Sinking Spring News

On Aug. 28, 1943, in the middle of World War II, Mrs. John C. Butterweck of Reading stood on a pier off Lake Michigan.

Sometime between his childhood fame and young-adult pop royalty, Michael Jackson spent an hour in a Vegas dressing room talking to Pete Valencia and his colleagues in D.D. Smith and Company about the thing musicians talk about on tour: music.

Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Full of toxic metals, this set, put out with the trash near Third and Walnut streets in Reading, is likely destined for a landfill.

Reading Eagle Michael S. Lebo, 18, son of Joel and Ann Marie Lebo, Sinking Spring, has been awarded the rank of Eagle Scout.

Click on picture to enlarge. Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy Kathy and Megen Schorn are a mother-and-daughter nurse team at St.

A Sinking Spring man was assaulted while jogging with his daughter Monday afternoon along a trail in Bern Township.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19th FROM 5 PM - 7 PM: VINCE ANGELO will host the Y102 deck party at the BARBEQUE PIT on Penn Ave in Sinking Spring.

Traffic alert Only southbound traffic will be allowed on Park Avenue between Penn Avenue and Ruth Street in Sinking Spring.

Reading Eagle Julie Angstadt of Encompass Insurance Risk Management Center, Reading, was named Company Partner of the Year by the Cook, Hall and Hyde Agency, East Hampton, N.Y. She was recognizes for the role she has played in the company's growth and success.

Involuntary hospitalization The common term for forcing someone to get mental health treatment in Pennsylvania is "302," named for a section of the Pennsylvania Mental Health Procedures Act of 1976.

Reading Eagle The Sinking Spring Planning Commission is looking at the planned demolition of the former Boscov's West store at Penn Avenue and Shillington Road to kick-start the borough's revitalization.

Courtesy of Courtney H. Diener-Stokes Elaine Stewart, center, owner of Nothing's New, in the store with her niece Melissa Davidheiser, left, and her daughter Elizabeth Stewart.

Buckle up and live! Berks traffic toll20092008 Total killed to date1722 District judges Before Ann L. Young Cases waived for court: Kristy Rissmiller, 44, of the first block of North Fifth Street, Womelsdorf, drunken driving.

The Hamburg notary and paralegal who won the Republican and Democratic nominations for district judge in her community said she plans to campaign in the fall with or without competition.

A nonprofit group has put our region's health under the microscope. The Public Health Management Corporation surveyed 3,000 adults in Berks, Schuylkill, and Lancaster counties.

A 17-year-old Wilson High School student and an 18-year-old man were arrested after they sold Ecstasy to an undercover Spring Township police detective for a third time, police said Wednesday.

Reading Eagle: Susan L. Angstadt Wilson High seniors Matt Chaiko, 17, left, and Korbin Spayd, 17, check out their prom tuxedos at Fifty-Fifty Tuxedo Rentals in Sinking Spring.

Age: 74. Address: Wernersville. Family: Son, Doug Crass, Exeter Township; daughter, Cindy Harner, Sinking Spring; and son, Conley, deceased.

Road projects Interstate 176 in both directions between Exit 2 and Exit 10 : lane restrictions around the clock for construction.

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