The Sanatoga Post

BLUE BELL PA – Patients affected by periodontal (gum) disease are being actively recruited for treatment by the dental hygiene clinic at Montgomery County Community College’s  Blue Bell campus, the college recently announced. Patient eligibility screenings are scheduled to begin by appointment only in about two weeks (Monday, Sept. 20, 2010), with treatments slated to [...]

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LIMERICK PA – One of the U.S. Postal Service’s newest stamps will be introduced locally next week with a little bit of divine assistance. Postal officials are scheduled to join members of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Limerick PA on Tuesday (Sept. 7, 2010) at 6 p.m. at the parish education center, 256 Swamp [...]

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PHILADELPHIA PA – Jobs are growing “slow and steady” in what a Philadelphia area web-search employment service calls “niche career communities,” a group of employers who hire workers with special skills. A scan of its listings, however, indicates that while such growth may be near Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick and Pottstown, it’s not yet really local. [...]

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CREAMERY PA – How does a Pennsylvania legislator, who knows he’s about to be photographed, sample a piece of bread without opening his mouth too wide or dropping white crumbs on his bright red shirt and still look happy about the entire process? Very carefully, state Sen. John Rafferty can attest. Rafferty – who represents [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Cedar Shopping Centers Inc. – which has ownership interests the Upland Square Shopping Center on Upland Square Drive, Pottstown PA, and the Heritage Crossing Shopping Center on Ridge Pike in Limerick PA – on Monday (Aug. 16, 2010) said it would spend about $200 million to buy all or part of seven [...]

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POTTSTOWN  PA – It’s part quilt-making, part animal and pet show, part music, part hay ride, and all fun. It’s the annual Montgomery County 4-H Fair, which is scheduled to involve dozens of participants from Pottstown, and Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick (PA) townships, beginning today (Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010) and continuing through Saturday at the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – The following is a list of 192 organizations – whose mailing addresses are within coverage areas of The Sanatoga Post, The Limerick Post and The Pottstown Post – that as of June 30 (2010) are listed by the federal Internal Revenue Service as in danger of losing their tax-exempt status because they [...]

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VALLEY FORGE PA – Several weeks after its first failed attempt to work on overhead lines crossing U.S. Route 422 in Upper Merion (PA) Township, crews from Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO) will try again this Sunday (July 17, 2010), causing both the east- and westbound lanes of a portion of the highway to be closed [...]

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LIMERICK PA – Almost 84 hours after an abrupt but reportedly safe shut-down, the Unit 1 nuclear reactor at Exelon Corp.’s Limerick Generating Station was returned to service Sunday morning (June 27, 2010) and has resumed producing electricity. The reactor was manually turned off Wednesday night (June 23)at 8:51 “as a result of an electrical [...]

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LIMERICK PA – In a rare incident Wednesday night (June 23, 2010) at 8:54, operators at Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station manually shut down its Unit 1 reactor after both of the unit’s two recirculation pumps stopped working, Exelon spokesman Joseph Szafran reported. Szafran, in a brief press release e-mailed to local media Wednesday at [...]

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