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From the Reading Eagle (07/12/10):

A military helicopter was flying overhead on June 11, its occupants trying to spot the body of a boy who drowned while swimming near the confluence of the Schuylkill River and Tulpehocken Creek.

City police and firefighters on the ground couldn't communicate with the pilot or county emergency units helping at the scene. The antiquated radio system that prevented them from talking to one another made recovery of the boy's body more difficult.

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From the Reading Eagle (6/16/2010):

Property owners who have hit hard times and are having trouble catching up on back taxes soon will have a payment option to save their properties from a tax claim sale.

The Berks County commissioners Tuesday said they plan to adopt a policy that allows residents with unpaid taxes for 2008 to immediately pay 10 percent of the amount owed and pay the balance in equal payments over 11 months.

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  From the Reading Eagle (6/10/2010):

A 38-year-old Reading man wanted to tidy up his room in the new Berks County Community Reentry Center before accepting visitors Wednesday.

"May I clean up first?" Hamilton Newton, jokingly asked during a media tour of the center, which opened May 2 in Bern Township.

Newton is one of the 74 inmates from the county jail transferred to the center, which is designed to help inmates get jobs and avoid committing more crimes

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