Thomas Hylton, who won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing while at The Mercury, is returning to the newspaper as a columnist.
Hylton, who spent 22 years at The Mercury, left the newspaper in 1994 to establish a non-profit dedicated to preserving Pennsylvania's towns and countryside.
He continues to live in Pottstown and remains active in the community, serving on both the Pottstown Shade Tree Commission and the Pottstown Planning Commission.
Hylton will contribute columns for The Mercury's editorial page on a regular basis. His first column was about how communities can use Internet technology to provide the public with greater access to government records.
His editorials advocating the preservation of farmland and open space in Southeastern Pennsylvania won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. It was the second Pulitzer Prize for The Mercury, which has the distinction of being the smallest newspaper by circulation to win two unrelated Pulitzers, the most coveted prize in journalism.
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