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In his junior year in high school, professor and filmmaker Boaz Dvir was voted editor of the school newspaper, but his adviser had to pull him aside and make a deal with him not to do it. “I was going to be too much of a hard-hitting journalist,” Dvir says. Dvir’s high school newspaper…

With craft brewing and interest in craft beers continuing to grow in Happy Valley, Chuck Hacker, assistant restaurant manager for the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, wanted to give the establishments at the Penn Stater something, a beer perhaps, they could call their own. One of his managers happened to have a beer brewed…

Three of them met at a summer music camp in the Danish countryside when they were children in the 1990s. The youngest students in attendance, they soon became friends and continued to get together to play music in the years to come. Two decades later, these Scandinavian string players – three Danes and a…

Last November, Lancaster Online published a story, “Four Things About Lancaster County’s History You Might Not Know.” One of the four was “Olympian’s grave in Lancaster County.” “The only Lancastrian ever to win an Olympic gold medal,” Barney Ewell is buried in Conestoga Memorial Park. Sadly, it seems fitting that Ewell would be mentioned…

The slogan of Fred Dailey’s business, Dailey’s Lawn Care, is “making a difference,” something he says first began with making clients’ lawns beautiful. But it quickly became much more, as Dailey works to spread breast cancer awareness, with a little help from his business and an antique Chevrolet pink dump truck. Dailey’s journey with…

Hoy Transfer has been hauling Penn State football equipment for decades. Its owner, Kevin Briscoe, is no stranger to the long hours and late nights it takes to keep the program running around the country, making sure everything is where it needs to be when it needs to be there. The truck will be making…

Jillian Susi is a leader among the more than 40,000 students who attend Penn State University’s main campus, and is helping organize one of the school’s richest traditions. She is the executive director of Penn State Homecoming 2017. A week of activities kicks off November 5 and includes the parade through campus and downtown…

I have been tasting wine for a long time. For years I was the managing director for Club Wine International in Chicago, a mail order wine club where members received two bottles of the same varietal wine each month, one domestic and one import. To make those monthly selections, we often tasted as many as…

Leaving her medical practice behind, Alice Kelsey answers call to visual art-making Art is the underlying force behind everything Alice Kelsey does. From painting, to medicine, to music, Kelsey’s life endeavors have all been outflows of her aesthetic expression. Since closing her medical practice 12 years ago and devoting herself full-time to painting,…