By Bobbie Sweeney  New Year’s Day is a special day for everyone in the world. All countries, except the United States, have observed the first day of the year as an important day for thousands of years. Although customs vary from nation to nation, and the time of year varies for different reasons, the meaning is the same to all. […]

  Donuts with Santa is happening Sunday, December 3rd from 11 am to 2 pm at Sugar Mill. Have a photo taken with Santa, enjoy the hot cocoa bar, visit Tommy Boys Mini Donuts for fresh made donuts and a fun filled day! Merry Grinchmas – Santa and the Grinch team up for an AWESOME day of fun and pictures […]

By Robert Reed  From coal dump trucks to cap pistols the toys of Hubley Manufacturing Company were an historic part of the 20th century.  Their colorful catalogs assured, “Hubley toys are made to sell.” And sell they did. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania enterprise was at one point among the largest makers of cast iron toys in the world.  At Hubley the […]

By Robert Reed  Part of the enduring Christmas season has always been the music. For decades much of it was captured on phonograph records and colorful long playing albums. Today many of those well-packaged Yule tunes are sounding very collectible.  “In the past few years the growth of Christmas music has been obvious,” wrote author Tim Neely in the 1997 […]