October 2007 Archives

We (OK, our trademark York County smell) got bashed in this Dan Rodricks column in Sunday's Baltimore Sun.

Speaking of southbound traffic from northern Baltimore County and southern Pennsylvania, I must admit: It has been years since I've been out there - in the Hereford Zone - on a weekday morning to see this spectacle. It looks like a hurricane evacuation route every day, between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Bumper to bumper to bumper in two lanes. It's nuts. You'd think there had been another meltdown at Three Mile Island, or that the sulfuric-sauerkraut stench from the paper mill in Spring Grove had finally sent everyone from around there packing. Amazing.

Maybe it's just me, but I barely notice the paper mill smell any more, and I don't think it smells bad when I do notice. Death of olfactory senses after too many years here? I don't know. What do you guys think?

(P.S. - He's right about the traffic, though. I noticed when I went to Baltimore on Saturday for a friend's wedding. Wow.)

Meanwhile, if you're curious about how that whole paper-making thing works...

See how Glatfelter turns trees into treasure

I talked a couple of weeks ago about the sweet potato dig at the Wellness Farm in Shrewsbury Township.

A pretty cool event, to be sure. And a chance to learn a lot more about a fairly overlooked veggie!

But our stories locally were trumped by this column from a larger "York" newspaper about the Osmans and their farm.

Check it out - it's cool!

Next in a series of profiles originally published by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to Delta, which had 741 residents and 284 occupied housing units at the time of the census.

Next week, we'll travel just outside the borough to surrounding Peach Bottom Township.

We have recently launched York Wiki, an online encyclopedia for all things York County.

What's a wiki? To quote Wikipedia, it's "a medium which can be edited by anyone with access to it, and provides an easy method for linking from one page to another. Wikis are typically collaborative websites."

York Wiki is fledgling site. There's not much content at all there right now. That's where you come in. Post a YorkWiki page for your business, your club or organization, your school, yourself or even your favorite local hangout. Link to your own site and to other people's wikis to share even more information. It's free, and anyone can make an update.

Did you know there was such a thing as a mule whisperer? One Delta couple learned first-hand from Brad Cameron, who travels across the country with his mules, during a late-September workshop in Medina, Ohio.

Cameron taught handlers safety tips, knot-tying and ways to get their livestock to work for them without causing the animals harm.

From this Cleveland Plain Dealer article:

Rob and Carole South traveled from Delta, Pa., to Minnesota earlier in the week to buy Nelson, a draft mule. The couple then drove from Minnesota to Medina for the class. Rob South said it was well worth it.

"We've done all this driving, and I've only been on his back for a total of 20 minutes," South said. "The tips I learned today will carry over for as long as I have him."

Meanwhile, a little closer to home, a team of Percheron horses from a farm in Delta performed horse-hitch demonstrations at the West Lampeter Community Fair in Lancaster County during the last week of September. The horses even brought the fair queen to the grounds on a wagon.

Have you seen anyone from York County in the news elsewhere? Post a comment and let me know.

Next in a series of profiles originally published by the Daily Record in 2002, from Census 2000 information.

Welcome to Penn Township, home to large manufacturing plants like Snyder's of Hanover. It was also home to the county's third-highest percentage of foreign-born residents, at 2.9 percent of its 14,592 occupants.

Next week, we'll head to the other southern corner of the county and check out Delta.