Assistant news editor Gil Smart's "Smart Remarks" have been appearing in the Sunday News since 1998, but he's actually been writing the column on and off since 1987, when it first appeared in the La Roche College (Pittsburgh) student newspaper "The Crossover." A 1989 La Roche grad, Smart worked for the Cranberry Journal and North Journal newspapers in suburban Pittsburgh from 1989 to 1994, and came to the Sunday News in July 1994. He, his wife Kimberly, son Alex and daughter Anabelle live in East Hempfield Township.

Marv Adams has been editor of the Sunday News since November, 2005. Before that, he was news editor of the Sunday News for 21 years. He has been with Lancaster Newspapers for 36 years, having worked for the Intelligencer Journal as a copy editor, education reporter, sports editor and assistant news editor. He is 55, and lives with his wife, Helen Colwell Adams, a Sunday News political writer, and their daughter Abby, in Martic Township.

Staff writer Paula Wolf has been with the Sunday News since 1989. She grew up in Lancaster city and is a graduate of Lancaster Country Day School and Franklin & Marshall College. She is a resident of Lancaster Township.

Retired Sunday News staff writer Peggy Schmidt has been writing this weekly column for more than a quarter-century. The mother of seven daughters and two sons, and grandmother to 22, Peggy has more than enough "material" to keep readers giggling -- and, sometimes, spilling a tear or two. Her refreshing spin on the day-to-day is what brings readers to her corner of page G2 of the Living section each Sunday.

P.J. Reilly has been hunting and fishing his way across North America and parts of Europe since 1990, which is also when he began his career in journalism. A native of Chester County, P.J.'s musings about the outdoors first appeared in the Intelligencer Journal in 1996. He also covers Lancaster County government, but only so the editors allow him to spend time in the woods and on the water and call it work. Even when he's on the fifth floor of the county courthouse, you can bet P.J. is dreaming about sitting in a tree stand, waiting for a trophy buck to show up or about standing on the deck of his boat, casting to a largemouth bass.