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• Limerick’s Arro Group Oversees Video Inspections
  Engineers in Limerick are supervising the video inspection and cleaning of sanitary sewers in a Berks County township.
• Herbicides Applied To Manage Limerick Vegetation
  A national company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, is applying herbicides this month in Limerick and elsewhere to manage vegetation on the right-of-ways of its utility clients.
• Boscov Names Family Member Its Vice Chairman
  Boscov’s Department Stores, which operates in Pottstown, has kept its corporate leadership succession within the family.
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• Lower Pottsgrove Resident Starts Coaching Business
  Lower Pottsgrove PA resident Peg Calvario has turned 25 years of business experience, and a heart-wrenching personal loss, into a new coaching and consulting career.

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• Lower Pottsgrove Resident Starts Coaching Business
  Lower Pottsgrove PA resident Peg Calvario has turned 25 years of business experience, and a heart-wrenching personal loss, into a new coaching and consulting career.
• The Post Wins An Award For Its Daily Headline Feed
  Constant Contact, a Massachusetts company that provides e-mail delivery services to The Post Publications, has named the Lower Pottsgrove PA news service as one of its 2010 All Stars.
• Township Residents Part Of Car Club’s Veteran Tribute
  Members of the Pottstown PA Classics Car Club and local businesses are donating time and effort to restore a popular model Ford that will honor its owner and all area veterans.
• Board Orders Long-Delayed Drain Repairs … Or Else
  In an unusual step, Lower Pottsgrove PA commissioners have ordered an East High Street business to make repairs to its property, or the township will hire a contractor itself to have them completed.
• Pottsgrove Students ‘Engineering’ Philly Fun Center
  A team of Pottsgrove High School students has its hands on, and is learning from, the latest and greatest entertainment business development being brought to life in Philadelphia PA.
• First-Of-Its-Kind Local Surgery Performed At PMMC
  Two physicians from Pottstown Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery are credited with recently conducting the first-ever jaw-replacement operation at the Pottstown PA Memorial Medical Center.

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• Two Unions Break Ranks, Back State School Vouchers
  Two Philadelphia PA area unions said Friday that, unlike a majority of other bargaining units across Pennsylvania, they would favor a state school voucher system.
• Local Reps. Dent, Gerlach To Attend Pipeline Talks
  Congressmen representing Lower Pottsgrove, Limerick and Pottstown PA will be in King of Prussia on Monday for a House subcommittee discussion of pipeline safety in Pennsylvania.
• Fish Commission Leader Floats Business Water Fees
  The director of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has suggested the state’s industries should pay for water their businesses consume.
• Locally Founded Municibid Wins Big City Contracts
  Municibid, the online auction service founded by former Pottstown PA borough council member Greg Berry, won contracts from Philadelphia and Boston in the past two weeks.
• Credit Union, MCIU Sponsor Teacher Excellence Awards
  The Montgomery County PA Intermediate Unit and an area credit union are prepared to present excellence awards to local teachers.

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• Limerick Outlets Plan Special Day For AAA Members
  Show a card, get a deal. That’s the idea behind AAA Member Appreciation Day, coming March 12 to the Philadelphia Premium Outlets in Limerick PA.
• National Penn Bancshares Honored By Cancer Society
  The Boyertown PA-based was chosen by society employees for its outstanding results as a first-time participant in the non-profit’s oldest and best-known fund-raiser.
• Quest Diagnostics, With Local Offices, Buys Specialty Lab
  The health care testing company, which operates patient service centers in five western Montgomery County PA locations, is buying a firm that specializes in genetic testing for neurological disorders.
• Paperwork Can Set You Free, Or At Least Reduce Anguish
  A Pottstown PA attorney says most people can avoid family grief and confusion, some of it expensive, if they provide four important documents well in advance of an emergency need.

