Vanguard has sold a Tredyffrin Township office complex for $17 million — with no plans of moving out.
Last month, the Malvern-based investment firm sold its 22-acre property at 1041 W. Valley Rd. to another Malvern-based company, E Kahn Development, according to Chester County property records.
But Vanguard plans to continue leasing the 323,000-square-foot space, which sits just off U.S. Route 202, about eight miles from its main campus in Malvern. Hundreds of Vanguard IT employees work at the complex, called the Robert A. DiStefano (RAD) Technology Center.
Vanguard’s RAD complex in Tredyffrin Township has been sold for $17 million, but Vanguard will continue to lease the space for its IT operations.Courtesy Vanguard
The sale and lease-back “reflects Vanguard’s focus on providing work environments that support and inspire our crew as they remain focused on our end investors,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “Vanguard crew will continue to work at the RAD Technology Center through at least 2028, and there are no immediate plans to move crew who work there today.”
Eli Kahn, president and founder of E Kahn Development, said in an email that his company has “no immediate plans for the buildings.”
Vanguard employs about 20,000 employees, 12,000 of whom are based in Malvern. About 600 IT staffers work at RAD, Vanguard’s only complex with a Wayne address.
The company is expanding its IT staff worldwide, including at a new office in India, but has said its U.S. workforce will not be impacted.
Three Willistown Township properties that span a combined 27 acres and have two homes with their own pools are being privately listed for sale.
Known as Sugartown Springs Farm, the properties include a 7,559-square-foot, four-bedroom main house that dates back to the mid-1700s. It has an in-ground pool and a pond.
Another home, this one with six bedrooms and spanning over 6,000 square feet, also has its own pool. Elsewhere on the property, there’s a two-story timber-frame barn with a glass atrium that was once used as an art gallery for Andrew Wyeth’s paintings.
A larger swath of Rock Hill Farm could be preserved under a potential new deal between Willistown Township and the developer looking to build luxury homes on a portion of the 222-acre property.
A proposed settlement agreement between the parties could see upward of 75% of the land put under a conservation easement, while decreasing the number of residential subdivisions, something one township supervisor called a “good ‘best-case scenario.’”
The first phase of SEPTA’s bus network overhaul began Sunday, impacting 30 routes, including along the Lancaster Avenue corridor. Now sure how it affects you? Check out The Inquirer’s interactive map.
A developer’s plans to build a small-scale data center at the Shoppes at Coventry got pushback at Monday night’s meeting, when North Coventry supervisors voted to oppose it. The shopping center’s owner is seeking a special exception to allow for the nearly 86,000-square-foot center to move ahead, the Daily Local News reports.
Lincoln University is suing Lower Oxford Township for what it says is an unconstitutional and racially discriminatory event ordinance that unfairly targets the historically Black school. The township passed the ordinance nearly a year after a shooting during the school’s homecoming left one person dead and several others injured.
Fantasy-themed bookstore Leaves & Lore opened in West Chester on Saturday, and so many people showed up and made purchases that the owners had to close early on Sunday.
It was a tough week for West Chester’s East Side Little League, which lost its opening game and a closely contested follow-up elimination game in the Little League World Series. But making it to Williamsport was still “a dream come true” for members of the team, who also got to hang with pros during the MLB Classic.
A new 42-townhome community could be coming to the former Burger King site at 410 S. High St. after West Chester’s borough council gave preliminary approval for a proposed development there.
Friday is the last day for public comment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed cleanup plan of the former National Vulcanized Fiber site. Despite community pushback, Kennett Square’s council is considering allowing housing and business development on the 22-acre parcel once it’s remediated.
Women’s boutique Stile by Per Lei is opening its newest location today at Gateway Shopping Center in Wayne.
🏫 Schools Briefing
Coatesville Area School District is partnering with Union Community Care to open the county’s first school-based community health center, which will offer year-round care, including physicals, medication management, and vaccines.
A handful of local football players, including from Malvern Prep, and Coatesville Area Senior, Downingtown East, and Owen J. Roberts High Schools, are among the ones to watch this season, according to coaches, scouts, and recruiting services.
Several Chester County schools earned high marks in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best public high schools in Pennsylvania. Downingtown STEM Academy took the top spot in the county, ranking second in the state, followed by Unionville High School (No. 10), Conestoga High School (No. 13), and Great Valley High School (No. 23). Downingtown STEM also ranked highly nationally, taking the No. 19 spot.
