Mountain Laurel Exec Resigns

The chief executive of the Pennsylvania-based Mountain Laurel Center for the Performing Arts, which was seeking to be the new summer home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra before collapsing under a mountain of debt this winter, has resigned shortly before a meeting of the center’s bondholders. Blaney was hired five weeks before Mountain Laurel’s opening weekend in 2003, after the center’s first CEO, Christopher Dunworth, was unexpectedly fired.