🌱 Patch AM: How a Springfield Target parking lot shooting led to prison time

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Springfield Target parking lot shooting led to prison time

Also on today's calendar: Corey Holcomb and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: An afternoon shower; humid, with a high of 83 and low of 70 degrees.
• Tuesday: Hot and humid; a p.m. t-storm, temps: high: 92, low: 73. 🌶 Hot!
• Wednesday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 86 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Philly man gets 6½ to 13 years in Springfield Township shooting (delcotimes.com) — A man has been sentenced to 6½ to 13 years in state prison for a 2024 shooting in the Target parking lot at the Shoppes at Springfield Park on Baltimore Pike, which left a victim with life-altering injuries. Investigators tied the gun he admitted using in Springfield to an earlier fatal road-rage case in Montgomery County, where additional charges are still pending.
   

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Saturday September 19
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Tuesday September 1
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• American Communities 1776-2026
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• Exhibit: The Hidden World of Fungi
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• Kindergarten Drop In Day - AM ONLY
  Springfield Literacy Center Springfield, PA 19064
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Friday September 11
• 25th Anniversary of 911 →
  4955 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square
  8:00 am
Saturday September 12
• Garden Club Of Springfield Harvest Celebration →
  Old Central School, Saxer Ave & Powell Rd, Springfield, PA, 19064
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Monday August 31
• Total Body Bands with Julie McHugh
  Swarthmore College - Featured Events Matchbox Tarble Commons Upper Level
  7:30 am
• Welcome Back Breakfast
  Swarthmore College - Featured Events Science Center - Eldridge Commons, Science Center Terrace
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• American Communities 1776-2026
  Swarthmore College - Featured Events McCabe Library Atrium Exhibits
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• Hatha Yoga with Stacy Bomento
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💬 Chatter

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🗞 Nearby News

Media

• WHYY News wants to hear from you. What are journalists missing? (whyy.org)
• Save money and gas with a used hybrid vehicle. Here are some picks from Edmunds (delcotimes.com)
• Zoren: Meet Hershey Felder and his play, 'Rachmaninoff and the Tsar' (delcotimes.com)

Swarthmore

• How Nancy Grace Roman, the 'Mother of Hubble,' Became the Namesake of NASA's New Telescope (discovermagazine.com)
• Elite Universities Offer Courses On Bad Bunny, 'Queering God' & 'Decolonizing French Food' (americanliberty.news)

Chesterbrook

• Berwyn EMT Dies In Scooter Crash In His College Town (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time (Thank you Kourtney Z. for sending it in!)
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