Victory Brewing has again teamed up with Longwood Gardens for its citrus shandy, a 5.5% ABV beer with notes of grapefruit and kumquat, available at the Kennett Square mainstay and in Victory taprooms.
🍺 West Chester TAPS: Today is the last installment of the borough-wide happy hour for the season. ⏰ Wednesday, Aug. 26, 5-7 p.m. 💵 Pay as you go 📍 Throughout West Chester
📚 Literary Festival: This inaugural event includes a ticketed community book exchange, local authors, vendors, crafts, and food trucks. ⏰ Saturday, Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 💵 Pay as you go, $17.85 for the book exchange 📍 Downingtown Vintage
🪕 Roots and Blues Fest: The Cris Jacobs Band headlines this third annual show. ⏰ Saturday, Aug. 29, 11 a.m. 💵 $40 in advance, $50 at the door, free for kids 12 and under 📍 Anson B. Nixon Park, Kennett Square
🎶 Yesterday’s Gone: This Fleetwood Mac tribute will take place outdoors on a rooftop. ⏰ Saturday, Aug. 29, 7-9 p.m. 💵 $22 for children, $30 for adults 📍 Kennett parking garage roof
The home has a separate wing for the primary suite and a tree house-inspired porch.Realtour Pilot | Courtesy of Sharon Dienno and Gary Mercer Sr./LPT Realty
This four-bedroom Spring City home has an airy open-concept living area, complete with vaulted ceilings and walls of windows overlooking nature. But its living quarters set it apart — literally. A first floor primary suite is accessed via its own raised bridge, while there are two themed rooms downstairs, complete with a grotto. They’re located behind a hidden doorway and through a secret passage off a living area with a second kitchen. A fourth bedroom, a suite, is upstairs, along with office space. Out back, there’s a tree house-inspired porch off the deck. There’s an open house tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m.
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The recent rain rally has been a boon to the Philadelphia region’s plant life, and, unfortunately for the legions of the allergic, the beneficiaries include the homely and ubiquitous tormentor commonly known as ragweed.
It belongs to the plant family Ambrosia, from the Latin for “food of the gods.” One can only assume the gods did not have allergies.
Estimates vary, and it’s not as though it is a census category, but in all likelihood several hundred thousand people in the region annually endure the slings and arrows of ragweed pollen, notorious for setting off episodes of sneezing and attendant dopiness.
It also can induce coughing, wheezing, and chest discomforts, particularly among asthmatics, allergy experts warn.
The season — the third in the equinox-to-equinox pollen trilogy, successor to the trees and grasses — typically begins modestly in early August, then intensifies late in the month and continues well into September. And this year sufferers may pay a price for the episodic drought-easing rains that have been watering the plants in the Mid-Atlantic region since mid-June.
“Ragweed thrives on the nitrates in rainwater,” said Payel Gupta, anallergy, asthma, and immunology specialist based in New York City. The rains’ timing has coincided with “ragweed’s late-summer growth window,” sheadded, and the result likely will be “denser plants and higher pollen output.”
As for precisely when the pollen will peak: “Every year is different,” said Donald Dvorin, who for more than 30 years was the Philly region’s official National Allergy Bureau pollen counter, “but the first week of September is most common.”
In addition, with the planet’s temperatures increasing and first frosts taking their good old time, the seasons appear to be lasting a bit longer.
The prime pollen flight hours are from 5 to 10 a.m.; effects can linger, however, as pollen can stick to clothing and find its way indoors via unwitting humans and pets.
What is ragweed?
Ragweed is a tooth-leaved plant that can grow in almost any environment, native to North America but spreading worldwide.
For the allergenic, Dvorin said, the heavy hitters are the “short” ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), and the “giant” (Ambrosia trifida).
A typical pollen grain is a mere 1/25,000th of an inch in diameter, but a single plant can generate a billion of them.
While the plants live for only about a year, do they ever reproduce! Pollen has been found as far as 400 miles from the source, according to the Allergy and Asthma Network.
New York City spent millions after World War II to eradicate ragweed in the city, a war it lost resoundingly. For one thing, the warriors discovered that about half the ragweed pollen in the five boroughs was commuting from elsewhere.
The torments of ragweed
Most people inhale ragweed pollen without incident, but for the allergic, the body interprets the pollen as an invader, and sneezes and other reactions are part of the immune response.
