The state budget has been approved. Google the Philadelphia Inquirer for details. On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Ray Rhoads wrote: > Earlier this week we made a 1500 mile round trip vist to the Phila > Archives > and while there saw a notice that if a budget was not passed by > today plan C > would go into effect and the Archives would close I believe Oct 1st. > > Are there any updates on this situation as we left there on Tuesday. > > Ray in NC > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Thank heaven! After all our letters and e-mails, I would have been very unhappy is they closed the libraries and the archives, and I don't live in Pennsylvania.  Not only that, I would have been very upset if my request for records was left setting in a closed archive building! http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/59652447.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/59653277.html Although, I do believe their threats possibly were a way to find out just how important these services really are to "the little people". Alexa --- On Fri, 9/18/09, Stafford Keer <[email protected]> wrote: The state budget has been approved. Google the Philadelphia Inquirer  for details. On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Ray Rhoads wrote: > Earlier this week we made a 1500 mile round trip vist to the Phila  > Archives > and while there saw a notice that if a budget was not passed by  > today plan C > would go into effect and the Archives would close I believe Oct 1st. > > Are there any updates on this situation as we left there on Tuesday. > > Ray in NC