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📅 Monster List of Pottstown Events
🥫 Celebrating 500 Issues! Thank You Pottstown!
✅ Quick Question / Reader Poll Request!
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Wednesday, September 30th
Advanced Excel (4-week series begins) – 8:00 AM (Shearer Technical, West Reading)
Sen. Pennycuick Mobile Office Hours – 9:00 AM (Montgomery County Community College, Pottstown)
The Table: Pottstown — lunch networking – 12:00 PM (Artillery Brewing, Pottstown)
Reading Liederkranz Oktoberfest OPENS (runs through Sun Oct 4) – 5:00 PM (143 Spook Lane, Reading)
Young Professionals: Pizza Party – 5:00 PM (Iron Gate Biergarten, Pottstown)
Coffee Tasting Workshop – 6:00–7:30 PM (Reading Coffee Company, Birdsboro)
Fall Harvest Soy Candle Making Workshop (new date) – 6:00 PM (Cranberry Street Boutique, Royersford)
Ice Cream Run (last Wednesday monthly) – 6:00 PM (Handel’s, Royersford)
A Night with Spirit – 7:00 PM (Melody Room, SoulJoel’s, Pottstown)
Trivia Night at Artillery Brewing – 7:00 PM (Pottstown)
“Once” (2007) – 7:30 PM (Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville)
Mid Week Laughs w/ Jay Yoder ($5) – 8:00 PM (Pottstown)
Welcome to Hopewell Furnace Walking Tour – time TBD (Elverson)
OJR School Sports
OJR Girls Varsity Tennis vs Norristown Area – H – 3:30pm
OJR Middle School Girls Sideline Cheerleading – H – 3:45pm
OJR Girls 8th Field Hockey vs Upper Merion Area – A – 3:45pm
OJR Boys 7th Football vs Norristown Area – H – 3:45pm
OJR Girls 8th Soccer vs Upper Merion Area – A – 3:45pm
OJR Boys 8th Soccer vs Upper Merion Area – H – 3:45pm
OJR Girls Varsity Cross Country vs Methacton – H – 4:00pm
OJR Boys Varsity Cross Country vs Methacton – H – 4:00pm
OJR Girls 7th Field Hockey vs Upper Merion Area – A – 4:45pm
OJR Girls 7th Soccer vs Upper Merion Area – A – 4:45pm
OJR Boys 7th Soccer vs Upper Merion Area – H – 4:45pm
OJR Girls JV Tennis vs Norristown Area – H – 5:00pm
Pottsgrove School Sports
Pottsgrove Girls Varsity Tennis vs Spring-Ford – H – 3:30pm
Pottstown School Sports
Pottstown HS Girls Varsity Tennis vs Boyertown Area – H – 3:30pm
Pottstown Boys 7th Football vs Upper Merion Area – H – 3:45pm
Pottstown Girls 8th Soccer (opponent not listed) – H – 3:45pm
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Meme of the Day
OpenAI launched Dots.
But forgot to buy https://dot.com
Elon already owns it.
Now https://dot.com redirects to Grok Bot.
OpenAI: “We launched Dots.”
Elon: “Thanks for the traffic.”
Celebrating 500 Issues!
Thank You Pottstown!
This is the 500th issue of Pottstown Local Scoop.
Five hundred mornings of local news, events, businesses, community stories, road closures, school updates, weekend plans, celebrations, and all the little things that make Pottstown…Pottstown.
But this milestone really isn’t about us.
It’s about you.
Every person who opens the Scoop in the morning.
Every neighbor who forwards it to a friend.
Every local business that has trusted us to help spread the word.
Every community organization, school, nonprofit, first responder, event organizer, and reader who has sent us a story, a tip, an announcement, or a simple “thanks for doing this.”
You’ve helped turn what started as a little local newsletter into something that has become part of the daily routine for thousands of people throughout the Pottstown area.
And we don’t take that lightly.
Local communities are better when people know what’s happening around them. When we support our neighbors. When we show up for local businesses. When we celebrate the good stuff happening right in our own backyard.
That’s what we’ve tried to do for 500 issues.
And we’re just getting started.
So today, we simply want to say:
Thank you, Pottstown.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for supporting local.
And most of all, thank you for letting us be a small part of this community.
Here’s to the next 500. ❤️
We’ve got big plans!
— The Pottstown Local Scoop
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