The Route 29/Main Street project in Collegeville is up to Stage 3 now with storm drains and sidewalks being installed. During this time traffic has been reduced to one lane for vehicles on westbound Ridge and Germantown pikes, and on the westbound side of the Ridge Pike bridge over the Perkiomen.

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The Hard Bean Cafe in Boyertown is hosting its Thursday night Scrabble night tonight starting at 7 p.m. The event is described as semi-competitive by the cafe on its blogspot, What's Happenin' at The Bean?

On Sunday, the cafe is offering its Free and Fifty singles socials for those 5-0 or older. The event starts at 7 p.m.

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The Spring-Ford School District is holding transitioning meetings for parents of all fourth-graders as they prepare to transition to the district's 5th-6th grade center, according to the school district's Web site.

Sessions have already begun, but parents who missed the session at their child's school can attend a different one.

Currently sessions are planned tonight at Oaks Elementary, Tuesday at Limerick Elementary, Wednesday at Royersford Elementary for Royersford and Spring City elementary schools and Thursday at Upper Providence Elementary. All sessions start at 6:30 p.m. and are for parents only.

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A candidates forum for those running in the primaries for Pottstown's Mayor, Borough Council and School Board positions will be held Monday, May 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Invictus Church, 79 N. Hanover St., Pottstown.

Both Democrats and Republicans will be featured in this forum.

The candidates will present their solutions to community problems and challenges with the forum theme being economic development, training, revitalization and safety.

The candidates will make introductory and closing statements and answer three prepared questions, which they received in advance. As time allows, questions will be taken from the audience.

The nonpartisan event is sponsored by Working Families Win

Upper Perkiomen parents have unanswered questions about the high school marching band director who they say has been transferred to the middle school. According to one parent, who wished to remain anonymous, the superintendent told concerned parents of band members that the reason was a personnel issue and he couldn't discuss the details.
A meeting for parents whose children will be taking music lessons or who wish to participate in the high school band in the coming school year will be held at the high school at 7 p.m. on May 11.

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Sunnybrook Ballroom is bringing polka back. The venerable institution, located off High Street on Sunnybrook Road in Lower Pottsgrove, is trying to revive a version of the former Polkafest that once took place there.
The new Polka Gala will be held this Sunday, May 3, starting at noon and will feature two different Grammy nominated polka bands.
Thomas Sephakis, the head of the Sunnybrook Foundation, which purchased the ballroom and is trying to restore it to its former grandeur and place in the community, is hoping that a successful Polka Gala will result in a future two-day event, though there were no plans to revive the three full days of festivities that the former Hartenstine family used to have.
For more on this event, check out the Thursday, April 30 issue of The Mercury's Time Out.

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Upper Providence supervisors are holding a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. to review the T.H. Properties development in the township.

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