Category: Calendar Events
Fall Festival Food Drive
The Upper Allen Woman’s Club has organized a Food Drive that will benefit New Hope Ministries. Here is a list of their most needed items. Donation Items
Ways to Donate:
- Bring your items to the Fall Festival on Friday, September 29th, 4-9pm at Winding Hill Park North and drop them off in the food donation truck.
- Bring your item to the Township building prior to September 29th.
- Purchase a Giant Gift Card at Fall Fest to donate
- To make a monetary donation, visit this site Donate
Trick-or-Treat Date Set
In Upper Allen Township, trick-or-treat will be Thursday, October 26th, 6-8pm. The rain date is Saturday, October 28th, 4-6pm.
Leaf Collection Schedule for 2023
Beginning on October 9, and continuing through December 8, our Public Works Department will be conducting our annual leaf pickup. Note that all scheduling is weather dependent â if winter weather arrives, leaf collection may be suspended for the remainder of each year. If leaves are not picked up on your posted day, our crews will be back the next day to finish the posted area before they move on with the schedule.Â
The exception is if the Township is closed for a holiday on your scheduled day, in which case leaf pickup in your area will be skipped for that week unless crews get ahead in other areas and are able to come back through yours. If you see a crew in your area before your posted day, then it means they are ahead of schedule; however, they will return on your designated day.
NOTE: Any leaf piles with grass, ornamental plants, sticks, or vegetation of any kind mixed in with the leaves will not be picked up. No exceptions will be made.
To View the Neighborhood Pickup Schedule, Click Below
Curbside Leaf Collection â Upper Allen Township (uatwp.org)
Brush Recyling Day to Be Held at The Township Building – 9/23, 7am to 11am
The Township will be holding a brush recycling day on Saturday, September 23rd, from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. The drop off site will be located on the Township Campus at 100 Gettysburg Pike in the rear of the building. Please enter the campus off English Drive and follow the signs. The site will close at 11:00 a.m. sharp. Brush is defined as tree limbs, shrubbery, and the like (no grass/leaves off of trees), no limbs larger than 4 inches in diameter and 6 feet in length. Upper Allen Township accepts brush from Upper Allen Township residents only as part of our recycling efforts. Brush recycling is intended to clean up small amounts of debris from residential properties. The program is not intended to accept large tree removal projects. Large projects such as removing entire trees should employ the services of a commercial contractor. If you have large amounts of material to dispose of, please contact a commercial removal service. We ask that you participate in this program responsibly by not dropping off prohibited items at the site. Examples of prohibited items are: garbage, metals, concrete, lumber, stumps, logs over 4â, stones, anything with thorns, grass clippings etc. Upper Allen Township has the right to reject anything deemed unacceptable. Identification will be required. Public Works will then process the brush into wood chips which will be made available to Township residents. At the present time, wood chips are free on a first come first serve basis. We are excited to offer this service and hope that the residents find it useful while doing their fall property clean up.
Despina Drive
We have been receiving numerous ongoing concerns from the public regarding the high volume of traffic exiting the Legacy Park Development located in Mechanicsburg Borough via Despina Drive in Upper Allen Township. In response to this concern, we made Despina Drive in Upper Allen Township a one-way street. This will improve safety into the Township’s neighborhood. We appreciate the patience and understanding of all residents and road users during this adjustment period. The Township remains dedicated to improving transportation infrastructure and will strive to implement long-term solutions that will benefit the community as a whole.
Time Impacts/Delays on Route 15 at Dillsburg
Lane restrictions will be in place for paving, other roadwork
Harrisburg, PA â The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that delays are expected next week on Route 15 in the Dillsburg area due to paving operations associated with a resurfacing and safety improvement project.
Weather permitting, on Monday, July 10, the contractor will begin working on a section of Route 15 from just north of Golf Course/Range End Road to just south of Glenwood Road. Work will begin at approximately 5:30 AM and will continue during daylight hours.
There will be lane restrictions in place in both directions of Route 15. The southbound pattern will begin near the intersection with Mountain Road (Route 4040) in Dillsburg. Due to the high volume of traffic through this area, there could be significant delays, especially during peak hours.
Work primarily includes paving, but also includes milling, and median guide rail and barrier removal. This work is expected to take several weeks to complete.
Once this work is complete, guide rail installation and other finishing work will be performed.
This work is part of a resurfacing and safety improvement project on Route 15 from just south of York Springs in Adams County to just south of Dillsburg in York County. Motorists may encounter other work within the project limits that may impact traffic.
The project consists of ramp acceleration and deceleration lane lengthening, and intersection safety improvements. The entire pavement width, including roadway and shoulders, will be resurfaced and all guide rail will be replaced.
Other work includes milling, pavement construction and reconstruction, subbase, drainage improvements, rock placement, rock slope excavation, concrete barrier, pavement markings, signing and other work in Franklin and Carroll townships, York County and Huntington and Latimore townships, Adams County.
New Enterprise Stone and Lime Company, Inc. of New Enterprise, PA, is the prime contractor on this $19,398,074 project.
This project is expected to be completed in September 2023.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.
511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts.
Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties at PennDOT District 8.
Information about infrastructure in District 8, including completed work and significant projects, is available at District 8 Results. Find PennDOTâs planned and active construction projects at PennDOT Projects.
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