Shillington News

A group in Berks County is working to make the holidays a bit brighter for our troops overseas.

Editor: Concerning your story " 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' to end its stormy run" : Yes Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus.

For the second year in a row, a Berks County contestant takes the title at Pennsylvania's Outstanding Young Woman program.

An army of shoppers marches on its stomach, too - even if it is the day after Thanksgiving.

Reading Eagle When Jerry and Carolyn Holleran decided to build a new home, they put one stipulation on the construction.

When Jodie A. McCaffrey, 32, takes her 15-month-old daughter, Abigail, to a restaurant, there is no question about what Abigail would like to drink or eat.

"New Moon" hype was howling in West Reading on Wednesday night. Life-size cardboard cutouts of Edward, Jacob and Bella - the vampire, werewolf and girl torn between them - greeted fans at a celebratory pre-party at Haute Chocolate Cafe, where costumes were encouraged and apple-shaped candles demanded a vamplike mood.

Reading Eagle Shillington police this morning charged a Gov. Mifflin Middle School seventh-grader with phoning in a bomb threat to the high school Nov.

Paying customer turned away Editor: I went to the theater for the final day of the four-day Greater Reading Film Festival about 20 minutes prior to show time .

Shillington Police say they have charged two students with Terroristic Threats and Threats to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction for bomb threats made at the Governor Mifflin High School on October 28th and November 3rd.

Shillington police Thursday charged two Gov. Mifflin High School students with making bomb threats at the school.

You ask Youker is a weekly feature providing answers to quirky curiosities of the Berks County area.

Age: 16. Address: Shillington. Family: Parents, Rob and Danyelle Curtis; two brothers, Haydn 15; and Chase, 14; and a sister, Gwendolyn, 11.

IMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 99 S. Waverly St., Shillington, offers half-day retreat with Doug Wysockey Johnson 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.

Reading Eagle: Jeremy Drey Ex-Shillington resident Allyshah Powanda Winburn of Honolulu unearths clues to the identity of missing U.S. servicemen and women.

Two men were shot and wounded early Friday at 11th and Cotton streets after an argument with three other men, Reading police said.

Ludgate soft on defendant Editor: Berks County never will be safe as long as judges such as Linda K.M. Ludgate sit on the bench.

Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Case facts Plaintiffs: Berks County Second Deputy Coroner Wally A. Woytovich, 65, and former Reading Hospital nurse's aide Margaret M. Marino, 48.

Just call them bundles of boy. Weighing in at a combined 22 pounds and 11.5 ounces at birth, Jeffery, Gavyn and Blayk were born within three months of one another to the Focht sisters.

A Shillington borough councilman is concerned that a borough advisory committee is being controlled by other council members.