There's no excuse for violence, the Pottstown-based YWCA Tri-County Area consistently says. It's observing the annual Week Without Violence this week, and wants your social media help.
Safety
Metropolitan Edison, which serves residents of 10 municipalities in the greater Pottstown area, has won two safety awards from a trade association.
Unhappy with some aspects of western Montgomery County now? Think there's a better way to do things in the future? Share your vision tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 9) with others who will listen.
Douglass and eight other local municipalities have won a total of $16,000 in federal grants to help buy bulletproof vests for their police officers. Each costs about $900.
Pottstown attorney Levi S. Wolf of Wolf Baldwin & Associates ranks among Pennsylvania's best in the practice of worker compensation law, a trade magazine said.
The "Stop The Violence" Crusade is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. in the borough's Riverfront Park on College Drive.
Crowded. Claustrophobic. Sweaty. Miserable. Those were descriptions of state budget discussions less than two weeks ago in Harrisburg. Lawmakers seemingly wanted it that way.
A study by the Pew Charitable Trust concludes Pennsylvania's Legislature is the second most expensive in the nation. Lawmakers are thinking again about cutting seats.