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For Carmen Tortalatin Brown, mentoring girls and young women is comparable to extracting rough diamonds from the ground, polishing them and discovering their hidden qualities.It's no accident that the girls she mentors, ages 8 to 18, at the Pentecost...

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You don't always realize the importance of context until you take it away.I was chatting with a source recently as we waited for an elevato...

Santa will be perched on a new chair in spruced up surrounding at this year's Christmas in Birdsboro celebration.The community event, now in its fifth year, will be receiving a special donation from The Home Depot.The company volunteered to decorate ...

Editor:I am more than 80 years old and would like to see some changes in Washington, D.C., before I leave this Earth:There should be two-term limits for members of Congress.All lobbyists and special-interest groups should be eliminated.All pork shoul...

Editor:It was like a breath of fresh air to reading Ford Turner's article about Michael Matz ("Magic Matz," Reading Eagle, Nov. 24). If ever a local man deserved recognition for his accomplishments, it surely was Matz.Matz was 16 years old in the Ber...

Editor:A seventh-grade Northeast Middle School student stood out as an inspiring leader and hero ("For 7th-grader, food for thought leads to food drive to help others," Reading Eagle, Nov. 27).Ashley Familia, 12, experienced a hungry man's need and s...

The Issue: Democrats change the filibuster rule in the Senate. Our Opinion: Sooner or later the move will come back to haunt them.In July, when Democrats and Republicans in the Senate forged a compromise to head off a proposal to change the Senate ru...

Emily WaxlerFreshman, WyomissingIn "Delivery Man," director Ken Scott brings an imaginative comedy to the big screen. Starring Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt ("Parks & Recreation") and Cobie Smulders ("How I Met Your Mother"), "Delivery Man" is sure t...

Jazzmyn BrownSenior, ExeterWe have been waiting for it and now it's here: "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," the sequel to "The Hunger Games," both inspired by the incredible trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The movie went as expected. The theater was fill...

"Delivery Man"