POTTSTOWN, PA – Today is Fat Tuesday…the last day to fatten up before the Lenten season. The Mardi Gras celebrations remind us of the five member “Back to the 50’s” voting block of our Pottstown School Board – partying and spending money we don’t have on things our children don’t need. Ladies and gentlemen…we... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – Let’s talk about ethics, shall we? Now that Pottstown School Board member Thomas Hylton has publicaly stated that he will personally “loan” $20,000 towards the cost of architectural fees for his reckless hi$torically-accurate window$ project at Rupert and Edgewood Elementary schools, it only makes legal sense that he now also must... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – Back in December, we posted an article about Neighborhood Schools in Pottstown.  You can read that post here. In a Preservation Pottstown advertising promotional that was mailed to Pottstown residents in 2001, then board president George Wausnock made the following statement regarding the issue to abolish the neighborhood school system in... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – A hollow pledge.  That pretty much sums up Pottstown School Board member Thomas Hylton’s pledge from Monday night’s special voting meeting to fork over $20,000 (supposedly his own money) to pay for an architectural firm to design the custom-built hi$torically-accurate windows for Edgewood and Rupert elementary schools.  The Mercury today published... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – Tom Hylton.  School Board Member.  A man barely in the 21st century.  Gentlemen…we need to reject him… Pottstown taxpayers…we present to you…THE $20,000 MAN Tonight folks the Pottstown School Board voted to proceed with the yet-to-figure-out-how-we’re-going-to-pay-for-it project of installing new hi$torically-accurate windows at Rupert and Edgewood Elementary Schools.  The board voted,... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – In today’s Mercury, not one, but TWO articles appeared on events that occurred during last Thursday’s Pottstown School Board Committee of the Whole meeting. If you haven’t already, you can check out the articles here: School window replacement designs could cost between $20,000 and $80,700 Pottstown School Board members annoyed by... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – Just a reminder folks that tomorrow night, Monday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m., there will be a special Pottstown School Board voting meeting.  The meeting will take place in the District Administration Building on Beech Street. And yes, we realize that once again there’s a conflict with a school board and... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – The Pottstown Area Industrial Development Corporation (PAID) will now be the primary organization charged with guiding and encouraging economic development in Pottstown, as reported in today’s Mercury.  You can read the article here. This new partnership was formed from discussions held last October by the Urban Land Institute during a three-day... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – Call it what you will.  A woman scorned.  Sour grapes, perhaps?  In today’s Mercury, ex-Shade Tree Commission member Patty Fetterman launched into an attack of Pottstown Borough Councilman Jody Rhoads.  You can read her letter to the editor here. We’re not sure why there is so much anger from Ms. Fetterman,... »

POTTSTOWN, PA – So Pottstown School Board member Valerie Harris wants a little respect? How about a little respect for the taxpayers of Pottstown? At this week’s Committee of the Whole Meeting, Harris demanded respect from fellow board member Polly Weand, but we here at Save Pottstown!! want a little respect from Harris, as... »