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Gail MarksJarvis: Size up tax hit before adjusting portfolio

With the stock market up 25 percent this year and some funds up 30 percent or more, investors are getting itchy to sell winners. Whittling away overexposure can make sense. But be intentional. Selling stocks, bonds, funds or other assets can carry t...

 

Person of the week: Cameron Poet of Shillington

Age: 17.Address: Shillington.Family: Parents, Duke and Kim Poet; and a brother, Jordan Poet, 11, a sixth-grader at Gov. Mifflin Intermediate School.Grade/school: Senior at Gov. Mifflin High School.Making a difference: Poet joined Gov. Mifflin Key Clu...

 

My 2 cents: Movies are so bad, they?re good

Lately, I've been watching a lot of movies on Netflix Instant. A few observations:Almost all of them feature Adam Scott. How does he have the time to be in all of these independent comedies? Doesn't he play a feature role in NBC's "Parks and Recreati...

 

Jason Brudereck: Ensuring poor children have Christmas

It's the season when many of us become obsessed with giving.We make elaborate plans to satisfy imagined ideas of what others want for the holidays. But many adults don't really care what they'll receive.It's children who fantasize about what will awa...

 

Health digest: Reading Hospital offers classes and support groups

Reading EagleReading Health System will present the following classes and support groups:Wednesday: Aquatic Fitness, noon to 1 p.m., Reading Health Rehabilitation Hospital, 2802 Papermill Road, Spring Township. $8. FLOW: Friendship, Laughter, Opennes...

 

If you go to see 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' on Broadway

If you goCall 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250 for tickets. Prices range from $50 to $147. The show is onstage at the Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St., New York City. The run for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is open-ended.

 

Stage review: Merry mayhem in 'A Gentleman's Guide'

NEW YORK - There are different ways to make it to the top. You could start at the bottom and work hard, or breeze into the family business - or you could try murdering your way to success, as in the dazzlingly funny new musical comedy "A Gentleman's ...

 

Lori Borgman: The Drumstick Dash teaches some great lessons on Thanksgiving

The Drumstick Dash is a 5K Thanksgiving morning run/walk in which thousands of slightly deranged people brave the bitter cold and nearly freeze to death thereby demonstrating solidarity with the Pilgrims. All I really needed to know, I learned in the...

 

Audio reviews: Lady Gaga, 'Catching Fire' soundtrack

PopLady Gaga. "ArtPop." Interscope.The mission of some art, particularly the modern kind, is to provoke - to present outlandish concepts, explore untraditional ideas, challenge traditional norms - and leave you with many questions, searching for answ...

 

Olivet kids get free haircuts

Among the buzzing of clippers and tunes playing over a radio, members of Olivet Boys & Girls Clubs were treated to complimentary new do's for the holiday season. About 90 kids from Olivet's clubs throughout the city received haircuts to look thei...

 

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