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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, April 24

• Keep Healthy Next 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.
• VIST Financial Sells Stock, Raises Capital
  The company, which operates an insurance office in Sanatoga, is bringing in an additional $5.2 million in funding.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Commuter Website Praises 2 Local Employers
    Firms in Collegeville and Valley Forge are held up as shining examples of how to encourage workers to use alternative transportation.
  • Montco Growers Part Of PA Preferred Program
    Fresh food producers in Royersford, Trappe and Collegeville are among those that would benefit by making a state agricultural program permanent.
  • King Of Prussia Firm Awards Cruise Prize
    Sundance Vacations’ latest top contest winner and his wife nominated each other in the Facebook promotion.
  • CHOP Wins Grant To Update Growth Charts
    The hospital, which operates a center in King Of Prussia, will revise charts of Down Syndrome children that haven’t been changed in decades.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Montco Growers Part Of PA Preferred Program
    Fresh food producers in Pottsown and Gilbertsville are among those that would benefit by making a state agricultural program permanent.
  • National Penn Reports Improved 1st Quarter
    The Boyertown bank holding company’s fundamentals got better in the just-ended three-month period.

Friday, April 23

• Pepper Spray Accident Empties Pottsgrove Cafeteria
  An accidental release of the spray meant to render criminals defenseless cuts short the last lunch period of the Pottsgrove High School day.
• Religious Cluster Wins Zoning OK For Building Use
  April is a happy month for the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities. It won borough approval Wednesday for its use of a building purchased as its new headquarters, and it received a grant to help pay for operations.
• Notebook Worthy
  Is it anticipation, or anxiety, that drives all the questions about the arrival of Verizon services in Lower Pottsgrove? Also, fair trade coffee arrives at the community college; and a Limerick church celebrates an arrival in 1905. No, that’s not a misprint.
• Firm Testing Online Services With Rite Aid
  A Boston-based company plans to introduce live web consultations with Rite Aid pharmacists. The chain operates two stores in Lower Pottsgrove, and several others in Pottstown and surrounding municipalities.

Thursday, April 22

• Local Liquor Stores Would Go Private In Latest Proposal
  It’s been discussed before: the idea of selling off  state Wine and Spirits Shoppes, including those in Lower Pottsgrove and Pottstown, to raise needed revenue. But with this year’s huge state budget gap, it might be more than talk.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  A play at St. Pius High in Lower Pottsgrove. An adult dance in Sanatoga, and one in Birdsboro too. A jazz dance performance at Ursinus College. Wellness and fitness events in Pottstown, New Hanover, and North Coventry. Sheep-shearing in Worcester. How will you fit it all in?
• Student-Written Plays To Debut At Lower Pottsgrove
  Pottsgrove High School’s Ashleigh Kleinschmidt has big plans for a career in either the theater or interior design. Big may be understatement: she’s now a playwright and director, so the theater gig has already launched.

Wednesday, April 21

• Local Groups Observe Two Earth Days This Week
  Across the Pottsgrove School District, in Pottstown, and in nearby communities, activities to mark the event’s 40th anniversary are scheduled today and Thursday.
• Pruss Hill Road Guard Rail Now Repaired
  It’s taken a couple of months – long enough for the snow to dissipate and for work crews to finish other chores – but a replacement guard rail has now been installed on a dangerous curve along one of Lower Pottsgrove’s prettier roads.
• Planners Hear More About Proposed Pizza Restaurant
  The prospective owners of Bella Italia, next to Rite Aid on East High Street in Sanatoga village, are still awaiting review of traffic plans and a negotiated agreement to use an alley on the property’s west side.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Royersford Writer Has 10 Tips For Better Meetings
    Proven leaders are among those who know the value of a short agenda, and stick to it.
  • Pay Buck For Bulb In Royersford, Then Get It Back
    Buy an energy-saving light bulb for nothing, zilch, zip, nada. But, shhhh!, you’ve got to know the secret.
  • In Phoenixville, A Yoga Session For Joint Health
    Be introduced to yin yoga, a specialty exercise, at Gateway Bodyworks.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Putting A Positive Perspective On Pottstown
    Whatever is going right in the borough (and there are plenty of such things, Sue Repko promises), you can expect to find more about it in a new blog.

