Lisa Scheid

1 week ago | spotlightpa.org | Lisa Scheid

This article originally appeared in Good Day, Berks — Spotlight PA’s free daily newsletter for Berks County Your daily dose of Berks County essentials. Sign up here. This week's Community Spotlight honoree is Jen Barkman, a 36-year-old Realtor who volunteers as campaign coordinator for the Help A Girl Out drive address period poverty, an overlooked global community health dilemma in which women lack sufficient access, often due to costs, to menstrual products, education, and sanitation facilities.

2 weeks ago | spotlightpa.org | Lisa Scheid

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1 month ago | spotlightpa.org | Lisa Scheid

Read in EnglishREADING - Demócratas y republicanos de la ciudad acudirán a las urnas el 20 de mayo para elegir a la persona que dirigirá el Concejo Municipal durante los próximos cuatro años. Los ganadores de esas primarias se enfrentarán en noviembre. Hay tres demócratas y un republicano en la papeleta. Reading tiene seis concejales, cada uno de los cuales representa a una zona distinta de la ciudad, denominada distrito, y son elegidos por los votantes de su zona.

2 months ago | abc27.com | Lisa Scheid

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2 months ago | spotlightpa.org | Lisa Scheid

READING — City Democrats and Republicans will head to the polls on May 20 to choose who they want to lead the city council for the next four years. The winners of those primaries will face off in November. There are three Democrats and one Republican on the ballot. Reading has six council members who each represent a different area of the city, called a district, and are selected by the voters in their area. The council president is elected by all the voters in the city.