An unseasonably early snowstorm in October knocked out power to thousands on the East Coast, including in the Pottstown area, for a week or more and showed just how tenuous the power grid system is.

While school districts are benefiting from charging pay-to-play fees, it ends up burdening parents during a bad economic time.
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Pottstown borough recently voted to remove the downtown business district from the oversight of the Historic Architecture Review Board, despite downtown businesses speaking out in favor of it.
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The aging infrastructure in Pottstown area towns turns out to be not just a burden to the municipality that must fix it, but also to surrounding areas. In September, after an earthquake, a hurricane and a tropical storm, Reading had to struggle with a leaking sewer main that affected every town downstream along the Schuylkill River, highlighting this symbiotic dependence on infrastructure improvement.