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Damaris Medina

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Week in Review: Holiday Break-In, Trader Joe's, and the Best of 2012

Also: remembering Ralph Daugherty, meeting Linda Murphy of PFLAG and asking Collingswood its Christmas wish.

Did you miss any of these top news stories in the past week? We've got your week-in-review recap right here. A stunning apartment burglary left a Collingswood woman without Christmas and birthday presents for her daughter, and heat and hot water for six days. The kicker? It coincided with an eviction notice from her landlord. Mayor James Maley had been in negotiations to bring the offbeat grocery store to Collingswood years ago, and for a number of reasons, it just didn’t work out. Customers expressed shock and sadness when told of the move, which comes on the heels of the imminent closing of the Superfresh market next door. Yes, Virginia, an activist can be polite. Meet the mild-mannered Minnesota mom who is the president of Collingswood …

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Family Victimized by Burglary, Served with Eviction Notice, Could Collingswood Get a Trader Joe's?, Jo-Ann Fabrics to Leave Westmont Plaza, and 5 more ›

C Beck

11:52 am on Sunday, December 30, 2012

It is so sad to see another super market leave the area; there are some who still feel sorry when we had to see CLOVER leave....and now JO ANNS too...it will be hard for many local people to lose this convenience .   more ›

Monday, December 24, 2012

Family Victimized by Burglary, Served with Eviction Notice

On Dec. 1, Damaris Medina took an overnight trip to Atlantic City. She came home to find her Collingswood apartment had been cleaned out—right down to the furnace.

A stunning apartment burglary left a Collingswood woman without Christmas and birthday presents for her daughter, heat and hot water for six days, and coincided with the delivery of an eviction notice from her landlord. Collingswood police say the theft occurred in the 200 block of Haddon Avenue sometime during the overnight hours of Dec. 1. Damaris Medina, who resides in the apartment with her 11-year-old daughter, was headed down to Atlantic City for an overnight trip. When the family returned home the next day, they discovered the door on the driveway side of their residence pried open, and called police. “I looked up the steps; my door was busted in,” Medina said. “Everything in my kitchen was all over the floor. The bags that I had …

In this Article:

Collingswood Borough Police Department, A Wedding, a Scavenger Hunt and More LumberYard at Commissioners Meeting, Collingswood Fire Department/EMS, and 1 more ›

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Matt Skoufalos

9:31 pm on Friday, January 4, 2013

O.K. gang, comments on this story are being shut down. There are too many unfounded accusations. We'll be back with a follow-up.   more ›

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