{"id":58527,"date":"2025-12-11T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:51:06","slug":"nearly-27000-raised-for-upkeep-of-gruber-wagon-works-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58527\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly $27,000 raised for upkeep of Gruber Wagon Works | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; The group behind the preservation of a piece of local history is thanking the Berks County Commissioners for their continued support.<\/p>\n<p>The Society for the Preservation of the Gruber Wagon Works held a check presentation today.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the group raises money to help maintain the 1880s manufactory in Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s check totals nearly $27,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea was to make sure that there&#8217;s enough funding that we can help with that to keep some of the pressure off the taxpayers for maintaining the facility,&#8221; said Barry L. Kauffman, executive director of the Society for the Preservation of the Gruber Wagon Works.<\/p>\n<p>County officials say the Wagon Works is one of the most complete examples of an integrated rural manufactory in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; The group behind the preservation of a piece of local history is thanking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32000,2567,32001,28,128,130,129,32002],"class_list":{"0":"post-58527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-barry-l-kauffman","9":"tag-bern-township","10":"tag-gruber-wagon-works","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-society-for-the-preservation-of-the-gruber-wagon-works"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58527","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=58527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}