The Sanatoga Post

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 [...]

Read the full story

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. [...]

Read the full story

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. [...]

Read the full story

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 [...]

Read the full story

POTTSTOWN PA – “Significant problems” with poor water drainage behind a retaining wall outside the cafeteria of the 11-year-old Pottsgrove Middle School, perched on a North Hanover Street ridge high above the Pottsgrove School District, will require the wall to be taken apart and rebuilt at a cost that’s “probably going to be painful,” the [...]

Read the full story

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 [...]

Read the full story

KING OF PRUSSIA PA – A 7-hour fair intended to introduce PECO energy customers – which include many Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick and Pottstown PA area residents – to new and existing electric generation suppliers will be held Wednesday (Sept. 22, 2010) from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel, 1160 First [...]

Read the full story

KING OF PRUSSIA PA – Mission accomplished, or at least one part of it. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) office in King of Prussia officially declared itself done Monday (Sept. 13, 2010) with 4-1/2 miles of U.S. Route 422 rehabilitation between its Route 29 (Collegeville-Phoenixville) and Royersford interchanges, paid for by $13.2 million in [...]

Read the full story

POTTSTOWN PA – Administrators, faculty members and students alike celebrated last Thursday afternoon (Sept. 9, 2010) as ground was officially broken for the renovation and expansion of the Pottsgrove School District’s Ringing Rocks Elementary School, 1401 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA. Contractors started some of the work almost two weeks ago, but tossing aside a silver-plated [...]

Read the full story

PHILADELPHIA PA – Advocates for the U.S. Route 422 Master Plan, apparently having felt like they’ve endured undue lumps from the press and the public, are taking the offensive to better define what the plan is … and isn’t. It IS, they say, a series of strategies to reduce traffic congestion, expand transportation choices, and [...]

Read the full story