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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below.

The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county Department of Public Safety. Feed content has been edited by The Post for relevance to readers in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick PA townships, the borough of Pottstown, and surrounding municipalities. It consequently is incomplete and is not intended to be comprehensive.

In most cases, the entries can be read as:

1. Type of service (EMS = emergency medical services, Traffic = police, Fire = firefighters);
2. Type of incident (vehicle accident, etc.)
3. Location of incident (usually by closest intersection or landmark, and the name of the municipality)
4. Date and time of the incident (YYYY-MM-DD) @ (“at”) (HH:MM:SS) in military time format.

Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Main St & Park Ave; Schwenksville; 2009-12-13 @ 23:14:22;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Canal St & Port Providence Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 22:44:00;

EMS: Medical Alert Alarm
Singer Way & E 8th St; Red Hill; 2009-12-13 @ 22:40:56;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Kepler Rd & Sunnyside Ave; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 22:18:01;

Fire: Hazardous Materials Incident
Industrial Dr & Holly Rd; Douglass; 2009-12-13 @ 21:25:26;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
Moyer Rd & Jays Ln; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 20:53:12;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Church St & N 5th Ave; Royersford; 2009-12-13 @ 18:47:21;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Egypt Rd & Anderson Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 18:02:10;

EMS: Assault Victim
Main St & Harvard Dr; Trappe; 2009-12-13 @ 17:05:46;

EMS: Unknown Medical Emergency
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 17:05:10;

EMS: Head Injury
Park Ave & Larkin Ln; Collegeville; 2009-12-13 @ 17:04:34;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Swan Ct & Lakeside Dr; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 16:09:02;

EMS: Overdose
Walnut St & N Charlotte St; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 15:24:28;

EMS: Fever
Main St & Rr Crossing; Royersford; 2009-12-13 @ 14:40:04;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 & S Trappe Rd Underpass; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 13:14:40;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Rescue
Willowbrooke Ln & Yeager Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 13:14:37;

Fire: Fire Alarm
Jordan Dr; Douglass; 2009-12-13 @ 13:12:38;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Unknown Injuries
Rt422 & S Collegeville Rd Underpass; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 11:48:15;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Sanatoga Rd & Swamp Pike; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 11:38:07;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Pottstown Ave; Pennsburg; 2009-12-13 @ 11:30:04;

EMS: Head Injury
Aubrey Ln & Jacobs Dr; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 11:21:23;

Fire: Building Fire
3rd St & Jefferson St; East Greenville; 2009-12-13 @ 11:05:08;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Fagleysville Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-13 @ 10:12:00;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle Blocking
Hoffmansville Rd & Layfield Rd; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 11:00:03;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Hoffmansville Rd & Church Rd; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 10:47:35;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Fire Police
Fagleysville Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-13 @ 10:19:20;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Fagleysville Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-13 @ 10:12:00;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Game Farm Rd & Main St; Schwenksville; 2009-12-13 @ 10:00:46;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Hoffmansville Rd & Church Rd; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 09:59:38;

EMS: Head Injury
Brooke Dr & Buckwalter Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 09:46:21;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Keim St & Timber Ln; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:48:26;

EMS: Unresponsive Subject
Evergreen Rd & W Lightcap Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:34:16;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Glasgow St; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 09:33:47;

EMS: Fall Victim
Adams Dr & Village Way; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 09:30:33;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Gilbertsville Rd & Cherrytree Ln; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:27:57;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Sanatoga Rd & Swamp Pike; New Hanover; 2009-12-13 @ 09:25:30;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Fire Police
Glasgow St & Manatawny St; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 09:19:58;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Buchert Rd & Gresh Dr; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:14:50;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Swamp Pike & Fruitville Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 09:13:52;

