Archive | April, 2009
Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: 19468, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Royersford, Spring-Ford, weekend activities
LIMERICK PA – Weekend activities for Limerick residents (and anyone else!), May 1-3, 2009: These and future events are included on The Post calendar. Friday, May 1 The Mike Vax Big Band, featuring alumni from the Stan Kenton Orchestra, will play in concert at 7:30 p.m. at Boyertown Area High School, 120 N. Monroe St., [...]
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Posted in Arts, Food, Recreation
Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: 19468, architects, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Pottsgrove School District, Royersford-Spring-Ford, school construction, Spring-Ford Area School District
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – If the Spring-Ford Area School District is having trouble with its architect, a neighbor – the Pottsgrove School District – intends to learn from its mistakes. Pottsgrove Business Administrator David Nester was authorized Tuesday (April 28, 2009) to begin negotiations with district architects on a contract that someday could result in [...]
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Posted in Business, Education, Real Estate
Posted on 27 April 2009. Tags: 19468, Burbank Grove, Limerick, Linfield, Royersford, Spring-Ford, TH Properties, THP
GILBERTSVILLE PA – A property owner on Canyon Creek Road in the Kingston Hill development, less than a half-mile north of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township border, busily erected an ornamental stone wall outside his front porch early Sunday (April 26, 2009) morning. As neighbors passed by – some walking a dog, some just out [...]
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Posted in Business, Government, Personal Finance, Real Estate
Posted on 25 April 2009. Tags: 19468, annual conference, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Royersford, Society of Professional Journalists, Spring-Ford
PHILADELPHIA PA – Although they lacked training in optometry, a group of journalists gathered Friday afternoon (April 24, 2009) at Temple University’s Center City campus, determined to ease the strain on your eyes as you read these words. Because pixels are replacing print in the world of digital news, reporters and editors in Pennsylvania and [...]
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Posted in Business
Posted on 21 April 2009. Tags: 19468, Limerick, Linfield, new home construction, Pennsylvania, restructing, Royersford, Spring-Ford, TH Properties, THP
Related: Worried THP Owners Look For Help Bank Reportedly Sues Home Builder HARLEYSVILLE PA – TH Properties (THP), a Harleysville-based builder that until recently was marketing new home construction in a dozen different communities – including Royersford, Pottstown, Gilbertsville, Harleysville, Pennsburg, Macungie, Souderton and Skippack PA, and parts of New Jersey – has suspended its [...]
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Posted in Business, Personal Finance, Real Estate
Posted on 21 April 2009. Tags: 19468, Exelon Corp., Exelon Nuclear, LGS, Limerick, Limerick Generating Station, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Royersford, Spring-Ford
LIMERICK PA – Exelon Nuclear employees recently donated $5,000 to the Philadelphia Police Survivor’s Fund of the Fraternal Order of Police, the company has announced. Members of the maintenance department at Exelon’s Limerick Generating Station held several fund-raising luncheons to collect money and heighten awareness of the fund’s need. The fund provides assistance to families [...]
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Posted in Business, Safety
Posted on 19 April 2009. Tags: 19468, county park, Limerick, Linfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Pennypacker Mills, Royersford, Rural Life In The 1900s, Spring-Ford
SCHWENKSVILLE PA – A look of concern washed across the face of Eva Marie Adame, as she pondered the next move in a game of checkers against her dad Saturday (April 18, 2009) on the side porch of the mansion at Pennypacker Mills. The young girl had two obvious jumps: one would let her safely [...]
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Posted in Arts, Education, Government, Recreation
Posted on 18 April 2009. Tags: 19468, economic outlook, economy, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Royrsford, Spring-Ford, The Fed
PHILADELPHIA PA – Business activity in the Greater Philadelphia region may be looking up, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday (April 16, 2009). Or, maybe more accurately, it’s looking less down. Manufacturing in the region “contracted less severely” during the past 30 days in comparison to previous months, the Philly Fed said in [...]
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Posted in Business, Government, Personal Finance
Posted on 17 April 2009. Tags: 19468, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Royersford, Spring-Ford
Poll finds Muslims in United States more confident than those abroad (The Loquitur, Cabrini College) Muslims in the United States, including a Collegeville PA student who attends Cabrini College, say they see themselves as thriing. Side Dish (The Morning Call, Allentown PA) Chef/owner Michael Falcone of Funky Lil’ Kitchen, 232 King St., Pottstown PA, has [...]
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Posted in News
Posted on 17 April 2009. Tags: 19468, commuter train, Limerick, Linfield, Montgomery County Planning Commission, Pennsylvania, R6 line, Royersford, SEPTA, Spring-Ford, traffic congestion, traffic study, U.S. Route 422
NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County planners continue to move ahead on a proposal to institute tolls on U.S. Route 422 from Valley Forge to Douglassville, as a way to pay for additional local commuter rail service and reduce traffic bottlenecks on the east-west highway. One of the groups working with the county, the Greater Valley [...]
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Posted in Business, Government, Transportation