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Former Judge Calvin E. Smith always had a penchant for history, particularly of the Berks County legal system."Cal was a historian," former Judge Albert A. Stallone said. "He loved the history of the legal profession of lawyers and judges as much as ...

It was full of "gemutlichkeit."Exactly what that means was open to interpretation among those who came out Sunday to the Christkindlmarkt at the Reading Liederkranz."It means friendship," Linda Allmendinger offered. "Just everybody having a wonderful...

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To learn more about Help-Portrait, check the Reading website at www.helpportraitreading.com or the national site at www.help-portrait.com.To sign up for a portrait, visit the the Salvation Army Reading Citadel, 301 S. Fifth St.

Building community relationships and capturing family memories in photographs are the two main reasons for the worldwide effort called Help-Portrait.And more than 40 volunteers - professional photographers, makeup artists, computer technicians and ot...

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in the lunch room of the Berks Women in Crisis shelter when my eyes started to tear up.Mind you, this isn't unusual for me. I'm no John Boehner, but when I hear a good story that has some heartache or heroism in it...

The Berks County coroner's office is looking for relatives of a woman found dead in her Reading apartment Sunday.Officials said Dieu Huong Nguyen, 54, was found when her landlord called police to report that he had not seen her recently.Police office...

Oil from an unidentified source that leaked into a retention basin from Route 222 in Cumru Township on Friday afternoon has been contained, state Department of Environmental Protection officials said Sunday.DEP officials did not respond to the clean-...

Kutztown Borough Council has approved a 0.25-mill hike in the 2014 real-estate tax rate for the general fund, to 1.55 mills from 1.3 mills, that's expected to generate new revenues of about $45,000."We don't want to exhaust our fund balance," Borough...

Taking its first big step toward the creation of a Cocalico Regional Police Force, the Cocalico Regional Police Committee has selected the two key officials who will lead the effort that's expected to take about a year.Noelle B. Fortna, East Cocalico...