Wernersville News

Daily thought "Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually." Psalm 119:117 We do need to have our heart held up by God's spirit, for only in that way can we have regard for his word at all times.

The Berks County sheriff's department has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court.

Fresh Ground Pictures, a division of Berks County digital media company, Imageworks Film & Video, Inc.

State police from Reading-based Troop L will hold Camp Cadet Aug. 11-17 at Camp Conrad Weiser near Wernersville.

An Alabama man was sentenced Thursday in Berks County Court to four to 10 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a girl over three years while he lived in Wernersville.

The deer that crashed through a window into a preschool classroom in the basement of Trinity Lutheran Church in Wernersville scrambles out a back door Wednesday.

The deer crashed through a classroom window of the Trinity Lutheran Church school on South Walnut Street in Wernersville shortly before 3:30 p.m. The deer roamed the building for several minutes, knocking over some things and leaving behind a trail of blood before managing to find its way back outside through an open door, officials said.

Aaliyah Gilmore, 6, a kindergarten student from South Heidelberg Township adds color to her concrete canvas Saturday at Conrad Weiser East Elementary School.

With its current energy contract set to expire in June, Wernersville Borough Council is shopping electric rates.

As an Army soldier, Frank Stevenson Jr. helped liberate Dachau, the notorious Nazi concentration camp, and its subsidiary camps in late April 1945.

Five people were injured when a tractor-trailer crashed into a line of vehicles stopped at a traffic light on Penn Avenue in Wernersville Monday afternoon, Western Berks Regional police said.

The accident was reported shortly before 3 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of East Penn Avenue in Wernersville.

David Rohrbach recalls what the skeptics said when Wernersville, Womelsdorf and Robesonia unveiled 65-gallon blue recycling carts in the three boroughs last year.

Name, age, municipality where you reside: Dr. Jane Hagness, 40, Spring Township.

Even after a prisoner has served his time, making the transition back to the community can be hard, but one group is giving former inmates a second chance.

Terry Groff, president and CEO of Reading Bakery Systems, was inducted into Junior Achievement of Greater Reading & Lehigh Valley's Business Hall of Fame at the Crowne Plaza Reading, Wyomissing.

A man and a woman were charged with forgery and other crimes Friday night for allegedly using counterfeit $50 bills to play table games at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem.

Though he doesn't wear a fedora or carry a bullwhip, Carl Reidler just may be Wernersville's answer to Indiana Jones.

The Greater Berks Food Bank got a big boost Wednesday as workers sorted through hundreds of pounds of donated food.