🌱 How a local senior lost $4,500 to a fake bank worker
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning Drexel Hill! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a local senior lost $4,500 to a fake bank worker
Also on today's calendar: Swarthmore Makers Market and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: Why do optometrists live so long? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Sunday: Mostly sunny, breezy and cool, with a high of 60 and low of 42 degrees.
- Monday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 70, low: 53.
- Tuesday: Increasingly windy, with a high of 83 and low of 61 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Pennsylvania State Police reports: 75-year-old woman scammed of $4,500 by phony bank employee (delcotimes.com) — State police recently handled a series of incidents across Delaware County, including a Drexel Hill woman cited after causing a disturbance at the Media barracks. Reports also detail a Middletown senior scammed out of $4,500 by a fake bank employee, road-rage assaults on I-95, retail thefts, and several fraud and disorderly conduct cases residents should be aware of. 
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Rock Voices Community Choir Spring Concert →
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🗞 Nearby News
Clifton Heights
- Community has 3 ways to participate in Delco Gives, May 6-7 (delcotimes.com)
Havertown
- At St. Pius X Church, compassion comes frozen, and delivered with love (delcotimes.com)
Darby
- Upper Darby Grad Lands $2.2M in Scholarships — and Credits Her Big Brother (delco.today)
- Darby Township Is Looking for Someone to Buy Its Street Sweeper (delco.today)
- Pennsylvania Institute of Technology celebrates as 123 students graduate (delcotimes.com)
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