EMS: Fall Victim
Grandview Rd & Beech St; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 09:11:51;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Kepler Rd & Sunnyside Ave; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:11:19;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Kepler Rd & Buchert Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:11:04;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 EB; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 09:09:06;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 & S Lewis Rd Underpass; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 09:08:41;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Hopwood Rd & S Collegeville Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-13 @ 09:05:05;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
Rt422 EB & N Lewis Rd Underpass; Limerick; 2009-12-13 @ 09:04:46;

Fire: Fire Police Needed
Rt100 NB; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 09:01:07;

Fire: Fire Police Needed
Rt422 Byp WB; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 09:00:04;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Anders Rd & Oak Grove Ct; Skippack; 2009-12-13 @ 08:57:25;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Hoffmansville Rd & Sassamansville Rd; Douglass; 2009-12-13 @ 08:53:10;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Skippack Pike; Skippack; 2009-12-13 @ 08:51:26;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 Byp & S Pleasantview Rd Overpass; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-13 @ 08:48:01;

EMS: Assault Victim
Philadelphia Ave & Park Ln; Douglass; 2009-12-13 @ 02:12:50;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
High St & N Charlotte St; Pottstown; 2009-12-13 @ 00:47:41.

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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Dec. 13

• Keep Healthy Next 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.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 11, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Friday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.
• Holiday Greetings From Our Troops
  From far-away places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Alaska, to loved ones in Pottstown, Collegeville, Phoenixville and Boyertown, members of the U.S. Armed Forces sent their holiday best wishes by video.
• Car Goes Into Creek, Woman Trapped
  An automobile accident Friday at mid-morning on North Charlotte Street in Lower Pottsgrove Township left a woman trapped in her car for nearly an hour, according to WPVI-TV. (The Post is linking to, but did not write, this story).
• Costco Approved Without Traffic Improvements
  The first portion of the Gateway At Sanatoga project, including a Costco warehouse store, gas station, restaurants and bank was approved Thursday by the Limerick (PA) Board of Supervisors. It did not include improvements to Evergreen Road, WhatsThe422.com reports. (The Post is linking to, but did not write, this story).
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • 24 Hours In Limerick For Dec. 12, 2009
  • P.F. Chang’s Restaurant Opens
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • 24 Hours In Pottstown For Dec. 12, 2009
  • SCORE Workshops Planned For January
  • Neighborhood Schools Committee Meets

Friday, Dec. 11

• Radio Station WPAZ-AM Goes Off Air
  The tiny station, which broadcast hundreds of Pottsgrove sports contests in its 57-year history, shut down for financial reasons.
• Township Pays More For Contract Help
  Lower Pottsgrove’s relationship with a group of municipalities has helped it hire some big legal guns in negotiating a new revenue-producing agreement with Comcast.
• Alternative Energy Regulation On Its Way?
  With a greater interest in all things green, Lower Pottsgrove is kicking around the idea of extending more control over devices like solar panels and windmills.

Thursday, Dec. 10

• Revive Finds Phoenixville Partner For Dances
  The Lower Pottsgrove teens-only dance club is branching out, again, this time only a dozen or so miles to the east.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  It may easily be considered the busiest weekend of the year. There are concerts, festivals, house tours, open houses, Santa visits, luminary walks and holiday memorial services across Pottstown, Sanatoga and Limerick. If you go out, you won’t be bored.
• Snowfall Set The Scene During Wentz Tour
  An surprising earl winter snowfall helped make thinks white, bright and festive Saturday for the annual Candlelight Tour at Peter Wentz Farmstead, the Montgomery County (PA) historic site in Worcester.
• Santa Spent Suppertime In Sanatoga
  The Big Guy in red gets hungry too, maybe hungrier than usual at this time of year. So he stopped into Sanatoga on Saturady to visit with fire company friends and share a meal.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 9, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Wednesday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.

