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Season’s First Snow Fell Thanksgiving Day

Snow came down in Lower Pottsgrove before the turkey was even out of the oven on Thanksgiving Day 2010.

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School Calendar Changes, Thanks To Snow Days

POTTSTOWN PA – Blame this winter’s severe weather for a shuffle in the Pottsgrove School District’s 2009-2010 calendar. The district Board of School Directors, which by law must provide 180 total instruction days to students, unanimously agreed Tuesday night (March 9, 2010) to push the end of the school year back two days, from June [...]

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Winter's April Fool's Joke

SANATOGA PA – Just two days after Christmas, temperatures around Sanatoga today (Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008) are expected in the unseasonable 50s. Sunday could be better still, with highs nearing a record 65 degrees. Don’t let the current weather fool you. Lower Pottsgrove drivers must be prepared and alert for winter road conditions that are [...]

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Township Accepts Snow Plowing Bids

Acknowledging that colder weather has arrived and snow may soon follow, the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners approved bids last night (Oct. 23, 2008), made by three independent contractors, to help plow roads in coming months. The township has about 100 miles of public road, of which 25 miles are maintained by the [...]

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Computers Zap Winter Away

Computer chips turn on your coffee machine in the morning, and help you drive more safely while drinking that coffee and cruising U.S. Route 422 to work. Those tiny pieces of silicon also play a big role in keeping 422 and other state-maintained highways free of ice and snow this winter, according to Pennsylvania’s Department [...]

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Not Salt-Strapped

To a list of things jumping up in cost this winter, add road salt. The grainy, pebble-sized mineral used to melt ice and snow off roadways is selling for as much as $185 a ton. A nationwide salt shortage is the reason, Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation (PennDOT) said Tuesday (Oct. 21, 2008), and at current [...]

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