Pottstown Area Contest Encourages Art, History

New today in The Pottstown Post:

• Make Some Historic Art, Kids, And Win Some Local Notice Pottstown's state representative wants elementary school children to depict Pennsylvania's rich story as they see it.
• Keep The Bad Stuff Out Of Your Young Child's Mouth The teeth of growing children need protection from cavities that a good dental sealant can provide. A program offering that service for free is coming to Pottstown.
• Mourning The Loss Of A Loved One? Help's Available The Pottstown branch of the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA offers a grief support group.
• Drexel President Named MCCC Commencement Speaker The community college's graduation event will be held May 23 in Blue Bell.
• 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:

• Ghosts, Creepy Things Calling Boyertown Home Scott Wiley should know. He's been hunting them for years, and will talk about his adventures next Wednesday night.
• The Award For Best Actor In Alleged Crimes Goes To ... A Pottstown man gave a convincing performance to Lower Pottsgrove police Wednesday in a tale that involved children who were supposed to have been missing. They weren't, and he's been arrested for burglary and false reports, among other charges.
• Fleeing Driver Captured After Accident, Police Say Pottstown police helped capture a Lower Pottsgrove man Tuesday. He faces multiple charges after he allegedly caused a traffic accident on Armand Hammer Boulevard, then tried to run away down nearby railroad tracks.
• For Easter Dessert, Caramel Cheesecake Bites To Swoon Over On Wednesday's Food Page: Ingredients for an easy weekend breakfast or a special Easter brunch may be in your pantry right now; Try cooking spiced ham with a citrus glaze on the grill for Easter; And caramel pecan cheesecake squares surface as the dessert of the week.
• Want To Make Your Fortune Locally? Consider These There's no magic formula to making money. It takes hard work, a good business plan, a little bit of luck, and an idea, product or service that will fire the public imagination. For Pottstown, Stowe and Sanatoga, here's some help on that last item.
• This Week: Jazz In Pottstown, And Oldies In Sanatoga Learn more about parks in Lower Pottsgrove, school operations in Spring-Ford and Pottsgrove, and zoning in Limerick during meetings this week; buy Easter flowers in Sanatoga or hunt Easter eggs in Collegeville; swing with jazz night in Pottstown, or groove to the oldies at Sunnybrook Ballroom.
• Fill Up On Food-Related Tunes In Pottstown And Trappe The Coventry Singers are performing two concerts you'll relish during April.
• A Spelling Carnivore, He Ate Up This Pottstown Contest Eight-grader Angel Onate digested word after word in the Pottstown Middle School spelling bee, and went on to a respectable finish in Norristown too.
• MontCo Commissioners Offer Summer Internship Program For some high school students, as well as those in college undergraduate and graduate programs, this Montgomery County invitation could launch your interest in political science.
• Editor Wins Top 1-Percent Rank At Travel Website As a contributing writer and photographer for TripAdvisor.com, the world's largest travel website, he focuses on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States.
• LED Bulbs Easy Way To Save Energy And Money Lighting your house is no minor expense. Changing your traditional incandescent light bulbs or compact fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs will save energy and dollars off your electricity bill.
• Tuesday Sanatoga Accident Closes East High Street Three people - two of them from Pottstown - were injured, and two vehicles heavily damaged, after the accident at East High Street and South Sanatoga Road. East High was closed for 45 minutes while the crash was cleared.
• Pottstown 'Color Run' 5-K Event Benefits Relay-For-Life Runners and walkers of all ages are encouraged to participate in the rain-or-shine family friendly event May 4 at Pottstown's Riverfront Park.
• Child Health And Fitness Program Opens In Boyertown Kidnastix, on East Philadelphia Avenue in Boyertown, describes itself as an affordable, gymnastic-oriented, safe, positive and exciting fitness program that includes weekly visits to daycare and learning centers. Chamber members will cut its opening ribbon on Friday.
• New Medicare Scam Afoot, Pottstown Attorney Says Don't provide bank account or routing numbers over the phone, Pottstown elder law specialist and attorney Kathy Martin warns, and particularly not for this latest Medicare scam.
• 'Live Well Expo' Scheduled April 6 At Sunnybrook The 5-hour activity and information-filled event on healthier living is sponsored by state Rep. Mark Painter.
• Pottstown Police Raid 3 Stores In Food Stamp Probe Two people were arrested Friday in Pottstown for alleged participation in schemes to profit from food stamp benefits.
• State's Lower Pottsgrove Project Delays Another In West Rebuilding the Armand Hammer Boulevard interchange in Lower Pottsgrove likely will delay for years similar work in Stowe, and possibly the proposed extension of Pottstown's Keystone Boulevard as well.
• It's The Season For Spring Sports, And Mouthguards A mouthguard is an indispensable injury-preventing device that protects not only a smile and the teeth behind it, but also prevents the lips, tongue, cheeks, face and the jaw from potential impacts.

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