On Thursday, Support the Parks

Editor's note: Welcome to Morning Briefing, where each weekday at 6 a.m. we'll tell you what you need to know to get you through your day—and on Fridays, the weekend, too.

Supporters of Lower Merion parks are meeting at a "summit" at 7 p.m. in the township building.

And weather permitting, Harriton boys tennis is hosting Springfield and the Rams' baseball team will play at home against Perkiomen Valley. Lower Merion boys tennis, meanwhile, is hosting Radnor.

Utilities

• PECO reported between 501 and 1,500 power outages overnight in Montgomery County.

Weather

• Given what we normally expect from spring, even early spring, today and tonight promise to be uncomfortably cold, according to the National Weather Service forecast. Daytime highs in the mid-40s, a chance of early afternoon rain should be followed by a clear night getting as cold as the low 20s. 

Crime

• Lower Merion police reported Monday that on Friday evening a Penn Valley home was .

The roads

• If you see a pothole that needs to be fixed, call the township's pothole hotline at 610-645-4782.

SEPTA transit

• Thorndale Line: Normal service, but check the new timetable
• Cynwyd Line: Normal service, but check the new timetable
• Route 44: No problems reported
• Route 52: No problems reported
• Route 65: No problems reported
• Route 103: No problems reported
• Route 105: No problems reported
• Route 106: No problems reported
• Route 115: No problems reported
• Route G: No problems reported

Trash/recycling pickup

• Lower Merion is picking up trash and recycling on a normal schedule today. Narberth has no pickups scheduled.

Schools

• Lower Merion third- through eighth-grade students, and 11th graders, continue a week of PSSA reading and math tests today.