Category: Springfield

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

First Springfield Alumni Lacrosse Game

The holy game of lacrosse — it was cooked up by the Indians to entertain God — was played this morning at Sabold School in Springfield Pa. featuring alumni from Springfield High School  teams going back to the Class of ’77 (Jack Gelsomini).

The event was organized by Kyle Sweeney, perhaps Springfield’s most shining star in a sky-full concerning the game. Teams were divided into odds and evens as determined by the year of graduation.

I think the odds won but by the fourth quarter I was letting those under age 49  handle things and lost track of the score.

Thank you, Kyle. May it become a Thanksgiving tradition.

First Springfield Alumni Lacrosse Game

First Springfield Alumni Lacrosse Game

How Low Can You Go? Thefts At A Craft Show!

A long-time participant at the just-ended craft show to benefit the band at Cardinal O’Hara High School in Marple Township Pa. told me that for the first time there were thefts at the event.

Now, what was stolen was not money or jewelry but hand-made crafts of the type  people buy for unique Christmas gifts and home touches. It looks like an inside job since the thefts happened overnight.

Probably not much comfort to the hard-working victims but they must be pretty good crafters.

Holy Crosses In Springfield Pa

A display of crosses has been placed on Springfield Road at Holy Cross Church in Springfield, Pa. with each representing a million surgical abortions that have occurred since attempts to restrict the act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1973. There are 45 crosses.