Wednesday, Dec. 9

• Building Codes Adoption (Again) Set Dec. 17
  It happens every three years. Lower Pottsgrove sets new minimum standards for how buildings can (or can’t) be built within the township’s borders.
• Keeping What’s Natural In Talks For Park
  Public input so far on the future of Snell and Norton Park, in Lower Pottsgrove’s Woodgate neighborhood, seems to favor letting nature takes its course … with a little help.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 8, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Tuesday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • 24 Hours In Limerick For Dec. 9, 2009
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • 24 Hours In Pottstown For Dec. 9, 2009
  • Pet Photos With Santa Offered Saturday

Tuesday, Dec. 8

• Sunnybrook Displays Vision Of A New Sign
  Prototype signs to replace an aging billboard that promotes events at Sanatoga’s Sunnybrook Ballroom were introduced Monday to Lower Pottsgrove commissioners. Money to pay for the sign hasn’t yet come through.
• Mo Never Had A Chance At 40 Grand
  A worker in Lower Pottsgrove figured she had at least as good a shot as anyone at winning a $40,000 prize. Neither she, nor a federal defense agency, expected to be blown away by researchers from Boston.
• Bingo Players Vie For Banquet Baskets
  The Pottsgrove Falcon Football Club attracted a good-sized crowd Sunday to help raise money for its upcoming sports banquet.
• Chestnut, Polamalu To Shift Focus
  With Pottsgrove High School’s outstanding football season now ended, two of its top players look ahead at preparing for college … and college team recruiters, according to the Nittany Network website. (The Post is linking to, but did not write, this story).
• VNA Service Features Remembrance Tree
  The Sanatoga-based Visiting Nurse Association plans a holiday memorial service, open to the public, to honor loved ones.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec. 7, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Monday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • 24 Hours In Limerick For Dec. 8, 2009
  • Luminaria Service Sunday In Limerick
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • 24 Hours In Pottstown For Dec. 8, 2009
  • Studio B Gallery Features Member Works
  • Senior Actors Perform Downtown Saturday

Monday, Dec. 7

• Lowered Flags Honor Pearl Harbor Sacrifices
  The governor ordered flags lowered at half-staff today to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day.
• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of top prices paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and surrounding municipalities.
• Preparing For A Shopping Mob … At School
  It’s getting closer and closer to the Big Holiday, and even the littlest shoppers know it’s time to buy and wrap gifts.
• Sirens Tested Today For LGS Safety
  The nearby Limerick Generating Station is scheduled to conduct its monthly test of emergency alert sirens this afternoon.
• Pottsgrove Falcon Sports For Dec. 7-13, 2009
  Who they’ll play, where, and when.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec, 6, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Sunday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.
• Emergency Dispatches For Dec, 5, 2009
  Local and area emergencies that occurred Saturday, to which Montgomery County (PA) dispatchers sent first-responder teams.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • What They Sold For … In Limerick
  • 24 Hours In Limerick For Dec. 7, 2009
  • Up The Tracks, Past The Towers
  • Thanksgiving Day March On Philly
  • Rams’ Thanksgiving Marchers At Street Level
  • The Week In Review In Limerick
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • What They Sold For … In Pottstown
  • Hoping To Break A Blood Drive Record
  • 24 Hours In Pottstown For Dec. 7, 2009

Sunday, Dec. 6

• The Post Week In Review
  For Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 2009

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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below.

The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county Department of Public Safety. Feed content has been edited by The Post for relevance to readers in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick PA townships, the borough of Pottstown, and surrounding municipalities. It consequently is incomplete and is not intended to be comprehensive.

In most cases, the entries can be read as:

1. Type of service (EMS = emergency medical services, Traffic = police, Fire = firefighters);
2. Type of incident (vehicle accident, etc.)
3. Location of incident (usually by closest intersection or landmark, and the name of the municipality)
4. Date and time of the incident (YYYY-MM-DD) @ (“at”) (HH:MM:SS) in military time format.

Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
Rt100 Nb & Farmington Ave Overpass; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 23:54:11;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Rt100 Nb; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 23:50:58;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Manatawny St & State St; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 21:55:46;

EMS: Fracture
Philadelphia Ave & Bartman Ave; Douglass; 2009-12-12 @ 21:51:26;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
King St & Penn St; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 20:52:41;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Unknown Injuries
Yeager Rd & Black Rock Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 20:40:04;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Montgomery Ave & E 6th St; Douglass; 2009-12-12 @ 20:13:02;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Rt422 & Troutman Rd Underpass; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 20:08:41;

EMS: Diabetic Emergency
1st Ave & E High St; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 20:00:22;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Township Line Rd & 10th Ave; Limerick; 2009-12-12 @ 19:41:16;

EMS: Hemorrhaging
Evans St & Union Aly; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 19:08:34;

EMS: Fall Victim
Pineford Rd & Rt100 Overpass; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 18:56:46;

EMS: Back Pains/Injury
Skippack Pike & Cressman Rd; Skippack; 2009-12-12 @ 18:23:00;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Sorrel Ct ; Skippack; 2009-12-12 @ 18:07:40;

EMS: CVA/Stroke
Main St & 9th St; Red Hill; 2009-12-12 @ 17:39:25;

Fire: Fire Alarm
Big Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-12 @ 16:53:11;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
High St & Green St; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 16:38:09;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
From Montco Dispatcher
Colonial Dr & Valley Rd; East Greenville; 2009-12-12 @ 14:50:38;

Fire: Vehicle Accident
Upper Ridge Rd; Green Lane; 2009-12-12 @ 13:21:02;

Traffic: Hazardous Road Conditions
Vine St & W Vine St; West Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 13:05:48;

EMS: Dizziness
Main St & 2nd Ave; Royersford; 2009-12-12 @ 12:58:00;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Main St & E 5th Ave; Collegeville; 2009-12-12 @ 11:54:19;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
2nd St & Perkiomen Ave; Schwenksville; 2009-12-12 @ 11:47:41;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
W Ridge Pike & Swamp Pike; Limerick; 2009-12-12 @ 10:53:05;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
W Ridge Pike; Limerick; 2009-12-12 @ 10:52:17;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
Farmington Ave & Stone Hill Dr; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 10:00:48;

EMS: Unresponsive Subject
High St & N Washington St; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 08:08:01;

Fire: Building Fire
Reginald Ln & Ironbridge Dr; Skippack; 2009-12-12 @ 08:05:03;

EMS: Unconscious Subject
Perkiomen Ave & 3rd St; Schwenksville; 2009-12-12 @ 07:13:41;

Fire: S/B At Helicopter Landing
Main St & 2nd Ave; Royersford; 2009-12-12 @ 04:08:18;

EMS: S/B At Helicopter Landing
Main St & 2nd Ave; Royersford; 2009-12-12 @ 03:54:42;

EMS: Subject In Pain
Macoby St & E 5th St; Pennsburg; 2009-12-12 @ 03:38:40;

EMS: Seizures
Main St & Glenwood Ave; Collegeville; 2009-12-12 @ 03:20:35;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Evergreen Rd & W Lightcap Rd; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 02:55:29;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
2nd Ave & Hafner Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 03:09:46;

EMS: Fall Victim
Grosstown Rd & W Race St; West Pottsgrove; 2009-12-12 @ 01:18:46;

Fire: Fire Alarm
Oaks School Dr & Green Tree Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 01:05:22;

Fire: S/B At Helicopter Landing
Hanover Rd & Copley Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 00:57:57;

EMS: Fever
King St & N York St; Pottstown; 2009-12-12 @ 00:57:38;

EMS: CVA/Stroke
Hanover Rd & Copley Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-12 @ 00:29:48;

EMS: Overdose
Main Campus Dr; Collegeville; 2009-12-12 @ 00:17:54.

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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County (PA) emergency dispatchers directed police units, firefighters and emergency medical responders within the past 24 hours to a variety of incidents. A selective list of their activity appears below.

The entries are taken from publicly available feeds supplied by the county Department of Public Safety. Feed content has been edited by The Post for relevance to readers in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick PA townships, the borough of Pottstown, and surrounding municipalities. It consequently is incomplete and is not intended to be comprehensive.

