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Local Government
View MoreLower Merion board sets Sept. 14 vote on Rivera resignation
The Lower Merion School Board will meet Sept. 14 to formally accept Jennifer Rivera's resignation and must appoint a replacement within 30 days under Pennsylvania law.
Local Government
View MoreSeven families sue Lower Merion district over mandatory device policy
Seven Lower Merion families filed a federal lawsuit alleging the school board's elimination of the technology opt-out policy violates their parental rights, seeking an injunction to restore the opt-out option before the 2026–27 school year begins.
Local Government
View MoreLower Merion board approves K-12 device policy in 7-2 vote
The Lower Merion School Board voted 7-2 on Aug. 17 to approve a K-12 technology policy that eliminates devices for the youngest students and gives parents new opt-out and monitoring tools before the Sept. 8 school year opens.
Local Government
View MoreLower Merion board member charged with $50K theft from employer
Lower Merion school board member Jennifer Rivera, 41, of Bala Cynwyd, turned herself in Monday on six felony charges alleging she stole $50,243 from her former employer, a Bala Cynwyd marketing firm, using a company credit card and Amazon account for personal expenses between 2024 and 2026.
Local Government
View MoreShapiro data center order shields Montgomery County ratepayers
Gov. Josh Shapiro's executive order requires data center developers to cover their own electricity infrastructure costs, but Montgomery County legislators say permanent legislation is still needed to protect ratepayers.
Local Government
View MoreMontgomery County to auto-send replacement ballots after voter errors
Montgomery County's Board of Elections approved an automatic ballot curing policy on Aug. 19 that will send replacement mail-in ballots to voters whose ballots are rejected for fixable errors like missing signatures or secrecy envelopes, taking effect for the Nov. 3 General Election.
Local Government
View MoreState adds $1M for aging oversight, but county says it's not enough
Montgomery County Commissioner Tom DiBello warned that state aging-services funding isn't keeping up with the county's growing senior population, even as Pennsylvania's 2026-27 budget adds $1 million for oversight tools — a gap that affects Lower Merion's roughly 13,585 residents aged 65 and older.
Local Government
View MoreLMSD bars in-person attendance at Monday's device policy vote
The Lower Merion School District will hold its Aug. 17 board meeting entirely on Zoom after disruptions and threatening social media posts, with a consequential vote on eliminating devices for K-2 students on the agenda.
Local Government
View MoreLower Merion moves device-policy vote to Zoom-only after threats
The Lower Merion School Board will hold its Aug. 17 business meeting entirely on Zoom after disruptions at two recent meetings and threatening social media comments, barring in-person attendance for the contentious K-12 technology policy vote.
Local Government
View MoreMontgomery County sues Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google days before LMSD device vote
Montgomery County filed a federal lawsuit Aug. 11 against Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google over youth mental health harms, citing survey data showing heavy social media use doubles depression risk among the county's 181,000-plus minors, including every LMSD student. The suit arrives days before the Lower Merion School Board votes Aug. 17 on a new device and screen-time policy.
Local Government
View MoreVillanova opens 112-acre Cabrini Campus with housing for 900
Villanova University opened its 112-acre Cabrini Campus in Radnor Township on Monday, adding nearly 30 classrooms, housing for approximately 900 students and a 100,000-square-foot recreation center to the former Cabrini University site two miles from the main campus.
Local Government
View MoreFederal labor board orders Bryn Mawr nursing home to restore union practices
The National Labor Relations Board issued a default judgment Friday, July 31, against Bles Healthcare Management, operator of Rosemont Care and Rehabilitation Center in Bryn Mawr, ordering the facility to restore CNA job-posting practices and provide withheld staffing data to SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania after the company never responded to the complaint.
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