A2O-L*ncjster farming; Saturday, March t 9, 1988
Petitions To Be Presented To Octorara School Board
BY MARJORIE KEEN
Chester Co. Correspondent
Petitions protesting Octorara
Area School District’s taking of
the Naaman King farm are sche
duled to be presented to the school
board Monday, March 21 by
Chester-Delaware County Far
mers Association. “We’re hoping
to have 100 to 200 concerned peo
ple turn out for the meeting,” said
Richard Breckbill, vice president
and policy coordinator of the
association.
King was served notice last
December that the school board
had condemned his 102-acre West
Fallowfield Township farm to add
to its Highland Road campus. Lan
caster attorney James Thomas
filed preliminary objections to the
Taking for King last January 8.
Following depositions of Octorara
Superintendent Richard Me-
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Adams in February, a brief was
filed by Thomas, requesting oral
arguments before Chester County
Common Pleas Judge Charles
Smith.
Alan Jarvis, solicitor for the
school board, said, “I have no
problem with that (oral argu
ments).” Jarvis’ formal reply to
Thomas’ brief is due the day of the
school board meeting, March 21.
“The condemnation process is a
legal process and we need to fight
that battle in the courts,” Thomas
stated. “The decision whether to
condemn and how much to con
demn is a political process, and to
the extent that the school board
members are sympathetic to what a
group of interested people have to
say about it, a petition drive could
have a great deal of impact.”
“On the other hand,” Thomas
continued, “they might just com-
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