In 2005 Muriel Rice was invited to the Gettysburg Hotel for the announcement by casino investors of their plans to build a casino 1 mile from hallowed ground. Muriel sat at a table with another local activist, Mark Berg. Mark began speaking critically about the proposal and was escorted from the meeting. Muriel decided then that she would fight the casino, and she did for the next years. She was our first vice president and a great friend to every one of us. Here is the text of a front page…

David LeVan’s Casino lawsuits were settled September 2012. 

David LeVan spent plenty of time dealing with four lawsuits related to his most recent failed bid to place a casino near the hallowed ground of Gettysburg. All four lawsuits have now been settled.

From 2005 to 2011, Mr. LeVan was a minor investor but the public face of two companies offering casino proposals. Crossroads Gaming Resort and Spa was rejected in…

PAINTING and PRINT Sale Helps Save Gettysburg!

Our work supporting No Casino Gettysburg was successful twice! Now you can own a unique reminder of the importance of your fight to save Gettysburg for history and community.

Civil War painter Tim Kurtz has generously supplied No Casino Gettysburg with an original framed oil painting, “The High Watermark of the Confederacy, combined with the Low Watermark of Contemporary American Capitalism”.

Including the…

Report: Gettysburg businessman makes new plans for Hanover-area casino

On 4/20/12 the PA State Supreme Court upheld the PA Gaming Control Board selection of Nemacolin for a resort casino license, thus rejecting the lawsuit by Gettysburg Casino investors Mason-Dixon, who wanted to place a resort casino at the Eisenhower Inn and Conference Center located just 1/2 mile from the boundary of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

David LeVan has been attempting to bring a casino to Gettysburg since 2005. None of his several proposals have…

For any of you who have either been out of the country or otherwise separated from media and friends, be informed that the Mason-Dixon appeal regarding the PGCB's 2011 decision was rejected by the Supreme Court. A Nemacolin Resort spokesman indicated they are "shovel ready" and plan to open in 2014.

This is a summary of a Feb 8, 2012 hearing by the PA House Gaming Oversight Committee where testimony  was taken  from both  supporters and those who oppose HB 2082 aka the ”Buffer Bill”. This proposed legislation seeks to establish a “Zone of Respect”  i.e., a 10-mile buffer around the Gettysburg National Military Park and the Flight 93 Memorial at Shanksville, PA. within the boundaries of which a casino would be prohibited from locating.  

First to testify was…

“Powerless” LeVan wants Out of Agreement with Lashinger, blog

This story was front page in the Gettysburg Times. My

comment follows the article:

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Wed Sep 14, 2011.

LeVan wants out

BY JARRAD HEDES Times Staff WriterGettysburg

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Several investors in an…

Gaming Board States

Reasons for Rejecting Appeal

The words experts and the Gaming Board are using to describe the appeal filed  6/7 by the would-be Mason-Dixon

Resort and Casino are downright unfriendly.

The Gaming Control Board could barely contain its irritation at this useless suit. On Wed they met for an hour

and in an icy atmosphere,…

No Casino Gettysburg was awarded the Brian C. Pohanka Preservation Organization of the Year Award by Civil War Trust: This award was named after the late Brian Pohanka, an outstanding historian, a founder of the modern battlefield preservation movement. http://www.civilwar.org/aboutus/news/new…

Peace-Time Vigilance 5/5/2011

 The Evening Sun wrote an eloquent editorial  calling for us all to put the casino issue behind us. During war time there can be no peace. Now we have won the battle, our second against the same bad idea, and we can take some steps to peace.  

The first casino battle ran from April 2005 to December 2006. We quickly formed No Casino Gettysburg, an all-volunteer…

http://www.civilwar.org/aboutus/news/news-releases/2011-news/gettysburg-casino-poll.html

More residents of Adams County submitted official testimony against the proposed Mason-Dixon proposal than supported it, according to documents released on the PA Gaming Control Board website.…

Brief Summary of Opposition to Mason-Dixon proposal for a casino ½ mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park…

The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association: The Slow Decline…

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Basically, It's Over

A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin.

By Charles Munger

Updated Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, at 3:30 PM…

Cumberland Township Planning Commission: “The State Will Take Care of It”.

The casino attorneys asked Cumberland Township Supervisors to give them a blank…