Tuesday, April 20

• Talks Delay Take Down Of Sanatoga Mound
  The lack of an easement agreement reportedly is the reason the mound of earthen fill on East High Street near the Sanatoga interchange of U.S. Route 422 hasn’t yet been leveled.
• New Tenant Possible In North Charlotte Plaza
  Planet Fitness on North Charlotte Street could get a companion tenant in the shopping plaza it occupies by year’s end. Its developer hopes to wrap up the project then, too.
• Ringing Rocks Plan Approval Held Until May
  Paperwork is holding up preliminary land development approval for the expansion of Ringing Rocks Elementary School, according to the Pottsgrove School District’s engineer.
• Chamber Says Noon Networking’s A Winner
  Every thing old can be new again, particularly when business owners are trying to make new contacts.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • New Swim Club Splashes Way Into Limerick
    An affiliation between a Massachusetts swimming club and a Limerick group apparently will produce a new aquatic program for youngsters.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Putting A Positive Perspective On Pottstown
    Whatever is going right in the borough (and there are plenty of such things, Sue Repko promises), you can expect to find more about it in a new blog.
  • Boyertown Emerges From Hibernation With Celebration
    With video. The annual arrival of spring, officially marked Saturday by Building A Better Boyertown, brought food, fun, and dancing bears out to downtown.
  • Pottstown’s Weather Could Confuse Any Bird
    What happens when the temperature during a spring bird walk just outside the borough isn’t very spring-like? Magic!
  • Stuff That’ll Keep Boyertown Bodies Busy
    There’s no shortage of things to enjoy during coming weeks in Boyertown, as the Main Street Manager’s newsletter demonstrated Monday.
  • This Could Be A Honey Of A Good Time
    Pennsylvania’s only meadery, with Boyertown roots to boot, shows off its wares Tuesday on the Main Line.

Monday, April 19

• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of top prices paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and surrounding municipalities.
• Bark Bash Brings In Thousands For Cancer Research
  With video. The annual Pottstown Area Bark for Life, relocated to Limerick because of a need for added space, attracts more pets, more humans, and even more funds for its cancer-fighting cause.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports For April 19-25, 2010
  Who they’ll play, when, and where this week.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • What They Sold For … In Limerick
    A weekly review of top prices paid for real estate in Limerick and Royersford PA and surrounding municipalities.
  • Calamity En Route To Collegeville To Meet A Chef
    After a journey as dangerous as eating fried chicken without a napkin, a backwoods Pennsylvania girl arrives at Wegman’s to meet her cooking heroine.
  • Phoenixville Blob Fest Gets Another Good Travel Review
    The Travel O’Destination website recommends Pennsylvania visitors take in the event that makes The Colonial Theater a popular attraction.
  • 24 Hours In Limerick For April 14, 2010
    An overview of Limerick- and Royersford-related news now appearing on other websites.
  • The Week In Review In Limerick
    For April 11-17, 2010.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • What They Sold For … In Pottstown
    A weekly review of top prices paid for real estate in Pottstown and surrounding municipalities.
  • Pottstown Dental Program Offers Children’s Sealants
    Upcoming appointments at Communty Health and Dental Care are being co-sponsored by MCCC and the Pottstown Health and Wellness Foundation.
  • Pull Up A Colorful Chair
    You never know where a splash of color can brighten your day. Maybe even a restaurant in Pottstown …
  • Score Two For Zach In Hill Lacrosse
    An Orwigsbrug mother is proud as punch. Her Hill School son? Hopefully, just as proud (and not embarrassed by Mom’s publicity).
  • The Week In Review In Pottstown
    For April 11-17, 2010.

Sunday, April 18

• The Post Week In Review
  For April 11-17, 2010.

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