In most cases, the entries can be read as:

1. Type of service (EMS = emergency medical services, Traffic = police, Fire = firefighters);
2. Type of incident (vehicle accident, etc.)
3. Location of incident (usually by closest intersection or landmark, and the name of the municipality)
4. Date and time of the incident (YYYY-MM-DD) @ (“at”) (HH:MM:SS) in military time format.

Friday, Dec. 11, 2009

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Stand-By
Kugler Rd & Limerick Center Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-11 @ 23:11:28;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Kugler Rd & Limerick Center Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-11 @ 23:11:22;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Snyder Rd & Mimosa Ln; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-11 @ 23:00:00;

EMS: Seizures
Scholl Rd & W Schuylkill Rd; Chester County; 2009-12-11 @ 22:40:05;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
S 6th Ave & Arch St; Royersford; 2009-12-11 @ 20:36:11;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle Blocking
Hollow Rd & Jasper Ln; Upper Providence; 2009-12-11 @ 19:03:29;

EMS: Seizures
W Cedarville Rd; Chester County; 2009-12-11 @ 18:12:12;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Unknown Injuries
Rt100 Sb & Shoemaker Rd; Pottstown; 2009-12-11 @ 18:03:01;

EMS: CVA/Stroke
Mervine St & Juniper St; Upper Pottsgrove; 2009-12-11 @ 17:38:12;

Traffic: Disabled Vehicle
Rt422 Byp Wb & Ramp S Grosstown To Rt422 WB; West Pottsgrove; 2009-12-11 @ 16:56:59;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
High St & Old Reading Pike; West Pottsgrove; 2009-12-11 @ 16:03:18;

EMS: Altered Mental Status
Black Rock Rd & S Trappe Rd; Upper Providence; 2009-12-11 @ 14:42:45;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
Robinson St & Shoemaker Rd; Pottstown; 2009-12-11 @ 14:41:15;

EMS: Subject In Pain
Temple Rd & Catfish Ln; Chester County; 2009-12-11 @ 13:33:11;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Rt422 Byp & Ramp Rt422 EB To Rt724; Chester County; 2009-12-11 @ 12:35:10;

EMS: CVA/Stroke
Big Rd & Colonial Rd; Upper Frederick; 2009-12-11 @ 12:34:24;

EMS: Vehicle Accident
Buckwalter Rd; Limerick; 2009-12-11 @ 12:19:41;

EMS: Syncopal Episode
Sacco Rd & Main St; Limerick; 2009-12-11 @ 11:22:45;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Rescue
Charlotte St & Glendale Ave; Lower Pottsgrove; 2009-12-11 @ 10:39:01;

EMS: Diabetic Emergency
Washington St; Pottstown; 2009-12-11 @ 09:56:24;

EMS: Subject In Pain
Jefferson Ave & Grant St; Pottstown; 2009-12-11 @ 08:32:21;

EMS: Cardiac Emergency
7th St & E 7th St; Pennsburg; 2009-12-11 @ 08:18:59;

EMS: Abdominal Pains
Spruce St & Lee Ave; Pottstown; 2009-12-11 @ 07:36:23;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident
Clahor Ave & Locust St; Collegeville; 2009-12-11 @ 01:05:29;

EMS: Respiratory Emergency
Birch Ln & Carver Ln; Limerick; 2009-12-11 @ 00:32:41;

Traffic: Vehicle Accident Injuries
W Schuylkill Rd & Catfish Ln; Chester County; 2009-12-11 @ 00:07:24;

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SANATOGA PA – Health care news for western Montgomery County residents (and anyone else!), for Dec. 13-19, 2009.

• These events have been added to The Post calendar.

Grief support is available this week at the Pottstown YMCA. See below.

Tuesday, Dec. 15

The weekly meeting of the Domestic Violence Support Group sponsored by Pottstown Memorial Medical Center is held every Tuesday evening. For more information on times and locations, call 610-970-7363.

