3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (338+ words) Reading Eagle Alvernia University has joined with Independence Blue Cross to expand educational opportunities for the company’s associates through Alvernia’s Independence Blue Cross University Partnership Deferral Program. Under the new program, eligible employees of Independence Blue Cross that are looking…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (60+ words) Reading Eagle The swim area at the Dry Brooks Day Use Area at Blue Marsh Lake has reopened after being closed for a day due to high levels of bacteria, the Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District announced Saturday morning....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (556+ words) A proposed shopping center on the former Glidden paint factory site in north Reading moved another step forward when the city planning commission granted preliminary approval for the project. The commission voted Aug. 25 to approve preliminary plans for North Reading…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (291+ words) Two allegations of potential voter registration violations in Berks County have been turned over to local authorities for investigation. At a meeting of the board of elections Thursday, First Assistant County Solicitor Cody Kauffman said the county recently received requests…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (858+ words) NORTH COVENTRY — Another smaller-scale data center has been proposed in the township, this time in vacant space within the former Coventry Mall, now called the Shoppes at Coventry. On the agenda for Monday night’s supervisors meeting, which begins at 7 p....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (225+ words) Berks County Election Services officials have announced the schedule for the three drop boxes for absentee and mail ballots in the Nov. 3 general election. One box is in the lobby of the Berks County Services Center, 633 Court St., Reading; one…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (207+ words) Reading Eagle On April 29, Mount Penn Borough Council unanimously voted to dissolve the Mount Penn Borough Municipal Authority with the intention of opening a public works department and using revenue generated to supplement the borough’s revenue. Since 1941, MPBMA has maintained…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (486+ words) City Council at its regular meeting Monday unanimously approved two changes to street parking in Reading. One prohibits parking along 40 feet of the eastern side of the 700 block of Thorn Street, near 743 Thorn St. and 220 Douglass St., where a parking…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (231+ words) Reading Eagle I have a question for supporters of voter ID laws: How would they react if they showed up to vote one day with a three-and-a-half-year-old driver’s license and the volunteer poll worker decides that the voter no longer…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1712+ words) Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and Muhlenberg Township have their own food safety inspectors and the rest of the county is inspected by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture inspectors....