For the sufferers, each season can be a little bit different, said Gupta, assistant clinical professor at the State University of New York and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Severity would depend on “how many consecutive high-count days there are,” Gupta said. Exacerbating factors could be “viral infections or air pollution compounding irritation,” she said.
In addition, some patients may be subject to “priming,” a particularly nasty season that might make some more susceptible to pollen discomforts the following year.
And ragweed is nothing to just sneeze at, according to the International Ragweed Society, which is based in Switzerland and aims to promote ragweed research.
In addition to a “socioeconomic burden due to rising healthcare costs” and “productivity losses,” the society states, the weed’s pervasiveness can endanger certain crops and natural habitats.
How much ragweed is in the air?
Unfortunately, that has become harder to know. Dvorin, an allergist who had practiced in Center City and Mount Laurel, stopped counting pollen last year, and that was symptomatic of a trend. The network has been shrinking.
Gotcha! Donald Dvorin analyzing a pollen specimen. He stopped counting pollen last year, and the network has been shrinking.Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer
Traditionally, allergists such as Dvorin supplied daily counts on a voluntary basis as part of the National Allergy Bureau network. However, the analyses require expertise and time that allergists could devote to revenue-paying patients.
Fewer doctors evidently have been willing to participate.
The nearest allergy bureau counter who posts frequent counts is in the Washington area.
The Asthma Center in Center City posts daily counts that are AI-generated, and while that technology shows tremendous potential, the allergy bureau has not yet approved any of the machines for official use, said Pamela E. Gabrish, the bureau’s program director.
“There has actually been more backlash against using automated devices than ever,” she said.
Advice for ragweed sufferers
Day-to-day pollen volumes are difficult to predict, but expect the peak to arrive next week.
It is a good bet that counts will be high on a warm, dry, and breezy day.
This will be evident in the online pollen forecasts, but be aware that pollen is commuting on the chaotic whims of the atmosphere.
In a study of five major cities, published in 2024, allergy experts concluded the accuracy of online pollen forecasts was “low.”
Along with medications, here are a few suggestions from allergy professionals:
When Erin Pysher dropped her son off Saturday at Frankie & Johnnie’s, the Pottstown bar where one of his friends was celebrating his 21st birthday, she told him she loved him and to be safe.
It was Glenwood Pysher IV’s last weekend of summer fun. Come Monday, he would be at St. Elizabeth University in North Jersey for his senior year and one final season as a college baseball catcher.
Pysher, affectionately called “Bubba” by those who knew the 22-year-old Lower Pottsgrove native best, had his sights set on becoming a history teacher and baseball coach after graduation.
After the bar, Pysher and his friends headed to an after-party at the birthday boy’s home, according to his mother. Later, as Pysher walked to another friend’s house to spend the night, he missed a turn and got separated from the group.
He ended up at the wrong house on Snyder Road, pounding on a door and yelling to be let into what he did not realize was a stranger’s home.
An Upper Pottsgrove police officer, responding to a 911 call for a reported break-in, shot him twice, killing him almost instantly.
The shooting is under investigation by the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. A spokesperson for District Attorney Kevin Steele declined to provide any additional details or to identify the officer, citing the investigation.
“It was a senseless loss, and it shouldn’t have happened,” Erin Pysher said, her voice cracking with emotion. “I don’t know what the officer was thinking or doing that his first response was to shoot an unarmed kid.
“This was all a huge mistake, and they killed him.”
Glenwood Pysher IV was the oldest of four, his mother said. She described him as a lovable, goofy son who spent his summers in between college working.Courtesy Erin Pysher
She said she reviewed her son’s cell phone logs and saw that he had called his friends to pick him up at 12:32 a.m. Sunday after realizing his error. By 12:35, the police-radio call had come out that the officer had shot someone.
Pysher’s friends later told his parents that as they drove to get him, the officer sped past them, lights and sirens activated.
“There was no attempt to stop him another way,” his mother said. “He never got into a fight in his life, never harmed a soul. I don’t believe he had any ill intention toward the officer.”
Pysher was the oldest of four, a lovable, goofy son who, she said, spent most of his summers working at the Walmart store in Pottstown or helping a friend at his seasonal landscaping business.
She laughed while retelling one of her final days spent with him: He had a habit of texting her every day, even while away at college, asking, “What’s for dinner?”
Last week, he joined her for a grocery run for ingredients for that night’s meal. When they got home, Erin Pysher still got that usual text from her son, even as he sat a few feet away from her.
