The Harrisburg SusqueCentennial Commission Announces 2010 Commemorative Historic Calendar

Harrisburg PA 12-11-09 – Just in time for the holiday season and corporate and personal giving, The Harrisburg SusqueCentennial Commemorative calendar has been released to a limited number of local retail outlets. The 12-month wall calendar celebrates the upcoming 150th anniversary of…

Colorful mural brightens up wall on North Third Street

By Mary Klaus
August 27, 2009, 4:23PM

Area artists, city teen-agers and community volunteers teamed up on Thursday to erect a colorful mural on the formerly blank wall of a midtown art gallery.

“Mending Hearts, Minds and Communities” now decorates the walls of Gallery Blu at 1633…

Countdown to the SusqueCentennial Television Shows

Tune in to WHBG TV 20 to catch the first episode of “Countdown to the SusqueCentennial,” a show designed to educate and inform the public about upcoming SusqueCentennial events and programs. In this first show, host Mike Greenwald talks with SusqueCentennial Commission’s Executive Director, Ellen Brown,…

Harrisburg’s 150th Anniversary Celebration

by Ellen Brown
Sunday September 06, 2009, 8:20 AM

It has been said that when a child dies, the world loses a piece of our future, but when an older person dies, we lose a piece of the past.

With today’s remarkable digital technology, the past is not predestined to vanish…

Parade marchers invited

Participants can register for the Harrisburg holiday parade until Oct. 9.

Bands, organizations, groups, businesses, individuals, military groups, nonprofit organizations and dancers can participate in the parade, which steps off at 10 a.m. Nov. 21. The theme is “Harrisburg Celebrates a World of Holiday Traditions.”

The parade offers more than $7,000 in…

Midtown gains a community garden, mural to be dedicated on Monday.

Sunday, August 30, 2009
BY MARY KLAUS mklaus@patriot-news.com

A community garden in midtown Harrisburg grows more than beans and basil, peppers and potatoes.

The garden in the 1600 block of North Third Street also grows beauty and renewal.

Located on a lot that once held three…

HISTORY OF A CITY

Harrisburg’s sesquicentennial celebration doesn’t officially start until March, but a high-tech oral history project is already under way.

Harrisburg began with John Harris Sr. settling in the midstate in the early 1700s, but the city did not receive its charter until March 1860. The SusqueCentennial celebration of that event will…

Happy anniversaries: Be part of the living legacy of Harrisburg

by Patriot-News Editorial Board

There’s really no way to keep it a surprise: Harrisburg is months away from the big 1-5-0.

While John Harris Sr. first settled in the area in the early 1700s, and his son built up the early makings of a town…

SUSQUECENTENNIAL LANDMARK BANNER SYSTEM NOW INSTALLED

Mayor Stephen R. Reed and officials from the Harrisburg SusqueCentennial Commission and the Harrisburg Downtown Improvement District today announced that a system of colorful banners has now been installed on street light poles in Harrisburg, all of which feature important landmarks in the city from both the…

Highmark sponsorship welcome in era of strapped governments

Our state is trying to grap ple with an estimated $2.3 billion budget shortfall, and part of the fallout will be in various program cuts.
Meanwhile, our local governments are facing the same kind of pressure, causing reductions that could impact some police forces as well…