The Sanatoga Post

POTTSTOWN PA – To underscore the need for teens to drive safely, and as a reminder of the tragedies wrought by highway accidents, the latest in a series of upcoming seminars for young drivers will feature as speakers the mothers of two beloved Pottsgrove High School students who died in an automobile accident 17 months ago, Principal Chris Shaffer said Tuesday (April 12, 2011).

Marlene Case and Karen Cantamaglia – the mothers of Andrew Case and Michael Cantamaglia, who were killed in a car crash during Thanksgiving vacation in November 2009 – will be among the guest facilitators in a “Safe Driving Assembly” scheduled for Monday (April 18) from 12:30-1:15 p.m. in the auditorium at the high school, 1345 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA.

In an e-mail distributed Tuesday, Shaffer invited the parents of all Pottsgrove High students to attend the session. Reservations are requested; to reserve a seat, call Jill Ludy at the high school, at 610-326-5105, Ext. 6381 by Monday at 8 a.m.

Also participating in the assembly, Shaffer said, will be Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Bradford Richman. Because of the assembly’s potentially emotional content, the principal added, counselors will be available throughout the day in the high school library to offer support to any student or parent who requests it.

Also scheduled in the series are “Survival 101,” a presentation by Lower Pottsgrove Police Department Ofc. Will James, who also is the school’s resource officer on April 29; and the “Safety Bug,” a lesson in safe driving using a specially altered Volkswagen Beetle, scheduled for May 26. All three are sponsored by the high school’s SNAP Academy, the “Student Needs Assistance Program.”

Photo from Pottsgrove High School

POTTSTOWN PA – Filtering drinking water at home to remove impurities, and avoiding the purchase of bottled water, is a better way to stay healthy. That’s the message a TriCounty Community Network committee will deliver to the group’s membership during its meeting next week.

The network is a Pottstown PA-based organization of professionals dedicated to improving local and regional health, social and environmental conditions. Its general membership meeting is scheduled for Tuesday (April 19, 2011) from 8-10 a.m. in the South Hall Community Room of Montgomery County Community College, 101 College Dr., Pottstown.

Dr. Lewis Cuthbert, Donna Cuthbert and Charisse Marei-Ronnermann, all members of the network’s Environmental Awareness Program will be the featured presenters. The meeting is sponsored by Dr. Niraj Patel of the Chiropractic and Wellness Center in Pottstown. For more information, call 610-705-3301, Ext. 2.

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POTTSTOWN PA – When the Board of School Directors receives suggestions to cut costs and raise new revenues in the Pottsgrove School District budget, as is scheduled during its meeting tonight (Tuesday, April 12, 2011), one group will urge directors to create a Pottsgrove charter school that goes head-to-head against a pack of aggressive competitors.

Members of the Pottsgrove School District Community Budget Task Force at work during a March 15 meeting.

The district has already lost 38 students in grades 6 to 12 to online education providers known as cyber-charter schools. The state-approved entities promise computer-driven individual lesson plans for their enrollees, and tell parents to anticipate better academic performance as a result. Pottsgrove by law must reimburse charter schools for some costs, at the rate of about $7,000 per student.

If it could successfully compete against them, some members of the board’s Community Budget Task Force believe, the district has a chance to bring back at least 10 students to its fold, keeping $70,000 for itself. That’s a substantial portion of the savings proposal to be delivered by the task force Educational Programs Committee.

The board meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the temporary home of Ringing Rocks Elementary School, formerly St. Pius X High School, 844 N. Keim St., Pottstown PA. It is open to the public. A copy of the board agenda has been available since Friday (April 8) for download from the district website, here.

The task force of about 70 volunteers has worked in six committees since Feb. 23 to discuss how the district might trim expenses or find new money. Directors hope to close what now is anticipated to be a $2 million deficit in Pottsgrove’s $58.5 million preliminary 2011-2012 budget. Committee reports delivered tonight should contain recommendations for board members to consider; findings from the Educational Programs component are already posted online.

