What started out to be a typical day on Tuesday, April 18, turned into a near disaster for Kelly Vasco, co-owner of the Pickle Nickel at 5 S. Baltimore Street.

    It was business as usual for Vasco, who can multitask with the best of them. However on Tuesday, her routine - work in the restaurant, throw in a load of towels next door, go back to the restaurant, put laundry into the dryer, go back to the restaurant, take laundry out of the dryer - took a turn for the worse.

    Trouble struck when Vasco walked to the back of the long hallway to take the items out of the dryer.

Firemen prepare to go into the smoke-filled apartment building at 9 S. Baltimore Street, Dillsburg, after an electric dryer caught on fire Tuesday afternoon. Several fire companies responded, blocking the main street for over an hour. No one was injured. Photo by Curt Werner / Dillsburg Banner.

For more information see the April 20th, 2017 edition of the Dillsburg Banner.

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Review of steep slope ordinance addressed

Shirley A. Knight
Staff Reporter/Dillsburg Banner

    Franklin Township resident Kathleen Gingrich shared concerns about the steep slope ordinance being considered by Franklin Township at the recent supervisors’ meeting.

    Gingrich presented information that included excerpts from the four-book- long official engineering guidelines and said,

    “All information should be looked at by the engineer and solicitor including work by other engineers and other experts,” she said.

For more information see the April 20th, 2017 edition of the Dillsburg Banner.

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Bears defeat Shamrocks
Joe Guty
Dillsburg Banner

    Northern H.S. Track and Field is in full swing with dual meets and invitationals. This Saturday at Shippensburg University, the Polar Bears will compete against the state's best in the 91st Annual Shippensburg Jack Roddick H.S. Invitational. Last week, the Polar Bears hosted rival Trinity H.S. and cruised to victory. The girls team posted a 117-33 win while the Polar Bear Boys team scored a 103-47 win. The Northern Girls 4 x 800 Relay team won their respective race in 10:27.7 while the Trinity boys team clocked 8:35.57 to defeat the Northern hosts in their relay.

Seth Hawkins took first place in the 300-meter hurdles. Photo by Curt Werner/Dillsburg Banner

For more information see the April 20th, 2017 edition of the Dillsburg Banner.

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Dillsburg student strikes the right notes at All-Eastern Honors Ensembles

Shirley A. Knight
Dillsburg Banner

    Northern High School student Josiah Stetler performed with the All- Eastern Band at the Historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 8.

   Josiah traveled there on April 4 and practiced for four days with hundreds of other students to prepare for the concerts they performed for an audience of thousands. Students from 13 states and foreign countries each rehearsed with one of five prominent conductors. The All-Eastern Honors Ensembles consist of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, treble voice chorus and a jazz ensemble. Josiah, who plays the trumpet, performed with the concert band made up of 150 student instrumentalists.

 Northern musician, Josiah Stetler. Photo by Curt Werner/Dillsburg Banner

For more information see the April 20th, 2017 edition of the Dillsburg Banner.

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