Students of Daniel Boone High School say they will try to break a record in conducting the largest-ever blood drive in the history of the Allentown PA-base Miller-Keystone Blood Center. The blood drive will be held from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the old gymnasium of the high school, Chestnut Street, Birdsboro PA. No appointments will be necessary; walk-ins are welcome. For more information, call 610-385-6671.

Wednesday, Dec. 16

A Grief Support Group meeting conducted by the Pottstown YMCA will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Freedom Valley YMCA branch at Adams and Jackson streets, Pottstown PA. Those in need of grief support and counseling are welcome to attend. Group meetings are scheduled on the first and third Wednesdays of every month. For more information, call 610-32-7300.

A free meeting of the Post-Partum Adjustment Group is scheduled to be held from 6:30-8 p.m. in Suite 300 of Medical Office Building II at Phoenixville Hospital, 140 Nutt Rd., Phoenixville PA. Registration is required. For more information or to register, call 610-983-1288.

Thursday, Dec. 17

A Caregiver’s Support Group will be held tonight and on the third Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. at Chestnut Knoll Assisted Living Facility, 120 W. 5th St., Boyertown PA. The group is specifically designed for givers of care to Alzheimer’s or dementia patients. It provides information and education, and also serves as a forum for learning from others. For more information, call 610-473-8066.

Friday, Dec. 18

Free dental screenings will be offered weekly on Friday mornings in the Boyertown Multi-Service Center, Spring Street, Boyertown PA. Patients interested in this service must call Community Health and Dental Care at 610-326-7405, and not the Multi-Service Center, to schedule an appointment. Patients will be informed of the dentist’s findings following the screening.

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Editor’s note: The Posts are pleased to present these video holiday greetings from U.S. Armed Forces servicemen, women, and their families to their loved ones and friends within our Sanatoga, Limerick and Pottstown coverage areas. These videos are provided by the Joint Hometown News Service, which notes they represent only a fraction of the thousands of Americans who will not be home for the holidays because they are defending the nation in isolated regions of the world.

Happy Holidays To Pottstown PA

U.S. Army Capt. Jeremy J. Benvenuti, stationed in southern Afghanistan, offers holiday greetings to his wife and son in Pottstown PA in this 00m:22s video.

Happy Holidays To Collegeville PA

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Charles Ramsey, stationed in Iraq, offers holiday greetings to his sister in Collegeville PA in this 00m:18s video.

Happy Holidays To Phoenixville PA

The wife of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Richard C. Lampl, stationed in Alaska, offers holiday greetings to their families and parents in Phoenixville PA in this 00m:24s video.

Happy Holidays To Boyertown PA

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael S. Strunk, stationed in Alaska, offers holiday greetings to his family and grandmother in Boyertown PA in this 00m:19s video.

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Outside WPAZ's Broadcast Lodge on Maugers Mill Road in Pottstown.

POTTSTOWN PA – After broadcasting hundreds of Pottsgrove High School sports games over a series of years, including those of the Falcons football team’s just-ended 2009 championship season, Pottstown radio station WPAZ-AM abruptly signed off the air Thursday morning (Dec. 10, 2009), apparently for good under its current ownership.

Great Scott Broadcasting, which started WPAZ in 1952 as the first in its chain of several radio station properties, closed it down for financial reasons. Responding to media inquiries, company President Mitchell Scott said his company would focus its efforts on more profitable stations it owns in a 100-mile area that covers portions of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.

Great Scott also owns contemporary rock music stations WZEB-FM in Ocean View DE and WZBH in Georgetown DE; country station WKHI-FM in Fruitland MD; hip-hop and rhythm and blues station WOCQ-FM in Berlin MD; and classic rock station WGBG-FM in Seaford DE. WPAZ was its only remaining signal on the AM dial.