Committee members propose the district can save a total of 153,603. Of that amount – besides the $70,000 in unreimbursed charter school costs – they say

• $34,067 might be gained by leaving 20 supplemental jobs unfilled;
• $23,661, by eliminating a class that teaches Mandarin Chinese to students in Pottsgrove High School;
• $15,875, by cutting the amount paid in stipends to veteran teachers who mentor new ones just arriving in the district; and
• $10,000, by ending the practice of paying for participants’ food during staff development meetings.

There are significant caveats in the committee’s charter school recommendation, though.

For example, its table of findings does not address the costs of creating a charter school curriculum, obtaining the software and hardware to implement or deliver it, or hiring the specialized employees, if any, who might be needed to promote, manage or supervise it.

The committee also acknowledges that launching, marketing and serving a charter school to the public will “be a multi-year process to implement.” With only two months left before the board must, by law, pass a 2011-2012 budget, and just five months until the start of a new school year, it seems unlikely a charter school could be ready to help Pottsgrove reclaim $70,000 anytime soon.

There has been talk among local district superintendents, including Pottsgrove’s Dr. Bradley Landis, about collaboration on a unified charter school, possibly under direction of the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. Those discussions are continuing, and do not yet appear to be complete.

Of course, no one can guarantee any success once a charter school is opened. Many students who leave a public school in favor of a charter school, and their parents, often have concluded the charter school provides a learning experience the public entity cannot. Whether they will be convinced to return is speculative.

Findings from the task force also are expected to be submitted by its Energy and Facilities, Extra-Curricular Activities, Student Services, Technology, and Transportation committees.

Related (to the Pottsgrove School District 2011-2012 budget):

• Committee: Charter School May Save Pottsgrove $70K
• Pottsgrove Paying $28K Next Year For MCIU Support
• Secretary Says Schools Must Find Funds Themselves
• College Students Protest Proposed Ed Budget Cuts
• Pay Freeze Endorsed As Pottsgrove Labor Talks Start
• Pottsgrove High Protesters Exercise Art Of Compromise
• Pottsgrove’s Landis Distributes State Fund Comparison
• Pottsgrove Budget Deficit Balloons With Gov’s Proposal
• MCIU Budgets On Pottsgrove Schools Agenda Tonight
• PA House OKs ‘Cut And Replace’ On Education Funding
• Idea: Other Local Schools Consider Extracurricular Fees
• Idea: Pottsgrove Might Prosper With Own Charter School
• Pooling Resources Could Save Pottsgrove On Special Ed
• Like Pottsgrove Task Force, Outsiders Weigh Cost Vs. Value
• Task Force Crowd Packs Into Pottsgrove For First Session
• School Budget Task Force Kicks Off Its Work Tonight
• Does Western PA School Tax Uprising Foretell Mood Here?
• Pottsgrove Schools Budget Short Another $400,000
• Pottsgrove, As Expected, Adopts Budget First Draft
• Pottsgrove Tentative Budget Adoption Expected
• Weather Postpones Pottsgrove Budget Meeting
• Still Time In Pottsgrove For Budget Volunteers To Enlist
• Challenge To Pottsgrove Budget Advisers: 10 Percent
• Best Guesses, Deficit Launch Pottsgrove Budget Season
• Senate Education Chair Preps For Voucher, Choice Battle
• School Board Questions Pottsgrove Recreation Costs
• Pension Reform Vote Could Benefit Pottsgrove, Others
• Notebook Worthy: News Reporters Made News Tuesday
• Pottsgrove Isn’t Waiting In Search For Budget Volunteers
• If You’ve Got A Budget Idea, Pottsgrove Says It’ll Listen
• Pottsgrove Seeks More Public Input On District Budget

Related (to the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ April 12 meeting):

• Committee: Charter School May Save Pottsgrove $70K

Photo from the Pottsgrove School District

Thay paid how much?