“As a mom, I couldn’t ask for a better kid,” she said.
“All these news reports keep saying, ‘A man was killed,’” she added. “But he wasn’t a man, not to me. He’ll always be my baby.”
“Both of these actions reflect my priority as attorney general to protect our young people from tech giants who are choosing growth at all costs over the mental wellness of its users,” Sunday saidTuesday at a news conferencein Philadelphia.
The suit alleges that Snap Inc., owner-operator of Snapchat, does not properly warn users of the addictiveness of its features and does not protect children properly from compulsive use.
“The allegations against Snap fundamentally misrepresent our platform and our approach to teen safety,” a Snap spokesperson said in a statement. “We share the Attorney General’s commitment to protecting young people online and are disappointed they have chosen litigation rather than working with us toward that shared goal.”
The complaint, which Sunday’s office filed this week in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, asks the company to take steps to protect children from becoming addicted. It cites the SnapStreak feature and the ephemeral nature of the content as examples of ways the app hooks teens specifically.
“To a 13-, 14-, 15-year-old, social acceptance is everything,” Sunday said. “The streak feature puts a tangible value on friendships and influences a child’s feelings of self-worth.”
The app sends an implicit message that the more a child is on the app, the more friends they will have and the more socially accepted they will be, Sunday said.
“That exploits the fear-of-missing-out culture to the absolute extreme,” he said.
It also alleges that Snapchat improperly promotes how frequently adult-themed material — including sexual content and nudity, suicidal ideation, and drug use — appears on the platform to achieve an age-13-plus app rating in app stores.
Through this litigation, Sunday said, he hopes to see Snapchat required to provide a more honest depiction of its content to app stores so it can be marked with a more mature rating, and to change its algorithm to be less addictive.
Montgomery County similarly sued some of the nation’s largest social media companies, including Snapchat’s and TikTok’s parent companies, in a federal court in Northern California earlier this month.
The company recently announced plans to open stores in King of Prussia and Moorestown in late 2027.
The King of Prussia market, the chain’s first Pennsylvania location, is set to open at 320 W. DeKalb Pike, the site of the closed Hobby Lobby in the DeKalb Plaza shopping center.
The Moorestown store, the first in South Jersey, will be located at 1311 Nixon Dr., replacing the Barnes & Noble and PetSmart in the East Gate Square complex.
Each of the new locations will be about 58,000 square feet.
The inside of a recently opened Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace in New York.Courtesy Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
“King of Prussia and Moorestown are two markets we’ve been looking at for some time,” Carl DelPrete, CEO and cofounder of Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, said in a statement. “We look for communities where we believe our stores will be a good fit and where customers are looking for fresh, quality food and good service.”
Founded on Long Island in 2001, Uncle Giuseppe’s now operates 13 locations in New York and North Jersey.
Every store sells made-in-house mozzarella, homemade pasta, prepared foods, fresh produce, specialty cheeses, imported Italian products, natural and organic items, and more traditional groceries. Each market also has full-service meat and seafood departments, an Italian deli, a scratch bakery, and a catering department.
Customers can watch workers make pasta at a recently opened Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace in New York.Courtesy Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
Company executives call shopping at Uncle Giuseppe’s an experience, one in which customers can watch pasta, mozzarella, and bread being made and see meats being cut to order.
Gourmet grocers have not been spared. Di Bruno Bros., the Philly-based Italian-food retailer, closed three of its five locations this winter, two years after being acquired by Wakefern Food Corp., the North Jersey-based supermarket cooperative that operates ShopRite.
Despite industry uncertainty, Uncle Giuseppe’s is not the only grocer expanding. Sprouts, the organic supermarket chain, is adding stores, too, including in Havertown, Limerick, and Washington Township.
A second daily Amtrak passenger train between New York’s Penn Station and Pittsburgh will begin operating in mid-November, after an $80 million state investment in track and safety upgrades, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportationannounced Monday.
Bringing another Pennsylvaniantrain into service will double travel options for people traveling east-west between the state’s two largest cities; it also will provide more capacity for riders to and from New York.
The train currently has stops in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Altoona, Johnstown, Latrobe, Greensburg, and Pittsburgh.
“The people of Western Pennsylvania have waited a long time for more passenger rail service and my administration has chased every opportunity to get this done,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement.
The Pennsylvaniantravels the Norfolk Southern-owned Pittsburgh Line, part of a main artery for freight moving between Chicago and metropolitan New York. The freight railroad has major terminals in Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and the Lehigh Valley.
