Valley Forge News

There will lane closures on the turnpike in the East Whiteland area Wednesday night.

Quenched metal parts require cleaning before they can move onto other metalworking processes such as annealing or tempering.

On Memorial Day, the wood-fired bake oven at Valley Forge National Park will be at the center of 18th century bread making and cooking demonstrations.

Vanguard Group said it was closing its $16.9 billion High-Yield Corporate Fund to most new accounts effective immediately, marking the latest junk bond manager seeking to shut off a flood of cash from investors.

The Kiwanis Club of Phoenixville recently held the annual convention of the K-Kids Clubs from the Phoenixville area School District.A Fourth- and fifth-grade students from the community service oriented group met at the Freedoms Foundtaion at Valley Forge to hear a presentation about the foundations work and take a tour of the grounds.A The student ... (more)

Editor's note: The following information comes from the PA Turnpike Commission. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission reports that motorists traveling on the Turnpike west from Valley Forge and east from Downingtown should be prepared for bi-directional single-lane closures and intermittent slow-moving traffic paces with stoppages to be in effect ... (more)

Americans, the medical profession tells us about every time it has our ear, are remarkably, unprecedentedly, sedentary.

Valley Forge, Pa., is no stranger to heroes. The area is steeped in tales of valor and sacrifice.

Editor's note: the following information comes from the PA Turnpike Commission. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission reports that motorists traveling on the Turnpike west from Valley Forge and east from Downingtown should be prepared for bi-directional single-lane closures and intermittent slow-moving traffic paces and stoppages Tuesday, May 15.

Howard County police officers embarked on a special bike ride to honor their colleagues who have died in the line of duty.

A parcel of land in Springettsbury Township where historians believe prisoners-of-war were held during the Revolutionary War has itself been the subject of a battle over the past decade.

Rain was falling Wednesday morning as Sgt. Vickie Warehime began this year's Police Unity Tour, a 300-mile bicycle ride from Valley Forge, PA to Washington, D.C. "A little rain never hurt anyone," Warehime wrote in a text message from the starting point.

Sixteen years after it was first eyed as a prime location for the then-nascent Wegmans supermarket chain, a onetime golf course near King of Prussia Mall opened to the public this week as home to the region's seventh Wegmans, a megastore whose customers share a cultlike devotion.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Already one of the U.S. Department of Defense's most-experienced providers of solutions for defeating military threats, Lockheed Martin will now team with the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center to thwart another type of enemy -- cyber criminals.