Sanatoga News

Click here for Part Two. LOWER POTTSGROVE PA - So you buy a state lottery ticket or maybe two, week after week, and you never win.

Pottsgrove High School graduate Gabrielle "Gabby" Schurr capped her senior year with a firecracker-like bang.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , July 3-5: Friday, July 3 The North Coventry Fire Company Fair runs this year from June 29A through July 4 and the firehouse grounds on PA Route 724.

Two sets of tax bills for money that primarily supports the operations of the Pottsgrove School District were mailed Wednesday by township Treasurer and Tax Collector Jennifer Marsteller .

The national health care company that owns the Sanatoga Center and Sanatoga Court nursing facilities on Evergreen Road said Friday that five of its centers were selected to be given 2009 awards for quality by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.

The skies only looked threatening, as any hint of rain held off while more than a hundred guests sat outside the band shell Sunday night at Sanatoga Park, 100 S. Sanatoga Rd., for the opening performance of the Lower Pottsgrove Township Parks and Recreation Department's Summer Concert Series.

A portion of the trunk of a more than 50-year-old maple tree was split by wind and inclement weather early Friday evening at the corner of North Pleasant View Road and North Sanatoga Road.

Steel grocery shopping carts - hundreds of them - were scoured and power washed, reconditioned, repaired and re-wheeled Wednesday morning outside the Sanatoga Thriftway, 2190 E. High St.

"Problems with an arcing wire" were cited by Lt. Mike Misiak of the Sanatoga Fire Company 's fire police crew as the reason for closing a portion of North Pleasant View Road this morning sometime after 4 a.m. A PECO electric utility crew was on the scene for repairs, Misiak said, but the cause of the problem was not immediately known.

The band will play somewhere almost every week this summer. LOWER POTTSGROVE PA - Performances by the Pottsgrove Community Band, the musical organization with members from Lower, Upper and West Pottsgrove townships that this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, have been scheduled throughout the summer.

Elected officials, members of several fire companies and visitors all were part of the festivities recently as Lower Pottsgrove Township 's Ringing Hill Fire Company housed two new pieces of apparatus : a 2009 International/KME 3,000-gallon Pumper/Tanker, and a 2007 Ford/KME Fire Police Unit.

During April's Bark For Life in Sanatoga, it was difficult to tell at times whether the humans or animals were running the show.

Lower Pottsgrove Elementary, as seen from Buchert Road. The confirmation came in the form of a four-page letter from district Superintendent Dr.

Girls From Mars will play the Wentz Farmstead on Friday night. SANATOGA PA - Weekend activities for Sanatogans , June 5-7, 2009: These events have been added to The Post calendar .

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , May 29-31, 2009: Friday, May 29 Up for a challenge? The Amity Chess Club meets from 7-10 p.m. at St.

A Pottsgrove School District school bus went off the west shoulder of North Pleasant View Road and into a 2-foot-deep ditch near the north end of Donna Lane early Tuesday evening .

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , May 22-24, 2009: Friday, May 22 "Open Mind," a show of digital illustration by the artist Mir, who specializes in the female form, will be on display through May 30, Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the Dada Art Gallery, 217 High St., Pottstown PA.

Hungry voters showed plenty of support Tuesday for Gabrielle "Gabby" Schurr . Although final dollar totals aren't yet known from Schurr's efforts last night to raise funds that benefit Pottstown's Independence Day celebration , her mother, Roxanne, proclaimed the night "a success" in an e-mail to The Sanatoga Post .

At a time Monday when some families in the village were just sitting down to an evening meal, members of the Sanatoga Fire Company had given up dinner to learn how to quickly and safely take apart a car, a van, and a sport-utility vehicle.

Edward Kropp Sr., a Pottstown police detective whose primary election campaign emphasized his law enforcement experience, appeared Tuesday to have handily won both the Democrat and Republican primaries for judge in Magisterial District 38-1-12, which includes Lower Pottsgrove and part of Pottstown.