Archive | May, 2009
Posted on 30 May 2009. Tags: 19464, 19468, emergency preparedness, Exelon Corp., Limerick, Limerick Nuclear, Linfield, nuclear, nuclear power, Pennsylvania, Pottsgrove, Pottstown, Royersford, Sanatoga, sirens, Spring-Ford, warning
LIMERICK PA – Exelon Nuclear will conduct a routine test Monday (June 1, 2009) at 2 p.m. of emergency siren systems surrounding the Limerick Generating Station, the company said. Residents near the plant may hear a steady tone for a period of 3 minutes. The test is performed on the first Monday of each month [...]
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Posted in Business, Government, Health, Safety
Posted on 28 May 2009.
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – If there ever was a night on which state Rep. Thomas Quigley chose to wear iron underpants, Tuesday (May 26, 2009) should have been it. Quigley – elected to represent Limerick (PA) Township and Spring-Ford and Pottsgrove schools as part of his Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ 146th District – patiently accepted [...]
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Posted in Education, Government, Politics, Real Estate
Posted on 25 May 2009. Tags: 19468, Chaplin's The Music Cafe, gand opening, High Street Music Company, Limerick, Linfield, Royersford, Soueastern PA Veterans' Center, Spring City, Spring-Ford Pennsylvania, The Victory Bank
LIMERICK PA – Recent jottings from a reporter’s notebook: Victory Bank Opens Grandly A little more than a year after it broke ground for new construction at 548 N. Lewis Rd., Limerick PA, the locally owned-and-operated Victory Bank celebrated its grand opening May 16 (2009; Saturday) with a party for its community neighbors. The bank [...]
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Posted in Arts, Business, Government, Health, Military, Personal Finance, Recreation
Posted on 25 May 2009. Tags: 19468, American Cancer Society, Bruster's Ice Cream, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Pottstown Relay For Life, Royersford, Spring-Ford
LIMERICK PA – For a handful of teens who regularly participate in under-21 dances at Club Revive in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, their next move may be a slow groove. They’ve formed a team that will walk next weekend as part of the Greater Pottstown Relay for Life against cancer, and Sunday (May 24, 2009) [...]
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Posted in Business, Health, Recreation
Posted on 23 May 2009. Tags: 19464, 19468, Limerick, Limerick Garden of Memories, Memorial Day, Pennsylvania, Pottsgrove, Pottsgroves' American Legion Post 244, Pottstown, Sanatoga
LIMERICK PA – Chuck Kropp seems to never tire of his duty. Kropp, a member of the honor guard of the Pottsgroves’ American Legion Post 244, stood at rest Sunday afternoon (May 17, 2009) just beyond the Veterans’ Memorial in the Limerick Garden of Memories. He held a trio of rifles with his left hand, [...]
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Posted in Government, Holiday, Military
Posted on 22 May 2009. Tags: 19468, cooperation, Limerick, Linfield, Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, planning, Royersford, Sanatoga interchange, Spring-Ford
SANATOGA PA – With little discussion, an agreement to cooperate with neighboring Limerick (PA) Township in “planning and development” of a master plan for the Sanatoga interchange at U.S. Route 422 was unanimously approved Thursday (May 21, 2009) by the Lower Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners. A similar measure has already been approved by the [...]
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Posted in Business, Government, Real Estate, Transportation
Posted on 21 May 2009. Tags: 19468, Collegeville, interchange, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Route 29, Royersford, Spring-Ford, Traffic, U.S. Route 422
ROYERSFORD PA – A 4-1/2-mile stretch of U.S. Route 422, roughly between its Royersford and Collegeville (Route 29) interchanges, will undergo $12.2 million of reconstruction and improvement work beginning next week, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced Thursday (May 21, 2009). “We are ready to upgrade this rough stretch of pavement and provide motorists [...]
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Posted in Government, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 20 May 2009. Tags: 19468, 2009 primary election, Board of Elections, Limerick, Linfield, Montgomery County Board of Elections, Pennsylvania, Royersford, Spring-Ford, voter turnout
NORRISTOWN PA – Primary election voter turnout Tuesday (May 19, 2009) in Montgomery County (PA) was light, the county Board of Elections’ unofficial results show. Slightly more than 13 percent of all registered voters eligible to cast ballots in their parties’ primaries did so, according to the compilation of voting machine (“cartridge”) and absentee ballots. [...]
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Posted in Government, Politics
Posted on 19 May 2009. Tags: 19468, Collegeville Family Practice, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, PMSI, Pottstown Medical Specialists Inc., Royersford, Spring-Ford, Spring-Ford Family Practice
ROYERSFORD PA – Educational seminars designed to help patients of Pottstown Medical Specialists Inc. (PMSI) better manage diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) are scheduled for: May 22 and 29 (2009; Fridays) at 1 p.m., diabetes, at Spring-Ford Family Practice, 307 S. Lewis Rd., Royersford PA, (610) 792-0300; and May 28 (2009; Thursday) at 5 [...]
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Posted in Business, Health, Personal Finance
Posted on 18 May 2009. Tags: 19468, Jane Baron's Academy of Dance, Limerick, Linfield, Pennsylvania, Royersford, Spring-Ford
LIMERICK PA – “We’re waiting for Bon Jovi tickets,” one of the women joked Sunday (May 17, 2009), in the line of lawn chairs that had formed at the door of Jane Baron’s Academy of Dance in Limerick. The rest of them laughed, and while rocker Jon Bon Jovi’s appearance probably would have made this [...]
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Posted in Arts, Education, Recreation