A state Senate bill that would increase certain hunting license fees beginning in the 2009-10 season received public support Monday from Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Carl Roe.
Senate Bill 1527 is sponsored by state Sen. Charles T. McIlhinney Jr. (R-Bucks), who is the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee chair.
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Now that the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships have come and gone from the York Expo Center (read about the men's champion and women's champion), Carl "Red" Arnold of Jacobus has checked in with some local horseshoes history.
Arnold writes: "I doubt if there are many people who would remember the Smoketown Horseshoe Team shown on this enclosed pictured. ..."
The York County Silver Bullets semi-pro football team (1-0) will host its first home game of the season this Saturday (July 26) at Central York High School.
Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. against the returning league champs, the Conshohocken Steelers.
Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for students.
The Silver Bullets won their season opener on July 19, beating the Montgomery County Rams, 35-8.
The Nall's Remodeling flag football team won its sixth championship in the past seven championships at the old location of The Blast indoor athletic facility. Pictured are (kneeling, from left) Howard Stewart, Tom Kessler, Gary Jones, Joe Cordora, Scottie McDowell and Andy Frazier; (standing, from left) Chris Frazier, Mike Smith, Louis Nalls, Jim Fabie and Mike Ziegeimeier.
(UPDATE: You can now read the Daily Record's version of this compelling story here.)
Zach McLain, a 2005 Dallastown High School graduate who was a two-time Daily Record/Sunday News all-star diver while competing for the Wildcats, is the subject of a lengthy new article on ESPN.com.
Normally, that would seem like a pretty sweet accolade for an athlete.
In McLain's case, however, it was a hellish -- and ultimately inspirational -- journey that led the national media to focus on his story.
McLain broke four vertebrae in his neck and suffered a huge gash in his head while diving at a swimming hole near his grandparents' cabin in Wellsboro, Tioga County, in July 2007. But, amazingly, just six months after the accident, McLain returned to competition for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's diving team.
"It's a story of victory in the sense of an individual who was dealt a challenge of life," Army diving coach Ron Kontura told reporter Adam Rittenberg for the 1,600-word story.
McLain's tale was also told by The NCAA News in February.
Do you have a great photo that you've taken of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno?
Or perhaps a great story about an encounter you had with JoePa.
Or perhaps you just want to compose a tribute to the Nittany Lions' legend.
We want to collect your Paterno photos and stories, for use in future publications.
E-mail your submissions to cotto@ydr.com or mail them to: Chris Otto, York Daily Record/Sunday News, 1891 Loucks Road, York 17408.
E-mailed photos should be scanned at the highest resolution possible.
Include your full name and hometown, and a phone number where you can be contacted.
NOTE: Richard Sanders in San Antonio sent us this letter after reading reporter Jeff Frantz’s 2006 article, “Pecs, pink pills and powers: How York played a role in the steroid controversy,” recently on our Web site (www.inyork.com/ydr). Louis Riecke was a New Orleans native who, at age 35, developed into a champion lifter after Dr. John Ziegler convinced him to take Dianabol. Riecke served as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ strength coach from 1970-1980.)
I traveled down from New York City in 1958 with Larry Mintz, Morris Weisbrott and a couple of other Elechester lifters to the Teenage Nationals. I placed in the Junior and Senior Southern AAU contests in 1961 and met Louis Riecke. He was impressive and soft-spoken with a personable humility.
I knew he used isometrics, so in 1963 while at Selfridge AFB in Michigan, I made a two-pipe-and-chain gadget and did early morning squat, pull and press isometrics to enhance my afternoon training.
The American Legion all-star game will be played at Sovereign Bank Stadium at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 6. Admission is free.
This is the first year that the York-Adams County American Legion baseball program has paired up with the York Revolution to play the all-star game at Sovereign Bank Stadium.
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I think it's safe to say that this story, from our sister newspaper in Hanover, is going to create a firestorm of controversy...
By KATHARINE HARMON
Evening Sun Reporter
A New Oxford man thought he was saving a fawn when he scooped it up off a road in Maryland and took it home to nurse it back to health after its mother was hit by a car.
William Albert bottle-fed the fawn in his 218 Reba Drive garage and called around to see if any wildlife-rehabilitation centers would take the baby deer.
Albert also called the Pennsylvania Game Commission to help him find a place to send the deer, but when a wildlife officer showed up at his house a short while later, he took the deer and had it killed.
Now, Albert says the officer -- who arrived at the house before Albert did, just 10 minutes after Albert called -- was on his property without his permission or a warrant, and the deer definitely shouldn't have been destroyed.
For the rest of the story, click here to go to the Evening Sun.
Vincent Powell of West Manchester Township writes: “Wow. First the New England and now Big Brown. It just makes you wonder what the 2008 World Series holds in store for us.”
Ron Sisto II of Dover Township writes: “Spread the bases further apart and move the pitcher back in high school softball. Defense and hitting are lost as a team relies too much on one player.”
