Published November 21, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Teen girls everywhere are lining up to see the latest "Twilight" movie, "New Moon."It's got plenty of teen angst, romance with vampires and werewolves and other Hollywood horrors that our brave teenage heroine, Bella Swan, has to face."New Moon" is ......

Published November 18, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by LARRY ALEXANDER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Thanksgiving.What does it mean to us as Americans? That's easy: a four-day weekend.But what did Thanksgiving mean to our founding fathers? What did Thanksgiving mean to the Pilgrims? And what did Thanksgiving mean to Prehistoric Man? (Nothing. He couldn't speak English. What's wrong......

Published November 17, 2009, 8:13 AM EST

by JACK BRUBAKER, The Scribbler

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Lancaster County each year raises just over 100,000 acres of corn for grain, more than any other county in the state. But corn takes second place to a crop you might not expect. It's something you can't salt and butter and crunch on row by row. Unless, maybe, you're a shee......

Published November 17, 2009, 10:27 AM EST

by AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Every serious bowhunter knows it. You do your scouting and you put enough time in the woods, the chances are good that you will get a shot at a buck. Brian Schreiber does that. But, after taking three very nice bucks in two months this fall, he also knows sometimes Lady Luck shines on you. In ......

Published November 15, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by PEGGY SCHMIDT, Daze of Our Lives

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - In thrift and consignment shops all over the nation there are all sorts of items to purchase — used, gently used, "shabby chic" and, often, brand-new. It's always fun to find something still bearing the tags from a favorite boutique with a thrift-store price on it, but shoppers are happy wi......

Published November 15, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The phone message Jeff Saxinger found on his answering machine Sept. 11 really messed with his head. The caller identified himself as an outfitter in northcentral Pennsylvania who guides elk hunters. He was offering his services to Saxinger, who the caller said was the first hunter sele......

Published November 13, 2009, 8:12 AM EST

by JACK BRUBAKER, The Scribbler

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Mark Malkoff, a Hershey-born comedy writer and filmmaker, has spent the last month driving around the country hitting up mayors for keys to their cities. He is six shy of his 100-key goal. Malkoff received one of his first keys here in Lancaster from Mayor Rick Gray. But he didn't......

Published November 11, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by LARRY ALEXANDER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - I hate it when someone I consider a social icon — someone who helped mold my character and make me the person I am today — passes away and their death gets little notice, by which I mean no flags at half-staff.I refer here to the death of Soupy Sales, the genius who, for m......

Published November 10, 2009, 8:52 AM EST

by JACK BRUBAKER, The Scribbler

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Three decades ago Wednesday — Veterans Day — Lancaster's Vietnam veterans installed a bronze plaque memorializing all Vietnam veterans on the Soldiers and Sailors monument in Penn Square. Gary Levinson, one of the original members of the Vietnam Era Veterans Association that......

Published November 10, 2009, 8:29 AM EST

by AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - What fun! For Christmas last year my brother got me a scouting camera. I got him a battery-operated corn feeder .Partly, I wanted to see what big deer might be around our hunting grounds in West Virginia. But mostly, I was captivated at the chance to catch in the act the myria......