Pottsgrove News

Property tax rates in Lower Pottsgrove Township will remain unchanged for 2010 if the municipality's $5.43 million budget, which was tentatively approved last night by the township Board of Commissioners , is adopted in final form next month.

The public gets its first look tonight at the Lower Pottsgrove Township tentative budget for 2010, during the township Board of Commissioners meeting that begins at 7 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.

Pottsgrove High School marching band members returned from the Cavalcade of Bands Association 's state championships Sunday in Hershey PA with a respected third-place overall finish in its Independence Division, and the judges' award for "Most Improved" band in the competition.

Thank You, Veterans, For Your Service Today is Veterans Day. Here's a round-up of related events across the Greater Pottstown area.

The new codes book is here, the new codes book is here! The laws are something big again! Township Assistant Manager Alyson Elliott shows the new codes book to members of Lower Pottsgrove's Board of Commissioners.

Band members in performance earlier this year in Royersford. The Falcons' flags fly this weekend at HersheyPark in Hershey PA.

A public hearing on the budget to renovate and re-build Ringing Rocks Elementary School - which covers its proposed cost, but not the design itself - has been scheduled next month by the Pottsgrove School District , despite the objection of one school board member who later said he considered the stated amount too high.

Two Pottstown area Girl Scouts, Meagan West and Rosie Brunner, are paying tribute to local veterans and active military personnel by planning and preparing meals in their honor, the second of which will be served this Sunday from 3-6 p.m. at the Colonial Room in Sanatoga's Sunnybrook Ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Rd., Pottstown PA.

An $80,000 grant that was scheduled last year to be given by Montgomery County to Sunnybrook Ballroom , and then was delayed, and then ran into legal worries from Lower Pottsgrove Township officials, and then seemed dead and lost maybe isn't yet.

Seven riflemen from the post, as they have in years past, will fire three volleys in a 21-gun salute to veterans of all armed services.

Michael McGroarty, of Foxtail Drive, Pottstown PA, and James Kaiser, of Deer Ridge Drive, handily won election as Lower Pottsgrove Township commissioners Tuesday night, according to unofficial 2009 general election results posted at 12:32 a.m. today by the Montgomery County Board of Elections .

Members of the Pottsgrove High School Marching Band will spend Halloween Day on the fields at Ephrata High School , 43 miles west of Sanatoga village center , intent on raising the "spirits" of visitors there and hoping to bring home another trophy.

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

As of Sunday , members of the Pottsgrove Pirates Under-10 Boys Soccer travel team had collected more than 200 winter coats during a two-week coat drive that will benefit individuals who need the warm outerwear this winter.

The Pottsgrove High School Music League has begun soliciting crafters to participate in its annual Holiday and Craft Show, to be held Nov.

The sounds of laughter and fun filled Sanatoga Park, 200 S. Sanatoga Rd., Pottstown PA , on Sunday afternoon , where the Verizon Fall Festival wasA held by Lower Pottsgrove Township 's Parks and Recreation Department .

Pottsgrove High School senior Andrew DeLena has been named a Commended Student in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program .

A Doylestown Township man has begun serving jail time for a fatal two-vehicle accident he caused in January in Montgomery Township.

A presentation, scheduled to be given by builder J. Wilmer "Wil" Hallman of Wil Hallman Retirement Development , has prompted the Lower Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners to move up the start of its Thursday meeting in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA , by an hour, to 6 p.m. Township Manager Rodney Hawthorne reports ...

Outgoing Lower Pottsgrove Commissioner Anthony Doyle thinks the public would be interested in the minutiae of how the township spends its money.