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Eleanor Billig was ecstatic when she learned she had won a $1,000 cash prize in MediaNews Groups "ThanksGIVE-AWAY" drawing. “I am going to use the money to go toward the costs of a hearing aid,” she said. “I am so happy.” Billig said the hearing aids cost $1,269.  - Advertisement - Billig, 89, lives in a one-bedroom apartment at the Walnut Woods retirement community in Boyertown. Due to the coronavirus, she eats her meals alone, instead of going to a cafeteria. Billig sai...

Black and Latino adults feel more hopeful for the state of the country and less fearful since Novembers election, a new survey says INSIDER 12/13/2020 insider@insider.com (Taylor Ardrey) © Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images People wait in line to vote at the polling location at Christ Lutheran Church on Lehigh Street in Reading Tuesday morning November 3, 2020 at 10:00 am. During the 2020 Presidential Election. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle v...

Majority of House Republicans support a lawsuit that aims to overturn the will of voters and hand 2020 election to Trump cdavis@insider.com (Charles Davis) © Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images A protester in Pennsylvania with a sign reading "Count Every Vote." Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images A majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives have signed on to an amicus brief asking the US Supreme Court to effectively overt...

Hamburg artist Martha Ressler mounted her solo art exhibition "Berks in Stitches" at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading for the month of December. "Berks in Stitches" consists of 87 small, framed quilts. Ressler spent a year and a half visiting all of the townships and boroughs in Berks County and then created a small art quilt in response. “The thread starts in Pittsburgh in 2013. That was when I visited an exhibit by artist friend Ron Donoughe. In ‘90 Neighborhoods’ he sought to ...

Even after COVID-19 vaccinations start in the U.S., masks and social distancing will be recommended for some time.

The Oregon Medical Board has suspended the medical license of a doctor who said at a pro-Trump rally that he doesn't wear a mask at his Dallas, Oregon, clinic.

Fiber artist Martha Ressler has taken wool felt, vintage mementos such as postcards, pins, buttons, tour book snippets, matchbooks and other found objects and sewn them into miniature quilts embellished with hand stitching that depict life in Berks Countys 72 municipalities. She has put together 87 framed art quilts using a raw-edge applique style to create the "Berks in Stitches" on display at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading through Dec. 30. She was inspired to undertake such a project after ...

A Reading man was jailed several hours after a police standoff in his estranged wife’s home on the city’s south side. Police said he broke into the woman’s home near Sixth and Laurel streets and shot her in a leg while forcing her into a bathroom before the standoff. Daniel Molina, 37, of the 300 block of South Fifth Street was jailed in lieu of $200,000 bail following arraignment before District Judge Stuart D. Kennedy in Reading Central Court. - Advertisement - Reading police g...

after the kentucky derby. this morning, the search for his killer. >> look, i am vice president of the united states of america. the president sets the policy. i am absolutely -- >> vice president joe biden giving us a couple of hints that the white house view of same-sex marriage could be evolving just as a key vote on the matter comes up in the battleground state. this is cnn breaking news. up first we begin with breaking news. a chilling video just released by al qaeda. on it, u...