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Centre County Stars, Teams Shine at District 6 Cross Country Meet

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Portage duo help hosts advance past Homer-Center

May 26—PORTAGE — Maryn Swank and Lauren Shaffer have been quite a combo for the Portage softball team this season and Tuesday afternoon's District 6 Class 1A softball quarterfinal match up with Homer-Center proved to be no different. Swank went 62/3 innings before handing things over to Shaffer for the save as the second-seeded Mustangs hung on for the 6-5 win over the seventh-seeded Wildcats. .

'An extremely good filter': Hundreds of plants installed along stream in Manheim Township park

Streams in Lancaster County to improve with targeted Penn State cleanup effort

As Dellinger Run wends its way toward Chiques Creek, it stretches through 56 acres of farmland in Rapho Township, where owner Mark Heller enjoys watching the ducks and fish that swim in the stream. But wildlife hasn’t always been so plentiful in the waters that cut Heller’s produce operation in two. The stream, he said, had been in an unhealthy state for years. Erosion was a big problem, according to Heller, who said it was exacerbated during heavy storms. “It was always shifting in position,” he said of the stream’s course. That was before Heller was approached by clean water experts at Penn State University who connected him with funding and advice on how to restore stream banks and add forested streamside buffers.

Ambitious Conservation Program Covers Total Costs for Farmland Improvements

A million-dollar grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will pay the total costs of riparian buffers and other conservation practices on farms in three contiguous watersheds in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin counties. “When you say total cost, is there anything the farmer has to pay out of pocket?” we asked Lauren Shaffer. “Nope,” she said. “There’s even a bonus.” A cover crop of winter rye was no-till planted between corn stubble from a prior year s crop to ensure live roots are in the soil year round. Penn State Ag and Environment C Shaffer is an outreach specialist with the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center in Lancaster. The grant covers 220 square miles of heavily farmed land in watersheds drained by the Chiques, Conoy and Conewago creeks.