Category Archives: Feature

BOYER INVESTIGATES: How do you pronounce “Utz?”

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Leave a comment
This photo, taken by coworker Jess Sprenkle, shows me offering chips to Bryan Tate, republican candidate for state representative.

This photo, taken by coworker Jess Sprenkle, shows me offering chips to Bryan Tate, republican candidate for state representative.

If the camera adds 10 pounds, I probably gained 15 Friday.

That’s the day Sonya and I wandered around York city eating chips and feeding them to strangers for this video.

Why?

The former Toyota Arena at the York Expo Center has a new sponsor: Utz Quality Foods.

It’s going to be called the Utz Arena, effective June 1 — which some people think is a good thing. Continue reading →

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Adult footie pajamas: A trend story that’s warm and cozy

Posted on March 3, 2013 | Leave a comment
Horrible picture. These were taken the day my mom gave me Penn State footie pajamas.

Horrible picture. These were taken the day my mom gave me Penn State footie pajamas.

Click here to read my story on the adult footie pajama trend that’s sweeping the nation.

As some of you know, I’m a huge footie pajama advocate.

In fact, I blogged about the topic not too long ago for YDR.

Ever since then, I’ve been scouring York County in a search for my fellow footie brethren.

One day last month, I had the hankering for a light-hearted story. Continue reading →

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A feature on nude art models: Seeing your source naked and surviving to write about it

Posted on February 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

Just wanted to share this story that ran last Sunday on the front page.

It’s about naked people.

A few months ago, via Facebook, a man I didn’t know messaged me on Facebook about doing a story on nude models. I kind of giggled.

Let’s be real. Nudity is hilarious, and I can — at times — be the most immature human on the planet. Continue reading →

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I’m soooo im-manure: The path of poop at the York Fair

Posted on September 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

A very hipster-y photo I took of myself pointing at the animal poop truck at the York Fair. Jason Plotkin is standing over the pile, hoping to get a photo of someone dumping a wheelbarrow of crap.

It’s York Fair time, and I have a confession to make.

It pains me to cover annual events without some sort of twisted, scatalogical or bizarre angle being involved.

I develop total ADHD. I get bored. I need a challenge.

I mean, how many times can we seriously cover people eating greasy food while riding rides and petting cows? Continue reading →

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To tweet or not to tweet? That time I went to Excitement Video and Toys for work.

Posted on August 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

The only photo I tweeted out from Excitement Video and Toys’ Ladies Night on Thursday. It’s a shoe. There is nothing dirty about shoes.

Once upon a time, there was a business reporter who got assigned to go to Excitement Video and Toys for work.

Yes, work.

“It’s an economy story,” she convinced herself, as she nervously perused the displays of kinky gadgets not suitable to describe to her 58-year-old mother — let alone an entire county of print subscribers.

The goal: to tastefully write about how the erotic novel ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ was affecting sales of … um … products. Continue reading →

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The trend story: If it’s happened more than once, it’s obviously sweeping the nation

Posted on July 26, 2012 | 5 Comments

Photo snapped circa 2 a.m. in a Rutter’s convenience store restroom.

Sometimes, my co-workers suggest I should be the bathroom beat reporter.

Honestly, I can’t help the scatological nature of the things I notice.

First, there was this story, earlier this year.

And, of course, my ever-present fascination with people’s disgusting work habits.

But I hit the mother load recently following a late night jaunt (and I mean really late) through a Rutter’s convenience store. Continue reading →

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Snyder vs. Snyder’s: How this story happened

Posted on July 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

Hailing from Somerset County. #fatatwork

If you get the chance, check out a story I wrote recently about Snyder’s of Hanover vs. Snyder of Berlin.

It’s kind of random.

You see, York County makes no sense.

We have an East Berlin. But no West Berlin. And no Berlin either.

But if you’re not from this fabulous place, you might get confused.

That’s what happened a couple weeks ago when I got a call from someone suggesting I do a story on the 65th anniversary of Snyder of Berlin. Continue reading →

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Got ghosts? Check out my story on a York County paranormal investigation team

Posted on July 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

Me, hanging out at an ‘engineering’ session with In the Midst of Ghosts earlier this year. Read about it here.

If you get the chance, head over to ydr.com and check out my story on a group of local ghost hunters.

This was one of those parts of my job that don’t feel like work.

In January, I went on a few nighttime adventures with this enthusiastic trio at the Goodridge House, the John Wright Restaurant and the Wrightsville House.  Continue reading →

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In other news … Lauren wins something finally

Posted on April 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Other than this (which was possibly the most exciting news of my two-years-out-of-college career), I don’t usually win stuff.

Especially things involving writing that are … well … somewhat subjective in nature.

So I was pleasantly surprised this morning to discover I had won a Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Award for second place in feature writing. Continue reading →

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Wrote this story after attending local tweet-up, ThinkDrink in #iloveyorkcity

Posted on January 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

Originally published on the Money & More cover of the York Daily Record/Sunday News on Sunday, January 30, 2012.

***For more on ThinkDrink, check out this Storify of a November event, which paired cupcakes and beer together for a unique tasting.

Sarah Lanphier, right, owner of Nuts About Granola, tweets about her presentation at ThinkDrink. To her left is Mandy Arnold, founder of ThinkDrink, a group of people who gather once a month to talk about improving downtown and learn about ongoings in the city. © 2012 York Daily Record/Sunday News -- Jason Plotkin

By LAUREN BOYER 
Daily Record/Sunday News

A pint of foam-capped fermented beverage isn’t always the hallmark of high-level cognitive performance.

It all depends on who you are.

For one pack of York County philosophers, the brewskie flows freely as they tackle the issues of what’s what and who’s who in the place they call, affectionately, #iloveyorkcity. Continue reading →

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