Oley News

An car crash Sunday morning in Oley Township, Berks County left HazMat and fire crews with a mess on their hands.

The Berks County sheriff's department has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court.

Councilmen have their own agendas Editor: Pertaining to the story ''City Council boycotts announcement'' ; There are only a few solutions to forcing the members of Reading City Council to stop acting like spoiled 2-year-old children and actually start serving the city they were elected to represent.

What: Submit poems on the theme of A''Home.A'' Poems will be translated into Pennsylvania German.

There's power to words that makes them intriguing. Combine them with visual art and the power increases.

Mountain Mary, reclusive practitioner of spiritualism and folk medicine from the days of the Revolutionary War, lived until 1819 She died 190 years ago, but the spirit of Mountain Mary lives in the Pike Township countryside.

The region's 358-modified version of "silly season" is underway. In the last week two car owners have made public their plans to sit out the 2010 season, leaving a trio of winning drivers from the 2009 season scrambling to secure a ride for next year.

It's been said that the wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

A slippery section of Route 662 between Route 562 and Covered Bridge Road in Oley Township was closed more than five hours Tuesday after a tractor-trailer jackknifed, police said.

Officials have reopened northbound Route 662 at Route 562 in Oley Township. The road had been closed for a few hours this afternoon after a tractor-trailer jackknifed, according to reports from the Berks County Communications Center.

An accident involving a jackknifed tractor trailer has closed a stretch of Route 662 in Oley Township, Berks County.

OLEY TOWNSHIP Berks County Man charged with threatening judge after guilty verdict A Topton man was charged Monday with threatening the family of District Judge Victor Frederick of Oley Township, who had just found him guilty of defiant trespass.

BCTC adult education The Berks Career and Technology Center offers a variety of options for adults looking to further their education: Day student programs are full time and typically run for 18 months.

Police are investigating after two men were beaten and one was stabbed, early Saturday near a Reading nightclub.

Reading Eagle: Jeremy Drey Floyd Turner II, president of the Gov. Joseph Hiester Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, speaks at the unveiling of the Revolutionary War Monument in Veterans Grove in City Park on Saturday.

Education funding Berks County's 18 school districts will receive more than $208 million in basic education funding under the state budget adopted late Friday.

By Oct. 21, the Berks County commissioners should have the results of five public meetings held to gather input on the countywide study of police operations.

What local lawmakers are saying State lawmakers from Berks County react to passage of the long-awaited state budget: "We are all just relieved that it is over.

The following events are planned for the next week as part of Reading Reads: The Greater Reading Literary Festival: Today Second Thursday literary open mic, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Hard Bean Cafe, 128 E. Philadelphia Ave., Boyertown.

Editor: I thank the Reading Eagle for the article "Walkers help battle leukemia, lymphoma," Reading Eagle, Sept.