BIG NEWS IN LOWER POTTSGROVE! (That's a Lie)

I would like to tell that a big news story came out of last night's Lower Pottsgrove Township Commissioners meeting, because that would be exciting.

It would also be a lie.

The agenda item which had excited my attention and, I presumed, would generate some news -- an update on the infrastructure committee's consideration of a new township building -- fizzled.

Not much new to report it turns out.

I did find out about some month-old news that I missed during one of our late season snowstorms.

Evidently during the nor'easter on March 1, an equipment failure at the sewage pumping station on Porter Road shut down the whole system and filled the station with several feet of raw sewage.

It took hours and the heroic efforts of personnel from the township and Sanatoga Fire Company to get it out without polluting Sprogel's Run and get it repaired.

Those repairs are temporary and the insurance company is still figuring out how much it will have to pay out, said Township Manager Ed Wagner.

Cost estimates are "into the six figures," he said.

So that's something, but sort of fails in the N-E-W department of N-E-W-S.

So, here are the Tweets, such as they are. Hey folks, municipal reporting is not always the rip-snorting adrenaline-jacked thrill ride you imagine it to be.

Sometimes, things are just routine.