Archive | May, 2009

Framed by trees lining Sanatoga Station Road, Steam bellows from the cooling tower of LGS Unit 1.

LGS Sounds Siren Test Monday

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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Rep Takes Heat Over Schools Funding

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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Notebook Worthy

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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Karen Leonard of Douglassville PA, left, and Britteni Connor of Pottstown, both freshmen at Montgomery County Community College, wash cars Sunda in Limerick for Team Revive.

Limerick Vendor Helps Relay Team

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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Flags fly in the breeze during Sunday

Honoring The Fallen In Limerick

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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The proposed Sanatoga Springs development, shown in this artist

Limerick, Neighbor Agree To Cooperate

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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Traffic moves west Thursday along U.S. Route 422 at its Royersford-Trappe exit.

Repairs, Delays To 422 Start Tuesday

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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Light Voter Turnout Tuesday

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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PMSI Schedules Patient Clinics

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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Dance Academy Draws Ticket Campers

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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