Thursday, January 17, 2013
When Paul Clemente resigned from his role in December, council requested submissions of interest to fill the Ward One vacancy and serve out the remainder of Clemente's term. Jason Van Dame was chosen over Jeff Howard in a unanimous vote
With what councilmembers called "two great candidates" before them and with a decision that was "like splitting hairs," Jason Van Dame, a fourth-generation Lansdalian, was appointed unanimously to fill the vacated Ward One seat on borough council Wednesday night. Van Dame and resident Jeff Howard were the only two Ward One residents who submitted letters of interest in December to fill the vacancy left by a resigning Paul Clemente. Van Dame, a registered Independent, will serve out Clemente's remaining term, ending Dec. 31, 2013. He would then need to run in the election for a chance to keep his seat. "Yes, at this point, I do plan to run in the fall," he said. Van Dame doesn't have an agenda. "I want to ensure that the borough continues …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Additional sanitary and storm sewer work is proposed for the project. The Lansdale Public Works Committee is expected to make a recommendation soon on proceeding with engineering work on the project
A preliminary proposal from borough engineer Remington, Vernick and Beach estimates a price tag of more than $1 million to repair sanitary and storm sewers along Jenkins Avenue, between Chestnut and Line streets. "We asked (borough engineer) Remington, Vernick and Beach to go back and look at a broader proposal for a number of items we felt important to work on, specifically some additional sanitary and storm sewer work in there," said Public Works Committee Chairman Denton Burnell at council's Wednesday work session. "It does come with a very hefty price tag." The Jenkins Avenue issue became a stinky one for one resident at Jenkins Avenue and Chestnut Street last year. He came to the public works committee to notify the borough that he …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Stacy Maurice Beckett, 40, of Tulip Drive, is expected to return upstate to a state correctional facility due to a parole violation. Beckett is accused of robbing a Warrington woman at gunpoint as she sat in her car on Jenkins Avenue in Lansdale
A Hatfield man, who was tasered and arrested by Lansdale Police on charges of felony robbery in October, had all charges held over to county court Thursday morning at a preliminary hearing in Lansdale. Stacy Maurice Beckett, 40, of the 100 block of Tulip Drive, allegedly robbed a 30-year-old Warrington woman at gunpoint on the unit block of Jenkins Avenue, near South Broad Street and Stanbridge Apartments, on Oct. 13. Beckett is charged with felony robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, harassment and disorderly conduct, according to court records. Bail for Beckett remains at $250,000 cash. At the hearing, Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Strubel said Beckett, through his public defender Stephen Walton, would …
Monday, October 15, 2012
Stacy Beckett, 40, of Hatfield, allegedly put a gun to a woman's head while she sat in her car in a parking lot on Jenkins Avenue and demanded money and cigarettes
A Hatfield Township man is in Lansdale Police custody after allegedly committing an armed robbery on a woman who was behind the wheel of her car in a parking lot on Jenkins Avenue. Stacy Beckett, 40, of the 100 block of Tulip Drive, Hatfield Township, was arrested Saturday evening after allegedly robbing a 30-year-old woman at gunpoint on the unit block of Jenkins Avenue, near South Broad Street and Stanbridge Apartments. He was tasered and arrested about a 75 minutes after the 9 p.m. robbery on the unit block of East Second Street behind Citizens Bank, police said. On Saturday night, Lansdale Police responded to an armed robbery in the area of Jenkins Avenue and Broad Street, police said. The victim had left the scene of the robbery and …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Chief Robert McDyre told the public safety committee that measures need to be taken to protect the 'valuable' assets at the Jenkins Homestead on Jenkins Avenue
After dealing with recent instances of vandalism at the Jenkins Homestead, the Lansdale Historical Society is getting some help from Lansdale Police and the borough public safety committee. Lansdale Police Chief Robert McDyre told the committee last week that no trespassing signs and surveillance cameras will soon be installed at the homestead. "I think the items are too valuable to suffer loss any further," McDyre said. Lansdale Historical Society President Dick Shearer said he has been very appreciative of the increased surveillance that the borough has provided ever since the increase in vandalism, which has ranged from graffiti on a historic home to damaged shakes on the roof of an 18th-century spring house. "I am very concerned about …
