Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, population forecasts
It’s not what might be called “explosive growth,” but the township could see a steady rise in its population over the next three decades, according to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Limerick will balloon in comparison. Other neighbors? Not so much.
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Posted in Limerick, Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pottstown, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 18 January 2012. Tags: Boston Fire Department, Boston MA, fireboat, Greg Berry, Municibid
In the market for some exotic transportation, a not-so-little workhorse of the seas? You need to scramble, then, to visit Municibid, the online auction company and website operated from Pottstown by former Sanatoga resident Greg Berry.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Pottstown, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 03 January 2012. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Police Department
A passenger involved faces several charges and was arraigned Monday; the driver was cited too. Neither was injured in the Sunday accident, police reported.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 15 December 2011. Tags: Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
The highway, previously closed because of a structurally unsound bridge, was opened to traffic Wednesday, but with restrictions and limits.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 21 November 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge, Traffic Planning and Design Inc.
Lower Pottsgrove commissioners voted in late October to repair the bridge and re-open it to restricted traffic. The work was estimated to take about a month, but that deadline is only days away and progress on the repairs appears to be limited.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 14 November 2011. Tags: Family Auto Group of Greater Philadelphia, Family Services of Montgomery County, Keys to Success
The Montgomery County agency, which operates offices in Sanatoga, and a Philadelphia area car dealer have teamed up to offer loans to low- and moderate-income individuals to help them buy a car. Even those with spotty credit histories can apply.
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Posted in Business, Montgomery County, Personal Finance, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 02 November 2011. Tags: Senate Bill 314, texting while driving, The Pennsylvania Independent
(With Video) Pennsylvania’s no-texting-while-driving law passed both the House and Senate this week. It’ll be signed by Gov. Corbett, his staff says. So drivers caught in the act soon can be ticketed and face a $50 fine.
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Posted in Business, Education, Politics, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 01 November 2011. Tags: biders, diesel fuel, Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway
Lower Pottsgrove commissioners wanted to buy diesel fuel for next year. It can’t be that hard, they reasoned. We do it all the time, they said. This time around, though, fuel bidders themselves made the task more difficult.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Transportation
Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge, Traffic Planning and Design Inc.
A 5-ton weight limit and single-lane passage for both directions are among the restrictions that will be put on traffic crossing the Pruss Hill Road bridge when it reopens, probably next month.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 23 October 2011. Tags: accident, Lower Pottsgrve Police Department, traffic accident, U.S. Route 422
Police are hoping members of the public will step forward with information about a Friday night accident that left a multi-ton bulldozer blade in the middle of eastbound U.S. Route 422 in Lower Pottsgrove.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Transportation