POTTSTOWN PA – The top price paid for real estate within Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township from Dec. 1, 2010-Jan. 24, 2011, was $225,000, the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports. The property is located at 91 Pine Hurst Dr.

• A second property, at 1300 Oakdale Dr., sold for $197,000.
• A third property, at 1536 N. Keim St., sold for $140,000.

The top reported prices were listed Sunday (April 10, 2011) in “The Top 50,” the newspaper’s weekly review of highest prices paid for real estate sold within the city of Philadelphia and townships in its surrounding counties.

During the same period, the top real estate sales price in

• Pottstown PA Borough, immediately to the west, was $193,000, for 1222 N. Evans St.;
• Limerick PA Township, east, $459,000, for 37 Mine Run Rd.;
• New Hanover PA Township, northeast, $349,167, for 523 Courtside Ave.;
• Upper Pottsgrove PA Township, west, $317,000, for 1501 Patricia Ln.; and
• North Coventry PA Township, south, none listed.

Across all of Montgomery County, the highest-priced property sold during the period went for $1,749,000, at 32 Evans Ln., Lower Merion PA.

Related:

• What They Sold For, Dec. 1, 2010-Jan. 24, 2011
• What They Sold For, Nov. 22, 2010, to Jan. 14, 2011
• What They Sold For, Nov. 15, 2010, to Jan. 7, 2011
• What They Sold For, Nov. 15-Dec. 24, 2010
• What They Sold For, Aug. 30-Nov. 4, 2010
• What They Sold For, Aug. 20-Oct. 26, 2010
• What They Sold For, Aug. 16-Oct. 19, 2010
• What They Sold For, Aug. 2-Oct. 13, 2010
• What They Sold For, July 27-Oct. 6, 2010
• What They Sold For, July 21-Sept. 27, 2010
• What They Sold For, July 16-Sept. 17, 2010
• What They Sold For, July 12-Sept. 10, 2010
• What They Sold For, July 6-Aug. 27, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 31-Aug. 20, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 24-Aug. 13, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 18-Aug. 6, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 13-July 30, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 10-July 23, 2010
• What They Sold For, May 1-July 16, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 26-July 9, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 15-June 30, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 8-June 24, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 1-June 18, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 29-June 14, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 22-June 9, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 15-June 4, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 1-May 19, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 8-May 15, 2010
• What They Sold For, April 5-May 12, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 29-May 7, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 22-April 30, 2010
• What They Sold For, March 8-April 16, 2010
• What They Sold For, Feb. 8-March 24, 2010
• What They Sold For, Feb. 1-March 19 2010
• What They Sold For, Dec. 28, 2009-Feb. 5, 2010
• What They Sold For, Dec. 21, 2009-Jan. 29, 2010
• What They Sold For, Dec. 7, 2009-Jan. 15, 2010
• What They Sold For, Nov. 28, 2009-Jan. 8, 2010
• What They Sold For, Nov. 23-Dec. 31, 2009
• What They Sold For, Nov. 16-Dec. 25, 2009
• What They Sold For, Nov. 9-Dec. 18, 2009
• What They Sold For, Nov. 5-Dec. 9, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 26-Dec. 3, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 20-Nov. 27, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 15-Nov. 24, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 8-Nov. 18, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 7-Nov. 11, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 1-Nov. 4, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 26-28, 2009
• What They Sold For, Sept. 27-Oct. 23, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 12-16, 2009
• What They Sold For, Oct. 5-9, 2009
• What They Sold For, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2009
• What They Sold For, Sept. 14-18, 2009
• What They Sold For, Aug. 26-31, 2009
• What They Sold For, Aug. 20-25, 2009
• What They Sold For, Aug. 13-19, 2009
• What They Sold For, Aug. 5-12, 2009
• What They Sold For, July 29-Aug. 4, 2009
• What They Sold For, July 24-28, 2009
• What They Sold For, July 20-23, 2009
• What They Sold For, July 13-17, 2009
• What They Sold For, July 6-10, 2009
• What They Sold For, June 29-July 3, 2009
• What They Sold For, June 22-26, 2009
• What They Sold For, June 15-19, 2009
• What They Sold For, June 8-12, 2009
• What They Sold For, June 1-5, 2009

