Today, Thursday, October 25th, the Borough’s subcontractor, General Asphalt Paving Co., has begun the milling of Hillside Avenue between West Avenue and York Road as well as Leedom Street between Hillside Avenue and Clovery Avenue.

General Asphalt Co. will be completing the milling work on Leedom Street, as well as the hand work and intersection milling on Hillside Avenue tomorrow, Friday, October 26th. Additionally, General Asphalt Co. will complete the milling of Florence Avenue between West Avenue and Runnymede Avenue tomorrow. This work will take place between 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM. During the milling process the roads will be open to through traffic with limited delays and residents will have access to driveways, however there will still be “Temporary No Parking” on Hillside Avenue between West Avenue & York Road, Leedom Street between Hillside & Clovery Avenues and Florence Avenue between West & Runnymede Avenues, so that the work can be completed without obstructions. General Asphalt intends to complete the entire milling operation by the end of day tomorrow, October 26th.
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Jenkintown Borough Public Works along with the Borough Engineer, Pennoni Associates, will be dye tracing the storm water culvert on Monday, October 29th at 9:00 AM. The fluorescent RED dye which is environmentally safe, non toxic and 100% biodegradable will be added to the storm water culvert at Mather and Wyncote Roads. The red dye will then travel down the underground culvert on Mather Road to Mather Spur, across Township Line Road and will discharge into Cheltenham Township. This tracing process is being utilized in an effort to establish the discharge point location(s) in Cheltenham Township and assure that they are functioning properly.

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Calling all ghosts and goblins! The Jenkintown Recreation Board is excited to announce this year’s Scare on the Square, our annual celebration of all that is trick and treat-y in Jenkintown. Please join us on Saturday, October 27th from 2 – 4 PM in Town Square, where we’ll have tons of fun activities for monsters of all ages! Join us for face painting, crafts, trick or treating, local vendors and more.

Please bring a bag for candy and prizes as you shop through Jenkintown’s business district!  Read More »

The Jenkintown Paving Project is scheduled to begin Thursday, October 25th. The Paving contractor, General Asphalt, will begin posting no parking signs to notify residents of the upcoming milling and paving project process.

The milling process will take place on Thursday, October 25th and Friday, October 26th on the following roads: Florence Avenue, (between Runnymede Avenue and West Avenue) Hillside Avenue (between Walnut Street and York Road), Leedom Street (between Hillside Avenue and Cloverly Avenue). During the milling process the roads will be open to through traffic with limited delays and residents will have access to driveways.
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Jenkintown Borough –

We need your help!  Mr. Jason Slowik, MS/HS Art teacher at Jenkintown School District, has a grant open to develop a mural art program and we need your help by voting for it!  Simply click on the link below and vote daily, now through November 3rd.

You can search by name (Slowik) or by town.  Simply enter a valid email address and submit. You will get a follow up email where you click once more to confirm your vote.  It takes 1 minute and will help the students and Mr. Slowik!  Let’s show our Jenkintown pride and help win this grant.

https://www.farmers.com/thank-americas-teachers/vote-for-a-teacher/vote-for-a-proposal-form/

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