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Exeter offense buries Orioles in Berks romp (The Mercury)
BIRDSBORO — Even though Daniel Boone and Exeter had already clinched spots in the Berks Legion League playoffs, there was still plenty on the line Thursday night at Optimist Field, especially for Exeter.Fireworks Schedule 2009 (WPVI-TV Philadelphia) Take a look at the 6abc Fireworks Schedule 2009 to find a July 4 celebration near you!
Obituaries 7-3-09 (The Barnstable Patriot) Centerville — Nikolaos G. Bounos, of Centerville, died peacefully June 22, 2009 at Cape Regency Rehabilitation & Nursing Center of Centerville. Born in Vassara, Sparta, Greece, on Sept. 4, 1920, Mr. Bounos came to Boston in 1956 with his wife and two daughters.
Fourth of July weekend events around Berks County (Reading Eagle) Many events are planned for the holiday. The Fourth of July Parade in Wyomissing starts at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Traffic alert (Reading Eagle) Work has begun on a 71/2 mile stretch of Route 222 from Bushong Road in Manheim Township to Mohler Church Road in Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced.
Posthumous 'Endpoint' Updike's touching diary (Arizona Daily Star) "Endpoint and Other Poems"
Review: 'My Father's Tears and Other Stories' by John Updike (Chicago Sun-Times) Just two months ago, John Updike published a valedictory collection of poems, Endpoint (Knopf, $25). In one of the verses, he thanks his boyhood pals: Dear friends of childhood, classmates, thank you scant hundred of you, for providing a sufficiency of human types: beauty, bully, hanger-on, natural, twin, and fatso -- all a writer needs, all there in Shillington, its trolley cars and ...
RUNNING LOW ON AMMO (Lancaster Online) Marty Korecky likes to target shoot fairly regularly, but lately he's been cutting back.A Shillington resident, Korecky is worried that if he uses up his ammunition, he'll have a really hard time getting more.And he has reason to be concerned.Demand for ammo — particularly for handguns...
Updike's elegy (Denver Post) There's something strangely charged about the possessions of the recently dead. Free to snoop and rummage at last, survivors sort through them for the personal talisman, the valuable keepsake, even the Rosebud that will solve the psychological mystery they never got around to figuring out when the deceased was still alive.
Daily Docket (Reading Eagle) "I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers." Ephesians 1:16. Your prayers for others are very important. - The Reading Berks Conference of Churches