• Jenkintown 2035 tip-toes around issues it needs to address head on.

    Jenkintown 2035: Not thinking big enough

    Jenkintown adopts a long-range plan that tip-toes around issues it needs to address head on. Last week, after five years of discussion, Jenkintown Borough Council formally adopted the Jenkintown 2035 plan. After a half a decade of notes, presentations, debates, and fact finding, the fact that no one involved with... Continue reading

  • Jenkintown Council President Deborra Sines-Pancoe

    Cedar Street Redux?

    Council President Deborra Sines-Pancoe motion to exercise an option to purchase of the Church of Our Savior almost slipped right under our noses last June 20 at the special Council meeting. If Borough Solicitor Patrick Hitchens hadn’t corrected the wording of her motion, we might never have known of the... Continue reading

  • George Locke Sidewalk Presentation

    George Locke’s Sidewalk Shuffle

    Jenkintown Borough Manager George Locke updated Council this week on the borough’s ongoing paving program and its accompanying sidewalk inspection and rehabilitation efforts. The eleven-page Powerpoint presentation gave council members a somewhat stilted view of what Mr. Locke has so far accomplished, perhaps hoping that council members don’t walk around... Continue reading

  • Jenkintown loses its war of attrition against the Downses Resident from Leedom Street speaks out in support of the Downses.

    Jenkintown Zoning Hearing Board: The Downses Strike Back

    Jenkintown Borough finally runs out of stupid questions about lawn equipment, bringing its war of attrition to an end. Last night at Borough Hall, the ZHB unanimously voted to toss out the Borough’s citation based on lack of evidence showing any kind of business, impactful or otherwise. At the conclusion... Continue reading