A quiet but important primary election day in Berks

Primary election 2025 results: Berks County coroner (Updated)

A challenger has unseated the Berks County’s coroner. Local funeral director Matthew Stitzel beat incumbent John Fielding for the Republican nomination in Tuesday’s primary. Stitzel received 13,596 votes while Fielding received 8,288 votes. Vote totals are incomplete and unofficial. Matt Stitzel, candidate for Berks County coroner For the past three decades, Stitzel has served as a funeral director in Berks County. He told the Reading Eagle that…

A quiet but important primary election day in Berks

Voters across Berks County headed out to the polls Tuesday to make their picks for nominees for a host of races. While no high-profile offices were on the ballots during the primary election — the municipal election didn’t feature and federal races, and only races appellate judges at the state level — there were races for many county and local level offices. That includes for school boards, county row offices, county judges and township supervis…