The Pottstown Fishwrap

The King of Discombobulation

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
By SavePottstown
The King of Discombobulation

POTTSTOWN, PA – It appears that Team Hylton, members of which can be directly tied to the staggering lack of progress in the Pottstown School District over the past five years, has successfully recruited a new member…recently elected board member Andrew Kefer. Kefer, who was elected to the Pottstown school board this past November,... »

“I Don’t Like Tom Hylton”

Monday, January 30, 2012
By SavePottstown
“I Don’t Like Tom Hylton”

POTTSTOWN, PA – That’s a direct quote from Ronald Williams, a recently elected member of the Pottstown School Board. Yes…the same Ronald Williams who was elected to his seat courtesy of $15,662 that Tom Hylton personally spent on his failed attempt to buy five Pottstown school board seats in 2011. Is that the thanks... »

Give ‘Em Both the Boot!

Saturday, January 28, 2012
By SavePottstown
Give ‘Em Both the Boot!

POTTSTOWN, PA – While The Mercury falls all over itself celebrating the now viral story it “broke” earlier this week about the Pottstown Middle School’s ban on open top boots, the real issue remains on why the newspaper refuses to expose the money exchanging sweetheart deal brokered by Mercury Editor Nancy March and current... »

Why Does The Mercury Refuse to Investigate the Political Spending Activity of a Current Pottstown School Board Member?

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
By SavePottstown
Why Does The Mercury Refuse to Investigate the Political Spending Activity of a Current Pottstown School Board Member?

POTTSTOWN, PA – In 2011, a sitting Pottstown School Board member spent $15,662 on election activities that directly affects the board he currently serves on and The Mercury will not report on his behavior. In 2011 The Mercury was paid $8,655 in advertising revenue by the same current school board member through a political action... »

Toxic Tom

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
By SavePottstown
Toxic Tom

POTTSTOWN, PA – Poor Tom Hylton. Nobody will publish his warped commentary….nobody will take his dirty money…he can’t post nasty anonymous online comments at The Fishwrap anymore…and Rupert Elementary is about to be closed and razed. Toxic Tom Hylton is radioactive and nobody in their right mind will touch him with a ten foot... »

The Queen of the Big Spenders is Back!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
By SavePottstown
The Queen of the Big Spenders is Back!

POTTSTOWN, PA – Unfortunately it’s that time of the year again folks. Time for one psychologically unbalanced and mentally disturbed local activist to start unearthing the jars of pennies buried in his backyard and cash them in for dirty marketing campaign propagandic junk mail. Courtesy of our civil servant friends at the Montgomery County... »

The Reports of Its Death Are Greatly Anticipated

Friday, July 15, 2011
By SavePottstown
The Reports of Its Death Are Greatly Anticipated

POTTSTOWN, PA – The press releases have been splattered all over the web – “Alden Global Capital Purchases 100% of Journal Register Company”. As many of our well-read and savvy readers already know, Journal Register Company (JRC) is the owner of The Pottstown Fishwrap, the poorest of poor excuses of what is known as... »

Put It In Writing!

Saturday, June 18, 2011
By SavePottstown
Put It In Writing!

POTTSTOWN, PA – It’s nice to see that local newsworthy stories are actually being reported on within 48 hours of their occurrence. Guess that’s better than the typical week long incubation period we’ve become used to. In today’s print and online editions of The Fishwrap, we see an article spotlighting the secret meetings that... »

When Journalism Goes Bad

Friday, June 17, 2011
By SavePottstown
When Journalism Goes Bad

POTTSTOWN, PA – This is the kind of crap that happens when you allow the foxes to guard the henhouse. Perhaps if Tom Hylton’s hand-picked members of his “Neighborhood Schools Team” posse voted to allow PCTV to record school board meetings (instead of them voting against it in 2008), the current video garbage du... »

The Worst Woman Hater of Them All

Thursday, June 16, 2011
By SavePottstown
The Worst Woman Hater of Them All

POTTSTOWN, PA – We see that self-anointed responsible Pottstown citizen Thomas Hylton crossed another item off his bucket list at last night’s Pottstown School District Finance/Personnel Committee meeting with the submitted resignation of Terri Lampe, the district’s director of development. Hylton, who can now claim responsibility for the loss of Ms. Lampe’s past two... »

Feature

Untreated Mental Illness Has Destroyed an Entire Town

By SavePottstown

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... »

A Slap in the Face

By SavePottstown

POTTSTOWN, PA – That pretty much sums up our reaction to today’s double whammy dose of half-truths and outdated data circulated in the print... »

If I Had My Way, I Would Tear This Old Building Down

By SavePottstown

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... »

The Neighborhood Schools Myth

By SavePottstown

POTTSTOWN, PA – Back in December, we posted an article about Neighborhood Schools in Pottstown.  You can read that post here. In a Preservation... »

Backing Into Rupert

By SavePottstown

POTTSTOWN, PA – Remember in 2001 when the Borough of Pottstown approved the plan to reconfigure High Street with back-in angel parking?  The reasoning... »