8/2/17
by News Department on 08/02/17National Guard helps with blight...
The National Guard is helping board up blighted properties in Pottsville this month.
Four abandoned homes in the city have been boarded up so far by the Department of Military Affairs' Counter Drug Task Force as a part of its "Clean and Seal" campaign.
Pottsville's City Administrator Tom Palamar said out of the 6,500 properties in the city, about 270 of them are blighted properties.
The city has its own blight task force but is thankful to get help from the National Guard.
The National Guard task force will be will be back in Pottsville next week boarding up about 15 homes total in the city.
