Pottstown News

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.

A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike.

This 1904 photo of Jackson's Lock on the Schuylkill Canal in Reading is among the images in a new book "Along the Schuylkill River." The boats are Hiester's excursion boats, which took people on trips along the river from the late 1800s through 1917.

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 .

Grief support group meetings conducted by the Pottstown YMCA will be held next Wednesday and again on Nov.

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.

What is being touted as one of the first development projects in Montgomery County that would include housing units created to meet the latest standards of a national organization which rates the energy efficiency of buildings has been proposed for Sanatoga.

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

The booklet that accompanies Do What You Want, Be Who You Are , the new four-CD boxed set devoted to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates, is full of testimonials to the Philadelphia-bred soul-pop tandem, who headline a sold-out triple bill at the Spectrum tomorrow with Todd Rundgren and the Hooters.

In an effort to determine just how the recession and stubborn credit environment have impacted treasury operations at organizations around the country, Business Finance magazine initiated an online survey of its readers this summer.

One of three accused killers slated for trial on Oct. 26 for the January fatal home invasion-robbery in Montgomery Township Friday made an 11th-hour request for a new lawyer.

EDITOR'S NOTE - Although the QuiltMakers of Boyertown have finished their project to sew 100 quilts, organizers say assistance with funding for postage to ship the quilts overseas is appreciated.

Applications Still Taken For School Board Vacancy and apparently will be until Tuesday night, when the Pottsgrove school board is expected to select a replacement for Director Keith McCarrick, who resigned two weeks ago.

A 29-year-old Pottstown woman who helped her uncle and grandmother set up an online banking account has been charged with swiping nearly $170,000 from it.

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

Seasonal flu vaccines will be offered free to area residents age 50 and older, and selected others, by the Montgomery County Health Department during clinics later this month and next in the Greater Pottstown area.

"Excellent" investigative work by Lower Pottsgrove Township Police Det. Joseph Campbell was credited Monday by police Chief Michael Shade for "bringing a quick close" to a bomb threat incident that occurred in early September at the Redner's Warehouse Market , 1300 N. Charlotte St., Pottstown PA .

The 2009 edition of the borough's CROP Hunger Walk , which raises funds to eradicate hunger and hopes to heighten public awareness of those who lack enough to eat, starts Sunday at 2 p.m. from First Presbyterian Church, 750 N. Evans St., Pottstown PA .

Gladys Smith, former owner of Pottstown's Anvil Studio on State Street , admired the handiwork of others and smiled happily.