Pottstown
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Calling all Ghouls and Goblins: Hobart’s Ram Run 5k to Help Pottstown!
While Hobart’s Run has hosted the “Ram Run 5K”in the past, due to pandemic concerns, this year’s “Ram Run 5K” and Mile Walk event will take place any time and on a course of participants’ choosing during the week of Oct 26. Crowd prohibitions have led organizers to create a “virtual” race sure to provide…
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New Mobile COVID-19 Resource to Visit Underserved Montco Communities Late September
Community-Accessible Testing and Education, or CATE, is PA’s latest COVID-19 resource on wheels to help stop the spread of the coronavirus and was designed specifically to reach minority, immigrant, and other underserved communities writes Jo Ciavaglia for the Pocono Record. “In order to solve health care inequality and reach vulnerable and underserved communities we need…
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MCCC New Online Interview Series “Prof Talks” Highlights Diverse Industry Professionals
In a new online series, Montgomery County Community College students and members of the community will have the opportunity to get a unique look at the workforce ahead of them. “Prof Talks” is an interdisciplinary, interactive, online interview series that features diverse professionals from a wide array of industries to help students gain new insights…
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MCCC Offering New Program for First-Time Students
Montgomery County Community College is offering a new program of its own creation called the College Connection Experience (CCE) that is designed to help first-time college students not only get started, but to stay the course and achieve their goals. Supported by a Title III grant for the U.S. Department of Education, CCE is an…
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At King of Prussia Mall, Amazon Distribution Centers May Replace Vacant J.C. Penneys/Sears
Simon Property Group is in talks with Amazon to turn vacant J.C. Penney and Sears space into fulfillment centers, write Ashley Gurbal Kritzer and Natalie Kostelni for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The deal could have major implications for several Simon-owned properties in Montgomery County. This includes the shopping mecca, King of Prussia Mall, which is…
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Feud Between Pottstown’s Gazzo’s and Deezy’s Ends in a Handshake and a Challenge
The clear winner of the social media feud between Gazzo’s Steaks and Deezy’s Famous Cheesesteaks is Pottstown, reports Kevin Kinkead for Crossing Broad. Earlier this week, local favorite Gazzo’s took to Facebook to call out a wave of negative reviews allegedly linked to Deezy’s and its partner, Artillery Brewing Co. The post alleges the review…
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Due to Pandemic-Related Safety Concerns, This Year’s Fete en Blanc Celebration in Pottstown Is Canceled
Due to ongoing coronavirus-related uncertainty and safety concerns, Pottstown Area Industrial Development and Hobart’s Run have decided to cancel this year’s Fete en Blanc -or dinner in white – celebration that was scheduled for September 18. The decision to cancel this popular end-of-summer event was made after thorough discussions. These included the evaluation of other…
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EPA Chief Announces New Grant to Clean Up Pottstown Mercury Building During Town Visit
During his visit to Pottstown last week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a new grant to clean up Pottstown Mercury building, writes Frank Kummer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The grant is a part of $6.9 million in new funding for brownfields projects nationwide where communities work with the EPA to clean up…
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New Hobart’s Run Initiative Helps Keep Pottstown, Historic Edgewood Cemetery Clean
A new Hobart’s Run neighborhood improvement initiative wants to raise funds to help finance the year-round maintenance of the Historic Edgewood Cemetery by offering trash grabbers for donations. At the same time, it also hopes to inspire Pottstown residents to pick up litter on their blocks. The cemetery was abandoned eight years ago and quickly…
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Forbes: Instead of Racing Live Goats, This Year Sly Fox Brewing Organized Virtual Bock Fest & Goat Races
Unable to race live goats for its annual Bock Fest and Goat Race due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year Sly Fox Brewing decided to livestream a virtual goat race and Maibock beer celebration, writes Tara Nurin for Forbes. The brewery with its Pottstown, Phoenixville, and Malvern locations has seen the popularity of its charity…
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Pottstown Woman Finds Distance Learning To Be Humbling Experience
Angela Kearney, who has been supervising the education of her four children and grandchildren at her Pottstown home is finding distance learning to be a humbling experience, writes Miles Bryan for the WHYY. The 50-year-old spent the last several years earning her associate’s degree in paralegal science and a bachelor’s degree in legal studies. Then…
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Hobart’s Run Launches New Website That Presents Pottstown Renewal Information in ‘Simple, Attractive Format’
Hobart’s Run, the Pottstown engagement and development initiative affiliated with The Hill School, has recently launched its new and improved website. “Our goal was to present a great deal of information about Hobart’s Run in a simple, attractive format,” says Cathy Skitko, Director of Communications for Hobart’s Run. She added that the goal of the…
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CODY Systems Launches COVID-19 Risk Alerting Network, Offers Free Help with Optimizing COVID-19 Tracking Data
Pottstown-based CODY Systems has launched a COVID-19 risk alerting network for public safety and first responders and offers free help with optimizing COVID-19 tracking data. Through its new #HealthRisk Notification Ecosystem, the company’s COBRA.net technology enables potential COVID risk notifications and offers alerts for frontline personnel, analysts, and dispatchers. The family-owned company has adapted its…
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Pete Retzlaff, Five-Time Pro Bowl Tight End and Philadelphia Eagles Icon, Dies in Pottstown at 88
Pete Retzlaff, a five-time Pro Bowl tight end and a Philadelphia Eagles icon who played on the 1960 championship team, died on April 10 in Pottstown at age 88, writes Bob Grotz for the Daily Times. Retzlaff died of natural causes. “Pete was a revolutionary tight end and one of the most productive players in…
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Hobart’s Run Awards 15 COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Grants, Looking for Matching Funds to Expand Program’s Scope
Pottstown’s Hobart’s Run has awarded fifteen COVID-19 emergency assistance grants and is now looking for additional matching funds to expand the program’s scope. The grants were awarded to ten local nonprofits and five recently opened small businesses. The organization did not turn away any of the first-round applicants, most of whom wrote in their applications…
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Inquirer Journalist Shares How He Learned of The Hill School Doctor Who Prevented Deadly Measles Outbreak in 1934
Tom Avril, who wrote about the Montgomery County doctor who prevented a deadly measles outbreak at The Hill School in 1934, first learned about J. Roswell Gallagher in an article published in The Wall Street Journal, writes The Philadelphia Inquirer. A Johns Hopkins University professor had mentioned Gallagher and provided a brief description of the…
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Sheltering in Place Creates Trash and Jobs at J. P. Mascaro
As the coronavirus places a severe strain on a company’s day-to-day operations, managers must weigh draconian cost-cutting options, including sadly, whether to lay off workers or cut back the hours existing employees work each week. Managers at J. P. Mascaro & Sons, privately owned and family operated business with nearly 60 years of servicing Montgomery County…
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Pottstown Resident, First-Generation Penn Stater Channeling Love for Geography to Career in Natural Disaster Management
Sara Maholland, a Pottstown resident and first-generation Penn State student, is channeling her love for geography towards a career in natural disaster management, according to a staff report from the Penn State News. Maholland is a junior geography major at Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. She received invaluable help on her college…
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