📅 Monster List of Pottstown Events

💰 Pottstown’s $64.4 Million Draft Budget Calls for 5.89% Tax Increase, or 6.42% With Full Library Request

🍽️ Historic Spring City Hotel Restaurant Reopens Sunday, Oct. 18th

💊 Montgomery County Drug Take Back Day Is Saturday, Oct. 24th

🔔 Pottstown History: When Local Factories Went to War

Upcoming Pottstown Local Events

October 17th:

Pottsgrove School Sports

👇 Keep in the Know about Pottstown Area Events👇

Pottstown’s $64.4 million draft 2027 budget, presented to borough council on Oct. 13, calls for a 5.89 percent tax increase to close a $724,754 deficit.

For a home assessed at $100,000, that works out to $91.92 more a year, or $100.16 (a 6.42 percent increase) if council gives the library the full 20 percent increase it requested, up to $65,000.

Borough Manager Justin Keller said the first staff draft pointed to a hike of 13 or 14 percent before expenses were cut and revenue sources added.

The draft also keeps a $5,000 line for feral cat spay and neuter vouchers.

Limerick-Royersford-Spring City Patch reports that the historic Spring City Hotel Restaurant, at 88 N. Main St., reopens under new management on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 3 p.m.

Owners say Executive Chef Tim and the team have worked hard on a new menu, drinks and a welcoming atmosphere, and Mayor Adam Alberico encouraged neighbors to come celebrate.

Hours are 3 p.m. to midnight Sunday, Monday and Thursday, 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

The restaurant is also hiring bartenders, servers and other staff.

Read more: Limerick-Royersford-Spring City Patch

The Mercury reports that Montgomery County’s Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with 41 police-staffed drop-off locations announced by District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and the county police chiefs association.

Nearby sites include the Pottstown Police Department at 100 E. High St., the Lower Pottsgrove Township Police Department at 1963 E. High St., and Upper and West Pottsgrove police at the Giant on Upland Square Drive in Stowe.

Pills, inhalers, creams, pet medicines and vaping products (with the battery removed) are accepted, but needles and liquid medications are not.

Year-round drop boxes are listed on the district attorney’s website at montgomerycountypa.gov/DA.

Read more: The Mercury

When World War II came, Pottstown’s factories went to war.

The Doehler die-casting plant grew to about 3,200 workers and, The Mercury reported in 2000, produced nearly 10,000 parts for the war effort, while Pottstown Metal Products built boiler heaters and deck machinery for Navy ships, Neapco made anti-aircraft shells, Gudebrod made parachute shroud lines and sutures, and Jacobs Aircraft built engines for training planes.

Women worked as inspectors and machine operators in many of those plants, and one told The Mercury, “They told us from the beginning, when the boys come back, you go.”

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