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Pottstown, you really need to get some parking for the downtown area seriously. All Pottstown needs to do is invest in tearing some of these crappy buildings down that we have. It would help a lot, let me tell you.

The state has now agreed to allow gambling on sports games. They’ve increased the number of casinos and Gov. Wolf said that with all the money that they would get from this gambling they would give more money to the schools so that we wouldn’t have to increase the property tax. What happened to that money I’d like to ask Gov. Wolf because our school taxes went up, so what happened to the money that he said he was going to give to the schools?

I put the news on the other day hoping to hear and see what’s happening over in Israel and there was almost nothing on it. Some didn’t have anything so I turned the darn stuff off. I can’t believe it. It’s history in the making. It is Bible prophecy coming true, a whole lot of it has been coming true and this is big and the anti-Christ media ignores it. I can’t believe it; no I can, considering what they are.

What about all the hate comments relating to Melania and Ivanka Trump? Shouldn’t an apology be given to them also?

Don’t be in a rush to give Trump a Nobel prize because he is more likely to start World War III.

If anybody would be interested, there’s a new radio station in Phoenixville. It’s 98.5 XPH FM. It seems to be playing music from the 60s and 70s and anything they want to play. I was listening to it for quite a few days and it sounds pretty good to me.

Tiger did it again, chump change $225,000. Just put that all together, not too bad for a person 42-years-old and major back surgeries and was off golfing for a few years. Keep the good work up Tiger.

I keep receiving phone calls listed on my caller ID as “spam?” followed by a phone number. Could somebody please call in and explain this as I do not want to pick the phone up when this comes across the screen and I don’t want to call the number back either for fear of something happening to my phone or my number. If somebody could clarify what this is on my screen, I would deeply appreciate it.

Martha, the church is in Northeast Philly. My mother went there half her life, lived here, then returned to be buried with her husband. The Mass was $400, organist $175, cantor was $175, two altar servers $30 and viewing in the church was $250. It had to be paid before the Mass started. My brother buried his wife almost a year ago here in town and the total was over $700. These two people gave faithfully all their lives. Agnostic

For all of those who have been calling in and defending Donald Trump’s good deeds lately, I’m sure even Al Capone and John Gotti occasionally did nice things for people, but in the end they still went to jail. So will Trump.

I hope the Pottstown GoFourth! Festival T-shirt is a Lifewear T-shirt. Lifewear is a 100 percent union American-made local manufacturer of short and long sleeved T-shirts and sweatshirts.

I keep reading about Gene Venzke in The Mercury all the time. It’s nice, he did a lot but how about those Marquette brothers who finished first and second in the Chesmonts in their time? Let’s hear about those guys.

Regarding the tax increase in Boyertown, the school board needs to look at several of its neighbors, example Pottstown and Reading, and see what happens when industry leaves — people leave. You cannot afford your ridiculous tax increases anymore. I wonder how many teachers or school board members are losing their homes? Remember you get nothing from an empty house. Delaware looks better and better every day.

I was reading Tuesday’s Mercury about the mother who got beat by her daughter. How can a child beat their mother that way? That is terrible. I pray that mother is OK and that child deserves everything she gets. Thank you for arresting her and charging her for attempted homicide. You don’t think about what your parents do for you all through your life and now in return because you have to care for your mother and help her out you beat her because you’re tired of it? Disgraceful

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