Upper Pottsgrove will receive $5,000, and East Coventry, $7,147, in 2022 Green Region Grants from PECO. They're intended to help preserve trees, and create or enhance open spaces.
Trace Slinkerd won re-election to the Upper Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, and will be joined on the board by his running mates, Don Read and Hank Llewellyn. Incumbent Martin Schrieber lost his bid for re-election; France Krazalkovich also lost.
The intersection of Pineford Road and Summer Grove Lane in Upper Pottsgrove Township is scheduled to be temporarily closed Wednesday and Thursday due to sanitary sewer installation work.
Upper Pottsgrove Township's most recent purchase of 12.23 acres of open space, at a cost of $485,000, preserves pristine springs and may someday host a trail system that links parks.
A public hearing on the proposal by the Upper Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners is scheduled for next Monday.