Growth spurt: Louis Eni, president and CEO of Dietz & Watson, stands with Ruth “Momma Dietz” Eni in the company’s factory…
Derrick Sawyer
About 40 Frankford and Northwood residents turned out last week to tell their police district commander about crime in their neighborhoods.
They had plenty to say. So did Capt. John McCloskey, the 15th Police District’s top…
Summertime fun: Free Philly Play summer camp starts on Monday, July 7.
City Councilman Brian O’Neill distributed Philadelphia Activities Fund grants to various volunteer organizations in the 10th Councilmanic District.
Here is the list:
Players participate in the tournament, which was won by Judge.
Louis Scott
Albert Diprimeo
Philadelphia police have released a mugshot of a fugitive who is wanted for a gunpoint sexual assault in Holmesburg on June 30.
Thursday, July 3
EVENTS
Arts & Crafts Northeast Older Adult Center, 8101 Bustleton Ave. Thursdays from 9 to 11 a.m. 215–685–0576.
Greater Bustleton Civic League members got updates on neighborhood zoning issues and recreation center renovations, heard about utility worker impostors trying to get into homes and learned a once legal left turn off of Grant Avenue is now illegal.
Police last week arrested a second person in a mid-June robbery and shooting in Bustleton. Detectives believe Jeffery Chandler, 29, is one of two people involved in an incident outside the Delaware Valley Sports Center gun shop and shooting…
The winners are: Forty Archbishop Ryan students participated in this year’s…
The legendary Charlie Gracie will be in concert on Thursday, July 10, at Disston Recreation Center, at 4510 Disston St. in Tacony. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. with a performance by Ramona Jane.
The firehouse at Bustleton Avenue and Bowler Street that has been closed for renovations since winter is reopening.
Engine 62, Ladder 34 and Medic 6 are moving back to the building they share with the 7th Police District…
Surveillance photo
A hooded and masked man with a gun held up a Lawncrest convenience store on June 24.
Police have released surveillance video of the robbery, which occurred at 7-Eleven, 5800 Rising Sun Ave., at about 2:15…
Noise in Rhawnhurst
I have lived in the Rhawnhurst section of Philadelphia for over 50 years. The noise pollution that has proliferated along the Castor Avenue corridor between Cottman Avenue and Rhawn Street has become unbearable.
A man demanding money terrorized a 45-year-old Oxford Circle woman on June 22, forcing her to call a friend to bring him cash to buy her freedom.
Police are looking for a man who threw bleach into the face of a robbery victim May 15 and also are seeking his alleged accomplice, who was arrested before skipping bail.
The Frankford Civic Association, which routinely meets on the first Thursday of the month, has pushed its July session to the second Thursday, July 10. Members will gather in the second-floor meeting room of Aria Health’s Frankford campus, 4900 Franford Ave. at 7 p.m.
BENSALEM SENIOR CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION July 14. USO Tour. $87 includes luncheon, transportation, taxes and tips. 215–742–3898, 215–884–3820.
ST. JEROME LADIES GUILD July 23. Tomasello Winery. $49 includes transportation, lunch, $10 slot play at Resorts Casino and a…
Tamika Gross
A city police officer was arrested last week for allegedly encouraging her children to engage in fights in the Northeast.
The district attorney’s office said Tamika Gross, an officer in the 16th…
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Laura H. Carnell and Samuel Fels schools
• All classes reunion on July 11, 2014 at Curran’s Irish Inn on State Road at 6 p.m. 945–614–0106.
Police are looking for two men who robbed a Northwood store and assaulted an employee on June 25.
The two men entered the store on the 5300 block of Oxford Avenue at 8:40 p.m. and one took a soda to the counter. The other…
St. Anne’s Senior Center July 8. Resorts Casino. $30 or $25 for members includes transportation and a slot play package. 215–426–9799.
Sisterhood of the Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai Aug. 24. Resorts Atlantic City. $40 includes ticket to The Cat’s Pajama’s…
Frankford residents got a potpourri of information about local parks, recycling, a summer food program, politics and new trash collection rules at the June 26 meeting of the Northeast EPIC Stakeholders.
Northeast Detectives are looking for two men they believe were involved in a June 20 shooting in Lawndale.
Police said one of the two fired a gun into a crowd exiting the Rendezvous Club on the 6300 block of Rising Sun Avenue after 2 a.m., striking a…
All Saints Episcopal Church Rhawnhurst 1811 Loney St. Handicrafters meet Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. Harmonie Singing Society meets Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist services on Sundays at 8 and 9:30 a.m. 215–342–6310, www.allsaintsrhawnhurst.org.
Aubrey, Audrey, Sweeney, Tamara
Get your free shades at the Shore
Like the Jersey Shore? Like free sunglasses? Then Ocean City is the place to be on Independence Day as Reflekt Polarized, a Huntingdon Valley-based designer of high performance sunglasses, will lead beach-goers on the…
Let me give it to you straight:
I love this country. When I stand and sing The Star-Spangled Banner, I may be off-key, but I also feel something amazing — and stirring. I think it’s called pride.
June 2 through 15
As reported by Northeast Detectives. Does not include homicides, sexual assaults, narcotics offenses or other specific crimes investigated by special police units. All locations listed by block, not by exact address.