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As South Elementary Fate Debated, Class Size Tops Perk Valley Priorities, Tax...
Photos by Evan BrandtMore than 100 people attended the Perkiomen School District's special meeting Wednesday night looking at facilities issues and particularly, to discuss the fate of South Elementary...
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Upper Pottsgrove Wins Montco Planning Award
Submitted photoFrom left, Montgomery County Planning Commission Vice chairwoman Dulcie Flaharty, Planning Commissioner Director Jody Holton, Regional Recreation Coordinator Michael Lane, Michelle...
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Hopewell Hosting 100 Year-Old Christmas Saturday
Saturday will be one of the few times in the year that historic Bethesda Church at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, will be open to the public.Blogger's Note:The following was provided by...
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Helping Middle Schoolers Make 'Liquid Connections'
Submitted PhotosStudents in the Pottstown Middle School Environmental Education Club learn about water systems and aquaponics at the Montgomery County Community College campus in Pottstown as part of...
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Lower Pottsgrove OKs 1st Phase of Sanatoga Green
An early rendition of the Sanatoga Green plan.With little fanfare and no comment, the Lower Pottsgrove Township Commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to approve the first phase of a $146 million...
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Limerick OKs Traffic Circle for Swamp Pike
The approval of the first phase of the proposed Limerick Town Center includes the 308-unit senior housing complex, shown above in gray, and the road improvements which include re-routing Swamp Pike...
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Pottstown Tax Hike Whittled Down to 9.5 percent
Photos by Evan BrandtSanta only delivered candy canes, not budget cuts, to borough council Wednesday night. But beleaguered taxpayers are getting an early Christmas gift .... kind of. The threatened 12...
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Planners Study 9 of the Area's Worst Intersections
Crappy Photo by Evan BrandtAn example of one of the slides from last night's presentation about improving nine of the regions intersections. This one is for the intersection of Armand Hammer Boulevard...
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Online Art Auction Aids ArtFusion 19464
A mixed media piece by Kristen VonHohen is among the art work being auctioned for the ArtFusion fundraiser.Blogger's Note:The following was provided by ArtFusion 19464ArtFusion 19464’s holiday art show...
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Pottstown Giving the Gift of Life for the Holidays
Submitted photosBlogger's Note:The following was provided by the Pottstown School District.Pottstown High School students and staff understand, when it comes to donating blood every drop counts. There...
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Council Unanimously Adopts 9.5% Tax Hike
Arguably, the single most important thing local government does is pass a budget every year.One year after raising considerable dust by hiking taxes by 12 percent, Pottstown Borough Council raised...
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$14.5M Phoenixville Budget Hikes Taxes 3.8%
Phoenixville Borough Council Tuesday night unanimously adopted a $14.5 million general fund budget that will require a 3.8 percent tax hike to be balanced.Borough Manager E. Jean Krack said the tax...
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Free Slavic Christmas Concert Sunday at St. John's
Blogger's Note:The following was provided by Theoria.Theoria, a quartet of four professional vocalists, will return to Pottstown to perform an a cappella concert of Slavic and other Eastern European...
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Pottsgrove's 'Pink Out' Gives $4,200 for Cancer Costs
Front row, from left, Kristi Rodriquez, Cassia O’Brien, Carly Morris, Sydney Wasdick, Savannah Lear and Danielle Leach, Treasurer of the Pottsgrove Booster Club. Rear row, from left, Steve Anspach,...
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Pottstown Inducts New Honor Society Members
The Pottstown High School National Honor Society induction ceremony was held in November.Blogger's Note:The following was provided by the Pottstown School District.In a special candle-lighting service,...
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No Tax Hike, Police Raises, Open Space Purchase
What began as a sleepy, quickly concluded township commissioners meeting Monday night, instead evolved into a year-end meeting that checked off a lot of year-end boxes.Budget Won't Hike TaxesExpected,...
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Limerick Supervisors Grapple With Thorny Developments, Pass No-Tax-Hike...
Photos by Evan BrandtThe meeting room was packed for the Limerick Township Supervisors' last meeting of 2018.Roughly 75 people packed into the township meeting room Tuesday night to hear and for the...
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$3 West Pottsgrove Budget Won't Hike Taxes, Balances Using $1.3M from...
West Pottsgrove commissioners, from left, Thomas Palladino, Charles Valentine, Township Manager Craig Lloyd, Secretary Joanne Herb, Chairman Steve Miller, Solicitor Charles Bresnan, and commissioners...
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Pottstown School Taxes Won't Exceed 3.3% in 2019
Pottstown School taxes will not be raised above 3.3 percent next year as the result of a unanimous vote of the Pottstown School Board Thursday night.During its last meeting of the year, the school...
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St. Michael's Donates Food to Salvation Army
Submitted PhotoVolunteers from the Salvation Army and St. Michael's Church bring in food collected by the church for distribution to needy families during the holidays. Several needy families in the...
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