Womelsdorf News

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A 37-year-old man died of injuries he suffered in a three-vehicle accident Monday in an I-78 work zone in Berks County.

Standing with two dozen others during a rally, Diane Beamesderfer stood on the curb outside the main branch of the Reading Public Library for three hours last week waving a sign.

Reading Eagle The Miller-Keystone Blood Center, 2745 Leisz's Bridge Road, Bern Township, has scheduled the following blood drive sites: Thursday: Sacred Heart Villa, 51 Seminary Ave., Hyde Park, 7 to 10:20 a.m. Friday: Threshold Rehabilitation Services, 1000 Lancaster Ave., 8 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Saturday: Bern Reformed United Church of Christ, 3196 ...

Reading Eagle A Sinking Spring woman was injured in a weekend accident in Penn Township that forced state police to briefly close Route 183 at Hill Road, troopers said.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Conrad Weiser Homestead buildings in Heidelberg Township were closed in September after state funding was cut.

The mother of a 26-year-old Womelsdorf man killed in March 2007 when a friend ran him over on a highway has filed a lawsuit in Berks County Court accusing a Reading tavern of serving liquor to the friend while he was drunk.

By Holly Herman Mitchell L. Redlich of Womelsdorf never got to live his dream of moving to California and working as a Web designer.

Buckle up and live! Berks traffic toll Total killed to date 2009 2008 40 40 District judges Accident A Womelsdorf man was in critical condition Sunday at Lehigh Valley Medical Center after losing control and crashing his motorcycle on Route 222 in Richmond Township, police reported.

An intoxicated man who crashed his motorcycle and his friend who arrived at the scene a short time later to pick up the damaged vehicle on Sept.

HERMITAGE, Pa.,- Richard Van Gay, Hermitage, Pa., passed away peacefully at 12:39 p.m. Wednesday in the Intensive Care Unit of Sharon Regional Health System following an extended illness.

About the monument Dedicated: Sept. 25, 1909, at Womelsdorf grade school, Third and West High streets.

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.

Click on picture to enlarge. Western Berks Ambulance service area The Western Berks Ambulance Association provides service in these communities: Boroughs: Robesonia, Sinking Spring, Wernersville, Wyomissing.

Buildings at the Conrad Weiser Homestead are temporarily closed until an agreement can be worked out for volunteers to manage the site.

Former Hamburg residents Scott and Sue Meiser came back to town Saturday for a hamburger festival featuring one of their favorite Baltimore pubs.

A three-month investigation by the Berks County District Attorney's Drug Task Force ended in the arrests of two brothers on heroin-trafficking charges, investigators said Friday.

Spring Township police arrested four men and seized marijuana valued at more than $5,000 following investigations into drug selling over the past few months, authorities said Thursday.

Conrad Weiser High School's 5th Quarter program is preventing Womelsdorf residents from using the borough pool, council members say, and the nonprofit should pay up if it wants to continue to use the facility.

Daily thought "But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves." James 1:22 Does anyone think they can lose weight while watching others exercise? I don't think so.