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LIMERICK PA – Exelon Nuclear‘s Limerick Generating Station (LGS) received federal government approval to produce more than 3 percent additional electricity than it currently generates, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday (April 11, 2011).

LGS Units 1 and 2 each will be allowed to increase their power generating capacity by 1.65 percent, in part because Exelon successfully showed the commission that it could more accurately measure feedwater flowing to the equipment, representative Neil Sheehan of the commission’s King of Prussia PA office reported.

A “careful evaluation determined that Exelon could safely increase the reactors’ power output,” a commission press release said. That review included “the company’s analysis showing the plant’s design can accommodate the increased power level,” it said.

The commission said its safety evaluation of the plant’s so-called “power uprate” also focused on several areas, including the nuclear steam supply systems, instrumentation and control systems, electrical systems, accident evaluations, radiological consequences, fire protection, operations and training, testing, and technical specification changes.

LGS operates boiling-water reactors. The uprate increases each unit’s power generating capacity from about 1,189 to 1,205 megawatts of electricity. At Unit 1, the increase is expected to take effect within 90 days. At Unit 2, which is now undergoing a refueling outage, will take effect within 90 days of its completion.

Exelon applied for the uprate last year (2010).

POTTSTOWN PA – More than 200 people who offer their time and talents as volunteers at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, 1600 E. High St., Pottstown PA, will be the hospital’s guests this week at a National Volunteers Week meal in their honor.

The “Give From The Heart” dinner Wednesday (Aril 13, 2011) scheduled at Brookside County Club particularly will recognize 47 individuals who donated between 100 hours and 22,000 hours of their time, according to Sharon Steinmetz, the hospital’s manager of volunteer services.

During 2010, PMMC volunteers – including its teen-age VolunTeens – donated a total of 44,000 hours of service to the hospital and its patients. “We appreciate the time and dedication they give to the hospital every day,” Steinmetz said.

For more information on becoming a hospital volunteer, call (610) 327-7136.

POTTSTOWN PA – Payments by the Pottsgrove School District for its portion of the operating budget of the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit in Norristown PA, which supplies the district with a variety of centralized services, will amount to $28,098 during the unit’s 2011-2012 budget year, district Business Administrator David Nester reported.

That’s on the low end of payments being made by districts across the county, a schedule of next year’s contributions shows. Of 22 districts receiving MCIU services, payments range from a high of $196,563 (by North Penn) to a low of $755 (by Bryn Athyn); the average is $64,177. Among other local districts, Spring-Ford is scheduled to pay $98,725; and Pottstown, $22,115.

MCIU’s combined curriculum, legislative and technology budgets next year total $1.41 million, up 1.4 percent from the current year.

Members of the Board of School Directors are required by law each year to approve the MCIU budget, because Pottsgrove – like other districts within the county – is represented on the MCIU board. They also must approve the amount the district intends to spend in the coming year for the unit’s services. Both were adopted last month (March 2011).

Intermediate units across Pennsylvania are expected to play a potentially larger role in supplying services to most schools if, as proposed, future state funding for districts is cut.

