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Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Oct. 16

• 422 Drivers Beware: One Lane Eastbound Overnights
  PennDOT is making pavement repairs near the First Avenue interchange. Travel with caution.
• Lower Pottsgrove Soldier Completes Basic Training
  He’s completed the road between a Pottsgrove High School graduating class and military preparations in Kentucky.

Friday, Oct. 15

• Lower Pottsgrove Hearings Set For Apartments, Lighting
  Questions over building height on Buchert Road, and of lighting sufficiency on East High Street, are on the Zoning Hearing Board agenda next week.
• Chamber President Leaving In Move To Cut Costs
  The Pottstown-based business advocacy organization is shrinking its leadership to stay lean as the economy continues to falter.
• Pottsgrove Joining Hunger Campout For Fourth Year
  The high school students hope to make a difference on the dining tables of those in need across the Philadelphia area. They’re hoping for your help, too.
• Rain Postponed Seven Pottsgrove Sports Events
  Thursday’s wet weather made play impossible on some fields. Six of the seven are already rescheduled; decisions are yet to be made on the last.
• Building Vocabulary A Seminar At West Pottsgrove School
  Word use can have an impact on scholastic performance. A Pottsgrove School District seminar intends to show parents and guardians how, and how they can help young pupils.
• Senator’s Veterans Salute Scheduled At Sunnybrook
  Sen. John Rafferty’s breakfast event and patriotic celebration for veterans is returning to the Sanatoga ballroom for another year.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • MCCC Participating In National Sustainability Day
    The college is demonstrating how some of its programs and practices at the Pottstown campus are geared toward saving the environment.

Thursday, Oct. 14

• Exterior Demolition To Begin At Ringing Rocks
  Most of the Pottsgrove School District building’s disassembly so far has taken place on the inside. Now the roof will come off, and so will some exterior walls.
• Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick To Receive Chamber Award
  The townships, which are cooperating on planning for commercial growth at the Sanatoga interchange of Route 422, will be honored for their efforts.
• County Closes Keim Street Bridge Over Schuylkill
  Montgomery County has closed the South Keim Street bridge across the Schuylkill River between Pottstown and North Coventry to all traffic. A PennDOT engineer Wednesday said it was unsafe.
  
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Child Tracking With GPS On Lecture Agenda
    Locating a child using global positioning satellite technology will be a discussion topic in Phoenixville.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • A First At PMMC: Abdominal Wall Reconstructive Surgery
    An hours-long surgery to rebuild a patient’s abdominal wall muscles and tissues was recently completed for the first time at the Pottstown hospital.

Wednesday, Oct. 13

• Labor Contract Planning Prompts Pottsgrove Closed Session
  The Pottsgrove school board dispensed fairly quickly with routine business Tuesday night, then turned to an executive session to discuss upcoming labor negotiations with its teachers.
• Lower Pottsgrove School Presented With Its ‘Star’
  A federal award that recognizes energy efficiency at the Pottsgrove School District building was presented Tuesday night to the Board of School Directors.
• :-O Pottsgrove Parents’ Seminar Covers Social Networking
  Kids increasingly communicate using texts, Facebook, or other social websites. Who are they chatting with, and what’s being said (or shown)? A discussion series aims to help parents understand and control the situation.
  
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Rain In Collegeville An Unusual Market Mover
    Flood water damage to its office in the Collegeville Shopping Center has sent a local financial brokerage scrambling for temporary quarters.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • Pottstown SCORE Offers Workshop For Entrepreneurs
    Want to start a business of your own, and be the boss? This local organization shows, during the course of four workshops, how to make that dream come true.

Tuesday, Oct. 12

• Confidence Supplants Sweats Wednesday At Pottsgrove
  Pottsgrove High School sophomores on Wednesday face a test that gets them ready for an even bigger test, one that often determines which college they can attend. The testing cost is being paid for by the school district.
• Pottsgrove Foundation Announces Grant Awards
  More than $10,000 has been awarded by the foundation to benefit school district initiatives proposed by staff members, that either promote culture and the arts or represent new and innovative teaching methods.
• Sanatoga Meals Program Hopes You Can Help
  If you’ve got an hour to spare and an available vehicle just once a week, the Meals On Wheels program can use your assistance.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • What They Sold For In Limerick
    A review of highest prices paid for real estate in Limerick (PA) Township, the borough of Royersford, and surrounding municipalities.
  • Royersford, Lower Perk Meals Program Needs Helpers
    Help is being sought for weekday distribution of meals across parts of Limerick and the valley. Delivering just one hour a week can be a real boost to those in need.
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • What They Sold For In Pottstown
    A review of highest prices paid for real estate in the borough of Pottstown PA and surrounding municipalities.
  • Pottstown Seminar Next Week Explains Health Law
    What’s happening with the federal health care law presents some confusion to those who will rely on it. A free explanation of how it affects most people is being offered in a specially scheduled presentation.
  • Bike Pottstown In Foundation Report’s Spotlight
    The success of the borough’s much-written-about bicycle-sharing program, funded in part by the Pottstown Area Health And Wellness Foundation, is the cover story of the non-profit’s new quarterly report.
  • Freedom Valley Ys Accepting Fall Registrations
    Reduced fees during October and the chance to win a prize means it pays to sign up now at any of the agency’s five Montgomery and Chester County branches.

Monday, Oct. 11

• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of highest prices paid for real estate in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township and surrounding municipalities.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports For Oct. 11-18, 2010
  Who they’ll play, what, when and where this week in the Pottsgrove School District.
• Clothing Drive A Weighty Success
  Hundreds of bags, and tons of clothes. That’s what Pottsgrove School District residents offered during the weekend in response to a used clothing drive conducted by the district’s Music League.
• Peanuts! Get’cher Peanuts In Sanatoga, Heah
  Decades ago, members of the Kiwanis Club used to sell $1-bags of peanuts to the lunch crowd in busy downtown Pottstown. Now, club members have followed the crowd east; they were in Sanatoga on Saturday.
• Also, In The Limerick Post
  • Thousands Crowd Limerick Outlets For Fall Sales
    With Video. Parking lots were packed, and at times traffic backed up too, at the Philadelphia Premium Outlets as merchants there threw their annual Columbus Day Sale.
  • In Limerick, Mother Nature’s A Car Buff Too
    With Video. She provided perfect weather for the first car show to be held at the Texas Road House Restaurant in Royersford to benefit the Limerick Fire Department.
  • The Week In Review In Limerick
    For Oct. 3-9, 2010
• Also, In The Pottstown Post
  • The Week In Review In Pottstown
    For Oct. 3-9, 2010.

Sunday, Oct. 10

• The Post Week In Review
  For Oct. 3-9, 2010