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A fire pit is quite doable for anyone with a backyard who wants to create a relaxing evening outdoor amenity. Fire extends your outdoor living season well beyond the summer months by warming outdoor spaces. Even if you're on a budget, this can be an ...

Outside my window is a large, rounded shrub with leafless branches suffused in a golden haze. That haze is actually hundreds if not thousands of golden berries clustered tightly along the thin stems.This shrub asked nothing more from me than planting...

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey has heard this story before.A wave of high-profile films about black people receives accolades. A heartwarming trend of greater on-screen equality is declared. Hollywood basks in its multiculturalism - and then returns to bus...

Instrumental music teacher, grades 4-5, Cornwall Terrace and Whitfield elementary schools, Wilson School District

"Dallas Buyers Club"HHH (out of four)Rated R for pervasive language, some strong sexual content, nudity and drug useStarring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Jennifer GarnerDirected by Jean-Marc ValleeRunning time: 133 minutesVenue: Fox...

The best parts of "Dallas Buyers Club" are of Matthew McConaughey, as HIV-positive Texas man Ron Woodroof, bucking like a bull in a Dallas hospital he refuses to let hold him.Woodroof is a self-declared "goddamn rodeo." He's a cowboy hat-wearing, mid...

CITY REDEVELOPMENTAuthority starts talking about priorities for siteAt its first meeting after paying $1.655 million for a 50-acre industrial tract, the Reading Redevelopment Authority board started setting out priorities to prepare the site for rede...

BCIDAAuthority researching park's power needsThe Berks County Industrial Development Authority is moving quickly to research the future power needs of the industrial park it hopes to start laying out next year on the authority's 155-acre property at ...

SCHUYLKILL VALLEYBoard recognizes pair for their serviceThe Schuylkill Valley School Board has recognized the retirement of two key members with a combined 28 years of service.President Carol E. Weyandt, 53, was presented with a gavel and commendatio...

The small pack of community-minded veterans who shivered through a brisk November afternoon to watch a street sign installation didn't know much about the men whose names were printed in large block lettering across the sign.They knew the names: Char...