Topton News

Powerful, damaging winds and up to a foot of snow expected across the area beginning late Wednesday night Berks County is on the dividing line between what meteorologists for AccuWeather.com are calling "significant snowfall" and a "paralyzing blizzard," expected to touch down starting late Wednesday night.

One of them was among the first black administrators in the Reading School District.

Topton, West Reading, Shillington, Wernersville and Kutztown have declared snow emergencies, which ban on-street parking along snow routes.

Topton mayor declares snow emergency starting at 6 p.m. Mayor Tom Biltcliff has called a snow emergency for the Borough of Topton beginning tonight at 6 p.m. and ending at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

It took more than six decades for Army Pfc. Wayne I. Miller to receive his Silver Star and Bronze Star medals he was awarded for valor and bravery during World War II.

Kutztown Borough Council soon will begin making decisions for today inside a hub of the past.

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Little known, rarely diagnosed central sleep apnea can strike toddlers, and it can strike fear into parents.

Fresh off his Christmas Eve journey, Santa Claus returned to our area on a fire truck this morning to make one last delivery.

Hours after her home in Longswamp Township was destroyed by fire, 4-year-old Alexandria Gallina turned to her father, Antonino, and said, "I don't think Santa's coming anymore." She thought wrong.

Fire tore through a Longswamp Township home Thursday afternoon, gutting the structure and displacing a family of four.

When Megan DeVaul decided to develop an anti-bullying class for her senior project at Brandywine Heights High School, she already had some firsthand experience.

Barry W. Herman of Topton. Arrested last week by state attorney general's child predator unit with making sexual contact via the internet with two undercover investigators posing as 13 and 14 year-old girls.

A Berks County man is under arrest after allegedly using the internet to send nude photos to teenage girls.

A spectacular four-alarm fire destroyed part of a sawmill Tuesday night in Longswamp Township.

Forget about baseball cards and football cards - the cool things for kids to have these days are law enforcement trading cards.

Fire destroyed a three-unit apartment building in Topton early Monday, fire officials said.

Firefighters in Berks County battled a two-alarm fire that broke out at a house that had been converted into apartments this morning.

Firefighters are mopping up after a three-alarm residential fire in Topton. Dispatchers at the Berks County Communications Center said the fire was reported about 3 a.m. at 15 South Callowhill St.

The amazing small world the late Richard Gougler created is on display in Kutztown.