WPAZ’s studio is located in what the company’s founders, Herb and Faye Scott, affectionately referred to as “Broadcast Lodge,” at 224 Maugers Mill Rd., Pottstown PA. In addition to local programming and sports, WPAZ played “rock-and-roll oldies” music on AM frequency 1370.

In a 2004 interview re-published on Great Scott’s website, Mitchell Scott said the company had previously sold other stations it owned in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey so it could target “the Delmarva area, seeing it as a fast-growing market with lots of potential for growth.”

Scott was said to be looking for a buyer for WPAZ.

Under rules of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates radio and other broadcast licenses, WPAZ can remain off-air for a period of up to 10 days (until Sunday, Dec. 20) before being required to file a request to the agency for what is known as a “special temporary authority” to remain silent. The reason for the silence must be “beyond the control of the licensee,” according to the FCC.

The FCC’s lists of silent AM and FM radio stations, updated as of Dec. 1 (2009), includes dozens of call signs. Six are in Pennsylvania.

Photos from WFMZ-TV

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SANATOGA PA – Figuring that good legal representation is worth paying a bit more for, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s Board of Commissioners agreed this week to spend an additional $1,014 for help in negotiating a new franchise agreement with cable television giant Comcast Corp.

Looking to connect to a better deal.

The broadcasting-and-entertainment company’s 10-year deal with the township, under which it pays fees for the sale of cable television services to property owners, comes up for renewal in 2010. During 2008 alone, Lower Pottsgrove was budgeted to earn more than $160,000 in cable television revenues.

Commissioners back in May (2009) expressed their interest in becoming part of a group of municipalities, some of which have Comcast contracts coming due, for outside legal and bargaining advice to get best-possible agreements. They followed it up in June by joining the 40-member Montgomery County (PA) Consortium of Communities for only $250 in annual dues.

For cable negotiations, consortium members are being represented by the Cohen Law Group of Pittsburgh, a firm that specializes in telecommunications law.

Since June, according to township Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Lower Pottsgrove has paid slightly more than $2,000 as its share of legal costs borne by 12 municipalities working with Cohen. The additional expense, unanimously approved by the board during its meeting Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, brings its total outlay so far to $3,059.

“That’s cheap,” commissioners’ Vice President Jonathan Spadt, himself a lawyer, said of the expense. “Well worth the price,” Hawthorne agreed.

Commissioners Bruce Foltz and Stephen Klotz were absent from Monday’s meeting and did not vote.

Lower Pottsgrove also is working with the consortium to lobby for changes in proposed Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regulations that could significantly increase the township’s costs of storm water management.

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Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 7 meeting):

• Alternative Energy Regulation On Its Way?
• Building Codes Adoption (Again) Set. Dec. 17
• Keeping What’s Natural In Talks For Park
• Sunnybrook Displays Vision Of A New Sign

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SANATOGA PA – To ensure the words “green” and “safe” get used in the same sentence, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s Board of Commissioners hinted this week it may consider a law to govern the installation and use of alternative energy devices like solar panels and windmills.

Solar panels installed on the roof of a house.

Commissioners’ Vice President Jonathan Spadt briefly referred to the board’s interest in “alternative energy regulations” during a discussion prompted by former commissioner Thomas Troutman at its Monday (Dec. 7, 2009) meeting in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.

Troutman, who asked about current regulation of solar panels – equipment used to gather sunlight for conversion to electrical power – learned from township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway that such installations are now subject to size, setback and zoning requirements under township law, as well as applicable building codes.

That’s when Spadt made it known further regulation might be proposed at some point in the future. No time frame was mentioned; it was, he indicated, a very preliminary idea.

For the township, however, so-called green or sustainable building construction is an increasingly hot topic.

• Incentives to create sustainable architecture are being proposed as part of the combined Lower Pottsgrove-Limerick effort to control development surrounding the Sanatoga Interchange at U.S. Route 422.
• Just down Buchert Road, west of the municipal building, Sanatoga developer J. Wilmer “Wil” Hallman recently said he planned to build apartments with energy efficiency certified by a national organization.
• In September 2008, the Stowe PA-based Alliance for a Clean Environment (ACE) floated the notion of converting the former Occidental Chemical manufacturing facility on Armand Hammer Boulevard in the township into a solar power park. That idea has gone nowhere … so far.

