Trappe News

In a loft studio sheltered by a stand of trees in Barto, Julie Longacre turns back time.

A shortage of seasonal flu vaccine, caused by the combination of a delay in shipments and heightened public demand, has caused the Montgomery County Health Department to cancel flu vaccination programs it originally scheduled for next week in Trappe and Pottstown, respectively.

How Come They Didn't Bet Loaves And Fishes? When it comes to the World Series, everybody's got a wager going on the side even those who may have an in with Divine Influence.

A proposed shopping center on the south side of the Sanatoga exit of U.S. Route 422, introduced more than a year ago as "Sanatoga Springs" and now re-named as "The Gateway At Sanatoga," is on the Oct.

Although today is generally a cool day it is the nicest day we have had since Tuesday.

District Hearing Tonight Aims To Save Tax Dollars The Pottsgrove school board wants public input on whether it should cut the cost of money it borrowed up to seven years ago by issuing bonds at lower interest rates.

Applications Still Taken For School Board Vacancy and apparently will be until Tuesday night, when the Pottsgrove school board is expected to select a replacement for Director Keith McCarrick, who resigned two weeks ago.

Seasonal flu vaccines will be offered free to area residents age 50 and older, and selected others, by the Montgomery County Health Department during clinics later this month and next in the Greater Pottstown area.

The 2009 edition of the borough's CROP Hunger Walk , which raises funds to eradicate hunger and hopes to heighten public awareness of those who lack enough to eat, starts Sunday at 2 p.m. from First Presbyterian Church, 750 N. Evans St., Pottstown PA .

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , Sept. 11-13, 2009: Friday, Sept. 11 The annual Hay Creek Festival launches today, and repeats Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Joanna Furnace Historic Site, Route 10, Morgantown PA.

Barely a body sat still. Heads bobbed. Hands clapped. Feet pulsed with the rhythm.

Signs proclaiming that federal stimulus money is at work in the current repair of U.S. Route 422 , and in infrastructure projects elsewhere across the state and nation , are being erected as quickly as possible "to make it easier for Americans" to know where billions of dollars in economic recovery funds are being spent, according to the federal ...

The group show "Urban Convergence" at Asian Arts spins with a mix of imagery. It has more variety than one commonly sees in a group show.

Quakertown officials continue to knock around ways to protect residents from unwanted solicitors at their front doors.

Trappe Ambulance emergency medical technician Jenn McCloy, at center in the photo above, was honored last month by Pottstown Memorial Medical Center , which presented her with its 2009 Local Emergency Medical Services Hero Award, as part of National EMS Week , observed May 17-23 . McCloy was nominated by her peers for the award, which is given to ...

Two village residents, Shawn Petri and Jennifer Tinney, were among the 1,186 students who graduatedA last weekA from Montgomery County Community College during its 42nd commencement ceremony at its campus in Blue Bell PA.

Door-to-door salesmen may soon become a thing of the past. The days of the door-to-door salesman may be numbered if a Quakertown councilman has anything to say about it.

Traffic moves west Thursday along U.S. Route 422 at its Royersford-Trappe exit, which PennDOT will re-pave. a oeWe are ready to upgrade this rough stretch of pavement and provide motorists with a smooth, structurally-sound roadway for many years to come,a PennDOT District Executive Lester C. Toaso said.