Related (to the Pottsgrove School District 2011-2012 budget):

• Pottsgrove Paying $28K Next Year For MCIU Support
• Secretary Says Schools Must Find Funds Themselves
• College Students Protest Proposed Ed Budget Cuts
• Pay Freeze Endorsed As Pottsgrove Labor Talks Start
• Pottsgrove High Protesters Exercise Art Of Compromise
• Pottsgrove’s Landis Distributes State Fund Comparison
• Pottsgrove Budget Deficit Balloons With Gov’s Proposal
• MCIU Budgets On Pottsgrove Schools Agenda Tonight
• PA House OKs ‘Cut And Replace’ On Education Funding
• Idea: Other Local Schools Consider Extracurricular Fees
• Idea: Pottsgrove Might Prosper With Own Charter School
• Pooling Resources Could Save Pottsgrove On Special Ed
• Like Pottsgrove Task Force, Outsiders Weigh Cost Vs. Value
• Task Force Crowd Packs Into Pottsgrove For First Session
• School Budget Task Force Kicks Off Its Work Tonight
• Does Western PA School Tax Uprising Foretell Mood Here?
• Pottsgrove Schools Budget Short Another $400,000
• Pottsgrove, As Expected, Adopts Budget First Draft
• Pottsgrove Tentative Budget Adoption Expected
• Weather Postpones Pottsgrove Budget Meeting
• Still Time In Pottsgrove For Budget Volunteers To Enlist
• Challenge To Pottsgrove Budget Advisers: 10 Percent
• Best Guesses, Deficit Launch Pottsgrove Budget Season
• Senate Education Chair Preps For Voucher, Choice Battle
• School Board Questions Pottsgrove Recreation Costs
• Pension Reform Vote Could Benefit Pottsgrove, Others
• Notebook Worthy: News Reporters Made News Tuesday
• Pottsgrove Isn’t Waiting In Search For Budget Volunteers
• If You’ve Got A Budget Idea, Pottsgrove Says It’ll Listen
• Pottsgrove Seeks More Public Input On District Budget

POTTSTOWN PA – On the Pottsgrove School District sports schedule for today (Monday, April 11, 2011) through next Monday (April 18):

Today (Monday, April 11)

• Boys Varsity Tennis vs. Phoenixville, 3:30 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Lacrosse @ Boyertown, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Lacrosse vs. Pope John Paul ll High School, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Baseball @ Pope John Paul ll High School, 4 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Softball @ Chichester, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball @ Chichester, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Lacrosse @ Boyertown, 5 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse vs. Pope John Paul ll High School, 5 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Baseball @ Pope John Paul ll High School, 7 p.m.

April 12 (Tuesday)

• Boys Varsity Tennis @ Pope John Paul ll High School, 3:30 p.m.
• Coed Middle School Track @ Spring-Ford HS, 3:30 p.m.
• Boys Middle School Baseball vs. Boyertown East, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Lacrosse vs. Interboro, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Middle School Lacrosse vs. Boyertown East, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Softball vs. Upper Perkiomen, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball vs. Upper Perkiomen, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse vs. Interboro, 5 p.m.

April 13 (Wednesday)

• Coed Varsity Track vs. Phoenixville, Pottsgrove @ Pottstown, 3:15 p.m.
• Girls Middle School Softball vs. Arcola Intermediate School, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Lacrosse @ Perkiomen Valley, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Baseball vs. Upper Perkiomen, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Baseball vs. Upper Perkiomen, 4 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Softball @ Pottstown, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball @ Pottstown, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Lacrosse @ Perkiomen Valley, 5 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse @ Owen J Roberts, 5:30 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Lacrosse @ Owen J Roberts, 7 p.m.

April 14 (Thursday)

• Boys Varsity Tennis vs. Upper Perkiomen, 3:30 p.m.
• Boys Middle School Baseball @ Pottstown, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Lacrosse vs. Southern Lehigh, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Middle School Lacrosse @ Pottstown, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Baseball vs. Phoenixville, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Baseball vs. Phoenixville, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball @ Owen J Roberts, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse vs. Southern Lehigh, 5 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Softball @ Owen J Roberts, 7 p.m.

