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Owen J. Roberts, Perkiomen Valley, Boyertown, Spring-Ford, Pottstown, Pottsgrove, Phoenixville, Upper Perkiomen, Methacton and Daniel Boone school boards re-organize for 2024.

Pottsgrove picks from among 7 for open school board seat

Few would question that this past year of the pandemic has been a difficult one for schools, and for the school boards that oversee them. Through uncounted stormy meetings, difficult decisions, and always someone unhappy about them,  each school board has tried to navigate its best course for both safety and optimizing education. Perhaps that explains why incumbents comprise only a little more than 15 percent of the 64 candidates running in the May 18 primary for the 38 open seats on the nin...