Category: Springfield

Springfield SB Seeks $3 M In New Spending

The Springfield School Board is considering a $3 million spending hike paid for in part by a $2 million real estate tax increase, according to taxpayer watchdog Regina Scheerer.

Ms. Scheerer is seeking $1 million in spending cuts and a $1 million reduction in the proposed tax hike. She notes that $1.7 million of that increase is contractual for salaries and benefits.

The school board has a budget meeting 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 7, at the McLaughlin Education Center on Leamy Avenue next to the high school.

This meeting and a meeting scheduled for May 5 will determine the budget.
 

 

Sharon Savings Suspect ID’d

Ridley Police have identified the pair accused of robbing the Sovereign Bank at MacDade Boulevard and Kedron Avenue as Timothy Christopher Murray, 26, of Festerville and Nakia S. Stokes, 30 of Philadelphia.

Murray is the one who allegedly passed the teller the demand note while Ms. Stokes is the one said to have been driving the getaway Honda CR-V and who tried to run down Sgt. James Dougherty on Armstrong Avenue.

Both are charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, possessing instruments of crime, reckless endangerment, aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats, fleeing and drug possession, while Ms. Stokes is additionally charged with driving with a suspended license.  Both are being held on $250,000 cash bail.

Police say Murray has been confessed to the March 29 robbery of the Sharon Savings Bank in Springfield, albeit he has yet to be charged for it.

Sharon Savings Suspect Possibly Nabbed

A man arrested yesterday, March 31, after a hold-up in Ridley is being investigated in connection with March 29 robbery of the Sharon Savings Bank in Springfield.

The man, whose name is yet to be released, was given money by a teller at the Sovereign Bank, MacDade Boulevard and Kedron Avenue after presenting a threatening note at about 5:55 p.m. He dropped some of it while leaving and when a customer told him that the had, he brushed him off, which the customer found suspicious. The customer followed him while calling police on his cell phone.

The man entered a green SUV which was driven by a female which Officer James Dougherty tried to stop on Armstrong Avenue. The driver tried to run the policeman down which caused him to shoot out the front and rear driver-side tires of the vehicle.

The driver continued despite the flat tires with the vehicle finally coming to a stop at South and Franklin avenues. The suspect was injured when police slammed the car door on his leg as he was trying to flee, and was taken to Taylor Hospital.

Sharon Savings Robbery Update

Springfield Police say the man who held up the Sharon Savings Bank in Springfield, reported 2:39 p.m., March 29, was thin, short — about 5 feet, 6 inches tall — and black. He was wearing a black baseball cap, an over-sized hoodie, blue jeans and sunglasses.

The man approached the teller and passed her a note saying he had a gun. The teller gave him some cash which he tucked into his jacket and fled running down School Lane. Police think he possibly left in a green SUV.

The FBI and Springfield Detective James Devaney are investigating. Anyone with information should call 610-544-5503.

God Loves You On Brookside Road


Thank you to the nice people who tacked the inspirational signs on Brookside Road, Springfield, Pa. The signs, hand-lettered and made of colored construction paper, contained phrases such as “God loves you” and “Smile.”

Sharon Savings Robbed

Sharon Savings RobbedSharon Savings Robbed — The Sharon Savings Bank, 5 E. Springfield Road, Springfield, Pa., was robbed within the hour 3:16 p.m., March 29. The branch is locked. The sign on the door reads “This Office Will Be Closed On Tues. 3/29/11 due to bank robbery”.

Sharon Savings Robbed

Ron Pritsch’s Legacy

Ron Pritsch’s Legacy — The lead story in last week’s Springfield Press concerned the gift bequeathed by writer and anthropologist Ron Pritsch to the Springfield (Pa) Library.

The money was used to replace the 48-year-old circulation desk with one more suitable for the computer era.

Ron died Jan. 19, 2009 of a heart attack which was quite unexpected. He was either 55 or 56.

I knew Ron. He was a fine writer and a decent man and the community still mourns his passing.

 

Ron Pritsch’s Legacy

Springfield P.O. Finds A New Home

The Springfield (Pa) Post Office is moving from the Brookside Road site where it has sat for decades to a shiny new, much smaller spot in Olde Sproul Village on Baltimore Pike that was once Baja Fresh burrito joint. The satellite office in the Springfield Mall is being closed.

Call it progress in this Obama progressive era — higher cost and less convenience. OK, if you live in Swarthmore it will be more convenient.

U.S. Postal Service officials say the move will occur in July or August.

Carpet Of Crocus

Carpet Of Crocus

Carpet Of CrocusThis carpet of crocuses at 101 N. Rolling Road, Springfield is just a hint as to the show nature has in store for Delaware County over the next few months.

And spring doesn’t even start until 7:20 p.m., March 20.

Carpet Of Crocus

Does Jim Devenney Want His Old Job Back?


James J. Devenney , who did the classy thing a year or so ago by resigning as Springfield’s (Pa)  6th Ward Commissioner in the wake of a relatively minor scandal, is reportedly doing a classless thing by trying to get his old job back.

We have been told he has declared himself to be an independent candidate in Republican municipal primary election on May 17.

Say it ain’t so Jim. You do not have a right to the job.

 

Does Jim Devenney Want His Old Job Back?