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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.

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Deacon Thomas Murphy, principal of St. Francis Academy in Bally, sat down behind a drum set onstage in the school’s auditorium. He looked at the drums with confusion and hit them hesitantly a few times.

Then, as Murphy and the two other musicians onstage launched into the start of their set, it became clear that the confusion was all an act – Murphy was more than a little familiar with drumming.