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Venerable craft show in Boyertown offers wide variety of items with local flavor

Twelve-year-old Emma Neukirch is noticing a lot more students her age hanging around the Muhlenberg Community Library.It might have something to do with the new teen area the library opened this fall in a separate room off the main library. Or it cou...

Tensions in Mohnton's Friendship Fire Company No. 2 nothing new

Every year it seems like I start shopping for Christmas earlier and earlier.It was only a few years ago that my grandmother, mom, sisters and I started going out midmorning on Black Friday to cash in on some deals on clothes and shoes. Before that, w...

Editor:I read state Sen. David Argall's letter regarding his property tax bill ("Bill would replace onerous property tax," Reading Eagle, Nov. 24). I was amused and annoyed by his disdain for the intelligence of the voters he claims to represent.We a...

Editor:The U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills that are bad for our environment.The first, The Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, would direct federal public lands to be managed for the sole purpose of energy development, cancelin...

Editor:I attended Buzz Bissinger's speaking engagement at Penn State Berks on Nov. 20 and covered in your article "Cheers, boos greet author" (Reading Eagle, Nov. 21).Bissinger's point about some cases of our high schools and universities putting spo...

The Keystone Research Center, a public policy group, issued a report on House Bill 1608, claiming it would benefit phone companies at the expense of consumers. The report spells out these possible impacts: It would allow phone companies to drop land-...

Reception, tradition and emergencies are some of the reasons why people want to keep their traditional phones.

Service in rural areas vulnerable, opponents of state proposal say