Most people are familiar with trails in their own backyards: the Schuylkill River, the Perkiomen, or the Chester Valley. Many don't know our area has an 800-plus-mile trail system. Celebrate it April 23.
Sports
A crowd-based fund-raising effort to benefit the Pottsgrove High baseball team as of Monday had already collected $3,775 of a $5,000 goal. It needs the money to run a "competitive" program, its donation page said.
The 60th anniversary season of professional auto racing at Grandview Speedway officially begins April 2 with the running of the VP Racing Fuels Bruce Rogers Memorial Money Maker.
It's a tradition at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville. Management throws open its grandstand to the public, free, so they can see racers tune up and practice on its track. The event is set for Saturday.
A guest speaker will describe life back when milk deliveries existed, long before UberEats and DoorDash. Spring-Ford cheerleaders hold a clinic. And your Lenten dinner's ready in Schwenksville.
The fourth of several Restore Hyper Wellness locations planned in southeastern Pennsylvania is conducting its grand opening activities this weekend at Providence Town Center in Collegeville.
The auto racing excitement offered weekly by Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville will be far brighter to enjoy when its 60th anniversary season opens April 2. The track will be bathed in new LED lighting.
The weather is warmer than three months ago, and ground is no longer frozen. That made this week a perfect period in which to resume grading a soccer field at Lower Pottsgrove's Gerald Richards Park.