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• Support Problem Forces Limerick Unit 2 Shut-Down
  Exelon employees Friday continued to work on fixing a problematic support system that forced the shut-down of the company’s Limerick PA Unit 2 nuclear reactor. The shut-down reportedly occurred safely.
• Spadt Advises European Clients During Coming Trip
  Lower Pottsgrove PA resident and attorney Jonathan Spadt is headed to Europe for two weeks of client discussions and advice, his firm announced Friday.

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• Watch Your Speedometer! Sanatoga Street Slows 5 Mph
  The speed limit in the Sanatoga PA village business district along East High Street has been reduced by PennDOT order from 40 mph to 35, for safety’s sake. New signs are already up.
• Township OKs Restaurant Liquor License For Chummy’s
  Lower Pottsgrove PA commissioners last week approved the use of a restaurant liquor license for Chummy’s Tavern at Sunnybrook Ballroom.
• Pottstown Doctors, Others Switch To Electronic Records
  Cumbersome paper records are out; new, sleek and efficient electronic records are in for physicians who are part of the Pottstown (PA) Family Care practices operated by PMMC.
• Social Media Marketing On Pottstown SCORE Agenda
  How can small business owners and entrepreneurs across greater Pottstown PA use Twitter, Facebook and other social media to their advantage? SCORE offers a workshop to learn more.
• Masonry Details Matter In Downtown Columbia PA
  Comparatively small Columbia PA lacks acreage and population, but makes up for with some stunning architectural features.

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• Costco Construction Still Aiming For A Spring Opening
  A little bad weather … or in the case of our area this winter, a lot … hasn’t seemed to slow progress of site preparation and construction for the new Costco store at the Sanatoga interchange of U.S. Route 422.
• Township Sets Hearing On Sunnybrook Liquor License
  Lower Pottsgrove commissioners will hold a public hearing Thursday on a proposal to transfer a restaurant liquor license to Sunnybrook Ballroom in Sanatoga from a business in East Norriton PA.
• BIE Show Exhibitors Satisfied In New Kimberton Venue
  Attendance was steady during the weekend, and visitors seemed interested, in the re-labeled TriCounty Home and Garden Show held through Sunday in Kimberton by the Building Industries Exchange of Pottstown.
• Redner’s Market To Expand Within North Charlotte Plaza
  Redner’s Warehouse Market in the North End Shopping Center, at North Charlotte and Mervine streets, can expand into vacant space adjacent to its existing store, Lower Pottsgrove commissioners agree.
• House Intent On Modernizing Pennsylvania Liquor Laws
  A state House committee voted Wednesday to remove some restrictions on alcohol sales in restaurants, bars and taverns.

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• Hearing Scheduled For National Penn’s Sanatoga Sign
  National Penn Bank wants to erect an electronic message sign outside its Sunnybrook branch office. It needs Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Zoning Hearing Board approval, though, and will present its case this month.
• Community Network, Exelon Partner On Job Training
  A Pottstown PA agency that addresses health, social and environmental needs is creating a new workforce development program with the financial help of a large area employer, Exelon Corp.
• Homebuilders’ Board Re-Appoints Sanatoga Engineer
  An employee of Sanatoga PA engineering firm Bursich Associates Inc. has been re-appointed as a board member of the Homebuilders Association of Berks County.

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• In-Vitro Center Opens In March In King Of Prussia
  An new in-vitro fertilization center serving Montgomery County and surrounding municipalities will open during March in King of Prussia PA.
• Safe Food Handler Certification Course On Its Way
  Safe food handling is the goal of a restaurant-sponsored course that will be conducted during February by Montgomery County Cooperative Extension.
• Townships Make Progress, Albeit Slow, In 422 Plans
  Their meetings are informal and less frequent, due in part to a slowed economy, but Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick officials continue to plan for future development at the U.S. Route 422 interchange in Sanatoga.

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• Learn About Family Businesses At Free Workshop
  Montgomery County Community College offers insight next month on what makes family-run businesses tick … or not.
• Emerson Electric Buys Generator Control Supplier
  Emerson Process Management, which maintains offices in Royersford, said Tuesday it bought a Pittsburgh company that supplies generator controls to electric power plants.