PORT ARTHUR, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity has awarded the 2021 “Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism” to John Beard Jr. Beard is an environmental justice activist who has become a ...

John Amos “Jack” Beard Jr., 90, of Shillington, died January 14, 2016, in the Reading Hospital. His wife, Bernice (Derrick) Beard, died on December 14, 2006. Born in Reading, he was the son of ...

On Oct. 15, 1860 - 153 years ago today &mdash 11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln suggesting he grow a beard for the presidential election. Bedell said in her letter that ...