Pennsylvania
Outdoor garden centers popping up at Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York will offer a little something new this spring: outdoor garden centers.
Ever since the boring, broken-supply chain days of the pandemic, there’s been a gardening boom in the United States. Starting in 2022, German-owned discount grocer Lidl has been looking to get in on the game.
The chain, which boasts 170 stores along the East Coast, piloted an outdoor garden store in New York’s Long Island beginning two years ago, in partnership with a century-old local grower named Gabrielsen Farms.
This year, Lidl expanded this concept with outdoor garden stores in select locations, spanning 76 stores across the eastern seaboard.
As of Wednesday, April 24, a number of Lidl stores in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will boast outdoor pop-up garden centers in their parking lots. This will include both of Lidl’s stores in Delaware, in Dover at 150 Dupont Highway and in Middletown at 359 Auto Park Drive. (It will not, however, include the forthcoming Bear store, which has yet to set an opening date.) The Lidl garden centers will remain open until May 28 and will feature a variety of flowers, plants, soil, hanging baskets, planters and other gardening accessories, according to company spokespeople.
“We are excited to bring the Lidl Garden Center concept to even more customers this year. At Lidl, we are relentlessly focused on quality and freshness at low prices and our Garden Centers are no exception,” said Tammy Roberts, Lidl’s purchasing director, in a statement.
More details, including products for sale, are viewable at lidl.com/garden-center.
Which Lidl stores will include a garden center in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware?
Delaware
New Jersey
- Bellville
- Glassboro
- Park Ridge
- Union
- Vineland
New York
- Commack
- Deer Park
- East Meadow
- East Patchogue
- East Rockaway
- Farmingdale
- Garden City Park
- Islip
- Massapequa
- Merrick
- Plainview
- Riverhead
- Selden
- Syosset
- West Babylon
Pennsylvania
- Easton
- Folsom
- Philadelphia
- Port Richmond
- Reading
- Trooper
- York
Pennsylvania
8 Grocery Outlet stores closing in Pa., NJ
Some shoppers across the Philadelphia region may have to change where they get their groceries.
Grocery Outlet announced that it is closing dozens of stores for good soon.
The chain explained that the changes in SNAP benefits are driving away their main customer base.
Eight stores are shutting their doors from Chester County all the way down to Cape May County.
Grocery Outlets closing in New Jersey
- 4004 Route 130, Delran
- 401 Harmony Road, Gibbstown
- 190 Hamilton Commons Drive Mays, Landing
- 3174 Route 9, Suite 5, Rio Grande
- 677 Berlin Cross Keys Road, Sicklerville
Grocery Outlets closing in Pennsylvania
- 345 Scarlett Road, Kennett Square
- 2017 West Oregon Avenue, Philadelphia
- 2524 Welsh Road, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Cause determined for plane crash that killed school board president in Chester County
Friday, March 6, 2026 7:13PM
WEST CALN TWP., Pa. (WPVI) — Investigators have revealed the cause of a plane crash that killed a Chester County school board president two years ago.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed it on inadequate preflight inspection.
There was a loss of engine power because the fuel was contaminated with water from a recent rainfall, the NTSB said.
The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in West Caln Township on February 1, 2024.
Octorara Area School District School Board President Sam Ganow was killed when a small plane crashed Thursday in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The pilot, Sam Ganow, was the only one onboard.
He was the Octorara Area School District board president.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania man arrested for allegedly feeding pet parakeet marijuana and beer
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on animal cruelty charges for allegedly feeding marijuana and beer to his pet parakeet after bringing the injured feathered friend to a bar, according to reports.
Timothy Grace, 40, was busted on Feb. 21 after carrying his wounded pet budgie named “Blue Skies” in his pocket to Callaghan’s Bar in Greensburg, according to CBS Pittsburgh.
“The caller’s a bartender. She says there is a white male at the bar with a parakeet,” a dispatcher reported on the police radio transmissions obtained by the outlet.
“The patron was bragging to other people that were inside the bar that he feeds the parakeet marijuana and has it drink beer on a daily basis,” Detective Sergeant Justin Scalzo told the outlet.
Grace “appeared extremely intoxicated” when police showed up to the bar and found the pet bird in distress, according to court documents obtained by the outlet.
“Its leg appeared to be broken,” Scalzo said, according to WTAE. “Its foot was actually facing the wrong direction.”
Grave was initially arrested for public intoxication and now faces charges including aggravated cruelty to animals and transporting animals in a cruel manner, the outlet said.
The pet bird was brought to PEARL Parrot Rescue in the Pittsburgh area, which rushed him to an emergency care facility.
Blue Skies spent four days in the hospital and was later taken in to be fostered by Teri Grendzinski, the president of PEARL. The injured parakeet is still breathing hard, remains on antibiotics, and has to wear a splint on his right leg, CBS reported.
“They realized his leg was broken. He also had some respiratory issues going on,” Grendzinski told the outlet. “He was also very, very skinny.”
“The leg was broken badly enough there is a chance they’re going to have to amputate the leg if it doesn’t heal correctly,” she added.
If Blue Skies is eventually put up for adoption, he will require specialized care, the outlet said.
“When we got that call, it was horrifying. Why would you do that to a bird?” Grendzinski said.
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