| Welcome to YorkBlog.com, home of blogs by York Daily Record/Sunday News staff members as well as community blogs by York County residents who are not staffers. If you’re interested in starting a new blog or having your existing blog featured, please email Scott Fisher at sfisher@ydr.com. |
Lifestyle
 Get even smarter with this web partner for Smart magazine. Our blog offers daily tips to help you make life better in southcentral Pa. |
 Join Buffy Andrews as she explores the digital landscape of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and more. |
 Community editor and lifelong Yorker Joan Concilio talks about all the things that make York County unique – and sometimes just plain weird. |
 Graphic artist Sam Dellinger will paint you a picture of what’s going on in her creative mind, and sometimes her makeup bag. Hey, art is everywhere. |
 Join some of the YDR’s Generation Y’ers as they share their adventures of growing up and achieving adulthood in York County. |
 Can’t get enough of FlipSide? The entertainment magazine staff members take on all things pop culture. |
 Religion reporter John Hilton talks about the latest issues in faith, values and religion. |
 Pets section editor Rose Hayes posts news from the animal kingdom, including local pets up for adoption. |
 The Teen Takeover staff rants, reviews, writes and rambles on any topic you can imagine. |
York Sunday News columnist Gordon Freireich has been observing, commenting and remembering York for 30 years. |
 What do Daily Record/Sunday News book lovers enjoy almost as much as reading a book? Talking about it, of course! |
 A blog about one man’s journey to learn more about great-tasting beer. Join Justin Mann as he tastes, experiences, and writes about all things beer. |
 The Skinny Way Of Life is a healthy-living blog that is dedicated to living all aspects of life skinny. I believe in keeping everything simple from the kitchen to daily life. Nothing fancy, just wholesome food with wholesome ingredients for the whole family. |
 A grassroots initiative formed in response to the YDR series “The Fat Battleground”, Let’s Move, York, is designed to help the community get active and get healthier. |
 At Planet X, we pledge to provide all carbon-based life forms with the highest quality and greatest selection of comics, graphic novels, statues and collectibles. The Prime Directive of our blog is to report on all the latest happenings in the pop culture universe, and if necessary, to warn our readers of the coming Zombie Apocalypse. |
 Buffy Andrews writes middle-grade and young adult novels and is represented by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary. Write Zone is a fun place to hang if you love fiction for kids and teens. |
 I’m Kirsten, a wife, a mother of three, and passionate about food. I love to share my recipes, my pictures, and my life! |
 Homer runs Sunnyside Farm, a pasture based farm in southcentral PA. This is the farm blog, written by the farmer’s wife, Dru. |
Sports
 Nittany Nation is the place to go for the latest news and rumblings about the Penn State football program from Frank Bodani and other YDR sports staffers. |
 Find out what is happening with former York and Adams county high school athletes, both on the field and off, with sports reporter Steve Navaroli. |
 You can’t ignore the excitement, the complexity and the ferocity of mixed martial arts. Police reporter Ted Czech gives you the inside scoop on what’s new in "the sport of the future." |
 York Daily Record/Sunday News Sportswriter Jim Seip reports on all the line drives and foul tips in the Atlantic League with the York Revolution. |
 Whether it’s arguing about the Hall of Fame or quizzing someone with a stat out of left field, entertainment editor Pat Abdalla always enjoys some infield chatter. |
 Sports staffers John Clayton and Steve Navaroli share news and views about high school sports in York and Adams counties. |
 Holly Metzger is a certified tennis instructor who teaches private and group tennis lessons. |
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Local History
 Editor Jim McClure shares his passion for local history and journalism and proves that all roads do lead to York. |
 Community historian Scott Mingus, the author of several books on the Civil War, explores York County’s rich Civil War heritage. |
 Local historian June Lloyd looks at how things have converged on our hometown, past and present, and how York really is the center of the universe. |
 Explore York County history through the eyes of amateur historian, genealogist and photographer Blake Stough, who specializes in subjects that are unique, forgotten or “off the beaten track.” |
 Chris Otto is a journalist who also enjoys exploring the worlds of books, ephemera, history, folklore and knowledge with his wife and daughter. |
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In The News
 Education reporter Angie Mason checks out York County school happenings, education trends and other issues from the classroom to the cafeteria. |
 Our business staff talks about life beyond the stocks page, including the search for pants that fit and the struggle against debt. |
 Life in the city has its ups and downs, its quirks and characters. YDR staffers share their experiences as residents of York County’s urban center. |
 Veteran courthouse reporter Rick Lee gives some updates and insight into the York County criminal and civil court systems. |
 Columnist Mike Argento wishes people would stop asking ‘What’s wrong with you?’ He doesn’t know. But his blog showcases some of the many possibilities. |
 Pennsylvania’s new open records law gives you a stronger tool for keeping an eye on how government spends your money. We’ll be watching, too. |
 Follow a photojournalist adapting smartphones, finding new ways to make technology work in journalism. |
 Want to know who we are and how things work at your local print and online news provider? Well, this is the place to join the discussion. |
 York College chemistry professor Keith Peterman follows the science and global politics of the evolving climate change story. |
 Copy editor Rose Hayes’ Good Neighbors blog helps you find ways to contribute to the York County community that fit your schedule and your budget. You are someone. You can do something. You can help. |
 The Spartan is the student newspaper of York College of Pennsylvania, published in print each Tuesday during the academic year. Its blog features previews of the print edition as well as exclusive online stories. |
 Scott Blanchard, the YDR’s Sunday editor, writes about good writing and the craft of storytelling, and mines the web for great stories you might have missed. |
 A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is often more to say about a great photograph. The York Daily Record’s award-winning visual staff offers a peek behind the lens and into the process of capturing, editing and publishing their most interesting photographs, video stories and more. |
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