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,... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
(our apologizes to Clement Clark Moore) a look at Pottstown’s Ghost of Christmas Present… ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ Pottstown Not a creature was stirring, not even the school board’s best known clown; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In anticipation of the new elementary school consolidation... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Congratulations to Friends of Pottstown Public Education team mates Mary-Beth Lydon, Andrew Kefer and Judyth Zahora in their AWESOME election win last night! It’s good to see that the Pottstown School Board will now be able to move forward and embrace the change it so desperately needs, without the road blocks... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Yes Virginia. There are more folks in Montgomery County who have beaucoup plus political dollars at their disposal than Pottstown’s big fish in a small bowl Tom Hylton. As many voters heard earlier this evening, Pottstown School Board member Thomas Hylton and his five school board candidates (Wausnock, Porter, Hammer, Habekost... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Friends, it’s pretty obvious who needs to win in tomorrow’s election – the hard working taxpayers of Pottstown. You can do your part by casting your vote for the Friends of Pottstown Public Education: Mary-Beth Lydon, Andrew Kefer and Judyth Zahora. Friends of Pottstown Public Education is a team of Pottstown... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Who doesn’t love Walt Disney’s classic 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? It has something for everybody…a vain and wicked Queen…an oppressed princess who ultimately triumphs…and of course the seven dwarfs (Dopey, Grumpy, Doc, Happy, Bashful, Sneezy and Sleepy). Pottstown has its own warped version of Snow White... »
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... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Right now…as we’re writing this…a fraudulent bill of goods is being peddled to an unsuspecting group of folks not too far from Pottstown. What is this bill of goods and who is doing the peddling? The bill of goods is not quite that…in fact…it’s just the opposite. A better description would... »
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... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – We’ve received some recent updates to our Crime Wave Hits the East End post and wanted to share that info with our most awesome readers. Apparently, after our cyberbuddy Roy, over at Roy’s Rants published two posts this week on the expanding crime wave hitting Pottstown, more illegal junk flyers began... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – While running errands around town the other day, we noticed quite a number of anonymous flyers posted illegally on utility poles throughout the Sixth Ward in a misguided attempt to keep Rupert Elementary School open, at a massive tax cost to Pottstown taxpayers. Here is one example and here’s another. Like... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Our nation’s unemployment is at 9% (and that figure does not take into account folks who want to work…but can’t find jobs). Folks in the U.S. are so desperate for employment these days that they will work in the U.S. for $.25 an hour. Yes…you read that figure correctly…twenty five cents... »
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 trying to change the subject Displays unusual nonverbal communication, such as lack of eye contact, few facial expressions, or awkward body postures and gestures Shows an intense obsession with one... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – We see that the fear mongering excessive spending spin meister is at it again. In today’s print edition of The Fishwrap, we find another ho-hum the-sky-is-falling advertisement from the wanna-be responsible Pottstown citizen, Thomas Hylton. PCFRG Advertisement 061311 We find it very amusing that Hylton is crying the blues about all... »
POTTSTOWN, PA – Pottstown Councilman Jody Rhoads has our vote for responsible citizen of the decade. It’s only fitting that on page A3 of today’s print edition of The Fishwrap appears the continuation of a front page article detailing the proposal laid out by Mr. Rhoads during Wednesday’s committee of the whole meeting to... »