Thursday, August 2, 2012
A pipe between Broad and Chestnut streets on Jenkins Avenue is too small to handle sanitary sewage flow. Lansdale Public Works has to determine when replacement work can start on the pipe
A sanitary sewer pipe on Jenkins Avenue, between Chestnut and Line streets, is too small and the cause of sewage backups and has to go. Last year, a resident at the corner of Jenkins Avenue and Chestnut Street came to the public works committee to notify the borough that he was getting sewage pushed back up into his yard because of infiltration and high flow, according to public works committee chair Denton Burnell. "There was so much water traveling through that area," Burnell said. The borough commissioned borough engineer Remington, Vernick and Beach to do a flow study in the area. "The long and short of it is, it looks like the line into Jenkins Avenue from Chestnut Street to Broad Street is, based on their calculations, undersized and…
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Ronald Solomon, 30, of South Chestnut Street in Lansdale, apologized for breaking the window of a home earlier in June
A Lansdale man and convicted thief charged with felony criminal trespassing, loitering and prowling and possessing an instrument of crime had a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest withdrawn today at district court in Lansdale. Solomon did not face Judge Harold Borek for a preliminary hearing. All negotiations were done between public defender Fiorindo Vagnozzi and Lansdale Police Officer Joel Greco. Solomon, through his public defender Fiorindo Vagnozzi, waived all other charges to county Court of Common Pleas in exchange for withdrawing the resisting arrest charge. Solomon will be arraigned on the following charges in the common pleas court in August: Solomon apologized to Greco for defacing a home on the 100 block of Jenkins Avenue …
Monday, June 11, 2012
Ronald Edward Solomon Jr., 30, of Chestnut Street, Lansdale, allegedly fled from police after a report of prowling around a property posted "No Trespassing"
A Lansdale man convicted in Bucks County Court of Common Pleas in 2010 for theft of movable property has been arrested and charged with criminal trespassing and prowling in the borough. Ronald Edward Solomon Jr., 30, of the 100 block of South Chestnut Street, Lansdale, faces the following charges at his June 27 preliminary hearing at 1:45 p.m. before District Judge Harold Borek: Solomon was arraigned before Borek who set bail at 10 percent of $10,000, police said. Solomon was taken to Montgomery County Correctional Facility after failing to post bail. On June 7, at around 1:24 p.m., Lansdale Police were called to the 100 block of Jenkins Avenue on a report from a resident that they had heard glass breaking and observed a suspicious male in…
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Police are investigating two instances where pedestrians with baby strollers were hit by vehicles
Lansdale Police are investigating two instances where pedestrians were struck by drivers. In both instances, pedestrians were reported with baby strollers. The first incident occurred Friday morning April 13 at Church and Hancock roads where a woman - known to locals as "The Lansdale Walker" - was reportedly struck by a female driver. The baby stroller was also hit. The driver pulled over in the area of Penndale Middle School, according to Lansdale Patch readers. The daughter of the victim said her mother and her daughter were rushed to Abington Hospital for treatment. The second incident occurred Wednesday night around 7:35 p.m. in the area of Broad Street and Jenkins Avenue. A pedestrian with a baby stroller was reportedly struck by a …
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The silver Chevrolet Equinox was stolen from the parking lot of Stanbridge Apartments on Jenkins Avenue
Lansdale Police are searching for a silver 2008 Chevrolet Equinox, with Pennsylvania plate HMF-0871, that was stolen between 10:30 p.m. and 12:15 a.m. on Christmas Eve from a parking lot near Stanbridge Apartments. Police said they were called to 38 Jenkins Ave. parking lot for a report of a stolen auto. The victim, a 29-year-old male who resides at Main Street Apartments in Towamencin, told police he was visiting his parents at their apartment complex and had parked his SUV in the lot around 8:30 p.m. At 10:30 p.m., he placed an item in the SUV, police said. Upon leaving the apartment at 12:15 a.m., he noticed the vehicle was gone, police said. The Equinox has a golf ball-sized dent near the right rear taillight, police said. The interior…
Mario Saldutti
8:46 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
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