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New today in The Pottstown Post:

• Tuesday Night Arrest Became A Map-Maker's Dream You need a GPS to follow this Lower Pottsgrove police brief.
• Pottstown Y's North Pool Closed Thursday For Repair A leaking pipe needs to be fixed, and the north pool is expected to re-open Friday.
• Plant Proteins: Nutritious, And Packed With Extra Energy On Wednesday's Food Page: Turn to nutritious, plant-based sources of protein to help provide long-lasting energy; St. Patrick's Day is perfect for fun in the kitchen, with the holiday's color and flavor; And what's not to love about fresh fruit?
• The Post Wins Third Award For Its Daily Headline Feed For the third year in a row The Post Publications LLC, parent company of The Pottstown Post, has won an award for avoiding e-mail spam and keeping its subscribers' e-mail addresses safe from prying eyes. It has most recently delivered more than 228,750 headline feed notices to update readers daily on local news and events.
• Montgomery County’s Latest Emergency Dispatches Did you just hear a siren? It could be the police, emergency medical service personnel, or fire companies being dispatched by Montgomery County’s Department of Public Safety. See its incident list here in real time.
• From ‘Serious Eats,’ Something Great For Dinner Tonight Whip up something fabulous for tonight’s dinner, with fresh recipes daily from “Serious Eats”.
• Ahead On The Calendar Local events by the day, week or month. Got one to add? E-mail The Post.
• Tomorrow’s AccuWeather Forecast, And National Weather News A look at what the next day could be like, provided by AccuWeather.

Earlier:

• Borough Council OKs Heritage Coach Tax Abatement The company would pay reduced taxes over 10 years on a building it hopes to occupy on Pottstown's southwest side, as an incentive to move there. The Pottstown School District has yet to agree.
• Pottstown Physicians Now Affiliated With Penn Network Dr. Gerald Bell and Dr. Larry A. Feiner, whose Pottstown practice is part of Pinnacle ENT Associates, through it have joined a Penn Medicine network to expand patient care.
• Wells Fargo Plans To Lend More To Women-Owned Firms Companies owned and operated by women make up one of the county's fastest-growing business segments, it said. The bank has branches in five western Montgomery County municipalities, including two in Pottstown.
• Easter Bunny Accompanies Outlets' March 24 Egg Hunt The bunny hid 'em. Who better to watch your kids find 'em? The holiday tradition, re-enacted in Limerick, is scheduled for March 24 (Sunday) at 10 a.m.
• MCCC Team Holds Sexual Assault Awareness Program The 90-minute program, sponsored by the college's Student Support and Referral Team, will be held Wednesday in its South Hall community room in Pottstown.
• Wendy's Assists Vietnam Veterans' Pottstown Chapter The restaurant has scheduled a fund-raiser for the veterans on Wednesday.
• This Week: Go 'Blonde' Or Go 'Seuss,' But Go Singing Your last chance for Easter candy at Ringing Hill, a Pottsgrove school board meeting, a career fair at MCCC in Pottstown, the Pottsgrove musical "Legally Blonde," and the Owen J. musical "Seussical," discussing sustainable communities in Collegeville, antiques in Kimberton, and Legos at a library.
• Get Movin’! Club Plans Two Dances For Rockers No matter what your favorite music may be, oldies or '80s, Sanatoga's Sunnybrook Ballroom has a night on its schedule for your enjoyment.
• Hill School's Faculty Village Pottstown Work In Progress With Video. Sure, it looked Wednesday like any other construction site, but it's another sign of Pottstown renovations and improvements now under way.
• Upper Pottsgrove Fire Company Schedules Egg Hunt The annual Easter tradition is planned for March 30 in Heather Place Park.
• Ready For Spring Business? Try A SCORE Workshop The Pottstown chapter of SCORE, an affiliate of the Small Business Administration, will hold four April workshops intended to help entrepreneurs get their small businesses up and running.
• MontCo Students Hope To Benefit From State JobTrak A $20 million program relies on Pennsylvania's community colleges to identify skills needed at local businesses and then re-train older workers to fill the vacancies.
• Big-League Retailer Boscov First Into Hall Of Fame The leader of the Pottstown department store and 40 others like it in the multi-state chain on Thursday will become the initial inductee of the Pennsylvania Retailers Association Hall of Fame.
• Survey Confirms Many MontCo Eyes On The Road Daily Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday show the largest number of workers commuting into Philadelphia from outside the city are Montgomery County residents ... which in part explains the state of U.S. Route 422.
• Secret Valley Rail Line Could Steam Into Boyertown Colebrookdale's Railroad Preservation Trust presented a concept Monday to build a passenger rail station for tourists just off East Philadelphia Avenue.
• Thanks To Competition, College Entrance Exam In Redesign The Scholastic Aptitude Test has been a staple in the Pottsgrove, Pottstown, and Spring-Ford Area school districts for years. But the national college entrance exam now faces stiff competition, and is getting a make-over.
• Valley Forge Tourism Bureau Names New President He's been well-known in the Philadelphia hotel industry for years. Now he'll lead the organization that helps, in part, to promote tourism across the Greater Pottstown area.
• Pottstown Guitarist, Songwriter Subject Of New Interview Pottstown's Ray Adkins has been making music for decades. He aims now to do more than just get people moving to the beat; he wants to inspire them, he said in an Ifodige interview.
• Crowd Loved Regional Wrestling Finals In Pottstown Saturday's big event drew hundreds of spectators to the high school.
• Witnesses Capture Pottstown Man In Redner's Incident Several customers at Redner's Warehouse Market came to the aid of two women who allegedly were attacked Saturday afternoon as they left the Lower Pottsgrove store. Police arrested a Pottstown man on assault charges.
• OJR High Students Compete Again In Great Food Fight They're hoping to double the tons of food collected last year on behalf of Philabundance.
• Pottstown School Board OKs Elementary Redistricting It's the first change in elementary school attendance boundaries there in more than a dozen years.

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