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Fifty years after West Chester School District added a second high school, the rivalry between East and Henderson is different but still alive.

WESTTOWN >> They say football games are won up front. Friday night before a Homecoming crowd at West Chester Rustin, that adage held true. The Golden Knights offensive line dominated the line of scrimmage leading to 373 rushing yards, and Rustin went on to a convincing 43-8 Ches-Mont American Division win over Sun Valley. The […]

Feb. 7 Leesport Area Historical Society Open House: 1 to 4 p.m. The museum resides in the former West Leesport 4-room school house built in 1858 at 128 Main Street, Leesport. See area and regional artifacts including a classroom circa 1940s and a Quaker Marriage Certificate predating the Declaration of Independence. Feb. 7 - Advertisement - Literatour Berks author event: 4 p.m. children’s author presentation via Zoom “Such a Library - A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined” by Jill Ross Nadler. P...

bcole@tribtoday.com Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Jasmyne Whitman, 18, of North Bloomfield, a senior at Warren John F. Kennedy High School, volunteers as Elf Jazzy at Santa’s Hide-A-Way Hollow, a private nonprofit retreat in Middlefield Township. BLOOMFIELD — Jasmyne Whitman’s resume includes a letter of recommendation from Santa Claus himself. “She’s a wonderful young lady and a wonderful elf,” Santa said through local spokesman Bill Dieterle. “Her heart is so pure. She is s...