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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Sept. 18

• Friday Night Football: Pottsgrove Vs. Boyertown
  Pottsgrove’s Falcons were surprised by The Bears with their upset football win at Boyertown’s stadium. See a Post gallery of photos from the game.
• Sanatoga Dinner Raised Funds Against Disease
  The Friday night meal at Sanatoga Court collected money to be used in the battle against Alzheimer’s.
• East Coventry Board Declines 422 Plan Endorsement
  In their second vote on acceptance of the U.S. Route 422 Master Plan, supervisors decided 3-2 against it, despite its sponsor’s request for open-mindedness.
• 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.

Friday, Sept. 17

• Township Firefighters Prepare For October Presentations
  Ringing Hill and Sanatoga fire companies’ volunteers are busy every month, but their public personas will be in demand in just 13 days, as National Fire Prevention Month gets under way.
• It’s (Ugh) Snow Plow Planning Time Again (Sigh)
  Removing snow from Lower Pottsgrove highways can be a tough-enough job even when Mother Nature is kind. But when she turns nasty, well, that’s when additional hired help comes in handy.
• Hiriak Re-Appointed To Planning Commission
  He was returned to the Lower Pottsgrove board for a successive four-year term, with praise and thanks from township commissioners.
• Thrivent Sets Document Shredding For Saturday
  Got some personal or financial documents you’d like to be rid of? Don’t just toss them in the trash, where prying eyes could do you harm. Bring them to Sanatoga and have them ground into bits.

Thursday, Sept. 16

• Lower Pottsgrove Police Will Take Back Prescription Drugs
  The department is participating next Saturday, Sept. 25, in a nationwide initiative to keep unwanted or expired prescription drugs out of the hands of potential abusers.
• Pottsgrove High Lock-Down Ended As Chase Left Area
  High school students were locked inside their building early Wednesday morning as Lower Pottsgrove, Collegeville and other police chased after an alleged assailant and car thief.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  In Sanatoga, lasagna’s in the oven, chicken’s on the grill, and Elvis is on the stage. Community days are planned in Oaks, Gilbertsville and Spring City. Drink up (you choose the beverage) at Oktoberfest in Boyertown. Never a dull moment around here.
• Sanatoga’s Fall Chicken BBQ Saturday
  Trust firefighters to cook chicken over an open flame to perfection. Tickets will be available at the East High Street fire hall.
• 24 Hours In Pottstown For Wednesday (Sept. 15, 2010)
  An overview of Pottstown-related news from other websites.
  • Housing Fight Isn’t Over In Pottstown
  • Pottsamucil, The Home Of Low-Income Senior Housing
  • Pottstown Plans Veterans Day Extravaganza
  • Creating A Pottstown Revitalization Library
  • Homeless In Pottstown
• Also, In The Limerick Post …
  • Corvettes Show Saturday Helps Alzheimer’s Research
    If you like fast-looking, deep exhaust note-sounding muscle cars, this may be a place to be during the weekend.

Wednesday, Sept. 15

• Green, Or Maybe Now Brown, Grass Still A Hause Ave. Problem
  Despite a summer drought, grass clippings blown into a Sanatoga street are still causing neighbors to call a Lower Pottsgrove commissioner with complaints.
• PennDOT Proclaims 422 Rehab Project Completed
  The restoration of 4-1/2 miles of U.S. Route 422 between Collegeville and Royersford is officially finished, the state highway agency said Monday.
• 15th Congressional District Candidates Face Off
  Three candidates fighting to represent Lower Pottsgrove Township and the rest of the 15th Congressional District faced off for the first time Monday night in a candidates’ forum. (This story is published by WFMZ-TV, Allentown PA, and is hosted on its website).
• College Hosts 16th Annual Tech Conference
  Teaching about and with technology is no easy task, despite its tremendous impact on daily living. An annual conference hosted by Montgomery County Community College aims to make it easier.
• 24 Hours In Pottstown For Tuesday (Sept. 14, 2010)
  • Gilbertsville Teen Tells Of Making Women’s Baseball Team
  • Pottstown Senor Housing A Tough Vote Made Tougher
  • Landlord-Homeowner Solidarity Is Essential to Pottstown
  • Open Doors 2010: Pottstown Feels the Love
  • Time to Go Fishing; Pottstown Bloggers Call A Halt
  • A Mammoth Message In Worry Over Water
• Also, In The Limerick Post …
  • Federal Indictment Charges Former Limerick Supervisor, 2 Others
• 24 Hours In Limerick For Tuesday (Sept. 14, 2010)
  • Feds OK Emergency Drought Relief For PA Farmers
  • Unemployment Filings Average One for Every Six Pennsylvanians
  • PA Average 2010 Sat Scores Show Little Change
  • Promoting The Schuylkill River Art Exhibit

Tuesday, Sept. 14

• Pass The Excedrin. It’s Budget Time In Lower Pottsgrove
  With the start of fall, and the new year only slightly more than three months away, the work of creating the township’s next annual budget begins in earnest.
• Lower Pottsgrove Officer Chosen For FBI Academy
  Lt. Michael Foltz, the police department’s second-in-command, is headed to months of special training in Quantico VA beginning in January.
• Digging’s Done, Now Real Work Starts At Ringing
  The Pottsgrove School District officially launched its renovation of Ringing Rocks Elementary School with ground-breaking ceremonies Thursday. Grown-ups responsible for its planning, and kids who will benefit from it within 18 months, both got to throw some dirt in celebration.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Radiography Students, Every One of 13, Pass Exam
    A Montgomery County Community College program enjoys a 100-percent success rate.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Safe Indoor Emergency Lighting May Be Just Outside
    If the power goes out candles and flashlights may not be handy, and an open flame might even be dangerous. Limerick’s police chief offers an alternative you may not have considered when all goes dark.

Monday, Sept. 13

• H&K Asks Lower Pottsgrove For A New Digital Sign
  The construction materials and contracting company, which operates the Pottstown-Sanatoga Trap Rock Quarry, wants to replace an existing sign with something more modern and digital.
• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of top prices paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and surrounding municipalities.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports For Sept. 13-20, 2010
  Who’ll they’ll play, what, when, and where this week.
• Conklin’s Comedy Benefits Local Meals Program
  The WIP Radio announcer and “man of a thousand voices” will do a show to raise funds for the Sanatoga-based Meals On Wheels program.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Chamber Welcomes 11 New Business Members
    The Pottstown-based TriCounty Chamber of Commerce introduced them last Thursday during its first membership breakfast meeting of the fall.
  • Berkshire Commons Sale Assists Research
    The assisted living facility in Exeter will hold a community sale to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Exelon, East Coventry Work On Frick’s Lock Pact
    They’ve been considering an agreement, primarily in executive sessions, to create a historic district. It’s on the East Coventry board agenda tonight (Monday) for public discussion, a supervisor said.
  • One-Day Master Gardener Sessions Opened
    Montgomery County Cooperative Extension volunteers are willing to share their knowledge for better gardening now and next year.
  • Valley Forge Mothers Meeting Wednesday
    The club that caters to families of twins and triplets will gather at the Valley Forge fire hall.

Sunday, Sept. 12

• The Post Week In Review
  For Sept. 5-11, 2010

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