Family events Saturday, October 3, 2026Previous edition

6 family events coming up near Conshy

A local guide to getting out and exploring.

Partly sunny and less humid, high near 73 and low near 54Sunday turns cooler with a little rain in the afternoon (high near 64), so plan outdoor fun for today if you can.

Coming up in Conshy

  1. · All ages · Conshohocken
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  2. · Family friendly · Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
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  3. · Family friendly · Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
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  4. · Family friendly · Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
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  1. · Family friendly · Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
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  1. · Family friendly · Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
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Around the neighborhood

Lead Story

SEPTA Swaps Trains for Buses on the Norristown Line This Weekend and Next

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If your Saturday plans involve riding the rails out of Conshohocken Station toward Norristown, you will want to read this before you leave the house. The Borough of Conshohocken is flagging a SEPTA weekend bus substitution on the Norristown Regional Rail line, and it starts today.

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Here is the official language, pulled from the borough's news page: "Due to PECO wire repair work, bus service will replace train service on the Norristown Line between Conshohocken Station and Norristown-Elm Street Station for the entire service day." The dates listed are Oct. 3 and 4, then Oct. 10 and 11.

Let me rephrase that for the people at the back. The wires need fixing, the trains are sitting this one out, and a bus is going to do the job of a train for two weekends in a row. That is four days total, which is long enough that you can't just shrug and hope for the best.

The notice we have is a short blurb, and we only have part of it. We can't tell you bus pickup spots, frequency, or how much extra travel time to pad in. SEPTA is the place to confirm those before you head out. My advice, for what a columnist's advice is worth, is to leave earlier than you think you need to. Buses and tight Saturday schedules have a long and storied history of not getting along.

The other thing worth noting is that the station-to-station swap only covers the stretch between Conshohocken and Norristown-Elm Street, per the borough's notice. Check your actual trip against that stretch rather than assuming the whole line is affected.

Local News

Pumpkins, Ghouls and a Drive-In Hocus Pocus on the Weekend Calendar

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A quick note on how we built this list. Our event search came back empty this week, so we leaned on the Elmwood Park Zoo's own calendar and a few local listings. That is a fine way to find family fun, but it does mean you should double check hours before you load up the car.

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The zoo is running a busy double feature today and tomorrow. Harvest Fest runs 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, with carnival games, carousel rides and live music. Alongside it, Boo at the Zoo goes from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on both days. The zoo invites you to "bring your little ghouls and ghosts" to a Halloween haunt it describes as kooky and spooky, which I assume means more kooky than spooky, but I haven't been to check.

Tonight, the zoo is also hosting a Drive-In Zoovies screening of Hocus Pocus from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The listing opens with the line "Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me sick!" and that is, I'll admit, my exact feeling about most Saturday 6 a.m. wake-ups.

Closer to home, the Conshohocken Farmers' Market is on today from 9:00 a.m. to noon. That is the low-key option if the carousel crowd sounds like a lot before lunch.

Weather-wise, today looks partly sunny and less humid. Sunday turns cooler with a little rain in the afternoon, so if you only have one day to spare, make it today. The week ahead, per 6abc's AccuWeather outlook, looks like a beautiful fall one.

Community Spotlight

A Cameo for Aroma on Ford and a New Bowl Shop in Lafayette Hill

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Two local food stories crossed our desk this week, and both are worth a look.

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First, West Conshohocken's Aroma on Ford got a visit from a TV face. According to MoreThanTheCurve, FOX29's Bob Kelly stopped by on September 30th and sampled a few dishes and cocktails. That is a fairly good day at work, if you ask me. Now my biases are obvious, since I would take a sampling assignment over most of the other jobs in journalism.

Second, Boostin' Bowls has opened inside The Shops of Lafayette Hill at 428 Germantown Pike in Whitemarsh Township. That is all the detail we have so far, so we can't tell you the menu or the hours. A quick look at their own channels before you go is a good idea.

Neither story will change the course of local government, I guess. But a restaurant getting its moment on TV and a new spot opening its doors are the kind of small wins that make a town feel like a town.

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Montco DA Charges 46 Businesses Over Illegal THC Sales, Including a Plymouth Meeting CBD Store

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Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele announced on September 30th that criminal charges have been filed against 46 businesses in 26 municipalities for the illegal sale of THC. One of them, per MoreThanTheCurve, is a CBD store in Plymouth Meeting.

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Twenty-six municipalities is a lot of township and borough lines for one announcement. In a county with as many of them as Montco has, that works out to a sizable chunk of the map.

We only have the opening of the report, so we can't tell you which businesses are named or what the specific allegations are. Charges are accusations, not convictions, and any more detail will have to come from the DA's office or the full article.

For parents, the practical angle is simple. Whatever the legal details turn out to be, products like these belong well out of kids' reach, and the shop on the corner is worth a second look.