Category: Springfield

Dan Desiderio Happy Birthday For Delco’s Maestro

Dan Desiderio Happy Birthday For Delco's Maestro
With premier accordionist Desiderio is premier journalist William Lawrence Sr.

Long-time Springfield, Pa. resident Daniel J. Desiderio, now of Middletown Township with a Media address, was feted for five hours this afternoon, June 26, in honor of his 80th birthday at Sam’s Restaurant & Saloon on MacDade Boulevard in Glenolden.


The event featured fine food, heartfelt testimonials and superb music.

Desiderio, one of Delaware County’s hidden jewels, is among the premier accordionists in the world. He conducts the Accordion Pops Orchestra  but is known for compositions and has performed throughout the world including Carnegie Hall and the Academy of Music.

He was the Air Force Band’s first accordionist and was a featured soloist during his military service.

He was trained by Pietro Deiro Sr. 

 Dan Desiderio Happy Birthday For Delco’s Maestro

The Lights Are Back On

Power returned to the Rolling Road/Springfield Road section of Springfield, Pa. about 12:30 p.m. today ending a 21-hour outage that was the longest for the neighborhood in memory.


A fast-moving storm with hail and hurricane-force winds hit the Philadelphia region about 3:30 yesterday afternoon toppling trees, shutting down commuter rail lines and knocking out power to 215,000 PECO customers about half of which were in Delaware County.

Springfield Murder Motive Reportedly Love Triangle

The murder that occurred Monday, June 21, between the Olde Sproul Village Shopping Center and Smedley Park in Springfield, Pa. was reportedly motivated by a wife’s threat to leave a husband for an old lover.


The victim, of Norristown, was a wounded Army calvary scout who had served long-deployments in Iraq and was reportedly the old boyfriend of the wife of the accused killer. The wife had kept up a correspondence with him and was allegedly preparing to leave her husband for him.

The woman has children from a first marriage who are reportedly close to the accused — an immigrant from Jamaica who owns a small business in Morton. Her relationship with the victim is reportedly the cause of the dissolution of the first marriage.

The crime was initially reported at 10:50 a.m. as an assault occurring in a white Jeep Cherokee at the parking lot of the shopping center. County detectives investigating a different matter happened to be on the scene and followed the Jeep down Baltimore Pike into the heavily wooded park where it stopped and the accused was captured after a short chase.

Inside the vehicle was the victim’s bloody body. The accused is claiming self defense.

Rolling Road Fox Of Springfield

Residents of the Rolling Road/Windsor Circle area of Springfield, Pa. have been seeing a red fox use the neighborhood as its hunting grounds. One woman saw it eat a squirrel about 7 a.m. then kill another to carry off.


If that’s not enough worry for the squirrels a hawk has also been hunting successfully in the area. 

The area has also become infested with chipmunks and deer have been seen in front yards. These are not large sweeping lawns, people.

Thirty-five years ago this would not have been imagined. Nature was pigeons, sparrows and the occasional skunk or raccoon. Glaring signs warned people to stay out of Darby Creek, which has now become a destination for trout fishing.

So things have gotten better in some ways.

The fox may be cute, btw, but watch your cats and small dogs.
Rolling Road Fox
Rolling Road Fox

Good News! Shadow Is Back

Good news. Shadow, the lost kitty who was the subject of posters placed in the Rolling Road/Springfield Road area of Springfield, Pa., has returned to her owner Kristina Brotzman. 


Shadow had not been spayed and is suspected of being in a family way. Anybody want kittens?

Victory Cleaners Back In Business On Brookside Road

 

Victory Cleaners Back In Business On Brookside Road and Victory Cleaners Open in Springfield
Victory Cleaners is back in business on Brookside Road in Springfield operating out of the trailer while work continues on the shop damaged in a May 9 fire. The dry cleaning is occurring at the sister location on Saxer Avenue.
Victory Cleaners Back In Business On Brookside Road

Cascade Road Swatting Was 911 Hack

Cascade Road Swatting Was 911 Hack
Cascade Road in Springfield

Cascade Road Swatting Was 911 Hack — The owner of a home in Springfield, Pa. was tackled and handcuffed when he approached the police swarming his backyard last night, June 2. The 60 police officers including a hostage negotiator and members of a SWAT unit had been dispatched to the address in the 100 block of Cascade Road when the dispatchers at the Delaware County  911 center in Middletown reported that three people had been killed in the house and others taken hostage.

The system indicated the call was coming from inside the house. After the owner was tackled, a woman emerged holding a child. Police entered the home and found nothing amiss. The 911 system, however, continued receiving descriptions of violence inside the home.

Police say the residents, a family with three children, appear to be nothing but victims.

The incident cause the evacuation of  the neighboring homes along with two homes across the street.

Police Chief Joseph Daly expects to find the culprit within “a day or two.”

Hat tip to Mari A. Schaefer at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Cascade Road Swatting Was 911 Hack

Victory Cleaners To Reopen

The Victory Cleaners at Brookside and Springfield roads, Springfield, should reopen in a couple of weeks according to a woman at the sister store on nearby Saxer Avenue.

The landmark store near the Springfield Road trolley station was damaged in a fire Sunday afternoon.

Customer clothes will be taken from the fire damaged store for cleaning at Saxer Avenue and will be able to be claimed when the Springfield Road store opens, according to the woman.

Fire At Victory Cleaners

Springfield volunteer firefighters try to save landmark Victory Cleaners on Springfield Road at Brookside Road, 3:30 p.m., today, May 9. Traffic was stopped on Springfield Road between Powell and Rolling roads while the blaze was battled. 

Adolph Replaces Civera As Appropriations Chairman

Adolph Replaces Civera — The members of the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus, yesterday, elected William Adolph  to replace  Mario Civera as Appropriations Chairman for the rest of the 2009-2010 legislative session.

Civera, who represents the 164th District, won a seat on Delaware County Council last November and will be resigning from the legislature, according to House GOP Leader Sam Smith of the 66th District.

Adolph represents the 165th District and lives in Springfield.

Adolph Replaces Civera As Appropriations Chairman