Berks County
Tower Health's Transplant Institute at Reading Hospital has completed its first liver transplant. It pledges to provide "COVID-safe pathways" for other potential organ recipients who may have delayed medical care.
Alleged sexual assault charges have been lodged against a Colebrookdale Road resident by the Manchester CT police department. He was arrested locally by Douglass (Berks) police on a warrant.
Waste disposal company J.P. Mascaro & Sons, and the Ambler Savings Bank, both contributed educational support funding during December for local student learning programs at the Colebrookdale Railroad.
The JukeBox Cafe in Boyertown and the Oley Turnpike Dairy Diner in Oley are openly appreciative of public support they've gained for continuing to serve patrons despite state orders to close. More than 540 businesses across the state reportedly are doing the same.
Veterans interred at cemeteries in Pottstown, Limerick, East Coventry, Boyertown, and Collegeville were honored by their loved ones and others during Saturday's annual Wreaths Across America observance.
Thirty-nine nationally certified firefighters, as Montgomery County Fire Academy graduates, were officially added Tuesday to the ranks of companies across Montgomery, Berks, Chester, and Delaware counties.
A "limited number" of outpatients attending a Tower Health hospital unit received a new federally approved emergency-use drug to combat the coronavirus, the health care non-profit said Tuesday.
Salvation Army corps in Pottstown, Boyertown, Reading, and across eastern Pennsylvania face two coronavirus-caused problems. Public need for services is growing, but Red Kettle donations have fallen.