Ridley recreation director to resign June 30
English announced Wednesday night that he will step down as Ridley Township recreation director after seven years to take a new post as recreation director at Lower Merion Township. The board seeks resumes from qualified applicants with experience or proper credentials. In Middletown, the zoning board granted a variance to Thomas Brothers Partnership to divide 3.6 acres on Lenni Road at Highland Avenue into two new lots and a third with an existing dwelling and two apartments, contingent on public water and sewer for all three lots.
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Parks English
Tim Murtaugh
English
Lower Merion Township
Ridley
Murtaugh
Middletown
Thomas Brothers Partnership
Lenni Road
Highland Avenue
J. Karl, William and
David Thomas
Borough to sweep Collingdale streets weekly starting July
Borough officials announced a street sweeping schedule at Wednesday’s council meeting. Crews will install 503 no parking signs along 12 miles of streets and begin weekly cleanings in July. Vehicles parked on sweeping days will first receive a warning before citations.
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Collingdale
Butcher who stabbed wife 29 times found guilty of third degree murder
Ronald Schneider, 33, Colwyn, was convicted of third degree murder for killing his wife Janis Schneider, 26, with a bent butcher knife on November 20, 1988. The jury spared first degree murder, rejecting premeditation. Psychiatric testimony claimed drug-induced psychosis impaired intent. Defense attorney Vicki Herr called the verdict appropriate.
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Marlene Digiacomo
Daily Times
Colwyn
Ronald Schneider
Keystone Avenue
Schneider
Melvin G. Levy
Levy
Vicki Herr
Janis Schneider
Herr
John
Budget squeaks by amid protests in Delca district
Southeast Delca school board narrowly approves a 24.1 million 1990-1991 budget by 5-4 despite stormy protests and a last-minute zero increase bid. The plan raises district taxes by 28 mils to 459 mils, adding about 200 yearly school taxes for a homeowner with a 2000 assessed valuation. About 80 residents packed the meeting and most spoke against the tax hike.
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Folcroft
Southeast
Delca
Independence Day mail pickup change and correction
There will be no newspaper pickup on Wednesday July 4 due to the holiday. Newspapers will be picked up in the borough on Wednesday July 18. Eugene DeLuca 162nd district legislative candidate was misidentified as Joseph DeLuca in yesterday's Interboro school budget story.
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Sharon Hill
Eugene DeLuca
Joseph DeLuca
Interboro
Leave bill backers hope Bush lets it ride
A bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders urged President Bush not to veto family and medical leave legislation. The measure would grant about half of workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for ill relatives or newborns and now awaits Bush's decision within 10 days.
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Daily Times
Washington Bureau
Washington
House
Senate
Bush
Curt Weldon
R-7
Bart Gordon
D-Tenn
Four on most wanted list nabbed as deadbeat dads
MEDIA COURTHOUSE One dead beat dad was boxed in yesterday when authorities nabbed him hiding in cardboard cartons in a storage room at his home. Michael Kit, 38, of Chester, who owes 11,920 in back payments for support of his child, was one of four men on the Domestic Relations Department's Most Wanted list arrested as a result of phone tips to the Domestic Relations Hot Line. Marion Tillery, 27, also of Chester, in arrears for 20,815 for the support of his four children, was taken into custody yesterday after officers had previously failed to locate him. Tillery was ordered to pay 400 by July 3 and then 50 weekly. James Healy, 33, and Hartford Saunders, 34, both of Chester, were also picked up for failure to pay.
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Michael Kit
Chester
Domestic Relations Department
Anthony Simmons
Marion Tillery
Simmons
Tillery
Mons
Kit
James Healy
Hartford Saunders
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