April 15 (Friday)

• Girls Varsity Softball @ Interboro, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball @ Interboro, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Middle School Softball vs. Owen J Roberts, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Lacrosse @ Methacton High School, 3:45 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Lacrosse vs. Owen J Roberts, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Baseball @ Owen J Roberts, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Lacrosse @ Methacton High School, 5 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Lacrosse vs. Owen J Roberts, 5 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Baseball @ Owen J Roberts, 7 p.m.

April 16 (Saturday)

• Coed Varsity Track @ Great Valley Relays @Great Valley, 9 a.m.

April 17 (Sunday)

• None scheduled

April 18 (Monday)

• Boys Varsity Tennis vs. Perkiomen Valley, 3:30 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Lacrosse @ Southern Lehigh, 3:45 p.m.
• Boys Varsity Baseball @ Methacton High School, 4 p.m.
• Boys Junior Varsity Baseball @ Methacton High School, 4 p.m.
• Girls Varsity Softball @ Methacton High School, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Softball @ Methacton High School, 4 p.m.
• Girls Junior Varsity Lacrosse @ Southern Lehigh, 5 p.m.

Schedules from HighSchoolSports.net; photo from Clipart.com

POTTSTOWN PA – Students at The Goddard School in Sanatoga shed some light on this year’s coming Earth Day activities by putting themselves in the dark.

Earth Day, observed annually since 1970 on April 22 with activities to promote environmental awareness and conservation, is only 11 days away. It will be marked globally this year (2011) with reforestation efforts, educational programs in museums to teach sustainability, and what organizers hope will be a billion individual and community pledges to live more environmentally conscious lives.

To do their part, those enrolled at Goddard recently joined teachers in turning off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances inside the school, 2074 E. High St., Pottstown, for one hour, according to owners Ed and Maria Shaw.

Environmental events at the local child-care facility were held March 21-25. The week included what Ed Shaw called “a variety of fun activities, games and lessons” designed to show children how they can conserve energy in their daily lives. Students learned about the environment during art projects, science lessons and even snack time, he said.

Some classes chose an official “Lightning Bug” who was responsible for always turning off the lights when kids left their classrooms. Others created invitations, asking their parents and neighboring businesses to join them in conservation activities. Teachers focused in part, Shaw added, on Earth Hour, a global plan to turn off as many lights as possible for one hour at 8:30 p.m. on March 26 (Saturday).

Because Goddard operates only Mondays through Fridays, its kids got their Earth Hour in a day earlier (March 25). The school doused as many lights as was safely possible, with students throwing the switches.

The school itself will be closed on Earth Day, which also is the start of its three-day spring break.

Some of the Montgomery County's finest musicians will be heard during the free concert

SOUDERTON PA – The Montgomery County Concert Band, whose performing members come from all walks of live and all parts of the county, will usher in its spring season with an annual concert May 1 (2011; Sunday) at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of Souderton High School, 625 Lower Rd., Souderton PA. A variety of standard and contemporary music for band, a special soloist, and even a special video game composition are on the program.

The concert is free and open to the public.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Director and band co-founder Stephen Frederick will share conducting honors with assistant director Chuck Neidhardt. Both are retired music educators and school administrators.

The band has been entertaining audiences across southeastern Pennsylvania since 1995. Its members come from a wide variety of occupations: they are homemakers, system analysts, secretaries, educators, lawyers, truck drivers, chemists, business owners, doctors, consultants, and even a prison chaplain.

Frederick said he’s pleased with the commitment and level of performance generated by the members since the beginning. “We are very fortunate to have had local and nationally recognized musicians perform with the band. This spring is no exception. Trumpeter Matt Gallagher will be the featured soloist. He is recognized and respected as one of the best in this tri-state region. We are honored to have him share his talent with our audience.”

“Presenting a formal concert in the fall and spring provides an opportunity (for) some musical literature that we don’t get a chance to program during the summer,” Neidhardt noted. The band is often scheduled for area events during the summer.

Photo from the Montgomery County Concert Band