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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Aug. 14

• Labor Holiday To Delay Town Trash Pick-Up
  With the Labor Day holiday approaching, Lower Pottsgrove wants to give its residents an advanced heads-up: garbage and yard waste pick-ups will be delayed by a day.
• 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.
• Pottsgrove Marchers’ 2nd Car Wash Today
  Get the buggy cleaned and shiny, pay only $5 (a bargain), and help the Pottsgrove High School marching band at the same time.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • AAA Members Get Outlet Discounts Saturday
    Are you a Triple-A member? Do you like to shop? Do you like to get stuff you buy cheaper? If yes to all, welcome to the no-brainer of the day.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Girls Softball Travel Tryouts Today, Next Week
    A championship-winning girls’ softball program in Boyertown will conduct tryouts today, Sunday and next weekend for those interested in joining its 2011 travel team.
  • Pottstown man arrested in city check-forgery case
    The fugitive warrants division of the Berks County sheriff’s office on Friday arrested a man in his Pottstown apartment on forgery, theft and related charges. (This story is published by The Reading Eagle and is hosted on its website).
  • Possible Home Invasion Leads To Shooting In Pottstown
    Police in Pottstown are investigating a shooting that may have been the result of a home invasion Thursday night on North Charlotte Street. (This story is published by WFMZ-TV and is hosted on is website).
• Also, In The Main Street Post
  • Chester County Buys Record-Sharing Software In Pottstown
    A Pottstown software development firm that creates specialty applications for law enforcement agencies has won itself a new client, just across the county line here in Pennsylvania.
• Education Subsidy Could Help State Pension Plans
  Senate Republicans are looking at extra education funding from the federal government to address the state’s public pension crisis. (This story is published by The Pennsylvania Independent and hosted at its website).
• Federal Funds For Regional Road Projects Drying Up
  A Montgomery County planning official thinks future highway tolling, if approved, won’t be limited to U.S. Route 422. It may well apply to all state and federally maintained roads. (This story is published by The Lansdale PA Reporter and is hosted on its website).

Friday, Aug. 13

• Pottsgrove Bus Schedules Delayed; Video Reminder Issued
  Anxious about when and where your child will be picked up to be bused to school? Hold on; Pottsgrove School District schedules should be ready next week. Be advised, though: riders are under video monitoring.
• Pottsgrove Singer At Six Flags For Talent Show Finals
  (With Video) Pottsgrove High School graduate Kendal Conrad is among the finalists in a talent competition conducted by WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Julia Produces With Royersford Produce
    (With Video) Renninger’s Farm Market in Royersford PA provides the primary ingredients, and Julia Zion offers the preparation, in a series of three cooking videos hosted on the YouTube channel called Foodaholics101.
• Also, In The Main Street Post
  • Pottstown Exec Re-Elected To Marketing Board
    The head of WordTech, on the borough’s Circle Of Progress, earns a new term as a director of the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association.
  • Nevada Insurer Promotes S-F Grad To Senior VP
    A former Royersford PA resident continues to make his mark in information technology, with another promotion in leadership at a Reno NV-based provider of small business insurance coverages.
  • Jersey Consultant Assists Collegeville Merchants
    A New Jersey-headquartered consulting firm that specializes in helping downtown economies grow has been hired to work its magic in Collegeville PA.

Thursday, Aug. 12

• From Pottstown East, Dozens Competing In 4-H Fair
  From Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick and the borough, they’ll bring their best pies and breads, their largest and freshest-looking vegetables, and their finest bred animals for a chance to win a blue ribbon. Decades after its start, Montgomery County’s 4-H Fair remains relevant … and free!
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  Besides the 4-H Fair, there’s the Goshenhoppen Folk Festival in Upper Frederick, a Dr. Drill fitness camp in Pottstown, and a Pottsgrove Marching Band car wash fund-raiser at Lower Pottsgrove Elementary.
• Snowmobile Driver Certification Set For October
  It’s too early for most of us to even think about snow, but not for teens just itching to drive out of the garage and into the white stuff. They must be certified under state law; this class is tailored for them.
• Watching The Eagles Fly At Lehigh
  How good (or bad) does the football team actually look for the season ahead? There’s nothing like an at-the-training-camp report (or five, actually) offered in video form by a Montgomery County resident.
• Schools Get Funding Windfall In Rendell Plan
  School districts in Pennsylvania would receive a total $580 million boost in their budgets this year under a plan proposed Wednesday morning (Aug. 12, 2010) by Gov. Ed Rendell. (This story is published by The Pennsylvania Independent and is hosted on its website).

Wednesday, Aug. 11

• 192 Local Charities Risk Losing Tax Exemptions, IRS Says
  Its Pennsylvania list includes one group with a Sanatoga mailing address, four with “Pottsgrove” affiliations, and 49 from Pottstown. If they don’t file appropriate paperwork by Oct. 15, they’ve got significant problems.
• The IRS List Of Local Affected Charitable Groups
  Maybe you’re a member or supporter of one or more of these organizations. If so, you’ll help it or them by letting someone know they should be talking to professional advisers about the IRS demands.

Tuesday, Aug. 10

• Above The Boardwalk, Life Never Seen In Sanatoga
  (With Video) Viewed from a vacationer’s entertaining, 140-foot-high perch above a Jersey shore city, life assumes a perspective rarely offered within the confines of Lower Pottsgrove … and maybe that’s for the better.
• School Districts’ Plans Open Chamber Breakfast
  How do local school districts hope to help students prepare for the work force? The TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce poses that question next month to six superintendents, including Pottsgrove’s Dr. Bradley Landis.
• A Mesa Encore From Sanatoga Park
  (With Video) The country band that played during Sunday’s Sanatoga Park concert offers a smoking hot rendition of Miranda Lambert’s hit, “Kerosene.”
• Big Bopper Speaks. Go To Sunnybrook, He Says
  Sanatoga’s entertainment and conference venue hosts an adult sock hop Friday night. Wouldn’t want to miss that, wouldja?
• What Post Readers Are Saying
  The Post invites readers to add their thoughtful comments to its stories. Lately:
  
  • About the 422 Diner
    An amazingly quick resolution to problems with the now demolished restaurant prompts others to ask, “How do we get similar results?” in Pottstown and elsewhere in Lower Pottsgrove.
  • About the East High Street bridge
    If PennDOT balks on giving Lower Pottsgrove commissioners a progress update, one commenter growls, hold its feet (or something else) to the fire.

Monday, Aug. 9

• What They Sold For
  A review of top prices paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and its surrounding municipalities.
• Diner Soon To Be An Eyesore-No-More
  Boy, that was fast. Less than a week after Lower Pottsgrove commissioners heard complaints about the appearance of the fire-scarred 422 Diner, the place was torn down. Only rubble yet to be removed remains.
• Turning The Dial On Sanatoga’s Wayback Machine
  Changes being made this week to the exterior of the Sanatoga Corp. building on East High Street give Lower Pottsgrove residents a glimpse back into the late 1950s. That’s when the firm was known as Sanatoga Radio Company.
• Band, Audience Alike Enjoyed Themselves In Sanatoga
  (With Video) What was she like, that girl with the tattoo of Texas covering her entire body? You had to hold onto Dallas to find out, the country band Mesa joked, during Sunday’s “Concert In The Park” in Sanatoga.
• Commissioners Endorse Watershed Conservancy Plan
  A portion of Lower Pottsgrove is included in the Perkiomen Watershed, and the township already complies with many of the plan’s recommendations to preserve or improve natural water quality. There was little discussion.

Sunday, Aug. 8

• The Post Week In Review
  For Aug. 1-7, 2010

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