Vincent Procopio pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a computer, criminal use of a communication facility, hindering apprehension, and related crimes. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Deborah Krull on Oct. 7.
His attorney, Meaghan Wagner, said after the hearing that Procopio accepted responsibility for his actions as a means of continuing “to move forward in a positive direction in his life.”
“Meanwhile he continues to work on his sobriety every day and celebrates eight months sober on Sept. 7,” she said.
Before he resigned after his arrest in April, Procopio, 34, of Newtown Square, had worked for Sharon Hill for four years. He was at Academy Park High School on the night 8-year-old Fanta Bility was killed by a stray bullet amid a shooting caused by three of his colleagues.
Procopio and the dealer, whom investigators did not identify, met through mutual friends in 2025, according to court filings. The dealer told police Procopio approached him, saying he “wanted in” on his drug-smuggling operation.
Over the course of the next year, the dealer would give Procopio $100 baggies of cocaine in exchange for information from police databases, including whether undercover officers planned to make drug busts in the area where he was operating, and whether there were any warrants for his arrest.
The narcotics, prosecutors said, were for Procopio’s personal use and “wholly unrelated to his law enforcement duties.”
The scheme unraveled when the dealer was pulled over in Chester in December with 63 grams of cocaine in his car. He called Procopio for help, and Procopio made calls on his behalf, telling officers in Chester the man was a friend and was in the process of signing up to become a confidential informant.
Procopio later told investigators he knew the man had sold drugs, but said he had recently stopped. He said he never saw the dealer sell cocaine and had never bought cocaine from him.
Prosecutors said that Procopio’s statement was a lie, and that Procopio had deleted text messages between him and the dealer that made that clear.
Procopio and the dealer had developed a jocular relationship, they said. On the day they met, the detective snorted a line of cocaine with the dealer inside his truck. He later went to the man’s home, where they “stayed up all night doing cocaine,” according to the affidavit of probable cause for Procopio’s arrest.
The two regularly exchanged text messages, including one in which the detective, on his way to Sunday Mass, asked the dealer for a bag of cocaine.
And Procopio instructed the man to tell any police officer who stopped him that he was the detective’s cousin, prosecutors said.
In a statement announcing Procopio’s arrest earlier this year, State Attorney General Dave Sunday, whose office is prosecuting the case, decried Procopio’s actions, saying his “selfish, criminal acts also stain the reputations of many public servants who make sacrifices for their communities every day across the Commonwealth.”
As part of the same investigation, another Sharon Hill officer, Domenic Dellabarba Jr., was arrested for allegedly providing confidential information to the dealer.
Dellabarba, 27, is charged with obstructing the administration of the law and related crimes, and his case is pending in Delaware County Court.
The Abington Township Police Department is ending its contracts with controversial surveillance company Flock Safety after data was leaked about searches from Abington — and Cheltenham, too. The township will decide Thursday whether to replace the Flock network with a five-year contract with Axon Enterprise, another surveillance vendor.
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The Abington Township Police Department is ending its contracts with surveillance startup Flock Safety after thousands of its searches leaked to the public. Additional Flock searches went public from Cheltenham — where law enforcement doesn’t hold Flock contracts, but can access the national network through subscriptions held by local businesses.
Flock cameras log license plates and vehicle features such as bumper stickers for every passing car, and employ AI to identify cars that often travel together. The network of public and private cameras enables police to search for vehicles by behavior rather than plate number.
Now, as surveillance regulations face national scrutiny, Abington will vote Thursday on whether to replace Flock with a five-year contract with Axon Enterprise, another surveillance camera system.
Yorkway Place, the secluded, 1930s Tudor-lined alley in the heart of Jenkintown, is experiencing a business renaissance thanks in part to a meadery there.
Cheltenham residents voiced concerns at last week’s commissioners’ meeting over their lack of input in the township’s Melrose pool project, which a private company is developing. New plans for the controversial $4.5 million mixed-use development indicate more than two dozen more houses than originally proposed.
A casino cleaner looking to support his daughter, a home health aide trying to pay rent, and a Philadelphia police officer were among recent plasma donors at the Wyncote location of B Positive Plasma, which is on track to see a record year as area residents try to make ends meet.
The fifth-annual Montco Jazz Fest will bring outdoor concerts to parks across the county next month, including in Wyncote.
