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Two utility bucket trucks with workers repairing overhead power lines on a residential street.

Federal grid emergency covers Pennsylvania through Friday

A federal emergency order allowing PJM Interconnection to run backup generators beyond normal pollution limits to prevent mid-Atlantic blackouts expires Friday, Oct. 16, after unseasonably warm weather collided with scheduled fall maintenance across the grid serving Whitemarsh, Plymouth and Whitpain townships.

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Developer proposes 150 townhouses on Whitemarsh riverfront

Rockwell Development Group has submitted a sketch plan for 150 townhouses on a 4.3-acre heavy-industrial site at 501 Washington St. in Whitemarsh Township, enabled by the township's 2024 Transit-Friendly Design Overlay near Spring Mill Station.

Satellite map with a red X marking an industrial parcel along a river near labeled streets.

Montco will auto-replace flawed mail-in ballots for Nov. 3

Montgomery County will automatically mail replacement ballots to voters whose mail-in submissions are rejected for common errors like missing signatures or secrecy envelopes, and has relocated two Hatboro polling places from Pennypack Community Center to Lehman Memorial Methodist Church due to utility failures.

An official mail ballot, secrecy envelope, and voter instruction sheet laid flat.

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