Fleetwood News

They just kept coming. More than 100 families came through the Fleetwood Community Center cafeteria Tuesday evening to pick up boxes of food that will ensure that no one in their households will go without this Thanksgiving.

The first firefighters to respond to a 3 a.m. alarm in Topton found flames crawling up the outside of the three-unit apartment building at 15 S. Callowhill Street.

Police closed a section of Penn Avenue in Wernersville for more than two hours Sunday afternoon while they searched a borough hotel for a woman who said she had been kidnapped and was being held at gunpoint, investigators said.

The Richmond Township supervisors have voted unanimously to advertise a 2010 budget that won't increase the property tax.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A tractor-trailer was hit by a Norfolk Southern train late Wednesday night near Fleetwood, Berks County, after the truck got stuck on the railroad crossing, police said.

A Norfolk Southern freight train struck a tractor-trailer late Wednesday in Richmond Township near Fleetwood, officials said.

Charles "Chill" Kuhn, a professional storyteller from Coatesville, will be featured in the Fleetwood Library's presentation of "Tales for the Telling: An Evening of Storytelling for Ages 5-105," on Friday at Fleetwood Middle School.

I look forward to the hot co-co with marshmallows after our family decides together which Christmas tree to cut and buy.

Stars. Not hex signs, but stars. Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.

ALONG will be held 2-7 p.m. today at Fleetwood Grange, R.3, Fleetwood. Music by Jen and Martin McPherson, the Roland Zimmerman Family, the Stony Mountain Gang, and the Keystone Mountain Way.

Some places of interest along the Mason-Dixon Line Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:32 Fifteen miles south of Philadelphia is the Chester County town of Embreeville, home of the Stargazer's Stone and Harland House, where the accomplished English surveyors found hospitality and the convivial company of its owner, John Harland, a Quaker ...

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

Fleetwood police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred earlier this morning in Richmond Township, according to Berks County emergency dispatchers.

Emergency officials say a one-vehicle crash in eastern Pennsylvania has killed two people.

Police are on the scene of a double fatal accident in Fleetwood, Berks County. It happened around 2:30 this morning at the intersection of Oak Haven Road and Short Lane.

Historic Mason-Dixon Line restoration is under way Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:32 Starting in 1763, the intrepid Englishmen scaled mountains and risked their lives on a frontier where Colonists and Indians butchered each other in the French and Indian War's aftermath.

Building a home library for a child is important. Carefully selected books will become treasured by the child, frequently read and remembered for a lifetime.

WINDSOR TOWNSHIP Berks County Man dies in car accident on Route 61 An 82-year-old man was killed in a crash on Route 61 in Windsor Township, Berks County Friday afternoon, state police at Hamburg said.

Happy 55th birthday, Clark's TV & Appliance Founder: William Clark Founded: 1954 Where: Fleetwood Who are the company's principal leaders? William Clark, Marie Clark, Robert Keller What does your company produce? Sales and service of TV and appliances How many employees? 13 Mission: "To provide the people of our community with a unique and ...

Two young Berks County men were pronounced dead following separate crashes over the weekend, authorities said Sunday.