Bernville News

Tulpehocken senior Becca Klopp waves to friends from the 1953 Allis-Chalmers tractor she drove to school from her Bethel home on Friday, which was Ride Your Tractor to School Day.

Kayci Johns of Richland was crowned the 2012-13 Berks County Dairy Princess during ceremonies at the Berks County Agricultural Center, Bern Township.

Frank Gilyard is president of the Central Pennsylvania African-American Museum, 119 N. 10th St., where a tribute to Civil War veteran George Jackson, known locally as "Black Jim," adorns a wall.

Frederick Gerhard, 100, dances the fox trot with Eugenia Sowicz from the Louise Lamar Dance Studio during a lunch for Berks centenarians Tuesday at the Inn at Reading in Wyomissing.

A Jefferson Township man was arrested on charges he tried to sell tools that had been stolen from a Bernville-area storage unit.

Cathleen Palm of Jefferson Township holds the Vision of Hope Award she received from the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.

Watch the Polish film "In Darkness" at 7 p.m. in the Film Theatre at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, 201 Washington St.

Courtesy of Katelyn M. GeorgeKatelyn M. George, a junior at Tulpehocken High School, was co-chairwoman of the school's yearly blood drive.

Rick Hartlieb, a service forester with the state Bureau of Forestry, plants a tree in Umbenhauer Park on Saturday during an Arbor Day observance in Bernville.