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A tennis instructor and five teenage boys wearing ankle monitors walk into the Reading Barber Institute. No, it’s not the setup for a bad joke. It’s three men’s effort to change the boys’ lives before they make a decision that could land them behind bars.

The boys were brought to the institute, at Eighth and Oley streets, as part of the Life Skills Crime Prevention Clinic, run through Set Point Tennis. Participants are in the Evening Reporting Center program at the Children’s Home of Reading, which serves as an alternative to juvenile detention centers.

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Dominic Langford’s favorite part of Father’s Day was getting to play with two guns. His dad, Drew, was completely fine with this, probably because the guns were Nerf.

The Langfords joined 163 other fathers and children at Coventry Mall on Sunday for a foam dart battle. According to Nichole Bartholomew, the event’s organizer, spaces for the battle filled up almost immediately after it was announced.

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The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg already had about 70 train cars and locomotives, but it’s now in the process of getting four more. These new additions, however, are just a little different from the rest: they’re painted on the museum’s side wall.

The locomotives are part of a mural that has been in progress since the end of May and is expected to be finished before July. It will officially be dedicated on Aug. 12 at 1:30 p.m. as part of Railfest, a three-day event at the museum meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Reading Railroad’s Bee Line service.

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Wells Fargo employees have joined with Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Berks to improve the home of an Army widow in Reading.

Fourteen volunteers spent a day working on the porch, fence, windows and roof of Anna Marie Endy’s Bingaman Street house through a program called Operation Renovation: A Veterans Affair.