The Sanatoga Post

POTTSTOWN PA – Tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010) could be a day of nervous anticipation, sweaty palms and dry mouths among members of the Pottsgrove High School sophomore class. Instead, Principal Chris Shaffer will happily bet that confidence trumps those symptoms, as the 360 sophomores face their chance to take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Lower Pottsgrove’s political leaders now have two of three 2011 budget meetings behind them, having been scheduled to meet Tuesday (Oct. 5, 2010) and last month (Sept. 21) to discuss next year’s potential spending plan. So how are things shaping up? They’re about what you’d expect in a still-faltering economy, township Commissioner [...]

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PLEDGING TO PROTECT AND DEFEND – James J. Kenney Jr., center, on Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) became the newest patrolman in the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Police Department. He accepted his oath of office, administered by Lower Pottsgrove resident and Magisterial District Justice Edward Kropp, left, as his grandfather, Robert Curran of Havertown PA, held the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Fill ‘er up. Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township employees get to do that themselves, from a diesel fuel pump at the municipal garage on North Pleasant View Road, whenever their trucks’ gauges point to empty. They’ll likely be able to continue to do so after tonight (Monday, Oct. 4, 2010), when the Board [...]

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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 [...]

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SANATOGA PA – “Slow, but steady.” That’s how Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township police officers characterized the turnout as people deposited unwanted and expired prescription drugs into a box designated for the purpose during Saturday’s (Sept. 25, 2010) “National Take-Back Initiative” to keep such medications out of the hands of potential abusers. Lower Pottsgrove’s department and [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Seven different law enforcement agencies covering municipalities within a 20-mile radius of Pottstown PA are participating today (Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the “National Take-Back Initiative,” during which anyone can drop off unused or unwanted prescription medicines at designated police stations and other sites. Police departments [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Pottsgrove School District students generally improved overall, and the percentage demonstrating advanced proficiency in math and reading skills climbed higher, in results from 2009-2010 school year benchmark tests administered under the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), the state Department of Education reported last week (Sept. 14, 2010). Pottsgrove also received a [...]

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SANATOGA PA – From a public perspective, the biggest month of the year for the Sanatoga and Ringing Hill fire companies – the all-volunteer organizations that protect Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township residents from fire, accidents and other hazards – is only 13 days away. October is National Fire Prevention Month, specifically chosen because the Great [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – As parents of Pottsgrove High School students filled Rader Auditorium last night (Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010) during an annual back-to-school event, Principal Chris Shaffer warned that one of the greatest dangers their children faced was lurking in their family medicine cabinet. “Prescription drugs. Big, big problem,” Schaffer said, “and we want to [...]

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