Feb. 22-28, 2009, headlines in The Sanatoga Post

Published during the week just ended in The Sanatoga Post:

Saturday, Feb. 28

• Sanatoga K-Mart Open, 2 Closing Nearby
  Sears Holding Corp., which owns K-Mart, spares the Sanatoga store but announces it will close those in Eagleville and Norristown.
• Love, Peace, Animals. Those Were The Days
  In a blast from 17 years past, a website dedicated to rock music posters shows off one from Lower Pottsgrove’s own Academy Hall.
• Keep Healthy Next Week
  Freedom from smoking classes. A depression support group meeting. And a one-day Lamaze lesson for expectant parents.

Friday, Feb. 27

• TV Story Features Former Pottsgrove Counselor
  Two educators and their friends are creating two dozen quilts for victims of arson fires in Coatesville PA.
• We’d Be Happy To Benefit … Again
  Lower Pottsgrove Commissioner Anthony Doyle acknowledges recent corporate generosity, and makes his own request.
• Mature Drivers Earn Insurance Discount
  AAA is giving lessons in Pottstown that can save them money on car insurance costs.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports for Feb. 27, 2009
  Who’s playing what, when, and where in the Pottsgrove School District.

Thursday, Feb. 26

• Help Welcomed As Home Sales Keep Falling
  The president of Pennsylvania’s real estate trade association, who operates a brokerage office in Sanatoga, sees new federal housing legislation as a boon to business.
• BIE Home Show Opens Tonight
  The 56th edition of the Pottstown area’s own home show launches its four-day run at Sanatoga’s Sunnybrook Ballroom.
• Pilots Group Wants Upland Square Stopped
  A shopping center that would make reaching several retailers more convenient for Lower Pottsgrove residents should be stopped before it opens, a national organization says, because it allegedly risks aircraft safety.
• Stuff To Do This Weekend
  As if the Home Show wasn’t enough, there’s maple tree tapping and syrup making in Audubon and Green Lane. Theatrical productions at Ursinus College and Spring-Ford High School. And jazz at MCCC.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports for Feb. 26, 2009
  Who’s playing what, when, and where in the Pottsgrove School District.

Wednesday, Feb. 25

• Pottsgrove, PDE Enrollment Predictions Conflict
  The school district thinks elementary school enrollment will stay flat over 10 years. A new state study predicts a significant enrollment increase. Who’s right?
• Pottsgrove Projector Project Halted
  The school board authorized “critical” improvements costing $80,000, but held off on $310,000 in overhead projector installations at Lower and West Pottsgrove elementary schools.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports for Feb. 25, 2009
  Who’s playing what, when, and where in the Pottsgrove School District.

Tuesday, Feb. 24

• What They Sold For
  A weekly review of highest prices paid for homes in Lower Pottsgrove and surrounding municipalities.
• “Free” Brought ‘Em Into Home Show
  Attracted by free admission, crowds waited in line Saturday and Sunday to attend the Greater Philadelphia Spring Home Show at the Valley Forge Convention Center. See a Post video.
• Take A Local, Syrupy Adventure
  Two Montgomery County parks programs, both within a 15-minute drive of Sanatoga, will show why tapping a maple tree can be so much fun, and tasty too.
• 2500th Patient Treated With UAE
  A Pottstown-based radiologist reaches a milestone in patient care.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports for Feb. 24, 2009
  Who’s playing what, when, and where in the Pottsgrove School District.

Monday, Feb. 23

• Two Newspaper Firms File For Bankruptcy
  Parent companies of The Mercury, Lower Pottsgrove’s newspaper of record, and The Philadelphia Inquirer sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection during the weekend.
• Brides-, Grooms-To-Be At Sunnybrook Show
  A first annual bridal show goes off without a hitch (ahem), and is well attended Sunday at Sanatoga’s Sunnybrook Ballroom.
• Notebook Worthy
  Tidbits of interest, and the stuff of daily living, recently seen and heard in Lower Pottsgrove and elsewhere.
• PMMC Moves, Opens Endoscopy Unit
  It features new, high-def video equipment to help improve diagnoses.
• SHRM Announces Fellowship Competition
  It’s a chance for human resource professionals to have their graduate studies paid for.
• Pottsgrove Falcons Sports for Feb. 23, 2009
  Who’s playing what, when, and where in the Pottsgrove School District.

Sunday, Feb. 22

• ‘The Post’ Week In Review
  For Feb. 15-21, 2009.

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