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The Editor's Desk: April 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013. A little after midnight Friday morning, slot desk editor Jim Wright. Was making a final check of Associated Press headlines to update The Mercury’s website. When he saw a brief story that a police officer at MIT near Boston had been shot. He posted the story to our website, too late to make the print editions. About the same time, reporter Frank Otto. Was getting home to West Chester after working late covering the evening’s Phoenixville Area School Board meeting. 8220;At one poin...
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The Editor's Desk: October 2012
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Friday, October 5, 2012. Join us for literacy project. Our Community Media Lab. Went to the dogs last week. The Pottstown Bark for Life. Planning committee became the first community group to take us up on the offer to use our space in The Mercury. For a meeting. The meeting involved about 20 people, but the talk was all about the dogs - and the plans for next spring's Bark for Life event that raises money for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. This Tuesday, Oct. 9, The Mercury is hosting a ...
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The Editor's Desk: Jobs that are no more
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Thursday, July 18, 2013. Jobs that are no more. When Mercury staff writer Caroline Sweeney started work on the series, "Jobs I never had,". Tackling summer jobs she had never tried, we started talking in the newsroom about the summer jobs that no longer exist. As it turns out, none of the summer jobs I worked are an option these days. By the end of a shift, we were covered in white Styrofoam and surrounded by damaged cups. But my best summer job that no longer exists was selling Wonder Ware, the cookware...
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The Editor's Desk: Ready to Rumble
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Thursday, June 20, 2013. If there was ever a time to come out and support the Pottstown Rumble. The Rumble is an annual grass tournament in Pottstown started more than 20 years ago by a group of volleyball enthusiasts. The group, led by by Ken Kaas, worked tirelessly to grow the tournament, starting with some nets in Memorial Park to become the largest grass tournament on the East Coast. But for all that energy to bring a good thing to Pottstown, the Rumble. Has historically not generated a lot of local ...
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The Editor's Desk: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013. This was written as a guest post for Steve Buttry. And also appears here. I have a saying honed during 37 years in the news business: "Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.". Consider the emails, the requests, the columns to write, stories to edit, projects to manage . it doesn't end, diminish or slow down. So my thinking is that if something's not needed today, leave it for tomorrow. The ability to put work aside is a chore in itself requiring discipline and a daily ...
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The Editor's Desk: 5 words that changed us: 'The president has been shot.'
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Thursday, November 21, 2013. 5 words that changed us: 'The president has been shot.'. 8220;This murder in broad daylight . Everything changed,” says Oliver Stone, the Hill School graduate/boomer director who served in Vietnam and made a movie about it before turning his distinctively critical lens on the Kennedy assassination. Like so many others, I recall this defining moment from a school classroom. I was in fourth grade at Pine Forge Elementary School, I believe my teacher was Mrs. Levengood. The bear...
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The Editor's Desk: Summer of learning
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Catherine "Cat" Coyle recently completed a summer internship in our newsroom. A Boyertown grad from Gilbertsville, Cat is now a sophomore at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia studying English and international relations. She hopes to continue studying journalism and enter the field as a reporter specializing in foreign affairs or environmental science. When we asked her what she learned and what she loved here, she replied, "Everything! Indeed, the feeling was mutual.
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The Editor's Desk: August 2013
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Catherine "Cat" Coyle recently completed a summer internship in our newsroom. A Boyertown grad from Gilbertsville, Cat is now a sophomore at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia studying English and international relations. She hopes to continue studying journalism and enter the field as a reporter specializing in foreign affairs or environmental science. When we asked her what she learned and what she loved here, she replied, "Everything! Indeed, the feeling was mutual.
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The Editor's Desk: November 2013
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Thursday, November 21, 2013. 5 words that changed us: 'The president has been shot.'. 8220;This murder in broad daylight . Everything changed,” says Oliver Stone, the Hill School graduate/boomer director who served in Vietnam and made a movie about it before turning his distinctively critical lens on the Kennedy assassination. Like so many others, I recall this defining moment from a school classroom. I was in fourth grade at Pine Forge Elementary School, I believe my teacher was Mrs. Levengood. The bear...
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The Editor's Desk: December 2012
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Monday, December 31, 2012. 2012 was a year to forget. In many ways, 2012 is a year we would like to forget. It was a year of too much horror and heartache, a year that saw the legends of a generation pass and that left us reeling with questions about random violence rocking our sense of security. Not since 2001 and the terror of 9/11 have we felt so hopelessly victimized as we did twice in 2012. The world didn't come to an end on Dec. 21, as the Mayans predicted. Again, the horror in headlines. Hurricane...