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Habitat For Humanity Celebrates Pottstown Family As Homeowners
Habitat For Humanity and the Parkins family will celebrate home ownership on Thursday in Pottstown.

Marlene Lang may be contacted at marlene.lang@patch.com.
Habitat For Humanity and the Parkins family will celebrate home ownership on Thursday in Pottstown.

A Cochranville man is wanted in connection with a robbery in an Oxford Borough home, police said.
A mother removed from a West Chester School Board meeting announced she is running for a Region 3 Board seat as a write-in candidate.
Federal and local disaster declarations depend on damage assessments, so U.S. Rep. Houlahan asks Chester County residents to report damage.
Emergency crews braved rushing waters in Tredyffrin Twp. to save life in a situation the Berwyn Fire Chief called "true peril."
PA Dept. of Health is distributing free potassium iodide tablets to Pennsylvanians near the state's 4 active nuclear power plants.
A PA State Trooper in a reflective vest directing traffic in East Nottingham Township was hit by an unlicensed motorcyclist, police report.
Open Hearth marks 30 years of helping house low-income families, with a campaign for its new Phoenixville headquarters.
Aqua PA's Pickering water treatment plant recovery is still underway; the latest message is to conserve water in nearby Chesco towns.
Chester County has established a multi-agency resource center for Hurricane Ida recovery in Downingtown, open Sept. 8 and 9.
In a 5-hour standoff, emergency teams ended peacefully a situation involving a man armed with a machete and other weapons, in Aberdeen.
Willard Scott, popular weather forecaster on the Today Show for three decades, has died at 87.
2 EMTs on their way to help with Hurricane Ida recovery in Lousiana stopped on I-85 in Georgia to help in an accident and were hit by a car.
The Boil Water Advisory for Aqua PA customers applies only to portions of East Whiteland and Charlestown townships, Aqua said Saturday.
Winds reached 115 mph in the EF-2 tornado that hit Oxford in Chester County on Wednesday.
Aqua PA issued a water boil alert for East Whiteland and Charlestown townships but on Friday evening said an alert sent out was an error.
GVSD alerted the community that Aqua PA had notified it of a water boil alert, but Friday evening Aqua said an alert sent out was an error.
Emergency crews responding to Hurricane Ida fallout made 300 rescues in 10 hours, Chester County reported on Friday.
PA State Police are looking for a teen who has gone missing from Londonderry Township.
Aqua's Pickering East and West water treatment plants are shut down due to flooding and power outages, but details for customers are few.