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Earlier this year, Christiana Care announced that they were planning to build three neighborhood hospitals in the Philadelphia Suburbs. As such, I am pleased to announce that one of the neighborhood hospitals will be located right here in Aston Township. The hospital will be located at 700 North Turner Way which is directly across Dutton Mill Road from the IceWorks skating facility. The current building there will be demolished, and a new two-story building will be constructed on the same site.  A micro-hospital is a small, licensed healthcare facility that provides a range of medical services to a local community. Micro-hospitals are [...]

Please see the below message from Joe Connolly from SEPTA: As ridership on Regional Rail continues to grow, particularly on weekends, SEPTA is restoring 123 trains – 99 weekend trains and 24 weekday trains – when new fall timetables go into effect this Sunday, September 8. On the Media/Wawa Line, the increased service will allow for the restoration of full hourly weekend train service – adding 12 trains to Saturday and Sunday schedules for a total of 36 inbound and outbound trains. With the increased weekend service, six (6) inbound trains (toward Philadelphia) and six (6) outbound trains (toward Wawa) [...]

PECO will be upgrading and installing new equipment to modernize and enhance the local electric grid.  This project is part of PECO’s Reliability & Resiliency Plan to invest $1.36 billion through 2025 on targeted reliability-focused infrastructure investments. These accelerated investments will help strengthen the local electric infrastructure to better withstand more frequent and damaging storms, deliver enhanced reliability for our customers, and enable the adoption of clean energy resources. This plan is part of the company’s overall system investment of approximately $6 billion during the next five years across our electric and natural gas systems to inspect equipment, complete targeted system [...]

With our area continuing to be in a heat advisory until 8 p.m. Wednesday, we would like to remind residents that the Community Center is always available to be used as a cooling and charging location.  Plan for ways to keep yourself and your family members cool during this extended stretch of dangerous heat. Review the symptoms of heat illness, the appropriate responses and note the critical differences between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate!!! The James W. McGinn Community Center hours are as follows:  Monday – Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. - Friday and Saturday 10:00 [...]

We would like to advise the public that with the construction of the new Township and Police building beginning, there could be a noticeable amount of construction traffic.  We urge you to use extra caution while entering and exiting the main driveway for the Community Center.  We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause currently we believe that a majority of the work will be mobilization and site work with the building construction beginning sometime in August, we will be sure to keep everyone apprised to the status of work that will be taking place.  If you have any [...]