Email: Leann.Pettit@Patch.com Phone: 484-264-7078 Hometown: Reading, PA Birthday: June 14, 1987 Bio Leann grew up in Reading, PA, and graduated in 2009 from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and majored in Communication and English. After college, in the worst job market since the Great Depression, she found herself as the editor at a daily-paper-turned-weekly newspaper in Phoenixville, PA. There, she covered everything from municipal news, business news, business and community features, social news and everything in between.
Hyperlocal journalism has been a way of life for Leann since starting college, covering the local news of Cedar Crest College and then the local news of Phoenixville and Spring-Ford School Districts. Transitioning to Patch was a logical step as newspaper begin to fade in communities and the amount of on the ground community journalism they are able to provide.
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Your Beliefs At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license for you to inject your beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that your beliefs are on the record will cause you to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know. Politics Registered democrat so that I vote in the primaries. However, I spend a lot of time researching political candidates before an election and never vote straight party, unless its what I believe is for the benefit of the community and the nation.
Religion: I do believe there is a larger being at work and everything happens for a reason. Is it a god – I don’t know and I’m not committing to nor denying that here. Local Hot-Button Issues: Education and the growing business community and the local government are of great interest to me, as I am sure of interest and importance to the local community. I hope to be able to report on the issues of the community that are underreported and important to readers.
Bruce Piscadlo, 62, is the second person charged after county Controller Stewart J. Greenleaf Jr. released an audit showing $30,000 in misused taxpayer funds.
The county's Aa1 bond rating was affirmed by the investor service.
The county's Aa1 bond rating was affirmed by the investor service.
Sports Management, film making, website design. Students can take a wide range of courses at Lower Moreland High School.
Robots, 2-D Animation, Coaching. Students can takes classes in just about any subject at Upper Dublin High School.
A Montgomery County man is the first in Pennsylvania to be hospitalized for West Nile Virus.
A Montgomery County man is the first in Pennsylvania to be hospitalized for West Nile Virus.
Dunkin Donuts, Sonic Drive In, Burger King, Michael's Bar & Grill and more inspected in July.
The theft occurred over the weekend of Aug. 10, police said.
Frank Toner, 22, of Wellsey Road, allegedly tried to run over a woman in the parking lot of Ambler Train Station in August, police said.
Wawa, Cold Stone Creamery, Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Willow Grove Day Camp and more inspected in July.
Colorful and bite-size fresh fruit and veggies are not only fun to eat they are healthy – rich in anti-oxidants, nutrients and vitamins.
Colorful and bite-size fresh fruit and veggies are not only fun to eat they are healthy – rich in anti-oxidants, nutrients and vitamins.
Add your Upper Dublin yard, garage or estate sale to Patch's list, and we'll post them all in a map before the weekend.
Add your Lower Moreland yard, garage or estate sale to Patch's list, and we'll post them all in a map before the weekend.
Dunkin Donuts, Sonic Drive In, Burger King, Michael's Bar & Grill and more inspected in July.
Conshy Ribhouse, Jimmy Johns, Pasta Via, Barson's 5 Tower Deli and more inspected in July.
Wawa, The Still Bar & Grill, Perkiomen Valley Middle School West and more inspected in July.
