Plymouth Township News

Detective Charlie Rozum got the call from a fellow Plymouth Township police officer May 10 at about 3:30 a.m.: Some 900 gallons of gasoline had been pumped into makeshift tanks on a pickup and a van, and the men who pumped it couldn't show police the credit cards they had used.

The requests are available for inspection from 8-4:30 daily in the Clerk's Office.

Plymouth Township is among nine Wayne County communities and their tax-increment financing authorities - mostly downtown development authorities and brownfield authorities - that were handed both a court victory and a legislative defeat last week in a fight over "recaptured" tax money.

A mom-and-pop concrete business proved a solid foundation for a Plymouth Township home remodeling contractor marking its 55th anniversary.

Bob and Gwen Omilian with their son, Alan, who passed away in July 2010 after a long battle with muscular dystrophy.

Details: Barefoot Productions seeks actors for its summer production, "Hallelujah Girls" by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten.

Plymouth Township is among nine Wayne County communities and their tax-increment financing authorities - mostly downtown development authorities and brownfield authorities - that were handed both a court victory and a legislative defeat last week in a fight over 'recaptured' tax money.

A suburban Philadelphia police officer who was fatally shot during a traffic stop in September has been named officer of the year.

Mary Bush of Farmington is a 1997 graduate of the program. The former mayor of the City of Farmington served for 12 years on the Farmington City Council, two of those as mayor.

A new contract gives Plymouth Township's four police sergeants their first raises in about five years, but also has them, and those who retired from their ranks, contributing more toward the cost of their health insurance.

Fire investigators, engineers and insurance adjusters are visiting Plymouth City Hall and the adjacent fire station this week following Sunday's early morning blaze, which destroyed a fire truck and equipment on board and caused substantial damage to the newly expanded station.

Vehicles parked outside condominiums on Newport Drive in Plymouth Township were targeted in a larceny and an attempted larceny last week, following a rash of four burglaries, plus an attempted burglary, in the same area the week before.

A Hunlock Township man called a "person of interest" in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Plymouth Township last August is wanted on allegations he failed to appear for a preliminary hearing on drug charges.

Organizers said the gardens have "a variety of features as well as many ideas that can be adapted to your own garden."

An unusual situation in the city of Plymouth where a fire truck goes up in flames inside of the fire station.

A fire that broke out around 4 a.m. Sunday destroyed one fire truck and did what officials are calling "substantial" damage to the City of Plymouth fire station, located adjacent to the police department and City Hall.

The Northville Fire Department is moving its Plymouth station to temporary quarters after a fire truck caught fire early Sunday morning, heavily damaging the building on Main Street.

Over the next few weeks, O&E Media photographers will take hundreds of graduation photos.

Norristown will be the site of the inaugural 9/11 Heroes Run to honor the memories of Travis Manion and Brad Fox and those they left behind, according to a report on Philly.com.

More than $50,000 worth of cash and jewelry were stolen from the home of an elderly Plymouth Township couple late last month when a man claiming he was there to plan yard work distracted them and at least one accomplice burglarized their house.