Douglassville News

Health care news for western Montgomery County residents , for Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2009.

Thanks to a generous community and a brother who donated bone marrow, 3-year-old Sophia Hogan gets to celebrate the holiday with her family.

Local churches and charitable organizations want to help western Montgomery County consumers get a head start on their holiday shopping, with bazaars, fairs and shows that offer a variety of craft, food and other goods.

Forty youngsters from southern Berks County will go to church today, cold, hungry and with a story to tell.

When groups of youths arrive today in Douglassville , for what the Rev. Joe Motz hopes will be an exercise that changes their lives, they probably will have come from warm beds, washed in hot showers, dressed comfortably, and filled their stomachs with breakfast.

Weekend activities for western Montgomery County residents , Nov. 20-22, 2009: 'Tis the season for Christmas bazaars, craft fairs, shows and meals.

Question: Birdsboro Borough Council recently refused to change the name of its "Christmas in Birdsboro" holiday celebration after a resident complained that it's an endorsement of Christianity to the exclusion of other religions that have holidays around the same time.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Nov. 13-15, 2009: 'Tis the season for Christmas bazaars, craft fairs, shows and meals.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Nov. 6-8, 2009: 'Tis the season for Christmas bazaars, craft fairs, shows and meals.

POTTSTOWN PA a ' Three blood drives conducted by the Miller-Keystone Blood Center are scheduled to be held at area locations next week.

Coventry Christian Schools broke ground last week for an 8,000-square-foot events center on its Lower Pottsgrove campus, at 699 N. Pleasant View Rd., Pottstown PA , the plans for which were approved years earlier by the township.

Click on picture to enlarge. Courtesy of Courtney H. Diener-Stokes Debbie Davis of Amity Township at Curves, Douglassville.

Madison Detwiler, 6, center, saved up her allowance to donate to the Pottstown Memorial Regional Cancer Center.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2009: Halloween activities and events can be found here .

A fitness group trying to raise breast cancer awareness has a new way to support the cause.

Kevin McColgan and Tammy Roehrig pitched a big tent Saturday on their new property on Red Corner Road in Union Township, and when they said their benefit concert was going to go off rain or shine, they weren't kidding.

Road projects Fifth Street Highway between Reading and Blandon: overnight lane restrictions, 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Interstate 78 between Route 183 and the Lehigh County line: lane restrictions around the clock.

Two people were killed and another person injured in a three-vehicle accident Wednesday on Route 73 in Earl Township, officials said.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Oct. 9-11, 2009: Friday, Oct. 9 The beauty of the season's on display.

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