Fleetwood News

Click on picture to enlarge. Impact on taxpayers For the past two years, Pennsylvania has distributed gambling proceeds to school districts in the form of tax relief.

Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden The Marcincin family in front of their new home in Temple.

School district taxes Berks County's 18 public school districts are ranked by property tax rates for the 2009-10 school year.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Berks County 4-H volunteer Roger Bowman on his Greenwich Township farm.

"Gem?tlichkeit." This is the best word Evergreen Country Club President Carol Trassert could think of to describe the atmosphere at the Fleetwood area club's Friday night Summer Oktoberfests.

Berks Encore's site in Fairgrounds Square Mall closed Tuesday as part of a plan to merge two senior centers in the former Fleetwood Elementary School.

Imagine sitting down to do a puzzle only to find that half the pieces are missing.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Anastasia Pinchak, 6, left, and Elizabeth Jones, 4, both of Fleetwood, at the playground in Fleetwood Community Park.

The 225 businesses on the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's tax delinquent list owe the state nearly $6.6 million, acting Revenue Secretary Stephen H. Stetler said today.

A Reading man died Thursday morning after an 8-foot wall of dirt collapsed and crushed him in a trench against the concrete foundation of a house under construction in Spring Township, officials said.

To truly understand what inspires an author, you sometimes have to go back to where it all began.

When Fleetwood High School senior Andrea DeAntonio walked onto stage at graduation, the principal gave her a diploma folder - and a kiss on the forehead.

The Greencastle and Waynesboro softball teams both advanced to the PIAA State semifinals with wins Thursday.

A woman is dead tonight after swerving into on-coming traffic in Fleetwood this afternoon.

It was apparently a false alarm for the coroner in Berks County. Deputies were called by police to the scene of a crash near Fleetwood this afternoon.

A Macungie woman has been charged as the failed getaway driver in last week's robbery of the Fleetwood Bank in Maxatawny Township .

Reading Eagle The Fleetwood Historical Society will host an author's talk Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Fleetwood Community Center.

Fired Kingston detective allegedly said he was retired when stopped for speeding in Berks County May 7. WILKES-BARRE TWP.

A third person had a role in the armed robbery of the Fleetwood Bank in Maxatawny Township in which two suspects were caught minutes after running from the bank with $3,482, investigators said Friday.

Police have identified the man and woman they arrested after allegedly robbing a bank in Berks County yesterday afternoon.