The Pottstown Post

Montgomery County has closed the South Keim Street bridge across the Schuylkill River between Pottstown and North Coventry to all traffic. A PennDOT engineer Wednesday said it was unsafe.

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An hours-long surgery to rebuild a patient’s abdominal wall muscles and tissues was recently completed for the firs time at the Pottstown hospital.

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POTTSTOWN PA – The top price for real estate sold within Pottstown PA borough from April 8 -June 24, 2010, came in at $147,500, the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reports. The property is located at 885 Hale St. Also listed was 364 Spruce St., $125,000. This week’s top reported prices were listed Sunday (Oct. 10, 2010) [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – “Understanding the Health Care Reform Law and How it Impacts Individuals, Families and Businesses,” a free seminar that is open to the public, will be held next Tuesday (Oct. 19, 2010) from 8-10 a.m. in the first-floor community room in South Hall of Montgomery County Community College, 101 College Dr., Pottstown PA. [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – The ease and simplicity with which Pottstown PA’s bicycle-sharing program, Bike Pottstown, operates has encouraged more than 3,000 riders to pedal themselves to healthier habits, according to the quarterly Community Benefit Report issued Monday (Oct. 11, 2010) by the Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation. The six-page, web-enabled Adobe Acrobat document is [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – Registrations for the second, seven-week fall session of programs in all five branches of the Freedom Valley YMCA <www.fvymca.org> are now being accepted, the Pottstown branch’s Administrative Services Director Jane Alan announced Friday (Oct. 8, 2010). Programs run from Nov. 1 through Dec. 19. Classes include health and fitness, aquatics, sport leagues, [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – “Bladder Control for Women,” a presentation of the Healthy Woman program at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, 1600 E. High St., Pottstown PA, will be given Oct. 28 (201; Thursday) at 6 p.m. in PMMC’s offices in the Chesmont Building, Armand Hammer Boulevard, Pottstown PA. The event is free and open to the [...]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3OWFruWA1Q] POTTSTOWN PA – A solid brass, three-dimensional, collectible ornament to commemorate progress on and raise funds for the Carousel at Pottstown project became available for public sale last Friday (Oct. 1, 2010) through Pottstown PA-based Blue Heron Marketing Co., company spokesman Wayne S. Fenstermacher announced. Sales of the inaugural ornament, dated 2010, are intended [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – U.S. Army National Guard Spec. Jamell M. Beasley, a 2003 graduate of Pottstown Senior High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill in Lawton OK, according to the Joint Hometown News Service. During her nine weeks of training, Beasley studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises [...]

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STOWE PA – U.S. Air Force Airman Jeremy A. Schlieper, the son of Pamela Cunningham of East Race Street, Stowe PA, has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio TX, according to the Joint Hometown News Service. Schlieper completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline [...]

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