With 5 photos. At least one driver was injured in an accident Thursday morning on westbound U.S. Route 422 that occurred between Evergreen and South Park roads. Both cars needed to be towed from the scene. Fire police detoured traffic.
With 11 photos. A driver lost control Tuesday morning of a dump truck while headed east on U.S. Route 422 in Lower Pottsgrove. It went flying off the side of a bridge and down a steep ravine. The driver survived. Part of the highway was closed.
A barn fire reported Wednesday shortly after 2 a.m off the east side of North Sanatoga Road, near Snell Road in Lower Pottsgrove, prompted emergency dispatchers to call for a dozen first-responder units.
An animated, lighted Christmas light show, accompanied by music and which lasts 10-15 minutes, is being presented nightly by the Ringing Hill Fire Company, 815 White Pine Ln. Volunteers have been working on it for months.
Lower Pottsgrove commissioners are continuing a long-standing relationship with certified public accountant Barbara A. Akins of Bechtelsville. She was retained to audit township finances for another three years.
What started as a grill fire on the front porch of a residential unit at Walnut Ridge Estates on Buchert Road in Lower Pottsgrove later involved the porch itself, according to emergency dispatchers.
After having unanimously passed the state House of Representatives, a Senate committee has received for review a proposed bill that would make new money available to recruit and train fire and emergency medical responders.
A woman was carefully removed from her vehicle by first responders and wheeled to a waiting ambulance following a two-car crash Thursday afternoon, on East High Street at the entrance to Maple Glen Village in Sanatoga.