Bernville News

What could be easier than grabbing a holiday card, placing a dollar bill in it, signing your name and hurrying to the mail box and sending it to Another Chance 4 Horses located at 166 Station Road, Bernville, PA 19506? Each holiday card will be carefully attached around the barn ... celebrating the Season.

About 65 residents concerned with rising property taxes came out to town hall meeting Thursday night with state Rep.

Students weren't the only ones in the cafeteria at a local elementary school today.

Sometimes interesting genealogical and historical finds are right in there in plain view.

Town of Lewiston Justice Hugh Gee administers the oath of office to Bill Geiben.

The Pennsylvania State Police Municipal Patrol Services Act would require municipalities to have a police force, contract for police services or pay for state police patrols.

Daily thought "My soul yearns, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

North Heidelberg/Bernville-Robesonia Road is closed between Brownsville and Meadow roads in North Heidelberg Township after an accident involving a commercial truck.

Reading Eagle A 52-year-old Bernville man was sentenced Monday in Berks County Court to 11 1/2 to 30 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl from 2005 to 2008.

Reading Eagle About 120 haircuts, manicures and facial peels done Sunday at United Artists Salon & Spa did more than pamper those receiving them.

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Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy Former pro basketball player Archie Talley helps Penn-Bernville Elementary School kindergarten student Lindsay Johnson, 5, balance a spinning basketball on an umbrella.

Bill Myers of Bernville is almost $70,000 in debt from medical bills that occurred because his employer, Turbine Airfoil Designs, stopped paying the health insurance premiums for five months before employees found out.

At Berks heritage celebration in Bern Twp., visitors see county's roots, learn how people lived, worked By David Mekeel With a look of determination, Tom C. Spaar pulled sharply on the black leather reins as he barked out his commands.

Courtesy of Tulpehocken School District Students at the Penn-Bernville and Bethel schools in the Tulpehocken School District raised money for the Animal Rescue League after Carol Hilliard, left, a children's book illustrator, gave an assembly on the process of illustrating books and the importance of adopting shelter pets.

He was a pen pal known simply as "Soldier Dan." That is, until today when some third graders got to meet their hero in person.

Courtesy of Kristy Martin Kristy Martin holds her daughter Ella, 7 weeks in this photo.

On June 12, when TV stations finally made the switch from analog to digital broadcasting, you might say the revolution was not televised for a number of Berks County viewers.

More arrests in a county-wide drug sweep -- known as Operation Fall Cleanup. Authorities say they arrested four people today, in Wyomissing, Reading, Kutztown and Bernville.

Reading Eagle A 20-year-old Womelsdorf man was airlifted to Reading Hospital after a car he was riding in went airborne and struck a tree in Jefferson Township early Sunday, police reported.