Birdsboro News

After a turbulent year in which the Birdsboro Municipal Authority took a hard line on customers with unpaid bills, three of the five authority members have resigned.

Reading Eagle A Birdsboro man was killed early Friday in a one-car accident on Route 422 in Exeter Township, authorities said.

Two fire companies in Berks County are joining forces. The Birdsboro Fire Company is merging with the Kulptown Fire Company in Union Township to form the Birdsboro-Union Fire Department.

The last time Leslie A. Rebmann of Union Township saw her beloved cat Andy was the night of June 2. That's when the 3-year-old indoor cat got spooked, leaped off the kitchen table, ran into the next room and jumped up on a piece of furniture.

The Get Better Bears Brigade started small but soon grew to brighten Christmas for more than 300 children.

An 18-year-old Birdsboro man has been arrested on charges he beat and robbed a man while the victim was visiting a borough residence this month.

Cumru Township's decision to demand payment from Kenhorst for its police responding to calls there even though it does not have a contract with the borough might be unprecedented in Berks County, but it's fair, said the head of the Berks County Chiefs of Police Association.

Dec. 17--Union Township is planning to drill a pair of wells to see if they could serve as the source for a township water system.

Health care news for western Montgomery County residents , for Dec. 13-19, 2009.

Maybe it was the "clop, clop, clop" of the horse-drawn carriage making its way up Main Street.

A tractor trailer hauling crates of live chickens overturned on the ramp from the Warren Street Bypass to the West Shore Bypass in Wyomissing, Berks County this morning.

The owner of the former Armorcast industrial site promised Wednesday to remove tires and drums from the property and meet with municipal officials within 30 days to address safety concerns.

Come Saturday, a Christmas tree will light up in Birdsboro. And as the borough prepares for the holiday, one little girl is set to sing the praises of a man who embodies the spirit of the season.

A tractor-trailer carrying a load of live chickens has overturned on the Route 12 ramp to eastbound Route 422, closing the ramp.

Reading Eagle An old, abandoned stone house in Robeson Township was damaged Sunday night when a fire broke out inside the building, fire officials said.

There's no place like home for the holidays," goes the old adage, now being sung by Perry Como on an endless loop in a retail store near you.

State police have charged two men with homicide by vehicle, saying they were racing and weaving in and out of traffic on Route 61 in Windsor Township on July 26 before a crash that killed the brother of one of the drivers.

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.