Category: News

  • Thank you for a great year!

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    The Shortridge Civic Association hosted a wonderful picnic for the community on June 14, complete with delicious food, games, music, and a bouncy house for the kids! We were so happy to see so many members of the community come out to join us. We are also delighted to report that the event raised funds…

  • 2025 Summer Social in Shortridge Park

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    On Sunday, June 9, 2025, the Shortridge Civic Association held a Summer Social event in Shortridge Park to celebrate the end of Spring and the beginning of our Summer season. The civic association rented a bouncy house for the event (shown above), which neighborhood youngsters played in for hours. Neighbors brought a variety of food,…

  • Friends of Shortridge Park on LM Website!

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    Friends of Shortridge Park is now listed on the Friends of Lower Merion Parks web page! Congratulations to this group of local volunteers for being recognized by the township for their effective organization and impactful work.

  • Shortridge Park Volunteers win Go for the Green Organization Award

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    We’re delighted to share the news that a group of Shortridge Park Volunteers — including newly elected Shortridge Civic Association Vice President Stacey Hirsch — have won the recently announced Go for the Green Organization Award! The Awards are given by the  The Lower Merion and Narberth Environmental Advisory Councils and Shade Tree Commissions. Here is…

  • Volunteers Clean Up Shortridge

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    On Saturday, April 20th, twenty community volunteers came together to to clean Shortridge Park. The group cleaned the entire creek as part of the Darby Creek Watershed Annual Cleanup. Volunteers also marked invasive European black alders with pink flagging tape, staked out an expanded riparian area on the dog “park” side (and saw frogs in…

  • LMSD Expanded Walk Zone Retraction

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    In an announcement to the community on Monday, April 22nd, the Lower Merion School District announced that it was retracting its proposed expanded walk zone, which would have included many parts of the Shortridge neighborhood. The announcement noted that “many families impacted expressed concerns about and opposition to the change” and that as a result,…

  • Celebrate Summer in Shortridge

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    COME CELEBRATE SUMMER! Sunday, June 9th* Shortridge Park 4 pm – 7 pm JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR AN AFTERNOON OF FOOD and FUN What to bring: To volunteer or ask questions, email hello@shortridgecivic.org or call 610-645-6574. Mary Jane Meconi, 1014 Clover Hill Road, Wynnewod, PA 19096. * If it is raining at 3pm, the picnic…