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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Aug. 7

• 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.
• Area Residents Among Police Academy Grads
  Montgomery County Community College was the scene last week for graduation ceremonies of 45 cadets, six of whom call our area home.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • WoodMobile, Ag Lab On Exhibit At 4-H Fair
    The forestry and agricultural products industries offer educational displays to keep fair-goers in Collegeville entertained and informed.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Local Protest Urged Against Casino In Gettysburg
    A Pottstown historian thinks local residents have a stake in, and should speak up against, a developer’s plan to build a casino near the historic Civil War battlefield.
  • Dr. Drill Camp Coming Next Week To Pottstown
    The hot fitness craze returns to the Pottstown YMCA as a fund-raiser for its finance partners program.
• Also, In The Main Street Post
  • College Wins State Grant For Extended Program
    A Pennsylvania grant of $10,000 goes to Montgomery County Community College to give special education training to teaching para-professionals.

Friday, Aug. 6

• Is Lower Pottsgrove’s Loss The State Consumers’ Gain?
  The township budget has a hole due to revenues lost from home improvement contractor registration. The state Attorney General’s office took over those duties. AG Tom Corbett contends consumers are winners because of it.
• Spend Your Sunday Casually At Pottsgrove Manor
  The Montgomery County historical site, a 10-minute drive from Sanatoga village center, is open this and the next three Sundays with live demonstrations of how life was lived in the 18th Century.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • County Offers Cell Phone Tour On Perkiomen Trail
    Hear the history of the Perkiomen Trail, and soak up knowledge of the local environment too, by dialing in to a new cell phone tour being offered by Montgomery County from Rahns to Green Lane PA.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Scottish-Irish Festival Returning To Green Lane
    The 11th annual cultural event comes back to Montgomery County’s park in Green Lane PA during September, with bands, food, and a full schedule of events.
  • ATMs Deal At Cumberland Farms; Pottstown Stores Benefit
    The convenience store chain’s locations in Pottstown, Boyertown and New Berlinville all will receive Citizens Bank-branded automatic teller machines.

Thursday, Aug. 5

• Remember Snow? Town Seeks Money For Clearing It
  Lower Pottsgrove likely will qualify for federal reimbursement for work it did to remove February snowfall from local roads. Township commissioners this week designated their emergency management coordinator to bring back the cash.
• LGS Tests New Siren System, Beginning Next Week
  Exelon spent $3.8 million locally to upgrade 165 emergency warning sirens. They will be tested starting next week across portions of three counties, and should be operational by November.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  Musical concerts in Sanatoga and Pottstown, both in parks on Sunday. A boatload of free First Saturday family events in downtown Pottstown. Fiber arts workers plying their craft, also Saturday, in Phoenixville. And if you’ve got time Friday night, get your chess moves down pat.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Sundaes And Silliness Last Night In Limerick
    Pack a fun musical band, containers of ice cream and dozens of youngsters Wednesday into the Limerick Township Board of Supervisors chambers and what do you get? Controlled mayhem, and lots of laughter.
  • On Blogger’s List, 2 Limerick Area Places You Can’t Visit
    They’re attractive because they are different, forbidden and illegal. You shouldn’t go to either. But blogs like Hack Nation, which published an article last week, keep recommending them anyway.

Wednesday, Aug. 4

• Pottsgrove Grad Helps Superheroes Battle Bad Guys
  The online creation of a Pottsgrove High School graduate-turned-entrepreneur is helping Montgomery County’s district attorney sell illegally gotten goods and plow the proceeds back into crime-fighting.
• Commissioners Ask For Bridge Progress Report
  Lower Pottsgrove’s municipal leaders openly worried during their Monday meeting that work on the now-closed East High Street bridge in Sanatoga would not be completed on schedule.
• Hey! Keep Your Clippings To Yourself, Please
  Dogs barking, trash cans left out, grass in the streets; it’s the annoying little things that can drive a neighborhood nuts. Just ask Lower Pottsgrove Commissioner Bruce Foltz.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Searching For, And Finding, Perfect Produce In Montco
    Of all the farm markets in all the world, those of the small-sign roadside variety and those of well established names, a Philadelphia caterer and food author found produce perfection in our back yard.
  • The Blare Of A Limerick Siren, Recorded For Posterity
    (With Video) On the first Monday of every month at 2 p.m., you’ll hear them near and far: the tests of emergency sires surrounding the Limerick Generating Station.

Tuesday, Aug. 3

• Legal Research Sought For Seizing Old Gas Station
  Lower Pottsgrove commissioners asked their solicitor to look further into whether they have adequate legal reason to take over the former Citgo gas station property at Mervine and North Charlotte streets.
• ‘Eyesore’ Diner Still Standing Months After Fire
  Demolition of the burned-out 422 Diner, on Industrial Highway at Armand Hammer Boulevard in Lower Pottsgrove, started and then stopped. Insurance negotiations are said to be the reason. Commissioners heard a complaint Monday.
• What They Sold For
  A review of top prices recently paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and surrounding municipalities
• Shoulder Work Slows 422 West Through Thursday
  PennDOT crews will be making side-of-the-road repairs between Sanatoga and Royersford. Stay alert.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Ursinus Museum Marks 20 Years With New Wing
    A new wing of the Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville PA has opened up the entire contents of its permanent collection to campus passers-by.

Monday, Aug. 2

• State: Lower Pottsgrove Pensions ‘Moderately Unfunded’
  A state analysis of municipal pension plans in more than 1,400 townships, boroughs and agencies pronounces the township plan as “moderately distressed” because the assets it contains cover only 69 percent of its liabilities. Limerick and Pottstown fared significantly better, the same report found.
• Lower Pottsgrove Commerce Park Grows With New Tenants
  A 750,000-square-foot warehouse property bought in the township more than two decades ago is now seeing its potential fulfilled as a commercial business park.
• Township On Budget, Despite Economic Bumps
  Lower Pottsgrove commissioners, who gather tonight for their first meeting of August, have been told that while the economy may be uneven the municipal budget at mid-year is straight and level.
• How Are You Spending Tuesday’s National Night Out?
  Send a message to criminals, drug dealers and other bad guys that they won’t be tolerated in local communities. Join neighbors in Pottstown, Royersford, Spring City and Phoenixville for special NNO events Tuesday.
• The Post Week In Review
  For July 25-31, 2010
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Ursinus Juniors Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa
    It’s rare that juniors are welcomed into the prestigious national honors society, but learners in this Collegeville PA group proved they had what it takes.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Gilbertsville Goddard School Sets Open House
    The day care center on Grosser Road plans two hours of tours and entertainment for parents and their children.

Sunday, Aug. 1

• The Post Week In Review
  For July 25-31

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