Boyertown News

'The Yaks would scare you to death' An interview by David Venditta OF THE MORNING CALL July 4, 2009 Harry D. Yoder graduated from Boyertown High School in 1934.

Weekend activities for Sanatogans , July 3-5: Friday, July 3 The North Coventry Fire Company Fair runs this year from June 29A through July 4 and the firehouse grounds on PA Route 724.

Among many in the ''green'' set, electric cars are considered the wave of the future: a viable alternative to gas-burning engines that carmakers have just begun to embrace.

The eggs, olive oil, butter squares and chopped onion didn't get much attention.

Alfred L. Shoemaker, visionary co-founder of the first Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, was perhaps the most important force in the post-World War II revival of Pennsylvania Dutch culture, but his fate is a mystery.

Randy Hertzog of Blandon, top, displays a handmade quilt to potential buyers inside the Quilt Barn at the Kutztown Folk Festival in, July, 2008.

Road projects Interstate 176 in both directions between Exit 2 and Exit 10 : lane restrictions around the clock.

A 23-year-old Boyertown man was airlifted Sunday to Reading Hospital after his motorcycle hit a curb and flipped in the borough, police said.

High trading volume and a sharp decline in the price Wednesday of publicly traded stock of Boyertown-based National Penn Bank coincided with the end of its offer to sell stock at a 10-percent discount under a dividend reinvestment and stock purchase plan begun last November, the bank said in a press release issued Wednesday after the close of ...

National Penn Bancorp 's stock rebounded Thursday, one day after plummeting $1.09, or 23.4 percent.

Womelsdorf, PA - Age: 68. Address: Womelsdorf. Family: Son, Lance McNear, and his wife, Becky, Boyertown; one granddaughter, Stephanie NcNear, 18, Womelsdorf.; two grandsons, Nathan Shrom, 14, and Aaron Shrom, 9, both of Boyertown; and two brothers, Charles Hill, Wernersville; and James Hill, Birdsboro.

Advocacy group forms committee to oversee restoration of industrial-age relic in Reading Railroad yard.

Rep. David R. Kessler is in his second term representing the 130th House District in Berks County.

Reading Eagle: Abby Drey Josh Gehman, 8, waits with his second-grade classmates to buy lemonade and a soft pretzel at Alex's Lemonade Stand at Washington Elementary School in Barto.

Digital Television is an advanced broadcasting technology that will transform your television viewing experience.

The Boyertown Farmers Market reopens Saturday for its 2009 season, and will operate every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Oct.

The Reading School District withheld the diplomas of all of its graduates at commencement Tuesday evening as it investigated a cheating scheme in which students hacked into a school computer system to change their grades, officials said Wednesday.

A 20-year-old man was arrested in a Boyertown residence about 41/2 hours after he struggled with two convenience store employees and grabbed $100 from the cash register, officials said Wednesday.

Reading Eagle A former teller at the Wachovia Bank in Boyertown has been charged with stealing more than $7,000 from her employer over several months.

Philadelphia - June 2, 2009 -- Tuesday a special group of people were reunited at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.