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#ValleyMusicals: Your 24-page guide to 12 powerful performances

May 20, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments #valleymusicals, abby neamand, anne of green gables, beauty and the beast, caleb burk, camden choplick, cinderella, cole supsic, danville, destiny lopez, donkey, emma danae kelsey, featured, high school musical, huck finn, les miserables, Line Mountain, madison kovach, Meadowbrook, midd-west, Mifflinburg, milton, noah fenstermacher, noah spencer, savannah mellish, selinsgrove, seth phelps, Shamokin, shikellamy, shrek, Sunbury Christian, tenaja henson, tom sawyer, tricia kline, warrior run, xanadu

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Column: Confessions of a jaded journalist

May 20, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments daily item, ellie rees, features editor, newspaper, Northumberland Christian School, spring concert, sunbury

The timing could not have been worse — or better — when Ellie Rees called at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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Warming on the cob: A guide to cooking corn on a campfire

May 17, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments butter, campfire cuisine, corn, corn on cob, featured, food, husk, open fire

Few things capture the essence of summertime eating like the buttery-sweet juiciness of biting into a freshly picked ear of

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Bird song hero: A new way to ID popular birds by the songs they sing

May 2, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments bird songs, cardinal, chickadee, environment, envirothon, featured, nature, outdoors, wren

One of the most amazing things in our great outdoors are the harmony of bird songs … each one uniquely

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Tick numbers on the rise after mild winter, early spring

April 26, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments featured, increase, lyme disease, naturalist, outdoors, ticks

The number of tiny blood-sucking parasites that can carry a variety of illnesses — including Lyme disease — have been

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Lace up your hiking boots for these 5 central Pa. destinations

April 8, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments central pennsylvania, chilisuagi Trail, dale's ridge, featured, hiking, Lake Chillisquaque, mid-state, montour preserve, pine creek, ricketts glen, spring, susquehanna valley

To the outside observer, a hike may just be a long walk — and it is. However, when you take

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Springtime guide to everything outdoors in the Valley

April 1, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments beginner, blossom, creek, featured, flower, frog, gobbler, hike, John Ryan, kayak, kayaking, ken hunter, Ken Maurer, nature, novice, peeper, pennsylvania, spring, Susquehanna Valley Outdoors, Tall Timbers, The Daily Item, trophy, trout, troy bowersox, turkey, turtle, Zaktansky

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12 hacks to make camping more comfortable

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments aluminum foil, campfire, camping, comfortable, cuisine, easy, featured, hammock, organizer, tips

The Diamond strike-anywhere match was inches from hitting the gritty striker pad when someone in the crowd announced the birthday

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Scouting provides confidence in midst of school shooting

February 29, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments bishop neumann, boy scouts, brent paucke, Elizabeth bush, featured, kimberly marchese, school shooting, scouting, st. john neumann, tragedy

As gunshots barked in the crowded school cafeteria, students were quick to dive for cover. They all attempted to move

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Ballad of the blotch-bellied basses

February 9, 2016 John Zaktansky 0 Comments archery, bass, blotch, featured, fishing, impairment, river, susquehanna

Now, the Blotch-Belly Basses Had bellies with blotches, Which made the plain-belly fishes Really obnoxious. Those blotches weren’t so

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