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November 20, 2008More than 200 Lower Southampton residents packed into a church basement last night to air their largely negative views about a planned Community Center in a meeting with the Township’s Board of Supervisors.
Courier-Times writer Gema Duarte does readers a disservice by applying a false manufactured balance in reporting the meeting. The tone in the room was decidedly anti-Center. Residents jeered nearly every pro-Center comment by the Supervisors and presenters and cheered nearly every anti-Center resident who took to the podium.
At issue was the wisdom of building an unwanted and unfunded $11-million dollar taxpayer albatross that will never make the Township any money, and relies on half of its users coming from outside the Township to even be viable.
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Residents of Lower Southampton Township can voice their opinions about the Township’s unpopular plan to build an unfunded and largely unwanted multi-million dollar Community Center on a residential side street Wednesday night, when the Township board meets at Assumption Church at 7PM.
The meeting has been moved from the Township building to the church to handle an expected large crowd in opposition to the center’s inappropriate location and outrageous cost.
A group of residents remain opposed to the location of the township’s folly as well as the situation regarding its funding and the wisdom of undertaking such an expensive project in a time of economic downturn.
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Police say a man suspected of robbing the Univest Bank on Street Road in Lower Southampton Township is under arrest in Philadelphia.
While the “leaders” in Lower Southampton Township push forward in spending more than ten million dollars on a Community Center no one in the community seems to want, crime in the community appears to be raging out of control.
If the bank robberies, community firefighters being arrested for arson and people being assaulted in their own driveways weren’t enough, Township gas station attendants can now look forward being robbed, having semi-automatic pistols shoved in their faces, and being forced to the ground.
7:30 PM. On a Monday evening.
What day or time is it safe to be out and about shopping, dining, banking or filling up your tank in Lower Southampton Township? Banks are robbed in broad daylight, people are sticking guns in other peoples’ faces in early evening, folks out for a late night stroll are punched in the face in their driveways and firefighters are allegedly running around at all hours setting things on fire.
Forget the Community Center, how about a little more money for cops? Screw the smoking ban, how about we put some resources into enforcing the sticking-guns-in-faces ban?
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A gunman armed with a silver semi-automatic robbed the Fulton Bank on Street Road in Lower Southampton Township this afternoon before fleeing in a white Ford pickup truck.
The suspect is a white male with a tall, thin build. He has dirty blond hair and a mustache. He was wearing a dark baseball hat, sunglasses, a black v-neck type pullover, a windbreaker and jeans.
Police are asking anyone who recognizes the man in the picture to call them at 215-357-1235.
Lower Southampton Township has completed a $1.1 million transaction purchasing the Meadowbrook Road property on which they originally intended to build the town’s disputed and unfunded community center. According to an article in the Bucks County Courier Times, the town supervisors are split as to whether to go forward with a community center on the land now that they own it.
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PA House District 142 challenger Frank Farry is one of the area’s most promising Republicans currently making a rise through local party ranks. Farry received a surprise unsolicited endorsement from US Senator Arlen Specter earlier this month in his bid to unseat Democrat Chris King.
It’s lucky for the Schaffner family of Lower Southampton Township that Farry has been out introducing himself to potential constituents door-to-door. If he hadn’t been, the family would likely have not been aware of the blaze in their propane grill, or at the very least they’d have had to wait for a fire crew to arrive to douse the dangerous blaze.
Random violence or a grudge? The kind of physical attacks that have been cropping up all over Bucks County have made their way to Lower Southampton Township.
According to Courier Times Now, a 26-year-old man was attacked by three men in his Meadowbrook Road driveway a little after 1 AM this morning. The victim told police the attackers were white, around 18-years-old and wearing dark “hoodies” and pants.
One of the attackers made a comment about meeting back up with the others at Top of the Hill Apartments. Hardly shocking news there.
Maybe, when caught, the attackers will get sent to camp? Things like this only get worse until we decide to take them seriously.
In his driveway! Where in the area are people safe to walk the street?
What does it take to get a 73-year-old woman to pound the pavement handing out fliers? If that 73-year-old woman is Lower Southampton township resident Dolores Madrigale, it takes the threat of an un-funded proposed Community Center ruining the quiet enjoyment of her property and creating traffic snarls on already crowded township roads. She’s asking area residents to join her in opposing the center at tonight’s Township Supervisors’ meeting.
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A suspended Lower Southampton volunteer firefighter has been charged with setting three fires that his own company wound up fighting; two because he “likes to find out why [fire] does what it does,” and one because he didn’t like the victim according to police.
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