the village free press Vol. II No. 33
Remembering Tiffany Battle, PAGE 4
AUGUST 15, 2018
Taste of Bellwood, PA AGEE 8 PAGE
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Water down the drain Maywood’s water system vexed by mysteriously high bills, leaks, delinquent accounts By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
During an overcast morning in May, Linda Reedy sat flummoxed at a dining room table inside of her Maywood home, utility bills dating back to November 2017 flanking her elbows. The last bill she’d received, from March 19 through April 19, had her almost at her wit’s end. It showed water charges totaling $913.08. “There is no way three or four people can use $900 worth of water in one month,” Reedy said, referencing the number of adults she said currently reside in her home. “I’d actually say three-and-a-half because my daughter is a flight attendant and she’s gone 15 days out of the month.” Reedy said that since November, she’s received utility bills with water charges that are mysteriously high, including $639 in November and $521 in January. She said she checked her basement water meter and it didn’t appear to be broken. There is no way, she said, for anyone to steal water from the outside. She even See WATER on page 6
SHANEL ROMAIN
NICE THROW: A Maywood police officer plays Frisbee with a young community member during the Maywood Police Department’s National Night Out celebration on Aug. 7 at Maywood Veterans Memorial Park in Maywood.
Maywood celebrates National Night Out The Aug. 7 event brings together police, residents
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
National Night Out — the annual event held each year on the first Tuesday of August and celebrated by police departments around the world — is designed to promote “police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our
neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live,” according to the program’s website. On Aug. 7, the Maywood Police Department commemorated the event in the park behind the police station at 125 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood. “I think that people are feeling a sense of increased safety in the village,” said Maywood Police Chief Valdimir Talley
said. “We’re all a community and we all have to work on improving parenting skills and getting people more involved in the community, which is what National Night Out is all about.” The night almost didn’t happen. It had rained just hours before the event was See NATIONAL NIGHT OUT on page 4