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Fairs across the Northeast are expected to return this summer, a year after the pandemic forced most to cancel or scale back. “If I had a dollar for every time I heard the question ‘Will we have the fair this year?’ it would boost our budget,” said Kevin Bieber, president of the Oley Valley Community Fair in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Indeed, finances are a big factor in fair boards’ decision to move ahead with their summer events, but so is the drive to preserve community and family traditions. “Unless there’s a real backslide with our numbers, we plan to ...

Fairs across the Northeast are expected to return this summer, a year after the pandemic forced most to cancel or scale back. “If I had a dollar for every time I heard the question ‘Will we have the fair this year?’ it would boost our budget,” said Kevin Bieber, president of the Oley Valley Community Fair in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Indeed, finances are a big factor in fair boards’ decision to move ahead with their summer events, but so is the drive to preserve community and family traditions. “Unless there’s a real backslide with our numbers, we plan to ...

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New federal COVID-19 relief funding will bring nearly $80 million to Berks County school districts. During a media briefing Friday, Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega announced the state had received $2.2 billion for education as part of the federal government's second coronavirus relief package. "No doubt, the level of need by our schools is great," Ortega said. - Advertisement - Because of that need, he said, Gov. Tom Wolf and department leadership have decided to distribute the entire $2.2 billion directly to school entities. "All schools have been affected by the COVID-...

It's been a whirlwind nine months. The pandemic and resulting lockdown had a swift and merciless impact on the dairy industry. People were shocked when Berks producers for Clover Farms were told to dump thousands of pounds of milk on March 31 and April 1 because the dairy was full.  Dairy farmer Dave Wolfskill of Mar-Anne Farms, in Lower Heidelberg Township, dumped a total of 47,000 pounds. Paul Hartman, who with his two brothers manages Scattered Acres farms in seven townships in Berks and Lancaster counties, ended up dumping 64,000 pounds of milk. - Advertisement - Along with milk dumpin...