The Sanatoga Post

SANATOGA FIRE COMPANY SALE CONTINUES – The aroma of sweet-smelling flowers and equally sweet home-baked goods filled the bays of the Sanatoga Fire Company, 2222 E. High St., Pottstown PA, this week for its annual Easter sale. Customers have crowded into the fire house to find items that will grace their tables and fill their [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Despite a lack of funds, worries over a loss of public trust, and the need to fend off false rumors about its demise, a representative of Pottstown’s non-profit Fourth of July celebration committee says it fully expects to conduct a two-day observance of the holiday this year, including a High Street parade [...]

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THE HUNT IS ON – A larger-than-life Easter bunny visited Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township on Saturday (March 27, 2010) to help oversee the township Parks and Recreation Department’s annual egg hunt. Hundreds of eggs were scattered across selected areas of Richards Park on Buchert Road, Pottstown PA, waiting for youngsters to find them when the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – The biggest surprise during a Pottsgrove Middle School holiday concert filled with delights, according to Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ Treasurer Fred Remelius, was the tuba player. An audience of more than 800 people packed into the school’s auditorium at 1351 N. Hanover St. two weeks ago (Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009), for [...]

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LIMERICK PA – What a difference a day makes. The Philadelphia Premium Outlets mall at the Sanatoga interchange of U.S. Route 422 in Limerick was booming with customers yesterday (Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009), as they enjoyed shopping for post-Christmas bargains in bright sunshine and temperatures that reached into the low-50s, despite breezy conditions. The mall’s [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Santa Claus will again join the Sanatoga Ridge Runners aboard a fire truck to cruise through Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township this year, but in a departure from the past his stops are being pre-planned by his hosts. Escorting red-suited Santa around the township is an ages-old tradition for the Sanatoga Fire Company, [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – For a second consecutive year, students at the Pottsgrove School District‘s Ringing Rocks Elementary School are being asked to contribute money to charity rather than spend it on holiday gifts to exchange between themselves or their teachers. All donations, which are voluntary, will be given to The Salvation Army of Pottstown, and [...]

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BOYERTOWN PA – A free holiday concert performed by the Pottsgrove Community Band will be held Dec. 21 (2009; Monday) from 7-8 p.m. at the Chestnut Knoll retirement community, 120 W. 5th St., Boyertown PA. The public may attend, and light refreshments will be served. For morning formation, call 610-473-8066. This event has been added [...]

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Editor’s note: The Posts are pleased to present these video holiday greetings from U.S. Armed Forces servicemen, women, and their families to their loved ones and friends within our Sanatoga, Limerick and Pottstown coverage areas. These videos are provided by the Joint Hometown News Service, which notes they represent only a fraction of the thousands [...]

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PRETTY AND WHITE FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Visitors during Saturday’s (Dec. 5, 2009) Candlelight Tour at Peter Wentz Farmstead, the Montgomery County historic site in Worcester PA, had the realism of their Christmas trip back in time enhanced by the first snowfall of the winter. Although it made driving to the restored 18th Century Pennsylvania [...]

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