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Community Attendance Sought At Sex Offenders Program

Police chiefs in all three Pottsgrove townships and Pottsgrove School District officials urge parents and other adults to attend an informational program on sex offenders scheduled for Jan. 9 at Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School.

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Sex Offender Program Planned For January In Pottsgrove

Scheduling of the presentation follows the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Nov. 1 decision to remove a 2009 sex offender residency ordinance from the township books.

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Township 2009 Sex Offender Law ‘Might Not Stand Up’

Rather than scrap what now may be an invalid sexual offender residency law, Lower Pottsgrove commissioners want to find ways to save what they think of as “some of its safety features.”

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Sex Offender Residency Limits Approved

SANATOGA PA – Not here, not there, but not “not anywhere.” A law to restrict – but not eliminate – places where convicted and state-registered sexual offenders can live within Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township was unanimously approved Monday (May 4, 2009) by the township Board of Commissioners. It forbids offenders from living in any structure [...]

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Sex Offender Law Hearing Approved

SANATOGA PA – A public hearing on Lower Pottsgrove‘s proposed sex offender residency law, which has been under consideration for the past eight months, will be scheduled for May 4 (2009; Monday) at the township municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., the township Board of Commissioners agreed Monday night (April 6, 2009). The board’s unanimous vote [...]

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Map Need Delays Sex Offender Residency Law

SANATOGA PA – Consideration of a sex offender residency law in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township has been put on hold until its engineers can create an official map showing where registered sex offenders could – and could not – legally live. Mapping will take time, possibly several months, and cost $8,000. Members of the township [...]

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Considerate Commissioners Meet Tonight

SANATOGA PA – When the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners canceled its second meeting last month, according to board member Anthony Doyle, “there wasn’t enough on the agenda” worth meeting about. So to save their time and that of the public, Doyle said recently, commissioners simply called the whole thing off. Considerate politicians. [...]

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Surprise! Township Board Cancels Meeting

SANATOGA PA – For reasons left unexplained, the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners abruptly cancelled its previously scheduled meeting tonight (Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009) in the township municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd. Instead, according to an announcement on the township website, “All business scheduled for (the cancelled) meeting will be conducted at the [...]

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Township Advertises Sex Offender Residency Law

SANATOGA PA – A proposed law that would limit where registered adult sex offenders can live within the confines of Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township has been officially advertised as the subject of a Jan. 22 (2009) public hearing to be conducted by the township Board of Commissioners at 7 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 [...]

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Township Moves Toward Sex Offender Residency Law

LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – A draft of a prospective ordinance that would impose residency restrictions on convicted sex offenders, first discussed by the township Board of Commissioners last August, is expected to be unveiled to the public later this month (January 2009). Board members and their solicitor, R. Kurtz Holloway, have held several discussions about [...]

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