A lane will be closed through Friday from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Church Road between Township Line Road and Route 73 in Cheltenham Township for paving. During the same time frame, utility adjustments and milling will close a lane along Ashbourne Road, Montgomery Avenue, and Central Avenue between Washington Lane and Route 73, and again between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Cheltenham police are advising residents to keep small pets indoors after multiple reports of an aggressive coyote in Wyncote. They also say to avoid the animal if seen.
🏫 Schools briefing
The 2026-27 academic years for the Cheltenham and Jenkintown school districts begin Monday.
Fast-growing chain 7 Brew Coffee is seeking Montgomery County’s approval for two proposed locations: one in Wyncote at 1000 S. Easton Rd. and another in Willow Grove at 1130 Easton Rd.
Speaking of 7 Brew, investors in the food and beverage space are keen to pinpoint the next category that could rise to the level of popularity of the Arkansas-based coffee chain, and bagels might just check that box, The Inquirer’s Michael Klein writes. He takes a look at the “bagel boom” hitting greater Philadelphia as a PopUp Bagels franchisee scouts potential Montgomery County locations.
Rob Woloshin, owner of Manny’s Deli Stop in Willow Grove, talked to Klein about visiting Steve Stein’s Famous Deli — which closed in Northeast Philadelphia over the weekend after more than 60 years — as a child. The stalwart deli informed his own shop’s business model.
🎳 Things to do
💿 Best of the 2000s: Britney Spears, burning CDs, Juicy Couture tracksuits … If these aughts buzzwords piqued your interest, consider joining this trivia night for a dose of nostalgia. ⏰ Wednesday, Aug. 26, 7 p.m. 💵 Pay as you go 📍 King’s Corner Pub, Jenkintown
🕵️ High Altitudes and High Stakes: Join this virtual discussion with thriller author Lucy Foley about her newest book, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, which comes out next month and will revive Agatha Christie’s iconic Miss Marple character for the first (authorized) time in 50 years.⏰ Thursday, Aug. 27, 2 p.m. 💵 Free 📍 Virtual, sign up via Abington Township Public Library
🎶 So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience: Robert Neary, a Broadway, television, and film icon, performs a two-hour tribute to the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. ⏰ Thursday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m. 💵 $41.71-$116.25 📍 Keswick Theatre, Glenside
🍺 Battle of the Breweries: Sample “Cheltenham-inspired” beers from local breweries and cast your vote for the champion at this event, which is part of the Cheltenham Celebrates America 250 lineup. ⏰ Sunday, Aug. 30, 4 p.m. 💵 Pay as you go 📍 Gimbel Field, Elkins Park
🏒 Philadelphia Flyers’ Community Caravan: Beloved mascot Gritty will make an appearance at the Jenkintown stop of the team’s 10th annual event, complete with giveaways and bites from local vendors. ⏰ Monday, Aug. 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 💵 Pay as you go 📍 Jenkintown Square
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A Delaware County school board member was killed during the weekend in a vehicle crash in South Jersey, officials said Monday.
Phillip Eastman, 68, was a longtime Springfield resident who recently retired from a 44-year career with Peco and Exelon, the Springfield School District said in a statement.
“Phil tragically lost his life in a car accident this past weekend,” the district said.
For nearly three decades, Eastman coached youth and high school ice hockey, including 17 years as the varsity head coach at Springfield High School, the district said.
“While his teams enjoyed success on the ice, he considered mentoring student athletes and helping them develop teamwork, responsibility, perseverance, and other lifelong skills to be the most rewarding aspect of his coaching career,” the district said.
“Phil and his wife, Maureen, raised their son and daughter in Springfield, where both attended Springfield schools and participated in high school athletics,” the district said.
“His family’s enduring connection to Springfield schools was a primary motivation for his desire to serve on the School Board,” the district said.
On Saturday around 8:30 a.m., Eastman was driving a Chevrolet SUV north on Route 55 in Vineland when his vehicle was struck by someone driving a Tesla heading in the opposite direction, said Trooper Caitlin Brennan of the New Jersey State Police.
The Tesla was traveling south when it crossed over a grass median, hit a tree, and then entered the northbound side of Route 55, Brennan said.
The driver of the Tesla and a passenger in Eastman’s SUV suffered injuries and were taken to an area hospital, Brennan said.
The crash remains under investigation, she said.
It was at least the second fatal accident on Route 55 this summer.
In July, two women were killed and another injured in a one-vehicle crash in Deptford Township.
