My husband reports that he has again broken fabulous trails at the ABC field - get your cross country skiis out and enjoy! Start on the Thayer St. side, west corner of the park.

As the snow began to fall, the wind was howling inside Borough Hall last night as Borough Council passed the 2010 budget and increased the taxes of Ridley Park residents. With a 5 to 2 vote, Council approved the 2010 budget that increases the per capita tax, raises the real estate tax, and passes along the County sewer tax that the County hands down to the Borough.

With the outside temperature in the upper 20's, the heat inside the Borough Hall was on high during the meeting. In a perf… Continue

There's a big snow storm predicted tomorrow and that means we'll have lots of opportunities for taking snow pictures and uploading them onto RidleyParkOnline. While a fresh snow fall produces an abundance of breathtaking backyard Ridley Park subjects, it's actually pretty tricky to take a good picture of snow. Besides the hazardous conditions for your equipment, the reflections off the bright snow can wash-out your pictures and you'll end up with gray snow instead of capturing the emotions of th… Continue

Ridley Park Baseball & Sofball



Sign up on February 10, 17, 24th from 6-8pm and February 20th 1-3pm

At the Ridley Park Athletic Clubhouse on Ward Street



In 1961 a few people got together with an idea. The idea was to create an organization that would sponsor athletic acivities for the youth of Ridley Park. As the Ridley Park Athletic Club approaches its 50 year celebration, it is apparent that the mission of the club after all these years is more present than ever. Today more than 450… Continue

In November, The Barnstormers theater, received an invitation to represent the United States at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival, May 19-23, 2010 in Liverpool NS CANADA with their award winning production of "Fina and Euba".

The Barnstormers' award winning show, Fin and Euba (written by Audrey Cefaly, directed by Ruth K. Brown and stage-managed by Jeffrey Greenspan and Sound/Lighting by Mickey Lincoln) was the PACTFest 2009 winner and ESTAFest '09 runner-up. In addition to winning P… Continue

Council Finance Chairman Suzanne Murtha, at last week’s meeting, said the final budget for 2010 is still being worked on and council hopes it can be passed at its Feb. 2 workshop meeting.

Council President Bob Berger read a statement at the meeting in which he contends the borough accounts were nearly $20,000 in arrears when the new council was officially sworn in on Jan. 4. He said in December the previous council announced there would be a tax decrease in 2010.

“However, the reality is that… Continue

I am in the process of refinishing a staircase. The interesting thing is that old-time woodwork was finished in shellac or lacquer and not varnish. Varnish was used on floors but not doors, trim, and stairways. So that means if you want to refinish that old, blackened, and alligatored woodwork, you don't need paint and varnish remover and do the old slop and scrap gig. All you have to do is put denaturned alcohol or shellac thinner on steel wool and rub and the old blackened finish comes right o… Continue

Carole Nasella was appointed borough manager at Tuesday night’s council meeting. She will also serve as secretary/treasurer. Nasella succeeds Terry Bradley, who served two years in that post.

A lifelong resident of the borough, Nasella is 51, a graduate of Ridley High School and earned a paralegal certificate from Penn State University. She also took classes at Widener University.

Complet… Continue

An abstract posted on Nov. 19 by the World Intellectual Property Organization identifies Ridley Park inventor Ed Lulevitch as the developer of the world's first Buoyant Animal Cage. The article describes "A floating cage system for containing and transporting animals over water...useful in flood conditions or when hunting to keep animals and… Continue

If you are looking for an irreverent, bawdy*, laugh-out-loud funny take on Shakespeare's King Lear, try this book. Now it's confession time: I have never read King Lear, so I don't know how closely (if at all) Moore's novel follows that classic. But this story of Pocket, King Lear's fool, and his dealings with the king, his daughters, and the country at large is really a lot of fun. I experienced it by means of an audiobook (available through our very own Delco Library System), and the reader wa… Continue