in...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Me and The Babe

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This appeared May 14, 2006 Before there was Bam, there was The Bambino. Mr. Margera of West Chester, star of his own "reality" ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Roadside Shrines

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This appeared May 7, 2006 Another fatal car crash last week brought another roadside tribute. This time the makeshift shrine appeare...

Finding Her Way

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This story appeared Oct. 31, 2005. It was awarded a First Place prize for Personality Profile in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Assoc...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Signs of West Chester

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This appeared Janurary 26, 2006 By now you've seen the signs, and you may be as bewildered about the whole thing as I am. I mean th...

A Park Sprawls In West Goshen

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This appeared February 19, 2006 Just a few hundred feet south of the corner of Green Hill Road and Pottstown Pike in West Goshen, you can...
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When Special People Die

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This appeared February 19, 2006 What happens when special people die? That question has been weighing more heavily in the past month or...

The land of Big Eats

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This appeared on February 26, 2006 Crossing the border into Lancaster County is something we all should do once every while, for a change ...
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Michael P. Rellahan
I started working at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., in 1982, three years after graduating from Earlham College, a Quaker oriented school in Richmond, Ind. In 2004, I was asked to begin writing a column once every other week, focusing on out-of-the-way subjects concerning Chester County, Pa., and more specifically, West Chester. In 2006, I began writing the column every week. In October, 2007, after 25 years on the job, I went back to reporting. I started this site to give my friends and family a chance to see what I've been thinking and writing about.
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