Pottstown Patch Shares 2011 Highlights

May 25:  -- Pottstown Patch is a community Web site dedicated to informing and engaging the Pottstown area ... 

May 25:  -- Ronald McDonald surprised customers when he rode a unicycle into his High Street, Pottstown restaurant Monday morning and talked of his controversial future ... 

May 31:  -- Despite Monday's sweltering heat and humidity, folks lined High Street to watch the town's annual Memorial Day parade ... 

June 1:  -- Looking back, Kathy-Jo Winterbottom never planned to advance through the ranks. She was thrilled to earn a spot as a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper ...

June 3:  -- Unit 1 shut down unexpectedly at about 10:15am today. The cause is under investigation. Unit 2 shut down due to a faulty turbine valve earlier this week ... 

June 5:  -- Growing up as a skateboarder can be hard. Skaters get jeers and catcalls, whether in school or pushing down the street. There are run-ins with police ...

June 8:  -- Unlike nearby towns that have already been made over, Pottstown is a historic and fresh territory that begs for revitalization. That’s how borough resident ...

June 10:  -- Although it seems far off now, area high school athletes are already preparing for autumn.  Under the direction of Todd Mengel, the red and white are ...

June 14:  -- Ung Chon keeps a large album filled with photos of various wild mushrooms that resemble stuff -- including a human brain, lava, mug of beer and sea ...

June 16:  -- Russell Patterson and his crew were busy detailing a car when they got an unexpected blast from the past.  “He came in and shouted ...

June 20:  -- "Look at his face," said Douglassville resident Tim Dietterick of his 150-pound St. Bernard, Max, 2. "I adopted him last June." Dietterick and Max were at ...

June 22:  -- A new economic development leader, zoning ordinance change and refined plan review process are set to boost Pottstown's revitalization effort, borough manager Jason Bobst said ...

June 24:  -- Pennsylvania is the only state in the country that won’t allow municipal police to use radar for speed enforcement. A vote Sunday night could change that ...

July 4:  -- A massive manhunt for a killer is over. Mark Richard Geisenheyner, a suspect in the shootings of five people that left a child and man dead in Montgomery County, is dead ...

July 5:  -- "It's a beautiful day for a parade," said a man pushing his bike down the sidewalk. "A little humid, but a beautiful day." Few would be inclined to disagree ...

July 13:  -- When Nicholas Natale graduated from Pottsgrove High School last month, he'd already received an associate’s degree in liberal studies from Montgomery County Community College ...

July 14:  -- The Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities finally has the sparkling facility it needs to help carry out its mission of aiding citizens of the bourough ...

July 15:  -- Testing was conducted to learn whether Mark Geisenheyner, 51 -- suspected killer of two adults and a child -- had a brain tumor ...

July 25:  -- The following arrests were made in Pottstown and recorded in this week's police blotter ...

Aug. 3:  -- National Night Out, an annual event to fight crime and unite the community, was held at the park near Washington and Chestnut streets in Pottstown on ...

Aug. 6:  -- North Coventry Township Chief of Police Robert Schurr provides details of Saturday's fire that displaced over 30 residents and killed one pet ...

Aug. 11:  -- But the gallery's namesake and owner, known as the "Pop Art Guru," made his own unique mark in the art ...

Aug. 17:  -- The Pottstown Borough Authority on Tuesday voted toremove fluoride from the public water supply ... 

Aug. 23: -- -- A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island Philadelphia and New York City ... 

Aug. 24:  -- A hurricane can cause floods, which are among the most frequent and costly natural disasters. Conditions that cause floods include heavy or steady rain ...

Aug. 26:  -- Teri Jensen-Sellers has lived in Pottstown for roughly 10 years and watched a lot of properties deteriorate. Several residential buildings in the borough are ...

Sept. 2:  -- Exelon Nuclear's Limerick Generating Station is among many plants across the country that could require an overhaul to make it safe in an ...

Sept. 2:  -- The fate of a $15 million loan should be carefully scrutinized by a qualified group, a Pottstown School Board member said on Thursday. That sentiment ...