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Dec. 7 meeting):

• Building Codes Adoption (Again) Set. Dec. 17
• Keeping What’s Natural In Talks For Park
• Sunnybrook Displays Vision Of A New Sign

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The Bistro on Bridge restaurant, and Club 212 on the second floor, in downtown Phoenixville. Both are owned by Zack Hoffman.

POTTSTOWN PA – Club Revive, the teens-only nightclub that opened in December 2008 at Sanatoga’s Sunnybrook Ballroom, and then grew into new locations and a second career for its founders, has shortened its name and again lengthened its reach.

Now known simply as “Revive,” owners Sandra and Cary McGuckin announced this morning (Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009) via e-mail that their organization had partnered with Club 212 in Phoenixville PA to hold teens-only entertainment events there on Sundays when schools are closed on the following Mondays.

The first Sunday event for those between the ages of 14 and 19 is scheduled for Dec. 27 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight at Club 212, 212 Bridge St., Phoenixville PA.

The Phoenixville venture is the latest in a series that has broadened Revive’s dances from its Greater Pottstown base to Allentown, Sellersville and Boothwyn PA. The 4-to-6 hour events usually feature a disc jockey, programming fast-paced music in a variety of genres to a dance floor packed with between 300 and 500 youths. Admission prices range from $10-$15. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages also are sold.

Club 212, located in Phoenixville’s increasingly busy downtown, describes itself as an “upscale and unique nightclub experience, (with) top quality space, sound and lighting.” It occupies the second floor above a restaurant at the same address, called Bistro On Bridge. Both are owned by Zack Hoffman.

“Teens are an important part of our community, and are too often excluded or shunned from most places. There is really very little offered them in the way of entertainment, which leaves them to their own devices,” Hoffman said. By partnering with Revive for events, he added, “we can provide a fun and positive diversion.”

Marking the entrance to Club 212.

Due to Club 212′s usual adults-only atmosphere, the McGuckins say their agreement with Hoffman creates something different – beyond a typical school dance – yet secure for their teen audience.

“We create an atmosphere that the teens love. We give them a real nightclub experience with world class DJs, while simultaneously creating a safe environment that parents approve of,” Cary McGuckin said.  “Parents are invited to hang out, grab some food or a drink (in the restaurant) downstairs and socialize with other parents … while their kids are upstairs.”

Revive got its start on the day after Christmas 2008 in Sunnybrook Ballroom, the result of months of planning by Sandra McGuckin, a local real estate agent who wanted to find something fun but supervised for her own teens to do on a Friday night. The first event was such a hit that others were quickly slotted into Sunnybrook’s calendar.

But a fight that broke out after the first few dances, and which required police intervention, created a rift between the McGuckins and Sunnybrook. What was then consistently referred to as “Club Revive” was moved a half-mile away to Academy Hall on Industrial Highway in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, where its has operated since.

The McGuckins’ attempts to branch out have been most consistently successful in Sellersville. Another dance there, titled the “Christmas Holla-Daze Remix” is set for Dec. 18.

“Our whole underlying message is that you can have a good time without the use of drugs or alcohol,” Sandra McGuckin noted, “and we promote that through example.” Although Club 212 is primarily a venue for adults, all alcohol will be removed before the teen events. “I take care of these kids like they are my own” – the MuGuckins have four – “and their safety is my primary concern,” she said.

Photos from Club 212

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• Summer’s Been Busy For Club Revive
• Teen Dancers Walk As Relay Team
• Fusion Is Sunnybrook’s New Revive
• Allentown Newspaper Features Club
• Club Revive Hitting The Road, Too
• Club Revive Dance Cancelled, Or Just Moved?

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