Birds  

There may not be something for everyone, but with styles from jazz to Celtic to folk and a marching band featuring stiltwalkers, the Long's Park Summer Music Series should please many.

The lineup features Booker T, a blues legend perhaps best known from Booker T. & the MGs.

There will be a...

Independent inspectors gave the Kreider Farms egg-production facility high marks following visits to the Manheim site last week.

Their findings contradict a video and statement issued by the Humane Society of the United States on Thursday, which showed images of dead, injured and infected hens in...

American woodcocks, spring peepers and American toads share bottomland woods and thickets during their overlapping breeding seasons in spring. Some people enjoy the audible courtships of male woodcocks and peepers during evenings in March and April in Lancaster County, as other folks do elsewhere ac...

In Eastern cultures, dragons symbolize luck and good fortune. In Western cultures, they stand for mythological magic. In all, dragons are a beastly feast for the eyes and offer lots of fun — and 2012, the Year of the Dragon, is dedicated just to them.

In Tammy Hollenbach's Clay Elementary S...

If you're going to seek advice for luring feathered friends to your backyard, look no further than a guy who has 25 feeders serving as a beacon to the hungry birds of Halifax.

"I have all kinds of feeders," said Scott Bills, "and they're all beat to heck."

But the birds don't care. Bills, a Pe...

Tired of trick-or-treating? Not in the mood for another Halloween party where only three people are wearing costumes and the punch has gone flat?

Maybe you should celebrate the scary season cinematically.

There are several movie events this year that are tied to the Halloween theme. Here are a...

Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.

• Lancaster native Ian Fedorchick is a busy guy these days. He's been spending a lot of time in Los Angeles, shopping his upcoming solo album to major labels. We could...

Boomers Expo ... Saturday

Hey, all you boomers who never thought you'd get old: Guess what! You're all over 50 now and many of the issues you are dealing with now will be covered at The Life Expo for Boomers & Beyond, being held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Lancaster County Convent...

It's all Judy Hyman can do to keep her instruments straight.

There's the acoustic fiddle she uses when she performs with the Horse Flies, a band she helped found in the late 1970s.

She switches to an electric fiddle for gigs with A Boy with a Fish, a harder-edged group that includes four of th...

Both music and writing have played important roles in Jessica Smucker's life, but for the longest time the singer-songwriter didn't think it possible to join the two.

As a child, the graduate of Lancaster Mennonite High School took piano lessons and sang enough around the house for it to bug her ...