POTTSTOWN, PA – Do you know anyone who exhibits these symptoms: Engages in one-sided, long-winded conversations, without noticing if the listener is listening or... »
Rupert Elementary School
The Sky is Falling!
POTTSTOWN, PA – As reported today on WFMZ-TV and The Mercury’s website, students at Rupert Elementary were evacuated this morning after part of a second floor ceiling collapsed. As the collapsed occurring during non-school hours, no children were hurt (thank goodness!). You can watch the WFMZ video here: Part Of Ceiling Collapses; Students Moved... »
School Board Meeting Alert!
POTTSTOWN, PA – Save Pottstown!! would like to remind our totally awesome readers of this week’s regular board meeting of Pottstown School Board. The meeting takes place this THURSDAY, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the 2nd Floor LGI Room of the Pottstown Middle School, located at 600 North Franklin Street. Here is the... »
Code Blue! Code Blue!
POTTSTOWN, PA – This is a Code Blue alert folks! What is Code Blue? It’s a new grassroots organization in Pottstown with the following mission and beliefs: They are a fiscal watchdog group with decentralized leadership that meet and agree on positions and actions for the betterment of the education of Pottstown School District... »
If I Had My Way, I Would Tear This Old Building Down
POTTSTOWN, PA – Today’s online and print editions of The Mercury contain a letter from former 12-year Pottstown School Board member Barry Haring echoing our sentiments on the future of Rupert Elementary School. Tear down Rupert School Regarding the infamous Rupert School, I certainly don’t want this letter to turn into a tennis match,... »
Audit This!
POTTSTOWN, PA – While April 15th is only a few short months away, we here at Save Pottstown!! think it’s time to start taking some serious financial investigative action. Last week, The Mercury published an article on Pottstown School Board member Thomas Hylton and his now since revoked pledge to loan the school district... »
Thursday Night Fall Out
POTTSTOWN, PA – Since this past Thursday’s Pottstown School Board meeting, The Mercury has published two in-depth articles detailing events that occurred during the meeting. One being the surprise revelation that Pottstown School District Superintendent David Krem is in the finalist running for the Superintendent post at Wyomissing Area School District. The other being... »
Hylton Reverses $20K Pledge
POTTSTOWN, PA – The big story of last night’s Pottstown School Board meeting is the fact that board member Thomas Hylton, who previously pledged $20,000 of his own money towards architectural fees for his ridiculously wasteful hi$torically-accurate window$ project for Rupert and Edgewood elementary schools, had to backtrack on his previous promise. Now Hylton... »
Fat Tuesday!
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... »
Got Ethics?
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... »
The Neighborhood Schools Myth
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... »
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