Sept. 4:  The Pottstown Classics Nostalgia Nights Car Show featured hundreds of custom automobiles and filled the streets with ...

Sept. 9:  -- Kaitlyn Lichtley was only 4 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. Today at age 14, she has a clear view of how the terrorist attacks changed the world. “We know ...

Sept. 14:  -- Hundreds of folks at a meeting on Tuesday agreed U.S. Route 422 is a dangerous, congested mess. They also said there's no cheap or easy way to ...

Sept. 26:  -- Kelsey, 16, was injured in a one-vehicle car crash Wednesday and died the next day. "That's Kelsey's favorite color ...

Sept. 27:  -- Pottstown earned the second highest score in the Yankee Division at the Boyertown Cavalcade ...

Sept. 28:  -- When a game goes into overtime, the pressure can be unbearable. Even more so in field hockey, where one goal is all that is needed to erase an entire ...

Oct. 6:  -- The Pottstown Police Dept. next month will retire one of three specially trained dogs from the force ...

Oct. 7:  -- The Pottstown Phillies Fire Company recently visited Barth Elementary School ...

Oct. 14:  -- Ben Britton, a Pottstown resident and Montgomery County Community College West Campus adjunct music faculty member, was nominated for a Latin Grammy and recently released an EP ...

Oct. 22:  -- The suspect in a Pottstown armed robbery on Saturday is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. The robbery happened at Turkey Hill Minit Market, 798 N ...

Oct. 25:  -- "You guys didn't have to do all this." That's what Thomas Corum would say about a ceremony held in his honor, his nephew David McDonald said and ...

Oct. 29:  -- While final preparations are being made to Halloween costumes across Pottstown, red, yellow and brown leaves fall in a flurry of snow.  No, you're not in a ...

Nov. 2:  -- Steven Bamford -- who has over 20 years of economic development experience in local government -- starts next week ...

Nov. 4:  -- A tribute to Master Sgt. Donald MacNeil, who made a positive impact on countless Pottstown area students and people around the world ...

Nov. 11:  -- About 100 teams and 2,000 players participate in the tournament according to the International Quidditch Association, which regulates the sport based off the game in J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter" ...

Nov. 19:  -- Pottsgrove defeated its District 1 nemesis to earn a place in the class AAA championship game.

Nov. 21:  -- Michael and Kevin Bacon of The Bacon Brothers performed a concert at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville on Friday to benefit the theatre and French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust ...

Nov. 22:  -- Members of Occupy Pottstown on Monday protested corporate greed, big bank and Wall Street bailouts ...

Nov. 24:  -- Members of Pottstown's class of 1961 celebrated their 50th reunion by burning an eight-foot-tall wooden "61" at the event ...

Dec. 1:  -- Keisha Scott described her struggle to fall asleep in the woods knowing strange men were nearby urinating behind bushes. She talked of bathing in ...

Dec. 2:  -- Dear Fellow Pottstown Community Members, I would like to invite you to join in re-establishing a dedication to our community by embracing the importance of ...

Dec. 3:  -- PHILADELPHIA - The convoy of school buses winding along Route 73 toward the City of Brotherly Love would have seemed laughable at the start of ...

Dec. 6:  -- Several engines responded and many firefighters battled a blaze at Jack Cassidy's Irish Pub on Tuesday. The fire produced dense smoke and caused emergency officials to ...

Dec. 15:  -- Santa recently posed for photos without his 50-inch chest size, vivid red suit. The suit went missing earlier this month while workers for Cat Angel Network ...

Dec. 22:  -- Montgomery County Commissioners on Wednesday approved the 2012 operating budget that increases the average property tax bill by about $80 per year ...

Dec. 23:  -- Scott Grebe's Facebook entries are a clear testament to his love of family and friends.  Some of his posts are heartbreaking. "My world is crashing down," he ...

Dec. 28:  -- A power outage across the area left roughly 12,000 customers without power, a PECO official said on Wednesday. "We have a pretty big outage going on ...