Teen Flown With Head Trauma After Running into Bush

Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale Battalion Chief confirms 15-year-old boy ran into a bush during horseplay with another friend over a skateboard

UPDATE FRIDAY, 7:02 P.M. A 15-year-old boy was horsing around with another friend at Fourth Street Park in Lansdale over a skateboard, when he ran face-first into a bush, suffering significant facial trauma, according to Volunteer Medical Service Corps Battalion Chief Jonathan Detweiler. Detweiler said the boy was airlifted via PennStar to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with non-life-threatening injuries. UPDATE FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 6:45 P.M. There are reports that the subject was a child who was playing tag in Fourth Street Park, ran into a bush and a branch impaled into his face. Reports are Fourth Street Park was cordoned off due to the incident. Stay tuned for more updates. EARLIER STORY PennStar landed at Weaver Field in Memorial …

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Residents Thankful for Construction Meeting

Lansdale staff, the borough engineer, and councilmen met with affected taxpayers of West Fourth Street in preparation for an upcoming Community Development Block Grant project

By May 7, residents of West Fourth Street between Broad Street and Walnut Street in Lansdale will be inconvenienced for four months because of the replacement of sanitary lines, storm sewer lines, water lines and new curbs and sidewalk. Everything's good for now. A construction charrette Monday night at Lansdale United Methodist Church with those affected residents brought some things to the forefront and those residents can now sit a little easier knowing what's to come. "I do appreciate this," said renter Nancy Logan, who resides at 20 W. Fourth Street. "It's better than having no communication." Borough Manager Timi Kirchner said the charrette was very successful. "I had a number of people thank me for having it," she said. "We were …

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Five Things to Know Today: April 30

Get your immunizations for your children done today

1. Lansdale Borough staff and council members will meet with residents affected by the Fourth Street road repairs between Broad Street and Walnut Street at 7:30 p.m. at Lansdale United Methodist Church. If you are affected by this, come out and get answers to your questions about the project. 2. Today is the deadline to get children up to date with school immunizations. Visit www.health.montcopa.org for more details. 3. Gwynedd Square Elementary’s Community Outreach Committee is partnering with the student council and a Junior Girl Scout troop this week to collect donated toiletries, baby items, and gift cards for massage and yoga classes and assemble them into reusable gift bags for women involved in the domestic violence program at …

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Lessons Learned in Lansdale for Proactive Project Publicity

Lansdale Borough has learned to be proactive versus reactive when it comes to notifying residents of road projects. An April 30 meeting with residents affected by a Fourth Street road project has been set

Lansdale Borough admits its faults – and is now learning from its mistakes. Borough Manager Timi Kirchner admitted at the April 18 council meeting that the borough didn’t preempt residents affected by the Seventh Street infrastructure project, the York Avenue street repairs and the Edgemont Avenue repairs. The borough didn’t do what it did with business owners before the streetscape project – sit stakeholders down, explain what was going on before it happened and what they should anticipate, and introduce them to the manpower behind the project. Now, the borough is being proactive instead of reactive with four upcoming infrastructure projects. “With Edgemont, with York and with Seventh Street, we didn’t do that; we weren’t preemptive,” …

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Fenstermacher Property Rezoning Approved, Residents Oppose Change

WB Homes has proposed to develop townhomes and twins on the former Class A Residential property

WB Homes is one step closer to bringing its Williamson Square land development to Fourth Street and North Line Street on the former Fenstermacher Roofing location. Lansdale Borough Council held a public hearing Wednesday night to amend the borough zoning map to change parcels at 405 and 421 N. Line Street from Residential Class A to Residential Class B, and to amend text in the Class B zoning to permit unlotted developments on the parcel. Despite protest from a handful of residents to keep the Residential A zoning intact, borough council went on to unanimously approve the zoning change. The applicant, Prospect Acquisitions LP, is an affiliate of WB Homes. WB Homes and Prospect Acquisitions must go through the land development process, …

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Man Follows Girls, Masturbates in Parking Lot

Police said the man followed two teenage girls from the 7-11 at Main Street and Cannon Avenue and masturbated in parking lot at Fourth and Cannon

Lansdale Police are searching for a man who followed two teenage girls from the 7-11 at Main Street and Cannon Avenue, drove past them, pulled into a parking lot at Fourth Street and Cannon Avenue, got out of the pickup, stood in the parking lot, and masturbated. On Sunday, Jan. 8, at 4:15 p.m., police were called to the area of W. Fourth Street and N. Cannon Avenue for a report of indecent exposure. Police made contact with two teenage girls who told them that they noticed a black pickup truck that appeared to be following them as they walked to the 7-11 store at W. Main Street and Cannon Avenue, police said. The girls told police they went inside the store and, upon leaving, they began walking north on Cannon Avenue, police said. Upon …

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Borough Considering CDBG Application for West Fourth Street

Completion of a Community Development Block Grant project on Sixth Street is on hiatus until temperatures get warmer.

A road improvement project on Sixth Street in the borough is on hiatus until proper temperatures come around to pave the roadway. The borough may also apply for a Community Development Block Grant for road improvements on West Fourth Street between Broad and Walnut streets, according to public works director Jake Ziegler. Ziegler said new applications are due by April 1. The motion to approve the application is expected to be before council Wednesday evening. “Last year, we had a project, and we didn’t qualify for the income level,” he said. “We hit a dead end, unfortunately.” The CDBG program states that all assisted projects must comply with one of three national objectives for the program: The project principally benefits low- and …