News update May 16, 2024

PickleFest 2024

Fair weather draws crowd

Photo by Curt Werner

Contestants chow down at the pickle eating contest held on the street near the stage at noon.

 

Staff Reports

Sunny, pleasant weather throuhout the day attracted fairgoers to this year's PickleFest.

More than 50 vendors lined both sides of Greenbriar Lane from Harrisburg Pike to Baltimore Street from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 for the annual celebration organized by the Dillsburg Community Association

For the rest of the story see the May 16, 2024 edition.

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Carroll Township: Fire company's costs, funding discussed

Kristen Stagg/Staff Reporter

During the Carroll Township board meeting on May 13, supervisors Libby Loudenslager and Brent Sailhamer were absent and Darrell Dethlefs sat in for Michael Pykosh as solicitor. In addition, supervisor Tim Kelly had to leave as soon as voting finished in order to resume his medical leave, which he announced will last approxiamtely three months.

Out of consideration for Kelly's medical situation, the agenda was re-ordered so that all voting items would take place up-front, with items just for discussion to conclude the meeting.

Fire company

Keith Kuykendall filled in got Northern York County Fire an Rescue chief Hector Morales. After giving a run-down of the month's calls, Kuykendall responded to supervisor Kelly Wall's question about the fire company's steering committee discussion for warehouses to make monthly or annual contributions for emergency services rather than one lump sum. Kuykendall said they discussed it, but that no decision has been made.

For the rest of the story, see the May 16, 2024 edition.

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Dillsburg Borough: Residents ask for assistance

Mary Lou Bytof/Staff Reporter

Dillsburg and Carroll Township residents attended the Dillsburg Borough Counncil meeting following a hearing on the Winfield rezoning issue to voice their concerns about yet another development coming to the area.

Residnets living near the proposed Stoney Run Village in Carroll Township told the board that they had the following issues with the construction and design of the proposed 40 townhomes that the developer wants to construct in the township between the Pheasent Ridge Development in Dillsburg and Windy Heights also in the township.

For the rest of the story, see the May 16, 2024 edition.

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Keystone Music Acadmey

Classical education is at its core

Photo by Curt Werner

Andrey Lubimtsev, owner of Keystone Music Academy, at the grand piano inside his studio at 3705 Trindle Rd., Camp Hill.

Piano and composition instructor Andrey Lubimtsev has been teaching music for over 25 years. He is the owner of Keystone Music Academy, 3705 Trindle Rd., Camp Hill, where a doxen treachers provide musical instruction in stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass, piano, guitar, banjo, mandlin, vocal performance and more.

Orignally from Russia, Lubimstevbegan studying piano at the age of eight at Irkutsk Central Music School. "It was basically a professional education at an early age," he said. He continued his studies at Irkutsk Colllege of Music and Art with choir conducting as his primary concentraion and piano as his secondary. After graduating, Lubimtsev worked with vocal groups and choirs while teachinng piano, playing in a band and doing recordings as sound engineer. His wife, an English language professor, was an interpreter during the summer months and was invited to the U.S. by an American family traveling in Sisberia over the summer. The Lubimtsev's left Russia for the U.S. just as the Soviet coup started. Their plan was to only stay for six months so that Lubimtsev could work to finance studio equipment to take back home to Russia for the purposes of creating his own recording studio.

For the rest of the story, see the May 16, 2024 edition.

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