Published August 15, 2009, 8:22 AM EST

by ALEX ANSTETT, 17, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The site of what was once a 19th-century train station at 27 North State St. is soon to be transformed with a mural that represents the town of Ephrata. The credit goes to three young people — Bailee Kauffman, Bassem Yousri and Angela Mazol.These three are interns with the Pennsylvania Downtow...

Published August 15, 2009, 8:18 AM EST

by TAYLOR BUNDY, 18, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - www.lecturefox.comThe Point: This site captures college lectures from schools across the country and posts them online for your academic enjoyment.Breaking it down:Genre: AcademicMakes the grade: A+Entertainment Factor: Lecturefox does have an entertaining side, because just about everything is here...

Published August 14, 2009, 8:03 AM EST

by Gregory J. Scott, AIA

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Who doesn't associate summer with vacation, and vacation with travel, and travel with adventure?Prior to 1900, travel was pretty much limited to horses, bicycles, locomotives, sailing ships and, of course, walking. Adventures were lived vicariously through reading and the art of storytelling.Tha...

Published August 14, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by DAINA SAVAGE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - No fun in fungus. This steamy, sultry weather only spurs on the fungal diseases that have plagued our gardens this summer. Water at soil level, and work on achieving good air circulation to help banish these problems. Generally they are more cosmetic issues that we recommend you simply put up with a...

Published August 14, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by DAINA SAVAGE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Dahlias may look like the divas of the garden, but these easy-to-grow summer beauties come with all the wow and none of the fussiness.Ranging from tiny pom-poms to towering dinner-plate-sized blooms in shapes resembling orchids, anemones, waterlilies or chrysanthemums, there's not much this spec...

Published August 13, 2009, 9:44 AM EST

by SUSAN JURGELSKI

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Devon Robertson has one less tooth in his smile and five more dollars in his pocket.Last month, the "tooth fairy" stealthily retrieved the 6-year-old's first lost tooth from under his pillow and replaced it with five gold coins."Since it was his first tooth … it was a littl...

Published August 12, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by KEN HOFFMAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - This week, I reached out for a Fill-Up Box at America's No. 1 chicken shack, KFC, with more than 5,000 restaurants coast to coast, plus another 10,000 joints spread across the globe.At $5, the Fill-Up Box won't empty your wallet, and it shows that KFC isn't chicken — I mean scared ...

Published August 10, 2009, 9:04 AM EST

by SUSAN JURGELSKI

LANCASTER, Pa. - Hunched over a black-and-white battlefield, head in hands, 89-year-old Dr. Winsor Schmidt is quietly at war.With a chess board and chess pieces between them, Schmidt and his opponent, Mike Gross, spar without words or physical contact.This is a mind game.At the weekly Wednesday night meetings of the...

Published August 9, 2009, 12:10 AM EST

by STEPHEN KOPFINGER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Kathleen Green doesn't even have a job yet, but she believes she's gained a wealth of career experience and wisdom in the field of what a woman should — and should not — wear to an employment interview. Green, 19, keeps it simple. Just think, she said, of "going to church wi...

Published August 9, 2009, 12:08 AM EST

by STEPHEN KOPFINGER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - For a woman in search of starting or reigniting a career, the focus of a job interview should be discussion, not distraction.According to Aimee Urban, general manager for Way Services, that means that even details such as jewelry, shoes, hair, nails and other matters of presentation should be a cons...