Print Edition Highlights - February 13, 2014
Photos by Mark Ryder
Dillsburg Borough is already over budget for snow removal. The photo above, taken in the alley behind the post office, may be pretty as a postcard, but slippery to travel.
____ After several years of winters with below normal snowfall, this area has been experiencing a series of snow storms and far below normal temperatures that have left the area winter weary and snow removal budgets reaching their limits.
____ And it’s only February.
____ Dillsburg Borough Manager Karen Deibler reported that the borough is over budget for snow removal.
____ “But there’s always a line in the budget to cover these kinds of things,” she said.
____ She added that the biggest problem the borough workers have encountered is the cars parked on the streets. This is especially bad on some of the side streets.
____ “If we can’t get the snow plowed it turns to ice and then there’s nothing we can do about it.” She encourages residents, even those who don’t live on snow emergency routes, to get their cars off the road so the plows can do a better job.
Carroll Township is also reaching the limit of their funds designated to cover the costs of snow removal according to secretary/treasurer Faye Romberger.
____ “We’ve definitely gone over in the payroll and I haven’t run the figures on material, but I know we’re getting close,” she said.
Nancy Zentmyer, Franklin Township secretary reports they have gone over budget when it comes to labor costs. Their salt supply is holding steady. “We get our salt through the state Co-star program and that helps,” she said.
____ Franklintown Borough reports that things are going well. Council president Dick Blouch and Mayor Jim Adams do the plowing and if salting is necessary they have an outside contractor come in to do that.
See the February 13, 2014 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Three applicants to be interviewed for assistant secretary job
By Carolyn Hoffman
____ A Monaghan Township resident who wants to open a home-based gun repair and sales shop gained the first approval in what will be a long process at a February 10 zoning hearing. His next step is to submit to the planning commission and eventually the supervisors a land development plan that meets the requirements of the subdivision ordinance.
____ The proposal is for a small shop specializing in repairs, custom orders and possibly some sales of guns and supplies, such as ammunition or cleaning kits. Jeffrey Wissler of S. York Rd. was granted approval for the conditional use by a 3-0 vote of the supervisors.
____ Among the conditions attached to this first approval were that a copy of his federal firearms license be submitted to the township, along with copies of inspections by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; that his shop be no more than 200 sq. ft.; that signs must comply with the zoning ordinance; no exterior discharge of firearms is permitted, and to discuss with the building codes officer possible requirements for handicapped parking or public restrooms.
See the February 13, 2014 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
Also in the February 13, 2014 edition
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___ -Community events
___ -Obituaries
___ -Births
___ -20 years ago
Print Edition Highlights - February 13, 2014
Sectionals next step
By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner
Noah Smith rolls Trinity's Jake Ragni for a pin in 0:39 in the 285 pound weight class.
____With the wrestling regular season officially at an end, this weekend's Section I-AAA Tournament marks the beginning of the individual postseason.
____Sectionals is the first step on a long and arduous road to the PIAA Championships, regarded by many as the most difficult state wrestling tournament in the country.
____Mark Murphy's Polar Bears, fresh off a 5-5 team season, bring 11 wrestlers to the sectional dance, including seven grapplers with winning records.
____What does the postseason mean to Northern? According to Murphy, the postseason is whatever each wrestler wants to make of it.
____Some, like team leaders Kyle Koser and Jonathan Ross, have nothing but visions of state gold in their minds. Some are shooting to reach their season goal of a certain amount of wins while others, like many of the youngsters on the Polar Bears' squad, are simply hoping just to make districts.
See the February 13, 2014 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
By Andy Sandrik
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern High School field hockey player Brooke Sheibley signs a letter of intent for Shippensburg University on Friday, February 7 . In photo from left back row are brother Matt Sheibley and coaches Deb Kerrigan, Marcie Boyer and Chelton Hunter. Seated on either side are her parents, Barry and Kelley Sheibley.
Photo by Curt Werner
Northern High School soccer player, Matthew Printz, signs a letter of intent for Lock Haven College on Thursday, February 6. In photo are Matthew's parents David and Linette Printz, and 9-year-old sister Rebekah.
See the February 13, 2014 edition of the Dillsburg Banner for details.
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____Michael J. Neidig was born to the parents of Jay and Isabel Neidig in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1951. Mike’s father was from Grantville and his mother was from Franklintown. On October 29, 1951, parents Richard and Jean Fleming brought their third child into the world. Rhonda Jean Fleming was born in Dillsburg. Rhonda’s earliest recollection probably occurred when she was about five years old. “We had a chicken farm on Mountain Road. We were always moving chickens from one building to the next. That was a big deal in our house,” she said. “My job was to open the crate lid. My mom and brother worked the other side of the brooder, and my dad would scoop up the chickens and move them to another chicken house.” Rhonda’s parents, had five children. “I was the middle child. Tammy and Jerry, my brother, are older than me, and sisters Vignon and Jill are younger,” said Rhonda. Mike’s parents had six children, two boys and four girls. “Lynne is my older sister,” said Mike. “I’m the second oldest. My younger sisters are Kay, Nancy, Patricia, and my younger brother, Tom.” Like Mike’s siblings, Rhonda’s brother and sisters got along well, also. “We always had to work as part of our upbringing. Mike’s family was close in age which made playing together and doing a lot of family things together possible, but in my family, we were each like individual people doing our own thing because of age differences,” she said. Rhonda’s dad was a painter and worked away from the farm. At home, mother and children kept up with the farm work from chickens and eggs to canning strawberries, pears and peaches. “I hated summer because anytime the neighboring farmers had any left over’s they couldn’t sell, they’d drop them off at our house,” said Rhonda. “In the winter, my dad’s work was so bad that my mom would take anything she could freeze. That’s what it was like growing up on the farm.”
 
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