For years, and some residents of the area say decades, outdoor cats have been a problem in the neighborhood around Shackamaxon Street in Leesport. The…
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A Spring Township man, 83, died in Reading Hospital on Monday, a day after being struck by a car in Wyomissing, police said. Joseph M.…
A 29-year-old woman is in Berks County Prison after an incident in which state police said she entered an 83-year-old woman’s Longswamp Township apartment as…
Maddy Fratis didn’t waste any time. When she discovered the Youth Volunteer Corps of Reading back in 2020, she applied to be on the group’s…
The Wernersville Lions Club held a car show Saturday on the Wernersville train station parking lot. Organizers said they plan to make this an annual…
The bouncing balls that are the COVID-19 statistics continued last week for Berks County and Pennsylvania in the midweek update of the Pennsylvania Department of…
Daily thought “Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” Psalm 31:24 Fear not, for Father God…
Hereford Township residents are searching for solutions to the thousands of dead ash trees in danger of falling throughout the township after supervisors voted to…
A man who was under the influence of drugs when he crashed into a tow-truck operator on an assistance call along a Berks County interstate…
State authorities have charged a Muhlenberg Township woman with welfare fraud, alleging she received $17,000 in child care subsidies that she was not entitled to…
Fire and rescue crews were called to Union Township on Tuesday evening, and later so was the Berks County coroner’s office. Emergency radio reports showed…
The recent reappearance of polio in some communities in the Northeast serves as an important reminder to parents to keep up with their child’s vaccinations…
Two men were shot, one fatally, Sunday evening in almost the same location as a shooting three days earlier in Reading’s 6th Ward neighborhood. Police…
Many Pennsylvania veterans see government as of the people, for the people, by the people and not as one of politics, so they remain politically…
Daily thought “Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.” Psalms 147:5 God knows right where we are and what we…
The West Reading Borough Council meeting this week opened with resident James Rogers addressing the board about business taxes. He claimed that according to his…