The Sanatoga Post

POTTSTOWN PA – Pottsgrove School District administrators announced Pottsgrove High School was locked down early Wednesday morning (Sept. 15, 2010), and its students were kept inside the building, as Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township police responded to what reportedly began as a domestic assault on Ivy Lane and later turned into a crash-ridden chase that ended [...]

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SANATOGA PA – All Lower Pottsgrove Police Det. Joe Campbell needs to do, his commanding officer says, is get bad guys talking. Once that’s accomplished, Chief Michael Shade added, criminals practically convict themselves. Shade offered lengthy praise of the effectiveness of Campbell’s interviewing skills, his patience in investigations, and his intensity of pursuit in introducing [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Yawn. As it does annually, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township has announced it is seeking competitive bids from vendors to supply Number 2-grade diesel fuel during the coming year for delivery to three locations: the municipal garage on North Pleasant View Road, and two pumping stations at Porter and South Sanatoga Station roads, [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – More than 190 area charitable groups of all kinds, from religious bodies to foundations that help worthy students pay for college, are in jeopardy of losing their federal tax-exempt status because they failed to file necessary paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service during the past three years, the government agency said. Complicating [...]

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BLUE BELL PA – Forty-five police cadets – including residents of Pottstown, Pennsburg, East Greenville, Linfield, Limerick, and Harleysville – graduated last Wednesday (July 28, 2010) from Montgomery County Community College’s Municipal Police Academy, during a ceremony held in its Science Center Theater on the college main campus in Blue Bell PA. Graduates of Class [...]

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NORRISTOWN PA – Comic book characters like Superman and Spiderman have been fighting fictional crime for years. Now a Montgomery County (PA) law enforcement official is using a national auction service, created by a former Lower Pottsgrove resident, to have them help battle bad guys in a very real way. County District Attorney Risa Vetri [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Lower Pottsgrove’s solicitor has been authorized to explore whether the township’s interest in cleaning up a contaminated and deteriorating gasoline station property, at the northeast corner of Mervine and North Charlotte streets, represents a “public purpose” adequate enough to buy the land under eminent domain laws. The township Board of Commissioners, during [...]

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HARRISBURG PA – A report issued late last month (July 2010) by the Pennsylvania Public Employee Retirement Commission (PERC) claims that municipal pension plans for workers in Limerick (PA) Township and the Borough of Pottstown are sufficiently funded, but that the pension plan in Lower Pottsgrove Township is “moderately distressed” because the calculated ratio of [...]

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The 27th annual National Night Out (NNO),  a nationwide campaign to promote neighborhood spirit and safety, and police-community partnerships, is scheduled for most of the United States (except in Texas, where they tend to do things a little differently) for Tuesday (Aug. 3, 2010). Here’s a round-up of NNO events being planned locally. What’s NNO [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Two-day hunter safety courses are being offered during the next two months by the Lower Pottsgrove Sportsmans Association, 2121 Sanatoga Station Rd., Pottstown PA, the group has announced on its website. One series of courses will begin Saturday (July 31, 2010) from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and continue Monday (Aug. 2) [...]

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