Reading EagleThe Reading Royals have brought their all-time leading scorer out of retirement.The Royals announced Monday that they've signed forward Ryan Cruthers to an ECHL contract.Cruthers, who scored 167 points over three seasons with Reading, ha...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOley ValleyCoach: Jeff Cardinal, second season, 18-8 (313-253 overall, including 21 seasons at Central Catholic).Last season: 9-1 Berks III, 18-8; District 3-AA fourth place.Classification: District 3-AA.Key returnees: All-Berks F Brandi Vallely, G A...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Associated PressFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Counselors helping people use the federal government's online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site. Some are zipping through the application process while others are facing the same ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYou will see a new look today when you visit readingeagle.com. The Reading Eagle's website has undergone a transformation, improving both its design and the way we deliver news to readers online.Here are some tips for navigating the new site:1.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Walking halfway around the poinsettia- and candle-covered table, guests watched some lists grow longer.The sheets of paper bore the names of Berks County residents who died of AIDS each year, beginning in the 1980s.Back then, an AIDS diagnosis was a ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareHannah Bankes had one of the best scoring averages in Berks County last season, tying Reading High's Isis Thorpe for the lead at 19.4 points per game.That's saying something, particularly because Thorpe was a two-time Berks League Player of the Year....
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAssociated PressWASHINGTON - Democrats running for re-election in Arkansas, Louisiana and other Republican-leaning states faced enough problems before President Barack Obama's popularity swooned in November. Now they are awkwardly distancing themselv...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt didn't take long for the newest incarnation of the Reading School Board to spectacularly explode.There were accusations and gavel banging. There were angrily mumbled threats. And there was a whole lot of screaming and yelling.What started as a wel...
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Associated PressST. PAUL, Minn. - Jason Pominville and Charlie Coyle scored 57 seconds apart early in the third period to break open a defensive standoff and lift the Minnesota Wild to a 2-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers Monday night.The t...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWyomissingCoach: Toph Miller, eighth season, 103-73.Last season: 9-1 Berks III, 17-8; District 3-AAA qualifier.Classification: District 3-AAA.Top players: 6-0 F Brock Kovach, 6-0 PG Chase Hartman, 6-1 F Sean Smith, 6-1 T Tom Paolini.Others to watch: ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareI can't count the number of times as a child that I rode my bike to the stadium below Wilson High School to use the track and nearby tennis courts.Both facilities had chain-link fences around them but were open to the public during the day.The fences...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRobesonia Borough Council approved an ordinance Monday evening creating the position of borough manager.The full-time position will pay $40,000 a year. The manager will handle the daily operations of the borough.Borough Secretary Lisa K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Associated PressCONCORD, N.H. - A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and infecting dozens of patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes.Kwiatkowski, 34, was ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareConsider the list of Oley Valley players who have graduated over the past two years.It starts with 1,000-point scorers Jasmen Clark and Breanne Lamey, post players Miranda Krott and Loryn Grieb, and includes guards Courtney Dunn and Nicole Vallely.It...
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDaily thought"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1When you live for the Lord, He guides, protects, shields and feeds you. You will not lack as long as you follow Him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's tax collections are slightly above projections, according to the latest figures from the Revenue Department.Officials announced Monday that the state took in $9.9 billion in the first five months of its budget year, or les...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSix cities, including Reading, have applied for the two major economic development zones the state will approve in two weeks.And the public relations campaign to win one of the coveted slots is underway, Mayoral Special Assistant Eron Lloyd told City...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareReading Eagle and wire reportsThere was some question heading into Monday's deadline to offer contracts to arbitration-eligible players if outfielder John Mayberry Jr. and infielder Kevin Frandsen would see their days with the Philadelphia Phillies e...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Daniel Boone School Board is hoping to get its new board members into the mix as quickly as possible.For Rich Martino, a meeting regular who was elected to the board in November, that transition is happening even faster.Martino was appointed as b...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMcClatchy-TribuneWASHINGTON - It was an ambitious federal technology project, tying together a string of government databases in one Web portal.But the launch was a giant mess: contract missteps, broken deadlines, cost overruns.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Reading Parking Authority already runs residential parking permit zones on 18 city blocks, but is working on a plan to offer the zones to other neighborhoods that ask for them.But the authority needs an ordinance change allowing it to enforce the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Wilson School Board has announced it is seeking district residents interested in filling the board seat left empty by the death of George E. Mack.A past president and 14-year member of the board, Mack, 80, died Nov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
"Once there was a boy named Gary who was diagnosed with HIV, and all of his family disowned the disease."So began a story stitched into a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, displayed Monday as part of a World AIDS Day program at Kutztown University.Ac...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLos Angeles TimesSame-sex marriages began on Monday in Hawaii as the place where the initial battles for gay marriage recognition started decades ago became the latest state to authorize the ceremony.Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have l...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEducation author Alfie Kohn will speak at Penn State Berks tonight for a lecture on "The Standards-and-Testing Juggernaut: Rescuing Education from School Reform."Kohn's lecture will be at 7:30 in the Perkins Student Center auditorium.Kohn will argue ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareReading EagleBerks scholastic products Ali McEvoy of Boyertown, Kelsi Lykens of Schuylkill Valley and Megan Keenan of Wilson were named to National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-American first teams Monday.McEvoy, a senior defender at Maryland...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareHARRISBURG - A suburban Philadelphia court clerk who defied Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage by signing licenses for scores of gay couples urged the state's highest court Monday to overturn an order that required him to stop.Lawyers for D.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share