For information on submitting an obituary, please contact Reading Eagle by phone at 610-371-5018, or email at obituaries@readingeagle.com or fax at 610-371-5193.
Most obituaries published in the Reading Eagle are submitted through funeral homes and cremation services, but we will accept submissions from families. Obituaries can be emailed to obituaries@readingeagle.com.
In addition to the text of the obituary, any photographs that you wish to include can be attached to this email. Please put the text of the obituary in a Word document, a Google document or in the body of the email. The Reading Eagle also requires a way to verify the death, so please include either the phone number of the funeral home or cremation service that is in charge of the deceased’s care or a photo of his/her death certificate. We also request that your full name, phone number and address are all included in this email.
All payments by families must be made with a credit card. We will send a proof of the completed obituary before we require payment. The obituary cannot run, however, until we receive payment in full.
Obituaries can be submitted for any future date, but they must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. the day prior to its running for it to be published.
Please call the obituary desk, at 610-371-5018, for information on pricing.
The rising cost of living is hitting every American, and nowhere is this more true than rising energy costs. Utility bills are relentlessly growing. For example, PPL customers in Berks County and elsewhere saw rates increase by 16% in June.
A big reason why utility rates are increasing is that many proposed renewable energy projects have been stalled across the region by PJM, a little-known agency that controls our electric bill.
PJM is hindering the ability to push forward much-needed renewable energy projects; they have been slow to approve dozens of renewable energy projects that could increase energy supply and help us move away from dirty fossil fuel-powered plants, which would clean up our air and improve our health at the same time.
If all the renewable energy projects waiting for approval were allowed on the grid, PJM could generate enough additional clean, reliable electricity to power nearly all of the homes affected.
We need PJM to approve more clean energy projects as soon as possible, for the sake of our wallets and our environment.
Carolena Bellini
PennEnvironment