The Sanatoga Post

POTTSTOWN PA – At Pottsgrove High School today (Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010), it’s officially “Make Your Own T-Shirt Day,” one of those rare events in which students’ tastefully outlandish attire will probably pass muster among principals and teachers, so long as it positively promotes the alma mater. That’s because this week is Homecoming Week at [...]

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HARRISBURG PA – Area chambers of commerce apparently feel the status quo is good to go in the coming November general elections. The board of directors of their umbrella political group, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chambers’ Political Action Committee, on Wednesday (Oct. 6, 2010) endorsed incumbents for re-election to state and congressional offices. Receiving endorsements locally [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Won’t the rain ever stop? Pottsgrove School District Athletic Director Gary DeRenzo has probably been asking himself that question for days. DeRenzo, whose job in part is to schedule – and in case of inclement weather, re-schedule – the district’s many athletic contests, on Wednesday (Oct. 6, 2010) announced the latest in [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Fire Marshal Lew Babel offered his regrets Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) to the Board of Commissioners for failing to attend its first meeting of the month, but he was otherwise engaged. Investigating fires, after all, comes before reporting to township leaders on them. While commissioners gathered in the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Legendary Philadelphia Flyer goalie Bernie Parent will serve as a celebrity host Oct. 30 (2010; Saturday) from 2-4 p.m. in the Route 422 Sportsplex, 1400 Industrial Hwy., Pottstown PA (Lower Pottsgrove Township), as Pottstown Memorial Medical Center introduces its Center for Orthopedics and Spine medical team to the public. The event is [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Tuesday’s (Oct. 5, 2010) continuing rain again played havoc with some parts of the Pottsgrove School District‘s sports schedule. In an e-mail update received from district Athletic Director Gary DeRenzo late Tuesday morning, he announced the following postponements: High School Boys Soccer (varsity only) vs. Boyertown, rescheduled for next Wednesday (Oct. 13, [...]

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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. [...]

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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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SANATOGA PA – William R. Gift Co., a Boyertown fuel distributor, won Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s business Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) for its purchase of diesel fuel during 2011, the Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed, assuming legal documents for the fuel sale are approved by township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway. Gift was the lowest acceptable [...]

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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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