When’s the last time you saw this many people come to a planning commission meeting?
I had some incredible live tweeting fun the other night in Chanceford Township.
… also known as “the middle of nowhere.”
… also known as “The Brogue.”
You can check out the Storify here.
It doesn’t get any better than this, my friends.
Essentially, the township’s planning commission was considering a plan for an adult cabaret to occupy vacant space in a strip mall (pun totally intended!) Continue reading
So, it’s 10 p.m., and I really wish I was watching Chicago Fire.
However, I got addicted to New Hive instead. Continue reading
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Tagged bae systems, bradley, coding, dfm, digital first, embed, free, graphics, idealab, interactive, journalism, new hive, reporting, shutdown, website, ydr, york county, York Daily Record
The stage of the Strand all decked out for Think Loud’s after party on Feb. 28. Later in the night, the curtains opened and Live played with a backdrop of empty seats.
The past couple weeks, for me, have been about music.
First, there was the lack thereof.
Last week, we broke this story about Harley-Davidson removing radios from its plants as a matter of safety and productivity protocol.
I know what you’re thinking. (Some people even emailed me to share their two cents.)
“Why is this a story?”
“What are you going to write about next? The contents of Harley’s vending machines? The employees’ bathroom breaks?”
Truthfully, this isn’t really a story about Harley at all. Continue reading
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So, last night was super fun.
I joined co-workers Brittany Wilson and Sarah Chain to kickoff the NewsVroom’s yearlong initiative of visiting York County libraries.
We traveled to Dover Area Community Library, where I had the opportunity to present my ideaLab project to Girl Scout Troop #20195.
Before a mock press conference, I discussed basic apps (QuickVoice, iMovie, Notability, 360Pano, etc.) and I got to play this video of this old man with his funny cane.
The best part: One of the girls recommended I go set up my “office” at Chuck-E-Cheese.
Loves it.
Here are some photos from the event:
I had to drive the NewsVroom van, because — let’s be honest — everyone else was scared to.
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Tagged Brittany Wilson, Dover, dover area community library, education, Girl Scouts, mobile media lab, newspapers, newsvroom, sarah chain, York, york county
Future home of Johnson Controls? We’ll just wait and see.
Last week got pretty wild.
For months, we knew a Fortune 500 company was looking to relocate within York County to Hopewell Township using a tax incentive program that needed approval from the school board, township and commissioners.
If they didn’t get what they needed, they’d likely go to Maryland — or so we’re told.
Not knowing who it was frustrated the hell out of me. Continue reading
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Tagged business, financing, hopewell township, jci, johnson controls, journalism, lauren boyer, relocation, reporting, south eastern school, stories, tax incentive, tax increment financing, ydr, york county, York Daily Record
This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for Penn State’s win in overtime against Wisconsin … and these awesome seats!
If you’re looking for a warm fuzzy story this Thanksgiving weekend, I have two.
The first belongs to our Thanksgiving package where we highlighted what Yorkers cherish this holiday. (Hint: It’s difficult to fit this theme for the Money & More section. Most people, I hope, won’t say, “I cherish money.”)
I met Amanda Danuski through through Twitter and wrote this story about her cherishing the ability to start a new job while coping with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.
Today, a story I wrote about Chandra Illarza appeared on the front of the Sunday News . The York city woman recently quit her job and purchased a house to shelter homeless men.n Continue reading
A turkey journalist on deadline.
There comes a time in every woman’s life where she must come to grips with the retail gimmicks associated with different holidays.
For me, today was the day. Continue reading
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Another day on the job.
Remember that time I ate pie and made new friends in a rural neighborhood?
That column finally made it in the paper. I used Dickey’s fruit pie recipe as a breakout.
Hyperlocal fun!
A Boyer family Halloween circa 1992. I have gangrene on my face, and my sister Casey, the provider of this photo, looks like one miserable pumpkin. Those were the good old days. ©
I love ghost stories. In fact, I dedicated an Sunday enterprise piece to a few local ghost hunters and the business that could be brought to several in-need historic sites, if they only marketed themselves as “haunted.”
Last night, the partner-in-crime and I had tickets for a historic ghost tour of downtown York. I couldn’t wait.
When we got there, the tour was, more or less, a history lesson with a few “…and this place might be haunted” statements tossed in. Continue reading
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Tagged downtown york, ghosts, halloween, haunted, hex house, history, lauren boyer, prospect hill cemetery, Rehmeyer's Hollow, walking tour, york city, york county
Because I’m ridiculous …
And because I overestimate the interest in my random adventures …
And because I want practice liveblogging, so I’m not like “Um, how the heck do I use this?” when I have to do it for breaking news …
I’m liveblogging the rural ‘pie party’ extravaganza I’m going to around 7 p.m. Click here on our York Common Cents blog for updates, if you care.
Feel free to chime in with a comment and annoy me. Continue reading
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