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In this Pottstown Local Scoop Issue…
📅 Monster List of Pottstown Events
🚂 Colebrookdale Railroad Gets $10 Million Federal Grant to Rehab About 5 Miles of Track
🏛️ Pottstown Council Asks Residents About Single-Topic Community Policy Workshops
🕯️ Souls Aglow at Fairview Brings Boyertown History to Life on Nov. 1
🌉 Pottstown History: America’s First Iron Railroad Truss Bridge
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Upcoming Pottstown Local Events
October 29th:
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace – 9:00 AM (Wyomissing)
Rep. Joe Ciresi (PA-146) Mobile Office Hours – 12:00 PM (Pottstown)
GRCA Executive Leadership Academy: Financial Analysis for Executives – 1:00 PM (Wyomissing)
Halloween High St. Bar Crawl – 5:00 PM (Pottstown)
The 6th Annual Halloween on Penn – 5:00 PM (Reading)
Beyond Limits Spooktacular: A Sensory-Friendly Halloween Event – 5:00 PM (Collegeville)
Keystone Villa Trick or Treat – 5:30 PM (address not published)
Bingo at 300 High Street – 6:00 PM (Pottstown)
Trick or Treat at Chestnut Knoll – 6:30 PM (Boyertown)
Comedy Fundraiser to benefit The SunnyBrook Preservation Foundation – 7:00 PM (Pottstown)
Comedy Fundraiser to benefit Lower Pottsgrove Police Officers Association – 7:00 PM (Pottstown)
Comedy Fundraiser to benefit Mostly Muttz Rescue – 7:00 PM (Pottstown)
Trivia Night at The Alley on High – 7:00 PM (Pottstown)
Schwenksville Halloween Parade – 7:00 PM (Schwenksville)
Watsky X Infinity Anniversary Tour – time TBD (Phoenixville)
Halloween Pub Crawl at J.J. Ratigan – time TBD (Pottstown)
65 North Pickers with The Dishonest Fiddlers – time TBD (Spring City)
OJR School Sports
OJR Girls JV Sideline Cheerleading – H – 3:45pm
OJR Boys Freshman Football vs Avon Grove – H – 3:45pm
Pottsgrove School Sports
Pottsgrove Unified Coed event – A – 3:15pm
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Meme of the Day
Colebrookdale Railroad Gets $10 Million Federal Grant to Rehab About
5 Miles of Track
The Colebrookdale Railroad will receive $10 million in federal funding to rehabilitate about 5 miles of track along its active freight and tourist line connecting Berks and Montgomery counties.
The grant comes from the Federal Railroad Administration’s Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Program, part of a combined $42.3 million for Pennsylvania rail projects.
It builds on a recent $25 million federal grant for the railroad’s Pottstown terminal, and Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach said it provides the final funding needed to complete the core track infrastructure connecting Boyertown and Pottstown.
Pottstown Council Asks Residents About Single-Topic Community Policy Workshops
Pottstown Borough Council wants to know whether residents would attend a new series of Community Policy Workshops, a six-month pilot idea Councilman Raymond Rose raised at the Oct. 13 meeting.
Each workshop would follow a regular council business meeting, generally starting around 8 p.m. if that meeting wraps up in about an hour, and would focus on one topic chosen by council at a public meeting at least a month ahead, with a 45-minute limit.
Residents could ask questions and share ideas while borough staff explain current policies, challenges and costs, and you can weigh in through the borough’s one-question survey.
Souls Aglow at Fairview Brings Boyertown History to Life on Nov. 1
The Boyertown Area Historical Society and Fairview Cemetery Association Inc. will host Souls Aglow at Fairview, an All Souls’ Day walking tour, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.
Visitors will explore the historic grounds of Fairview Cemetery while hearing stories about the people laid to rest there and the lives and legacies that helped shape the Boyertown community.
Tickets are $8 in advance at BoyertownHistory.org, the Grill Shop or the Peppermint Stick Candy Store, or $10 cash the day of the event, with parking at Morrell’s Funeral Home or the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles.
🌉 Pottstown History: America’s First Iron Railroad Truss Bridge
Here’s one most neighbors have never heard: a state historical marker at High and York streets notes that the first iron truss bridge in the U.S. was built in 1845 in the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad’s blacksmith shop just south of that spot.
Designed for the railroad in 1844 by Richard B. Osborne, it went up over a small creek near West Manayunk on May 3 and 4, 1845, to carry heavy coal trains.
Its truss used no wood, and the bridge served the railroad into the 20th century.
Portions of it are now in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and Osborne took a model of the design to Ireland, where it is credited with inspiring an iron railway bridge there.
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