Pottstown News

Andrew Case was so passionate about lacrosse that he joked about living in his sister's basement - she was planning to be a doctor, so could afford to put him up - so he could travel around the world playing his favorite sport.

The magnitude and heartbreak of an automobile accident Monday night that killed two Pottsgrove High School students - Michael Cantamaglia and Andrew Case - and injured four others, is being covered extensively by local and regional news media.

Two teenagers were killed and five others were hurt in an accident in Chester County last night.

A crash last night in Chester County involving an SUV packed with teenagers and a car claimed the lives of two Pottsgrove High School students and injured five other people.

A proposal to build a plaza consisting of a pizzeria with an outdoor patio and two small office spaces, just west of the Rite-Aid Pharmacy on East High Street in Sanatoga village , was approved with conditions Monday by the Lower Pottsgrove Township Planning Commission and forwarded to the township Zoning Hearing Board for review.

Monthly workshops designed to raise awareness of domestic violence issues, funded by a grant from the Verizon Foundation , will be held in Pottstown beginning next month thanks to a partnership between Laurel House , the Womena s Center of Montgomery County , and Montgomery County Community College .

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A Montgomery county office building is destroyed by fire. The fire broke out a little before 3:00 this morning at Mayer Pollack Steel Company on South Keim Street and Industrial Highway in Pottstown.

POTTSTOWN PA a ' The Pottsgrove High School Music League annual Holiday and Craft Show will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pottsgrove High School, 1345 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA.

Pottsgrove Legionnaires Perform At Veterans' Tributes Members of Brig. Gen. Elmer S. Friedberg American Legion Post 244 of the Pottsgroves will perform firing squad duties at three separate ceremonies to commemorate Veterans Day 2009 .

Their contract expired in August and now they're claiming unfair labor practices on the part of the hospital's parent company.

Two nationally recognized poets, Jeanne Murray Walker and AV Christie , will read from their works Saturday night at 7 p.m. in a free-to-the-public performance of the Mad Poets Society at the Churchill Artisan Bakery and Chocolatier, 137 E. High St., Pottstown PA .

OWLS HEAD : Hall & Oates: Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates .

Malik Snell, 37, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for an attempted home-invasion robbery in Pottstown, and the robbery of a large-scale drug dealer, Ricardo McKendrick, in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy.

If you watch the television fashion reality show "Project Runway ;" if the phrase "Make it work!" sends you racing for a pair of pinking shears; if you secretly still read comic books rather than full-length novels; or if you know " Iron Man " named a superhero before it described a triathlon , this is probably right up your alley.

A former Philadelphia police officer will spend 30 years in prison for using his gun and badge to rob a drug kingpin of $40,000 and taking part in a home-invasion robbery.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Nov. 6-8, 2009: 'Tis the season for Christmas bazaars, craft fairs, shows and meals.

An $80,000 grant that was scheduled last year to be given by Montgomery County to Sunnybrook Ballroom , and then was delayed, and then ran into legal worries from Lower Pottsgrove Township officials, and then seemed dead and lost maybe isn't yet.

A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike.

This 1904 photo of Jackson's Lock on the Schuylkill Canal in Reading is among the images in a new book "Along the Schuylkill River." The boats are Hiester's excursion boats, which took people on trips along the river from the late 1800s through 1917.