The Sanatoga Post

A tense, day-long gun drama Thursday between law enforcers and a lone gunman at a Logan Steet, Pottstown, apartment ended in the evening darkness with the wounded suspect in custody and hospitalized. None of the officers and first responders, and no other members of the public, were injured.

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A $2.1 million settlement to cover earlier clean-up costs at the Occidental Chemical manufacturing site on Armand Hammer Boulevard in Lower Pottsgrove has been reached between the Environmental Protection Agency and the property’s current and former owners.

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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 – Helping youngsters to plan for their career, play in a band, and learn how to tell stories with video are among three of several projects sharing in $10,000 awarded in mini-grants by the Pottsgrove Eduction Foundation for cultural education and innovative teaching, Pottsgrove School District Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis recently told the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Volunteers are needed by the Sanatoga PA-based Family Services’ Meals on Wheels program to deliver meals to home bound elderly and disabled individuals in the greater Pottstown area, agency spokeswoman Karen Konnick reported Monday (Oct. 11, 2010). Meals on Wheels provides two meals, a hot lunch and a cold supper to refrigerate, [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – The top price paid for real estate within Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township from April 8-June 24, 2010, was $205,000, the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports. The property is located at 1352 Randy Dr. Also listed was 673 Buchert Rd., at $182,900. This week’s top reported prices were listed Sunday (Oct. 10, 2010) in [...]

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DONORS FILLED A TRAILER WITH HELPFUL CLOTHING – Pottsgrove School District residents responded in droves to participate in a Homecoming Weekend used clothing drive sponsored Friday and Saturday (Oct. 8-9, 2010) by the Pottsgrove Music League. The drive raised money for the league’s support of music programs in Pottsgrove schools, and the tons of clothing [...]

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PUSHING PEANUTS AS IN DAYS GONE BYE – Carrying on a local, decades-old tradition, members of the Kiwanis Club of Pottstown PA gathered Saturday (Oct. 9, 2010) outside the front doors of the Sanatoga Thriftway, East High Street, to sell peanuts-in-the-shell for a dollar a bag as an annual fund-raiser for their youth projects. Among [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – What makes a homecoming sweet? A football game between closely matched rivals, a contest with some drama and excitement, and a win, of course. All were in place Friday night (Oct. 8, 2010) as the Pottsgrove High School Falcons took on the Spring-Ford Senior High Rams at Pottsgrove’s Kauffman Road stadium. The [...]

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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 [...]

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