Heidelberg News

What's the price of not having a full-time municipal police department? Under a bill currently in the state House, the price for Ruscombmanor Township would be an 87 percent increase in its budget.

St. Luke Lutheran Church at New Bridgeville in Chanceford Township is donating $10,000 to the family of 14-month-old Mason Thibault of Heidelberg Township, who needs a small-bowel transplant.

What a difference nearly five years can make. When Dr. Anthony Skender was named Chartiers Valley's superintendent in March 2005, he grinned broadly and said, "I just can't wait to get here." It was a different story Tuesday when a somber Dr.

North Heidelberg Water Co. customers would see rates increase 40 percent if the company is sold to the Reading Area Water Authority.

Chartiers Valley School District Assistant Superintendent Tammy Whitfield turned in her keys and cleaned out her office after a judge refused her request to work beyond the expiration of her contract.

The statue stares out ominously, muscles all red-orange and eyes blotted out. He is crouched up and angled forward on his skateboard, but there is no mistaking that he is a cadaver, pouncing at the audience almost ghoulishly.

Q Enclosed are photographs of the kind of farm equipment I've seen on area roadways.

Five people are running for four seats on the Chartiers Valley School Board in the Nov.

Scott commissioners last night voted unanimously to shift the parking along busy Carothers Avenue in Glendale from the left side to the right as part of a tri-community street revitalization project aimed at spurring business development.

The South Lebanon supervisors Tuesday night approved the use of the township fire police to assist in traffic control in coordination with the state Department of Health for H1N1 mass vaccination clinics.

Road projects Route 222 between Business Route 222 in Ontelaunee Township and Berkshire Boulevard in Wyomissing: overnight lane restrictions, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Route 422 in Lower and South Heidelberg townships: single-lane conditions around the clock.

One man was injured in a three-vehicle accident Monday at Route 419 and Prescott Road in Heidelberg Township, police said.

W. Pa. Police Say Texas Hold 'Em Game Held Up Share + Oct 20, 2009 10:06 am US/Eastern W. Pa.

Police in Allegheny County are investigating a violent robbery at a local fire station.

Girls bundled up against the rain and cold run from a chainsaw-wielding monster at the Haunted Mill Scream Park in Heidelberg Township on Saturday.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Conrad Weiser Homestead buildings in Heidelberg Township were closed in September after state funding was cut.

Five sheep, four llamas, 10 chickens, 14 rabbits, four chinchillas and an African Sulcata tortoise.

Siren test Exelon Nuclear will conduct its monthly test of the emergency sirens surrounding the Limerick Nuclear Generating Station in Montgomery County today at 2 p.m. Residents may hear a steady three-minute alarm.

Nazareth Area School District officials will have counselors and school psychologists on hand for students today in the wake of a Saturday car crash that killed a senior.

Share + Sep 27, 2009 5:04 pm US/Eastern GERMANTOWN, Pa. Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a three-vehicle crash has killed two teenagers and injured two others.