Month: May 2016

Adventure Chick Adventure Chick took a short jaunt to the Harrisburg Archery Club (hbgarcheryclub.org). On 30 wooded, hilly acres between the Rockville Bridge and Fort Hunter, club members sharpen their indoor and outdoor skills, and […]

by Jaylynn McClendon One of the first fears that children develop is of going to the dentist. With age, that fear transforms into the dread of making the trip, having someone poke the insides of […]

Vrai The initial stir of interest when Vrai opened its doors in February of this year swirled around the fact that the new restaurant would be the first since Prohibition to break Lemoyne’s status as […]

by M. Diane McCormick How Harrisburg School District is Piecing Together the Academic Puzzle Harrisburg School District. The words conjure images of turmoil and poor achievement. But behind the curtain, countless moving parts are working […]

By Andrew Linker Armed For The Big Time – Washington Nationals’ Top Prospect Starts 2016 Season in Harrisburg Scouts and pundits love comparisons. They have been making them seemingly forever in baseball. Managers and coaches? […]

By Scott Campbell Boiling Springs Artisan Produces Array of Metal Clay Jewelry Pieces About 17 years ago, when one of her necklaces broke, Joan Rhodes sought the necessary piece to repair it. “Back then, about […]

by Scott Campbell It is an overcast June morning in 2015. Cars begin to gather at Mt. Gretna’s Community Building on Pine Street. The license plates represent Virginia, Rhode Island, Indiana, South Carolina and Arkansas, […]

By Rick Dapp Like most American cities that began as small settlements and grew exponentially in all directions, Harrisburg has a surfeit of streets linking the community and, in some areas, are maze-like in complexity. […]

By Harvey Freedenberg “Heat and Light” by Jennifer Haigh (Ecco, $26.99, 448 pages) Any novelist who decides to write about a subject that’s the stuff of daily newspaper headlines faces a daunting challenge: how to […]

By Bentz Tozer, Jr., B.S., CPT There’s a lot of talk in the media these days about the dangers of sugar, but is it accurate? Is there any amount of sugar that’s OK? First of […]