Birdsboro News

The sign hanging in the corner of the window said it all. Printed in black ink on a small piece of white paper was a simple phrase, "We need a barber." April Halligan, right, former fiancee of the late Scott Bitler, is joined by friend Ashley Armstrong of Birdsboro, left, and others during a Sunday evening vigil in memory of the slain barber ...

Forty youngsters from southern Berks County will go to church today, cold, hungry and with a story to tell.

When groups of youths arrive today in Douglassville , for what the Rev. Joe Motz hopes will be an exercise that changes their lives, they probably will have come from warm beds, washed in hot showers, dressed comfortably, and filled their stomachs with breakfast.

For the second time this academic year, Penn Staters will sport a Lindsay Stork original.

Question: Birdsboro Borough Council recently refused to change the name of its "Christmas in Birdsboro" holiday celebration after a resident complained that it's an endorsement of Christianity to the exclusion of other religions that have holidays around the same time.

Pennsylvania State Police stopped 198 vehicles and issued 14 traffic citations and 17 warnings during a weekend sobriety checkpoint on Route 724 in Union Township near Birdsboro.

The autumn leaves may still be on the trees, but with this weekend's exhibit at Living Light Gallery, it will be a White Christmas, with snowy woods and haunting winter tree branches.

Prothonotary Marianne R. Sutton will return for another four-year term, according to complete but unofficial results in Tuesday's general election.

Not everyone has warm feelings about "Christmas in Birdsboro." The event, scheduled for Dec.

Phillies / Yankee rivalries are heating up in some homes across Berks County. This entire family in Birdsboro supports the Fightin's...except 23 year old Danielle.

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Flu changes blood center policy Miller-Keystone Blood Center is refraining from using volunteers under age 18 at its blood drives and centers because of the high rate of flu cases among young people.

It's the weekend that dentists dread , that mothers obsess over , and that kids revel in .

Candidates for Birdsboro Borough Council say reducing high water and sewer rates is among the top issues in the Nov.

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Question: Who or what would you like to be for Halloween this year and why did you pick that person or thing? Talk of the Town features your comments on a current issue in the news and reader comments that were posted at readingeagle.com. This week we talked to pedestrians in the Millmont section of Reading as well as youngsters at the Millmont ...

Long-awaited repairs to the East First Street Bridge in Birdsboro could begin as early as next week.

Firefighters are on the scene of a structure fire inside the Birdsboro Speedwash at 125 N. Mill St., county officials said.

Road projects Interstate 176 between Exit 2 and Exit 10 : lane restrictions around the clock.

The Robeson and Union Township municipal authorities have approved $100,000 in design costs for a sewer collection system in Geigertown.