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Criminals On The Run
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... »
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... »
Transparent As Mud
POTTSTOWN, PA – It’s ironic, isn’t it? That it took over two years for Pottstown School Board member (and full time political hack) Thomas Hylton to post the campaign finance reports of his political action committee, Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government, online on his PCRFG website. When we launched our site in December of... »
Mr. Big Spender
POTTSTOWN, PA – We were going to add this as an update to our last post…but we wanted to make sure that all of our smart and savvy readers read this information. Today, one day after exiled campaign manager (and part part time Pottstown School Board member) Thomas Hylton issued his big ticket manifesto... »
Community Partnerships
POTTSTOWN, PA – Before Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government. Before March’s controversial 32-page paid advertising supplement. Before the disastrous Pottstown school board election of 2009. There was Pottstown Citizens for Community Partnerships. You say you’ve never heard of that organization before? Well…allow us to share with you some information that was circulated to “a... »
Yellow Journalism Is Alive and Well
POTTSTOWN, PA – The bygone era of yellow journalism is alive and well in Pottstown no thanks to The Mercury and its (you fill in the blank) editor Nancy March. If you don’t believe us, simply go online and read today’s Sound Off (and by all means don’t purchase the paper…because buying the paper... »
Let the Fear Mongering Begin!
POTTSTOWN, PA – Similar to its highly biased fear mongering of the proposed centers concept for the Pottstown School District six years ago (anyone remember the phrase “mega campus”?), The Mercury is at it again. This time, the topic of fear is Rupert Elementary School and its future serving the students of Pottstown, based... »
Regrowing the Shade Tree Commission
POTTSTOWN, PA – At last night’s Pottstown Borough Council meeting, the future of the Shade Tree Commission was discussed and its new direction was put into motion. Council voted unanimously to have Solicitor Charles Garner draft the new Shade Tree ordinance. The matter of funding was also discussed. 5th Ward Councilor Dan Weand raised... »
Compilation Error
POTTSTOWN, PA – Election season must be right around the corner. One of our SavePottstown!! staffers recently alerted us to the new fangled “Web site” at Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government, the fringe political activist committee headed up by Pottstown School Board member Thomas Hylton and chaired by Pottstown School Board Vice President Dennis... »
No Brown Noses Here
POTTSTOWN, PA – In all the brouhaha that’s been going on the past few days, you can be rest assured that SavePottstown!! will never resort to putting The Mercury on a pedestal. That will only happen after we start seeing the real issues affecting Pottstown being openly and candidly discussed. And we all know... »