Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, July 11

• Manufacturer With Local Offices Sold To CT Firm
  Sermatech International, an industrial coatings manufacturer headquartered in Lower Pottsgrove, has been sold for what is estimated at more than $80 million to a Connecticut corporation.
• Keep Healthy This Week
  A weekly review of free or low-cost local seminars, support groups, screenings, tests and clinics to help you stay healthy and fit, sponsored or conducted by community health care organizations.
• Lucky Dogs Fly Free From North Carolina To Pottstown
  It’s a 500-mile trip, one way, from Bladen County NC to Montgomery County PA. Seven furry passengers made it this week, en route to what is hoped are new homes.
• LGS Photo Paired With International Story
  Photographers find the twin towers of the Limerick Generating Station an irresistible subject. So do newspaper editors, when they need art to accompany an article on energy.

Friday, July 10

• Folk Festival Aims For A Younger Crowd
  Bands named as the newest headliners at the Philadelphia Folk Festival this coming August in Schwenksville aren’t your traditional folky types. There’s a reason.
• As Liquor Sales Rise, 6 Montco Groups Win Alcohol Grants
  The money will be used to fight under-age drinking. The awards were made on the same day that the state Liquor Control Board announced record annual sales figures.
• PMMC Schedules Free Prostate Screenings
  The hospital sets aside four days in September to detect prostate cancer in men.
• Area Students Named To College Dean’s List
  Dozens in the 19464 zip code, including Sanatoga and Lower Pottsgrove, made the grade.

Thursday, July 9

• Legal Notices Announce 35 Sheriff’s Sales
  Foreclosure proceedings continue against eight properties in Lower Pottsgrove, and dozens of others across Greater Pottstown. Things look worse ahead, a national tracking firm believes.
• Road Repair Not As Simple As It Seems
  A Lower Pottsgrove legal notice lists what the township needs from interested bidders to fix some highways. It’s 12 items long.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  Flour milling and ice cream making (yummy!). Bug exploring (yucky!) and guitar peddling (groovy!). Pie baking and poetry. Going batty (literally), and three different free musical concerts. Something for everyone.
• Diener Candidacy Challenge Postponed
  A hearing on whether the Lower Pottsgrove constable should remain in office was delayed until later this summer.

Wednesday, July 8

• Signed Law Helps Prevent THP-Like Problems
  A bill that takes effect in 60 days won’t help current problems with escrow money tied up in the purchase of TH Properties’ homes, but it may help future buyers avoid some heartache.
• Maybe You Never Win, But These Folks Did
  Play the Lottery? Feel like you’re wasting that dollar or two every week? Here’s a comforting thought: someone local – in Sanatoga, Pottstown, Limerick and elsewhere – actually is winning. Just not you.
• Big Win Not A Quick Financial Fix, Study Shows
  New research announced Tuesday indicates many people who won more than $10,000 in a lottery game couldn’t handle the money well. About 5 percent of those studied filed for bankruptcy within 5 years.
• Walk Among The Birds July 25
  It’s the start of the migration season at Black Rock Sanctuary. Take a walk and find that some birds there are taking wing.

Tuesday, July 7

• Details Are In That Pesky Paperwork
  Lower Pottsgrove commissioners officially recognize PennDOT paid for, and didn’t just take, rights to a property it will use while rebuilding the East High Street bridge.
• Notebook Worthy
  Local Girl Scouts go to work; Lower Pottsgrove’s Zoning Hearing Board will get a new face; and a landmark building unveils one too.
• Preventing Votes From The Afterlife
  Changes to Pennsylvania law hope to ensure the dead can no longer participate in public elections.
• MCCC Plans Veterans Benefits Seminar
  Changes to benefits provided under the GI Bill take effect next month. Learn how they may affect a college education.
• On Independence Day, An Unlikely Lifeguard
  He wore a uniform, blew a whistle, cared about dolphins, and never once got wet.

Monday, July 6

• Temporary PennDOT Easement On Agenda
  Lower Pottsgrove’s Board of Commissioners holds the first of its two monthly meetings tonight.
• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of top prices paid for homes in Lower Pottsgrove and surrounding municipalities.
• Celebrating The Fourth In Tweets
  As the rockets’ red glared, and flags fluttered in the breeze, Twitter users from across the Greater Pottstown area shared the excitement of Independence Day with family and friends.
• Pottsgrove’s Schurr Crowned Homecoming Queen
  High school grad Gabby Schurr raised the most money to benefit Pottstown’s Fourth of July activities, and was crowned the Independence Day homecoming queen Friday night.
• Keep Healthy This Week
  A review of free or low-cost local seminars, support groups, screenings, tests and clinics to help you stay healthy and fit, sponsored or conducted by community health care organizations.

Sunday, July 5

• The Post Week In Review
  For June 28-July 4, 2009.

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