{"id":107288,"date":"2026-02-06T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107288\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:52:10","slug":"berks-county-officially-kickoffs-250th-celebration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107288\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County officially kickoffs 250th celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations honoring the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence are officially underway in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>America250PA, a statewide campaign devoted to celebrating that milestone, held a kickoff event Friday in the lobby of the Berks County Services Center in downtown Reading with a number of local dignitaries in attendance to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The county commissioners \u2014 Christian Leinbach, Dante Santoni Jr. and Michael Rivera \u2014 were joined by state Reps. Eric Weaknecht, Mark Gillen and Jacklyn Rusnock as well as Reading City Council President Donna Reed at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the ceremony was to highlight the county\u2019s unique history, local partnerships and its role in the celebration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Guests display signs with Berks County's Liberty Bell  for America 250PA following an America 250PA Kickoff event on Friday at the Berks County Services Center.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/REG-L-America250PAKickoff1931.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1514914\" \/>Guests display signs with Berks County\u2019s Liberty Bell  for America 250PA following an America 250PA Kickoff event on Friday at the Berks County Services Center.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrations honoring the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence are officially underway in Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-107288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}