Feb 05, 2012
JON RUTTER
Scott had wanted to plunge into a lake in the winter for about 50 years, and on Saturday he did."Very refreshing," reported the Shanks' Mare Outfitters employee from behind a firmly clasped towel."It took my breath away."Multiply his feat by 1,200 to 1,300 people and you get the fourth...
Feb 05, 2012
JOHN DUFFY
The life of most rock-'n'-roll nightclubs is short. Few survive, even fewer thrive and become places of real import. In his new documentary "The Chameleon Club," filmmaker Allen Clements, who first got to know the 27-year-old club as a performer on its stage just a few years ago, tries...
Feb 04, 2012
STAFF
The search for missing kayaker Nicholas Herr moved south Saturday.As of press time Saturday night, there were no reports that the New Providence man was found.The search moved to Harford County, Md. after local rescue efforts last week came up empty.Boats launched Saturday morning from Glen Cove Mar...
Jan 29, 2012
STAFF
Rescue units from Lancaster and York counties were looking for a male kayaker missing in the Susquehanna River off southern Lancaster County early this morning.Lancaster County Control said one kayaker had managed to make it to shore on the York County side in Lower Chanceford Township.The area that...
Dec 18, 2011
DARRYL FEARS, The Washington Post
At the Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam in northeast Maryland, the barbarians are at the sluice gates.Sediment, millions of tons of it, has flowed down the 440-mile Susquehanna River for more than 80 years and massed at the dam. And now a reservoir built to hold it is filling up.The threat to the Chesape...
Nov 06, 2011
JON RUTTER
Lancaster car guru Brandon Hollinger is on a battery-powered roll.In September, he won an international contest for his plan to electrify a classic London taxi.Now he's preparing what he calls a "green carpet" premier for the documentary "Revenge of the Electric Car."The film from dire...
Oct 30, 2011
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT, Alive and Well
I created my first spook house when I was about 5 or 6.It was, as you can imagine, a rather crude affair. I placed my mom's card table in the middle of our backyard and threw an army blanket over it.Next, I grabbed a black crayon and scrawled some Halloween symbols — a jack-o'-lantern, a ghost...
Oct 30, 2011
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Halloween is a time for considering things that go bump in the night.Rick Fisher, of Columbia, has been seeking such things for the past 50 years, ever since he saw what he believes to have been his great-grandfather's ghost in a hallway when he was 7.A lifetime of collecting artifacts and pop-cultu...
Oct 10, 2011
SUZANNE CASSIDY
On the last Friday of October, the auditorium of Penn Manor High School will be transformed into a haunted space by the Halloween-loving members of the school's International Thespian Society.For the admission price of $1 or one canned good, youngsters will be guided through the auditorium by high s...
Oct 09, 2011
SUZANNE CASSIDY
On the last Friday of October, the auditorium of Penn Manor High School will be transformed into a haunted space by the Halloween-loving members of the school's International Thespian Society.For the admission price of $1 or one canned good, youngsters will be guided through the audito...
Oct 09, 2011
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
From the bloody to the literary, and from the merely mysterious to the mega-macabre, Lancaster County offers a cornucopia of Halloween activities this month and beyond.Here's just a splattering … er, smattering … of what the season has in store.Lost in the WoodsJason's Woods, the vener...
Oct 01, 2011
JENNIFER TODD
A York County man remains missing after he disappeared from a boat on the Susquehanna River Friday night, a fire official said late Saturday.Searchers scoured the area between Long Level Marina and Safe Harbor Dam Saturday afternoon but found no sign of 60-year-old Jeffrey Shostak, said Mike Ditzler...
Sep 30, 2011
Staff
Rescue crews' search for a man last seen on the Susquehanna River Friday night came up empty, a fire official said.Boat crews and people along the shore searched the river shortly after 9 p.m. until sometime between 1 and 1:30 a.m., said Jimmy Knapp, deputy fire chief of Blue Rock Fire & Rescue'...
Sep 24, 2011
TOM MURSE
A 24-year-old motorcyclist from Lancaster County led cops on a 100-mph chase across York County early Friday morning before he crashed into a police cruiser near Wrightsville, authorities said.Chad E. Cardella suffered minor injuries and was treated at York Hospital.He was charged with recklessly en...
Sep 18, 2011
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
Sabermetrics, as defined by Bill James, inventor of the term, is the search for objective knowledge about baseball."Moneyball," is a monster best-selling book by Michael Lewis about Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager who applied sabermetrics principles — in dramatic defiance of tradi...
Sep 18, 2011
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently renewed a contract to buy American shad eggs stripped from Potomac River fish.While that ensures a source of eggs for the agency to hatch at its Van Dyke Research Station in Juniata County, it's not as robust a source as the PFBC once ...
Sep 11, 2011
Paula Wolf
Eric Horst was 8 years old during Hurricane Agnes in 1972, and watching that storm of a lifetime is what inspired him to become a meteorologist.So what's the difference between Agnes and the severe flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee?There are a couple of factors involved, Horst sa...
Sep 10, 2011
Brett Hambright
First, they waited for the water.Now, they are hoping for power.Hours after the worst flooding here in nearly 40 years, Marietta residents began to plod back into their waterfront town Saturday.Waterfront became water-filled when the Susquehanna River swelled out of its banks, prompting boroug...
Sep 10, 2011
Justin Graybill
Footage and interviews with Marietta residents cleaning up after last week's flooding....
Sep 10, 2011
Staff
Marietta's sewage treatmentment plant was back in operation today after flood water receded, and police reported no looting or curfew violations during the flood emergency, it was announced at a 9 a.m. briefing in the borough.
After curfew was lifted at 7 a...