YorkTownSquare.com stories you like best: 10 most-viewed posts so far in 2015
The Red Lion Country Club’s banquet hall erupts in flames in February, as captured by Yoe Fire Company Deputy Chief Grant Gouker. News and analysis about this fire attracted widespread interest, demonstrated by a No. 4 ranking among all YorkTownSquare.com stories so far in 2015. Also of interest: Check out the most-viewed YTS stories in 2013 and 2014.
YorkTownSquare stories and photos concentrate of people, places and life in York County, Pa.
We do, indeed, have occasional posts and crime and fires and floods. But we like to explore what creates a sense of place in York County, apart from the diet of crime that afflicts many communities.
It’s interesting and revealing that those public safety topics scored three out of the top five stories so far this year. We just like those types of stories.
Stories No. 1 and No. 3 related to the New Freedom case in which Zachary Witman killed his younger brother, a topic in the popular podcast ‘Serial.’
It’s gratifying to see stories about non-public safety issues up there – the little known story of bridge lanterns, Bury’s burger recipe and York-made furniture still in use around the world.
Here’s the top 10 list so far in 2015:
The former country club buildings after the fire. Later, three juveniles in the Red Lion area admitted to setting the fire.
1. Check out this list of York County s most notorious criminal cases in past 50 years
2. Bridge lanterns along York County s Susquehanna Trail: ‘We get a lot of questions about them’
3. Check out the top 10 most viewed Yorktownsquare.com posts in 2009
4. Red Lion Country Club: A short history of this longtime landmark, damaged by fire
5. Reader reveals Bury s secret recipe
6. When the waters of the Codorus challenged the Rocks of the Glen, Part 2
7. Helpful York County cooks come forward with their time-tested hog maw recipes
8. York Hospital and its hilltop showed a different look 75 years ago
9. These antiques bear the York, Pa.-made Pennsylvania Furniture Co. label
10. The real big York County house that little false teeth built
The scenic, well-watered country club land, seen here in 2004, has prompted some to propose that the former golf course becomes a nature preserve.
