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Heroin abuse has been a problem in York County, and a page has been created with news coverage, resources and more about the issue.
Toward the end of the day, Frank Ochberg was thinking out loud: Maybe, he told a group of journalists, we’re starting a trauma journalism movement here in Pennsylvania. More than 20 journalists — from eastern and western Pennsylvania and from newsrooms large and small — had gathered July 30 in
Journalists are supposed to be a community’s eyes and ears. But let’s face it, we can’t be everywhere at all times. Thanks to one woman’s post to the Facebook group Fixing York PA, I was able to notify Tom Landis, superintendent of York’s Recreation and Parks Bureau, about lewd graffiti at Lincoln Park that
This Gazette and Daily front page tells about the first York countian to become Pennsylvania’s governor – George Leader. YDR journalists get their story ideas from a lot of places. A copy of the 1954 front page with news about George Leader’s election to the governorship of Pennsylvania was on
‘I going 2 add condiments artist 2 my resume,’ the YDR’s Samantha Dellinger wrote in a post. ‘I drew U.S. with ketchup/mustard. I hav a fun job … ‘ Sam is a perennial award winner in journalism competition, spurred, in part, by the fun way she goes about her work
The earliest known copy of Die York Gazette is dated May 20, 1796, No. 14. If you back up 14 weeks – assuming weekly publication – that means the German-language newspaper started in early 1796. Longtime Gazette & Daily owner J.W. Gitt maintained the newspaper, forerunner to his publication and
Around York County: Stories are everywhere … . When YDR journos are out in the public, we see stories everywhere. Here’s one from an invite for a staff member to present at a lively community organization. Ninety-something-year-old drummer Eugene Budesheim taps away at a Dallastown Golden Agers’ gathering, where he
From time to time, this question comes up in the newsroom: What is “downtown York”?
Ice cream cake for new and departing Teen Takeover students. pic.twitter.com/2CA5vw3LDS — Ed Mahon (@edmahonreporter) June 11, 2015 Another Teen Takeover season is in the books. But the team of high school journalists who train with York, Pa. Daily Record staff members and then submit their stories and photos for