The Belkin family has a pool in the backyard of their Westerleigh home, but they choose to spend their summer days at the Hillside Swim Club in Travis. "We'd rather come here," confided Susan Belkin ...

Hillside Pool on 27th Street was once the hub of summer fun. But private pools like Hillside have experienced such a decline in memberships through the years that board members have had to entertain ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 3:17 p.m., Oct. 4, 2024, after the city of Reading issued a correction to the funding amount from the Land and Water Conservation Fund’s Outdoor Recreation ...

HILLSIDE -- As much as $5,000 in daily fees collected at the Hillside municipal pool this summer never made it from the Central Avenue swimming complex to the bank. Nobody was caught in the alleged ...

Of course, the staff and campers at the Hillside Summer Camp missed having a pool at their disposal this summer. Who wouldn’t? But while the pool was undergoing necessary repairs, the youngsters, with ...