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10 family events from Friday to Thursday, 3 of them free, including Harvest Fest at the Elmwood Park Zoo and a Bird Walk at Willow Lake Farm in Ambler.
Friday has Raptor Jawns, a birds of prey program at Morris Arboretum and Gardens in Chestnut Hill at 1:00 PM. Saturday is the busiest day, with a free Bird Walk at Willow Lake Farm in Ambler at 8:30 AM, then Harvest Fest, Boo at the Zoo and a free World Migratory Bird Day at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown. Sunday repeats Harvest Fest and Boo at the Zoo and adds a free Community Fall Festival at the Kaiserman JCC in Wynnewood, followed by a Saturn Sighting Party at Fort Washington State Park on Monday night and Book Bedazzling at the Ambler library on Thursday.
Chestnut Hill · Morris Arboretum & Gardens
Visitors meet a bird of prey up close during a small encounter program on a day when schools are closed.
Ambler · Willow Lake Farm
A easy guided bird walk on the Willow Lake Farm preserve to look for late fall migrants and arriving winter birds.
Free; donations accepted.
Parking and trailhead are in the back of the lot behind CVS and Liberty Lutheran offices. Trail may be muddy or wet. Bring binoculars or borrow some.
Norristown · Elmwood Park Zoo
The zoo hosts a fall festival with carnival games, carousel rides and live music.
Norristown · Elmwood Park Zoo
The whole zoo is decorated for a Halloween celebration aimed at little ghouls and ghosts.
Norristown · Elmwood Park Zoo
The zoo marks the fall bird migration with a day of bird-themed activities.
Free with paid Zoo admission
Community Passes will not be accepted on this day.
Norristown · Elmwood Park Zoo
The zoo hosts a fall festival with carnival games, carousel rides and live music.
Norristown · Elmwood Park Zoo
The whole zoo is decorated for a Halloween celebration aimed at little ghouls and ghosts.
Wynnewood · Kaiserman JCC
A community fall festival with live music, yard games, a touch-a-truck, food trucks, a makers market, and ticketed bounce houses, a pumpkin patch and a petting zoo.
Free to enter; many activities require tickets or an unlimited wristband
Rain or shine; many activities may move indoors if it rains.
Fort Washington · Fort Washington State Park
An evening of viewing Saturn and learning to use a star map to find the fall constellations and their stories, held with the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers.
Ambler · Wissahickon Valley Public Library, Ambler branch
Kids decorate a paperback book, bringing their own or choosing one of the free books the library provides.
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The Pennsylvania Departments of Environmental Protection and Health and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced on October 7 a "Do Not Eat" advisory for fish in the Wissahickon Creek Basin, MoreThanTheCurve reported. Patch reports the cause of the PFOS contamination is not clear, and officials have not said publicly where it may have come from. Until that gets sorted out, anyone fishing the creek should read the advisory before anything lands on a dinner plate.
The Borough of Conshohocken has announced paving and concrete work on Hallowell Street that is expected to take four to six weeks, according to MoreThanTheCurve. The summary we reviewed does not give exact stretches or work hours, so check the borough site before you plan a route. The upside is a smoother street at the end. The downside is the weeks in between, I guess.
Whitemarsh Township's Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider a proposal at its Thursday, October 8 meeting for a $12 million contribution toward preserving a 67-acre quarry property in Plymouth Meeting, per MoreThanTheCurve. We have not seen a report on the outcome yet. Twelve million dollars buys a lot of anything, so expect the details to matter.
Goodness Bowls has chosen the former La Bella Moda site in Conshohocken for its new headquarters, Montco.Today reports. The material we reviewed did not include a move-in date or other details, so we will leave those to the company. A local business putting down roots in a familiar address makes for a decent Friday storyline.
Niche has released its rankings of school districts in the Philadelphia area. Colonial School District ranks above all nearby districts except the ones on the Main Line, according to MoreThanTheCurve. Patch also ran a look at how Colonial compared with neighboring districts. Now my biases are obvious, but rankings make for better bragging than decision-making.
| Date | Events | Lead story |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 Thu | 7 | Hallowell Street faces four to six weeks of paving and concrete work |
| 2026-10-07 Wed | 6 | Whitemarsh Supervisors Will Weigh a $12 Million Check Toward a 67-Acre Quarry |
| 2026-10-06 Tue | 6 | Council Meets Wednesday and an Insurance Brokerage Picks Conshy for Its New East Region |
| 2026-10-05 Mon | 7 | Norristown Line Trains Become Buses Again This Weekend and Next |
| 2026-10-03 Sat | 6 | SEPTA Swaps Trains for Buses on the Norristown Line This Weekend and Next |
| 2026-10-02 Fri | 6 | Montco DA Charges 46 Businesses Over Illegal THC Sales, Including a Plymouth Meeting CBD Shop |