The Pottstown Post

With Video. Flash flooding wasn’t picture perfect Wednesday at the home of a Boyertown photographer.

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With Videos. Places across greater Pottstown that succumb to heavy rain flooded Wednesday. The water appeared deeper, moved faster, and inconvenienced drivers more than usual. Your neighbors had plenty to say about it on social media platforms.

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POTTSTOWN PA – How badly did Hurricane Irene affect the borough of Pottstown when it blew through southeastern Pennsylvania during the final days of August 2011, on its way to New England? Here are eyewitness views, captured on video and posted in the following days on YouTube. From the YouTube user account of shinjaejun From [...]

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There’s something to be learned everywhere you look. For eighth grade students in Pottstown and other area school districts this week, a lesson about job preparedness lies in the weather forecast.

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With Video. A Pottstown business Thursday had to job its way out from under big ice before its employees could start working.

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POTTSTOWN PA – The annual spring bird walk Sunday (April 18, 2010) at the 10-acre Beaufort’s Run Sanctuary in Upper Pottsgrove (PA) Township yielded sightings of 25 – count ‘em, 25 – different birds, the preserve staff reported in a blog entry Monday (April 19). Yes, the walk was a tad cool (35 degrees, with [...]

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CLEARING IT AWAY – A garden-sized tractor outfitted with a snowblower as wide as a sidewalk is used by employees of D. Adam Menko Lanscape Contractors of Oreland PA to pick up snow from walkways Friday (Feb. 26, 2010) surrounding the Upland Square Shopping Center in and throw it in a 20-foot arc onto an [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – A shortage of seasonal flu vaccine, caused by the combination of a delay in shipments and heightened public demand, has caused the Montgomery County (PA) Health Department to cancel flu vaccination programs it originally scheduled for next week (Nov. 9 and 13, 2009; Monday and Friday) in Trappe and Pottstown, respectively. “Seasonal [...]

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NORRISTOWN PA – Montgomery County’s Community Action Development Commission is scheduled to receive more than $5 million through March 2012 to help weatherize housing units, reduce their energy costs, and keep them warmer in winter weather, Gov. Edward G. Rendell said. Rendell said the first installment of $123 million in federal funds for state weatherization [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Residents in the Greater Pottstown area who may need financial help to buy home heating fuel this winter can take comfort in knowing that Pennsylvania’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) will start Nov. 2 (2009; Monday). LIHEAP provides cash grants to help low-income households pay for home heating fuel, and crisis [...]

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