York Dispatch

2 days ago | yorkdispatch.com | Mark Kennedy

Show Caption Hide Caption Flutes for Fido: Volunteers play music to soothe shelter animalsIt’s often said music is the universal language of humanity. Now a A 12-year-old Houston boy is putting that to the test among an unlikely audience — man’s best friend. Yuvi Agarwal founded the nonprofit Wild Tunes in 2023 to recruit musicians to play in shelters to calm stressed animals.

3 days ago | yorkdispatch.com | Thomas Kendziora

From multi-sport stars to record-setting gold medalists, these athletes made indelible marks over the past 10 months. Little did Jalen Cook know that his greatest athletic achievement at Dallastown would come on Memorial Day weekend of his senior year. Before trying his hand at track and field for the first time, Cook turned in stellar seasons for the Wildcats’ football and boys’ basketball teams.

4 days ago | yorkdispatch.com | Thomas Kendziora

State champions Ella Bahn, Jalen Cook and Brayden Billman led a group of YAIAA standouts at the national showcase in Philadelphia. Spring Grove’s Ella Bahn has won a York-Adams League individual championship in six different track and field events during her three-year high school career. Her favorite discipline, though, isn’t even part of the PIAA repertoire. Bahn is a three-time state champion in the girls’ 300-meter hurdles, but athletes in premier meets run the 400 hurdles instead.

1 week ago | yorkdispatch.com | Bob Timmons

Bob Timmons(Minneapolis) Star TribuneMINNEAPOLIS — Let’s start with what land snorkeling isn’t:It doesn’t involve flippers. Or masks. And forget diving. Land snorkeling, according to its ethos, could be watching an army of ants re-engineer a driveway crack; noticing the perfect spheres of dew clinging to field grass; or studying the shape of water dancing over a river rock.

1 week ago | yorkdispatch.com | Thomas Kendziora

Six York-Adams League baseball players received all-state honors Thursday from the Pennsylvania State Baseball Coaches Association. Coaches selected 20-player first and second teams in all six PIAA classifications. Red Lion senior Connor Lawrence and West York senior MJ Vottero led local honorees by landing on their respective first teams. Lawrence made the 6A first team as an infielder, while Vottero was a 5A first-teamer at the utility spot.