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Answer To Prayer: Academy Helps Rolling Hills Students

Talk among participants at a prayer breakfast led to action by Coventry Christian Schools to form a tutoring-and-sports program specifically intended to help students living at the Rolling Hills apartment complex on Buchert Road. It won a grant for the project last December.

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Townships Talk About Coordinating Fun And Games

Could a recreation coordinator help Lower Pottsgrove and other municipalities get more people involved in wellness activities and save money too? It’s being explored on a regional level now, the Board of Commissioners learned.

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Pottsgrove’s Students Among Those Losing Weight

Pottsgrove, Pottstown, and Spring-Ford Area school district students seem to share a common trait: fewer of them are considered obese, and more are within a healthy weight range over the past three years.

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Pottsgrove, Others Qualify For Retailer Activity Grants

A contribution to local organizations from retailer L.L. Bean, which is opening a store next week in King of Prussia, could help Pottsgrove and other school districts pay for students’ outdoor activities.

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Ooops! Builders Tripped Up On Sprogel Run Trail Specs

Specifications for a proposed boardwalk nature trail at Sprogel’s Run Park in Lower Pottsgrove went out, but bids that came back for its construction were over-budget. The township plans some cost-saving changes.

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Lower Pottsgrove Officer Featured In New Bullying Video

Township Police Officer William James is one of several area experts tapped to discuss childhood bullying in a series of new videos released Friday by the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation.

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A sign on Timberview Drive, off Kepler Road in Lower Pottsgrove Township, marks the start of open space that someday will be Sprogel

Sprogels Run Park Project On Commissioners’ Agenda

More than two years after it was marked out, construction of the enhanced nature trail at Sprogels Run Park in Lower Pottsgrove may be authorized tonight by the township Board of Commissioners.

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Wellness Foundation Awards $979,000 In Local Grants

More than 30 projects proposed by community organizations in Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick, Pottstown and elsewhere will share in almost $1 million in grants announced Friday.

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Foundation’s New Staffer To Manage Activity Grants

A Philadelphia resident has been hired by the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation to manage its grants for Pottsgrove and other schools, recreation, and active living programs.

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Foundation Sponsors Pottstown Talk On Obesity

The Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation continues its battle against child obesity.

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