Womelsdorf News

A month ago in this space I shared my belief that we have too many public servants costing us too much tax money, so municipalities and school districts should consolidate.

Just days before the Conrad Weiser Homestead's biggest annual event, the site's two employees are rushing to prepare for the patriotic concert.

Shillington, PA - Bryce I. Sakach, 16, of Shillington, a junior at Gov. Mifflin High School, recently completed designing and building the Horn Garden at Bethany Children's Home, Womelsdorf, as part of working toward becoming an Eagle Scout.

A Womelsdorf man was sentenced last week to probation for 312 years for drunken driving, simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Congregations in Stouchsburg, Womelsdorf and Wernersville are included. Opera presentation planned.

Question: The state has cut the Conrad Weiser Homestead budget and will only maintain the grounds.

Womelsdorf, PA - Age: 68. Address: Womelsdorf. Family: Son, Lance McNear, and his wife, Becky, Boyertown; one granddaughter, Stephanie NcNear, 18, Womelsdorf.; two grandsons, Nathan Shrom, 14, and Aaron Shrom, 9, both of Boyertown; and two brothers, Charles Hill, Wernersville; and James Hill, Birdsboro.

A teenager charged with breaking into a Richland gun shop and stealing more than 80 weapons was sentenced to probation this week.

This time of year I tend to read tea leaves - coffee grounds actually. It's a habit I picked up from years of pacing the state Capitol hallways on cigarette-and-coffee-fueled June evenings trying to outguess what the budget-makers were doing behind closed doors.

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.

Daniel Boone was a man, Yes, a big man! But to Berks County, Conrad Weiser was a lot more important than he! With apologies to the 1960s TV theme song, that's the tune some supporters of the Conrad Weiser Homestead are humming these days.

Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy Tracy Weiser hugs her daughter, Trysta, 10, as the fourth-grader returns Thursday to Conrad Weiser West Elementary School, which reopened after a one-week closure because of swine flu.

The Conrad Weiser School District in Berks County is planning for the reopening of its West elementary school in Womelsdorf Thursday morning.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Husband and wife Joel and Darlene Schenck of Womelsdorf plan to graduate from Reading Area Community College together today.

A 30-year-old Reading man was sentenced Friday in Berks County Court to three to 23 months in Berks County Prison for raising a 6-year-old in a filthy, frigid house.

Plenty of pain to go around for upcoming budget year The Issue: State budget cuts are reducing or shrinking worthwhile programs.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed a second case of swine flu in Berks County.

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While some people may have had the fortune of being born with a silver spoon in their mouth, very few are brought into this world with the natural, raw talent to build a custom vehicle from the ground up.

Reading Eagle An 18-year-old Womelsdorf man was charged Saturday with beating and raping a borough woman April 17, police said.