PennDOT will inspect four bridges on U.S. Route 422 during the four-day period between today (Monday, April 12) and Thursday (April 15) on portions of the highway in Lower Pottsgrove and North Coventry.
Lower Pottsgrove
A 24-year-old Pottstown man, who earlier lived in Reading, is being sought on an arrest warrant issued to Lower Pottsgrove police regarding burglary-related charges that were originally lodged in February.
Eight separate pieces of apparatus from the Sanatoga and Ringing Hill fire companies were called Saturday at mid-morning to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Kepler Road in Lower Pottsgrove.
The spring weather will bring PennDOT contractors out in force next week. The transportation department plans six different lane closure sites next week for four projects on U.S. Route 422.
With five photos. A worker helping to lay pipe in a trench dug into Evergreen Road in Lower Pottsgrove was trapped there Wednesday when part of its wall collapsed. He was rescued and flown to a Philadelphia hospital.
A Walnut Ridge Estates resident faces a list of charges following his arrest Monday by Lower Pottsgrove police. He allegedly was involved in a dispute with a neighbor, which included a single gunshot. No one was injured.
Lower Pottsgrove now has the money available, and is beginning terrain and design work, to remove and replace the deteriorating one-lane, limited-load bridge on Pruss Hill Road.
The weather is getting warmer, and PennDOT's schedule is getting busier. In addition to lane closures and delays already announced, the highway agency is adding four more to this week's commuting mix.