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OMNIQ says a southeastern Pennsylvania township and a northeastern Pennsylvania borough have signed two-year agreements for its Q Shield vehicle-recognition system, but the company has not publicly named either municipality.
Sep 30, 2026
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July emails show questions about paying for the next design stage. I have asked what the plan looks like now.
Sep 29, 2026
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Pennsylvania lawmakers will hold two separate hearings Monday morning on automated license plate readers, including Flock cameras. One of the hearings has a direct Upper Merion connection.
Sep 28, 2026
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In a June 10 letter, the township chair described hotel-tax revenue as essential to the proposed sports and entertainment development.
Sep 27, 2026
Township records document years of planning, consultant payments and a financing effort that extended to Montgomery County. The proposed development did not receive a $20 million state grant, and its current status remains unclear.
Sep 26, 2026
Part 4 of our series takes an unexpected turn. Four days after the public-comment period closed, the Pennsylvania Department of Health withdrew its proposed rewrite of the state’s communicable-disease regulations and says it plans to revise and resubmit the proposal at a later date.
Sep 25, 2026
Traffic enforcement and directed patrols accounted for just over half of the 3,225 entries published by the department from June through August.
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Council advanced a rewrite of its land development rules, opened the sealed-bid process for 36 W. Front Street, approved a parking request on East 4th Street and shared new details on the former Camelot parking lot project
Sep 24, 2026
HB 2771 would create statewide rules for automated license plate readers while expressly preserving a municipality’s ability to regulate or prohibit their operation. The bill is now before the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Upper Merion’s state representative, Tim Briggs.
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Plans for 440 Mill Street call for 56 public parking spaces, EV charging, improved lighting and security, landscaping and access to the planned Bridgeport Spur Trail.
Sep 23, 2026
The first Upper Merion Area Spotlight Crime Report includes assault, burglary, retail theft, DUI, drug and other criminal cases filed between Sept. 12 and Sept. 20.
Sep 22, 2026
The luxury mattress company is preparing a new location along West DeKalb Pike.
Sep 21, 2026
Criminal complaints obtained by Upper Merion Area Spotlight provide new details about nearly $4,600 in alleged thefts at Uniqlo, Macy’s and Nordstrom.
Brian O’Neill is asking a Montgomery County judge to reverse the township’s rejection of five proposals totaling approximately 4.6 million square feet.
Sep 18, 2026
State gaming-funded grants will support a Bridgeport parking lot redevelopment, renovations to Upper Merion’s public works facility and another segment of the Valley Forge Connector Trail.
Sep 17, 2026
The township will hold the first of four public meetings Sept. 21 as planning begins for the next phase of Heuser Park.
Sep 16, 2026
An affidavit says a masked 20-year-old Bridgeport resident waited near West Valley Forge Road, threatened to shoot a former friend and later admitted to the chase. Police say there is no ongoing threat to the community.This story has been updated with information from a police affidavit and confirmation from Upper Merion Police.
The company briefly operated the former Workhorse brewery in King of Prussia. An SEC filing also details two earlier financial settlements totaling $258,805.
Sep 15, 2026
The September 9 crash involving a motorcycle and sedan remains under investigation.
Part 3 of our four-part series examining Pennsylvania’s roughly 500-page rewrite of its communicable-disease regulations looks at what schools would be required to do during contact tracing and public-health investigations, including access to students during the school day and private conversations with health officials.
Sep 14, 2026
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A 20-year-old Bridgeport resident was charged following an Upper Merion incident on the same date, but police have not yet confirmed that the court case and recorded chase are connected.
The Sept. 14 agenda also includes five new instructional aide positions and training on risk and threat assessments.
Sep 13, 2026
Only two agendas were available Sunday evening, while no municipal meetings are scheduled in Bridgeport or West Conshohocken.
Eighty-six new cases were filed across the two Magisterial District Courts covering Upper Merion Township and Bridgeport Borough from Sept. 5 through Sept. 11.
Sep 12, 2026
Upper Merion police recorded 2,650 activity entries during the month, with extra patrol requests, traffic stops and 9-1-1 hang-up calls also among the most common.
