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In this Pottstown Local Scoop Issue…
📅 Monster List of Pottstown Events
🔑 YWCA + Orion at Community Resource Center
🍔 CFC Blended Burger Battle Sun Sep 13
🚧 South Evans Street Bridge still closed
🏈 Pottstown History: Firebirds 1968-70
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Sunday, September 6th
L’OE Show 2026 (all day, downtown) – all day (Pottstown)
Willow Glen Flea Market – 5:00 AM (Berks County)
Bear’s Den Fitness Hybrid Race – 7:00 AM (Boyertown)
Plant-a-Tree Drive Benefitting Berks Nature – 9:00 AM (Riverview Gardens & Gifts, Berks County)
Brunch at 227 E High Street – 10:00 AM (Pottstown)
West Reading Farmers Market – 10:00 AM (West Reading)
Free Pickleball Clinic — Adults – 12:00 PM (Boyertown Community Park)
Free Pickleball Clinic — Teens – 1:00 PM (Boyertown Community Park)
“From Gifts of Love to Finding My Artistic Voice” quilt exhibit – 1:00 PM (Pennsburg)
Wine & Music: Gene Cullison & Foodie Call – 1:00 PM (Setter Ridge Vineyards, Berks County)
Nature Journaling – 4:00 PM (Berks Leisure Area)
Gewurtz Ketchup Awards – 4:00 PM (Pottstown)
Frog Holler! – 6:00 PM (546 Manatawny Rd, Boyertown)
Blackberry Smoke: 25th Anniversary Tour – 7:30 PM (Santander Performing Arts Center, Reading)
Paranormal Cirque: Specter – time TBD (Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Oaks)
L’OE Show party at J.J. Ratigan Brewing – time TBD (Pottstown)
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Meme of the Day
YWCA + Orion
at Community Resource Center
Travels with the Post reports the YWCA Tri-County Area and Orion Communities have partnered so an Orion representative is on hand every Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the YW Community Resource Center on King and North Charlotte streets (the former First Baptist Church building).
Orion helps with housing, utilities, and transportation navigation. YWCA CEO Kelly Grosser and Orion programs director Maris Manogue say the late-April pilot first assisted 47 families, with more successes since. Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania also meets there once monthly; remaining 2026 dates are Sept. 17, Oct. 15, Nov. 19, and Dec. 17.
Read more at Travels with the Post.
CFC Blended Burger Battle
Sun Sep 13 at The Alley
Culinary Fight Club lists its Season XI Blended Burger Battle for Sunday, September 13, 2026, 3-6 p.m. at The Alley on High, 228 East High Street, Pottstown.
Tickets include tastings from 10-20 competing chefs, 1 drink ticket, and a vote for Taster's Choice. Early bird is $40; general admission is $45.
Read more at Culinary Fight Club.
South Evans Street Bridge
still closed
The Borough of Pottstown Alert Center still shows a road-closure update: Norfolk Southern is doing priority repairs on the Franklin Street and Evans Street bridges over the railroad corridor, a project estimated at about 3 months.
S. Evans Street Bridge is closed at this time. S. Franklin Street Bridge is reopen, with work completed there and construction moved to S. Evans. Rehab includes structural steel repairs, new paving, protective fencing, and replacement sidewalks. Handy tip if you are out for Labor Day weekend.
Read more at Borough of Pottstown Alert Center.
Pottstown History:
Pottstown Firebirds 1968-70
Most neighbors know Pottstown for high-school football at Grigg Memorial Stadium. Fewer know that for three autumns the same field hosted a real pro team, the Pottstown Firebirds, a Philadelphia Eagles farm club in the Atlantic Coast Football League from 1968 to 1970.
Backed by local owner Ed Gruber, the green-and-white Firebirds won back-to-back ACFL championships in 1969 and 1970, then disappeared when Gruber merged the club into Virginia's Norfolk Neptunes. National fame arrived after the team was gone: NFL Films' Pro Football, Pottstown, Pa., which followed the 1970 title run, aired nationwide as a Super Bowl VI pregame show in January 1972. A High Street plaque near Smith Plaza still marks the story for anyone walking past borough hall.
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