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Sleepy, Slappy and Sleazy
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... »
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... »
Get Out and VOTE!
POTTSTOWN, PA – In today’s print and online editions of The Mercury, there are three excellent articles concerning the future of the Pottstown School District. Two of the articles highlight the candidates running in Tuesday’s primary election and the third article discusses this past Thursday night’s school board finance meeting. 10 candidates seek 5... »
The Mercury Circus
POTTSTOWN, PA – Another typical news story mars the front page of today’s Mercury. And it’s the same old same old (are you really that surprised?). Oh my gosh…that dastardly President’s Task Force is going to close my school!! Run for your lives everyone…it’s evil incarnate! Oh please. Before we get into that issue…we... »
More Pie in the Sky Talk
POTTSTOWN, PA – Yes folks…believe it or not there’s yet another puffery advertisement in today’s print edition of The Mercury, courtesy of Pottstown’s own Education Savior, school board member Thomas Hylton. And speaking of savior…today’s throwaway piece of propaganda “discusses” the local Christian schools around the Pottstown area. Hylton likes to use the term... »
A Victory for the Citizens of Pottstown
POTTSTOWN, PA – At last night’s Pottstown Borough Council meeting, 12-year planning commission member Thomas Hylton was unanimously shut out in his quest for a fourth term. Hylton, who noted to council members that he “never missed a meeting in 12 years” did not attend last night’s meeting. Andrew Kefer, a Chestnut Street neighbor... »
Part III: The Party Is Over
Save Our Land, Save Pottstown – Just Say No Part III of a three part series of articles on Tom Hylton and why he should not be reappointed to a fourth term on the Pottstown Planning Commission POTTSTOWN, PA – In our first two articles of the series, we shared factual information on the... »
Part II: Hylton’s Way…or the Highway
Save Our Land, Save Pottstown – Just Say No Part II of a three part series of articles on Tom Hylton and why he should not be reappointed to a fourth term on the Pottstown Planning Commission POTTSTOWN, PA – In our first article of the series, Part I: A Power Trip Benefiting One... »
Don Read Must Go
POTTSTOWN, PA – Don Read, the combative loudmouth member of the Pottstown Borough Authority (and well-documented Three Stooges fan), is up for renewal of his five-year board term at Monday’s upcoming Pottstown Borough Council meeting. As 2011 is the year to clean house in Pottstown, SavePottstown!! strongly believes that Read should be relieved of... »
Hylton Plans to Close a School
POTTSTOWN, PA – At tonight’s general meeting of the Pottstown School Board, board member Thomas Hylton is planning on making a motion to close 10 modular units currently at use in our elementary schools. First off, we’re wondering if Mr. Hylton has discussed any portions of his latest scheme with the Facilities Committee. Or... »