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There are many elves working behind the scenes to help Santa meet and greet his public.

It has become an almost de facto holiday in Pennsylvania with many school districts giving students the day off, but with a cold and soggy start to rifle deer-hunting season, some hunters saw less bang for their buck.

Cumberland County is moving forward with the use of eminent domain to acquire the right-of-way needed to replace Craighead Bridge in South Middleton Township.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's Game Commission estimates about 750,000 hunters with rifles are expected to pursue white-tailed deer.

When Hannah Roberts first stepped onto the soccer field for the Harrisburg Academy, she was looking for a challenge.

In many people’s minds, the Christmas lights that spider-web the light posts throughout the Borough of Carlisle are a welcome sign symbolizing the holidays and a festive spirit.

Pennsylvania’s deer rifle season is just around the corner for Cumberland County hunters.

MECHANICSBURG — The Cumberland Valley football team was poised to make its return to the District 3-AAAA finals after a trick-play touchdown in the waning minutes of the game.

Downtown Mechanicsburg got its first taste of holiday cheer Friday as community members gathered in front of PNC Bank for the town’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.

HERSHEY — The Camp Hill football team has bigger goals than winning a District 3-A title.

Cumberland County hunters brought in some big kills during the first portion of archery season.

The Man-on-the-Bandstand looked on with disapproval at those few lazy students who lounged around the campus of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on Thursday, Nov. 26, 1885.

Robert W. Black was born in June 1929 in Carlisle, and he grew up on a farm outside of the town.

While many families spent Thanksgiving in the comfort of their own homes, two churches were filled with volunteers who were providing free Thanksgiving meals to the public.

Six months pregnant — no big deal. Rachele Dominick was going to run the annual Turkey Trot in Carlisle.

Preparing a Thanksgiving meal requires time, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task.

CARLISLE — Some people play football with their families before sitting down to eat Thanksgiving dinner, but others work up an appetite with a 5K walk/run hosted by the Carlisle Family YMCA.

The South Middleton Board of Supervisors held another conditional use hearing Tuesday regarding the proposed relocation of Union Quarries’ crushing facility to the eastern side of Spring Garden Street. The hearing came following a conditional hearing Nov. 12, which ended…

The landscape has drastically changed near exit 44 of Interstate 81 in the few short months since work began at the proposed site for a highly publicized Goodman Birtcher warehouse.

Cumberland County will likely remain in the nursing home business for at least another three years, assuming any unforeseen change in circumstances.

It’s getting dangerous — that's how a resident who lives in a public housing unit on South Spring Garden Street in Carlisle described the mood in Carlisle this past week.

The Cumberland Valley School Board voted to accept new attendance boundaries on Monday night as reccommended by the district’s Redistribution Committee, a move that will affect students in its existing elementary and middle schools over the next two school years.

MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP — The “jewel in the crown” of Carlisle is set to begin a more than $2 million expansion project.

Life Lion was dispatched to the Harrisburg Pike at the Interstate 81 interchange after a tractor-trailer hit a traffic light pole.

Carlisle Borough Council in 2002 approved a resolution allowing a Dickinson College student to serve council as an honorary, non-voting member for a one-year term, with an option to serve an additional one-year term in order to strengthen the borough’s…

CARLISLE — Of the 3.5 million people who experience homelessness each year, 35 percent of them are part of families with children, which is the fastest growing portion of the homeless population, according to studentsagainsthunger.org.

CARLISLE — Carlisle is unique.

READING — Exeter looked as if it would go into Friday’s halftime with a little momentum. Cumberland Valley’s Nicholas Rhodes had an answer for that.

With support growing from Carlisle Airport’s surrounding municipalities, airport officials now want similar support from Cumberland County officials as they begin applying for a $2.7 million Multimodal Transportation Fund Grant through PennDOT.

Philadelphia native and current Hampden Township native Lou Frank was once stuck for three nights straight in what he described as a potentially lethal Fourth of July fireworks display.

We now have our first glimpse into what the new Pennsylvania high school sports landscape will be.

ALLENTOWN — A few days ago, a pastor asked Syrian-born restaurant owner Marie Jarrah to donate food to a welcoming event for recently arrived Syrian refugees. Jarrah, who said she regularly helps people in need, declined.

CARLISLE – Carlisle Area School Board Thursday endorsed a plan to phase in over the next three years full-day kindergarten at Mooreland, Crestview and North Dickinson elementary schools.

For the second time in roughly a month, Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed and the district attorney’s office dealt with a case they have never before encountered.

A driver was led away in handcuffs after her car crashed into Conodoguinet Creek off Route 34 in North Middleton Township.

On a typical weekday morning, the lobby of Dickinson’s Waidner-Spahr Library is filled with the hustle and bustle of student and staff activity.

HARRISBURG – State Sen. Pat Vance says she’ll retire at the end of her term next year.

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf told Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday that he is not backing down on his willingness to continue accepting Syrian refugees who are fleeing persecution and death, and said states do not have the authority to refuse…

CARLISLE — The $12.1 million federal grant for which the Carlisle Borough Council approved an application in May to spur plans for urban redevelopment has not been awarded to the borough.

Cumberland County has taken the next step to utilize eminent domain to acquire land needed to complete the Craighead Bridge replacement project in South Middleton Township.

To be a successful writer requires ambition, insight and a constant thirst for fresh knowledge. For Carlisle High School senior Lydia Estes, those qualities come naturally.

Buddhist monks formerly of Tibet from Drepung Monastery’s Gomang College will visit Dickinson College for a five-day residency beginning Tuesday.

It is an honor that only a handful have achieved, but on Sunday, twin brothers Mitchell and Mathew Bear took their spot among the elite ranks of Boy Scouts who have earned the organization’s highest honor.

The first time could be viewed as a simple mistake, said a local drug and alcohol recovery specialist. A second, third of fourth DUI offense can signify a problem.

About 80 people a year in Cumberland County face multiple driving-under-the-influence charges. Ten people in the past five years had four or more DUIs in the county.

PARIS — A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed as many as 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande pledged…

CARLISLE — What things need to change to make life in Carlisle better for residents and business owners?

They are the last hold-out in the project to replace Craighead Bridge, but while Frank and Bonnie Blakely said they want to work with county, they said they do not believe the county truly wants to work with them.

She’s quite the firecracker.

MECHANICSBURG — If you ask the Carlisle boys hoops team if they’re going anywhere in 2015, it’s up.