SANATOGA PA – Recent jotting’s from a reporter’s notebook:

Filling The Cinematic Void

New kid on the block.

Ever since last October, when Hollywood Video closed up shop in Sanatoga Village Plaza, Lower Pottsgrove residents have had a diminishing number of places to visit from which they could rent movies on DVD. The list grew by one on Monday (March 15, 2010), however, when a new Blockbuster Express DVD rental kiosk was installed in the entrance lobby of Sanatoga Thriftway, 2190 E. High St., Pottstown PA.

The cost, $1 per movie per night.

The township’s other supermarket movie alternative, by the way, is a Redbox kiosk at Redner’s Warehouse Market, in the North End Shopping Center, 1300 N. Charlotte St., Pottstown. Also $1 per flick per night.

Lost In The Crabgrass

With all the “big picture” issues in the world that most Americans worry about – the recession, the availability of health care, and whether nagging plot twists in the television drama “Lost” will be untangled by its last episode – we tend to lose sight of little things.

Things like crabgrass.

Fortunately, the Montgomery County Cooperative Extension office has our backs. The Collegeville PA-based agency distributed an e-mail Wednesday (March 17, 2010), which helpfully reminded property-owning recipients that crabgrass is poised to invade their otherwise lush and green lawns.

“Remember all that crabgrass in your lawn last summer?,” the e-mail asks. “You can prevent it this year, but you need to act soon.  Crabgrass begins to germinate when the temperature in the upper inch of soil reaches 55 to 58°F at daybreak for 4 to 5 days. Normally, pre-emergence crabgrass treatment in Southeastern Pennsylvania should take place between March 15 and April 15.”

The e-mail also included a fact sheet titled “Control of Summer Annual Grass Weeds in Turfgrasses.”

So a tip of the hat to the Cooperative Extension folks, for sending an electronic communication that actually informs rather than sells. Now, if they could only suggest ways we can schedule lawn work between those remaining broadcasts of “Lost” …

What Were They Thinking?

In annual observance yesterday of St. Patrick’s Day – a day of peace, of hope, of all things green, and of wishes for Irish good luck – Da Vinci’s Pub, 217 E. Main St., Collegeville PA, offered a special $5 liquid refreshment it called an “Irish Car Bomb.”

The Census Is Here. You Count

Across Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick, Pottstown and elsewhere in the state and nation, postal carriers on Tuesday (March 16, 2010) delivered United States’ 2010 Census forms to residents.

To ensure municipalities receive their fair shares of federal and state money for popular programs, many of which are funded proportionate to the number of people living there, it’s important to ensure the Census accurately reflects the size of local populations.

So to put something back in your pocket later, be counted. Put your response to the Census into the mail today.

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