Today's Local Pennsylvania Question of the Day
Here's a question - would it be for the better, for the worse, or no change, if Hampden Township and Silver Spring Township merged?
Monday September 17, 2007 at 4:02pm
Maybe I Just Don't Get It
But does it make sense to advertise a coffee shop on MySpace? (BTW, this is a pretty good coffee shop in the West Shore area near Harrisburg)
(Maybe it is me - there seems to be a lot of coffee shops doing their web sites on MySpace these days...)
Thursday September 13, 2007 at 7:46am
Da Mayor
Mayor Steve Reed of Harrisburg has done a lot of good things for the city, but as an outsider, I have to wonder if it isn't time for somebody else to be in that position. Reed's been mayor for seemingly forever.
Thursday September 6, 2007 at 7:13am
Monarch Day
The butterfly, not the ruler...
On Sunday, Kathy Stewart's neighborhood will become a giant classroom.For six years, she's held Monarch Day, teaching people about caterpillars and butterflies, nature and ecology while they build terrariums and find caterpillars. Visitors tromp around her yard and a 12-acre field next door then take home caterpillars so they can watch the transformation into chrysalises then butterflies.
Stewart, 72, of Lower Paxton Twp., discovered the joys of butterfly husbandry after reading about monarchs in "Ranger Rick" magazine in the 1970s. Her four children stopped reading "Ranger Rick" and moved away, but Stewart's passion for monarchs continued. She feeds and houses them and tags them to help scientists studying their migration. She's traveled to Mexico's Sierra Madres to see them resting in oyamel trees.
Monarch Day began as an event for people in Stewart's church but has spread way beyond that, she said. The day is geared toward children 6 or older.
The event is free but limited to the first 50 families who respond. It will be held 2-6 p.m. Sunday.
Cool things do happen in Harrisburg.
Wednesday September 5, 2007 at 11:53am
Wegmans Mania
Good grief, the West Shore has it bad. People are going to drive up from York to shop at the new Wegmans on the Carlisle Pike? That's about 60 miles, roundtrip. Are they really going to pay a 2 or 3 gallon surcharge of gasoline for their cheese shopping?
