50+ min ago  (1172+ words) The dog days of summer bring the heat, and in more ways than one, especially when it comes to Major League Baseball. The months of June and July are when young prospects across MLB have their ears perked up as…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1065+ words) Fleetwood Area School District celebrated the graduation of the class of 2026 during a commencement ceremony held in the high school auditorium on June 5. Among the highlights, senior choir members performed, and class officers read from the book "Maybe: A Story…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago  (827+ words) This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. , said in a post on X. The open tensions are an almost complete reversal from a year ago when Senate Republicans worked closely with Trump on a complicated…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (234+ words) The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles will host Hoods Up Weekend on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28. From" 9: 30 a. m. to 4 p. m. , visit the Museum at 85 South Walnut St. in Boyertown to see early and experimental engines from Pennsylvania vehicles built in Boyertown....

4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (384+ words) The Pennsylvania Beef Council recently launched the inaugural Pennsylvania Beef Trail with menu tastings at two highlighted trail stops in Berks County. Held in May to celebrate Beef Month, the event brought together Pennsylvania Beef Council leadership, Pennsylvania Secretary of…...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago  (163+ words) Reading Eagle The Reading Branch of the NAACP marked Juneteenth Friday with a celebration picnic at Opportunity House in Reading. The holiday marks June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, at the end of the Civil War with an…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago  (434+ words) Plans to transform two warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill counties into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities " which have drawn stiff pushback from local communities " appear to have been shelved. The New York Times on Thursday reported that, based on…...

9+ hour, 35+ min ago  (570+ words) Reading police have charged six males " three of them juveniles " in the kidnapping of a 23yearold man who was reported missing by family members in western Lebanon County in late March. Police said they are continuing to investigate the disappearance of…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (620+ words) By Dimitrios Aletras Jr. My masculinity wakes at 4 a. m. I am 42. Gay. Greek-American, first generation, raised in Reading " an immigrant railroad town that taught its sons to measure manhood in shifts worked and weight carried. I am also a survivor of…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago  (273+ words) Cumru Township police are alerting the community to parking restrictions and road closures to accommodate increased pedestrian and vehicle traffic during the upcoming 50th annual Greater Gov. Mifflin League Community Days. Mifflin Days runs June 26 through July 4 at the Gov. Mifflin…...