The Sanatoga Post

POTTSTOWN PA – Helping youngsters to plan for their career, play in a band, and learn how to tell stories with video are among three of several projects sharing in $10,000 awarded in mini-grants by the Pottsgrove Eduction Foundation for cultural education and innovative teaching, Pottsgrove School District Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis recently told the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School just got labeled, and that, according to district spokeswoman Beth Trapani, is an energizing event. The Pottsgrove School District building for 700 students in kindergarten through 5th grade, at 1329 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, is just one of 26 schools across Pennsylvania that have earned an Energy Star [...]

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HARRISBURG PA – Area chambers of commerce apparently feel the status quo is good to go in the coming November general elections. The board of directors of their umbrella political group, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chambers’ Political Action Committee, on Wednesday (Oct. 6, 2010) endorsed incumbents for re-election to state and congressional offices. Receiving endorsements locally [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Fire Marshal Lew Babel offered his regrets Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) to the Board of Commissioners for failing to attend its first meeting of the month, but he was otherwise engaged. Investigating fires, after all, comes before reporting to township leaders on them. While commissioners gathered in the [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Authors of a study that may suggest tolling drivers on U.S. Route 422, and using that money to improve the highway and reduce its congestion, “are not making their case well enough in the court of public opinion,” says a former journalist who now serves on the Spring City PA borough council. [...]

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SANATOGA PA – William R. Gift Co., a Boyertown fuel distributor, won Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s business Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) for its purchase of diesel fuel during 2011, the Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed, assuming legal documents for the fuel sale are approved by township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway. Gift was the lowest acceptable [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Tracking the local expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds isn’t something that happens over a weekend, a week, or even a couple of months. The Sanatoga Post, which is a veteran member of the national ProPublica reporting network,  has been tracking stimulus grant spending and its effects for the past 15 months. [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – An online poll being used to measure public sentiment about highway traffic congestion in Montgomery County PA and across the Delaware Valley, and to gather opinions on funding sources to pay for relieving that congestion, is being conducted by the Harrisburg PA-based Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, TriCounty Area Chamber of [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Licensed drivers who are students in the Pottsgrove School District may have no real idea what it feels like to be behind a steering wheel and impaired by alcohol or drugs. The newest member of the Board of School Directors thinks it’s time they found out … safely, rather than tragically. Acting [...]

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HARRISBURG PA – A state law that so far this year has robbed Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township coffers of about $15,000 in unrealized income actually seems to be doing what it’s supposed to: reducing the number of complaints about home improvement contractors working in Pennsylvania. Complaints to the state regarding unfinished or shoddy projects done [...]

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