Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Reading.

Our newspaper information for West Reading is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of West Reading. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Reading. Our list contains 126 papers that were published within 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> of West Reading.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Reading.

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring West Reading ...

The following newspapers were published within 2 miles [3.2 km] of West Reading.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from West Reading.

Published In Reading ...
- We know of 125 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Reading. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Reading
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 2 miles [3.2 km]<1> of West Reading. This extended list includes all the papers from Reading. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Reading.
  
  Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load
Published In Shillington ...
- The Sentinel (from 1984)
  - Years of publication: 1984 to current
  - Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
  - Catalog Card for The Sentinel
  - Holdings for: LCCN SN84009611
  - Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 10622787

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Chronicling America

The official website for West Reading: www.westreadingborough.com/

The official website for Berks County: www.co.berks.pa.us/

The official website for State of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/

Footnotes ...

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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Reading) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Reading. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3331, Longitude: -75.9444 In this case, the coordinates for West Reading have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).