More local areas added to spotted lanternfly quarantine
The spotted lanternfly, an invasive species from Asia, has wasted no time in spreading east into our section of Pennsylvania. Just one month after extending a quarantine meant to halt the pest’s advance into the western Montgomery townships of Lower Pottsgrove, Marlborough and Upper Frederick, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has extended the quarantine into almost the entire greater Pottstown region. According to an email from state Rep. Tom Quigley, R-146th Dist.,
