Friday, May 24, 2013
Looking for something other than a Camry from one of the world's largest automakers.
My car’s rear seats don’t fold down. They did on my previous car, which was a coupe version of my current car, but my car’s first owner didn’t pony up the money for the cold-weather package … so now I’m stuck with a small trunk and no headlamp washers. First world problems, I know. And because my seats don’t fold down, whenever I want to go skiing, or surfing, or just carry a long stick in my vehicle, I’ve got to run to my mother. She drives a 2001 Toyota RAV4. It’s cavernous, can plow through 2 feet of snow with its gas-guzzling, always-on 4-wheel drive system and 70-series tires, and is probably the slowest vehicle I’ve ever driven. I’m always welcome to drive it when I need to take a tortuous trip to Ikea and I love it. But, being a …
The disappearance, and subsequent recovery, of Matthew Royer has started a lively debate among Patch readers on missing person investigations.
Skippack man Matthew Royer was located Thursday after disappearing on his way home from the Univeristy of Rhode Island on May 18. The Royer family asked the media to consider this a "private and closed matter," and there have been no details on the reasons for his disapearance, or the details surrounding his recovery. Patch readers, however, have started a lively discussion on if indivuduals who go missing are found to have left on their own accord without telling anyone, who should be responsible for the search efforts? Click here for the lengthy discussion, see below to vote in a poll.
The group is on a 10-day trek to Harrisburg to pressure government leaders into investing in communities, not prisons.
Decarcerate PA, an anti-prison activist group, has organized a 10-day march from Philadelphia to Harrisburg beginning Saturday, and will spend the weekend walking through Norristown and Collegeville to Pottstown, stopping for a protesting to end prison expansions along the way. The 113-mile trek has been labeled the “March for a People’s Budget: Stop the Prison Expansion Now!,” and will begin Saturday at noon with a rally in Love Park. “The march will build pressure on legislators to reject Governor Corbett’s prison expansion projects and invest in communities, not prisons,” said a release from the organization. "Decarcerate PA and allies are marching to oppose the unchecked grown of Pennsylvania’s prison budget even as 23 schools in …
This event will be held at the beautiful, private golf course at Spring Ford Country Club.
Parade begins at 5th & Main at 9 am, travels up Main to 7th Ave, right on 7th to Walnut, then left on Walnut.
Planning a vacation or just a day trip? Patch has all the information on the Shore's best beaches
More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer. While certain access points and facilities might be closed as municipalities continue to work on restoration, for the most part, the beaches will be operational. The only beach that remains off limits to the public is Mantoloking. The borough was home to a breach that split Ocean County's northern barrier island in half and was one of the hardest hit communities in New Jersey during the storm. So as you prepare to stick your toes in the sand, are you wondering what will be accessible after Sandy? Need to know how much it will cost to buy badges to your favorite beach? Curious …
The pre-prom event involved several crews and some brave drama club members, and emphasized for students the serious consequences of distracted or impaired driving.
Several local first responder departments set up a two-vehicle crash rescue demonstration for students at Pope John Paul II High School Thursday morning. "The whole point was to get them thinking about driving after drinking or not paying attention to the road," said Royersford firefighter Dave Hummel. Hummel said that students from the PJPII Drama Club participated, playing the crash victims, and that Royersford and Trappe Fire Departments, Upper Providence Emergency Services, the Upper Providence Police Department, MidAtlantic MedEvac and Friendship Ambulance all took part. The scenario was set up as if two carloads of teenagers had crashed into one another. "We played it out as the driver of one of the vehicles had been drinking, and …
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Limerick-based church will hold its ninth-annual Strawberry Festival Fundraising event, June 1.
Saint James Lutheran Church, located at 93 Kugler Road in Limerick, has found a sweet way to help pay for its Mission and Service trips with its ninth-annual Strawberry Festival. According to Ruth Hanson, St. James Lutheran Church’s Outreach coordinator, the Strawberry Festival is the church’s single biggest fundraiser for its summer servants trips. Proceeds from this year’s festival will help fund two such trips, in which youth will be travelling to South Dakota to work with Native American Families living in reservations; as well as an adult and family trip to Atlantic City to help with clean up efforts from Hurricane Sandy. The Strawberry Festival, which will take place June 1, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., rain or shine, will also feature a …
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St. James Lutheran Church
93 Kugler Rd, Limerick, PA
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Spring-Ford will offer and AP Environmental Science course during the 2013-2014 school year; 26 students have already signed up.
This press release was provided by Spring-Ford Area School District. Spring-Ford Area Senior High School has been selected to participate in the brand-new STEM Access program — an innovative initiative created to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented minority and female high school students that participate in Advanced Placement courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines. A $5 million Google Global Impact Award to DonorsChoose.org will make it possible for the high school to start a new AP Environmental Science class and encourage traditionally underrepresented minority (black/African American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native) and female students who demonstrate strong academic…
Operation 'Weed Whacker' nets eight arrests, four firearms, over $700,000 in cash and 400 pounds of high-grade marijuana.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman has announced eight arrests in connection with Operation "Weed Whacker," which sought to bring down a multimillion-dollar marijuana trafficking ring. According to the press release, the DA's Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) began an investigation in September of 2012 into the trafficking of high-grade marijuana in Whitpain Township. Two months into the investigation, detectives learned that hundreds of pounds of marijuana were being distributed throughout southeastern Pennsylvania by two brothers, identified as Dennis Frederick, 40, of Delaware County, and Jeffrey Frederick, 32, of Philadelphia, the release states. Through the use of wiretaps, investigators tied the Frederick brothers' to …
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