by Maddie Gittens - The Burg Marsha Curry-Nixon had sat in on countless meetings about how to help Harrisburg’s largest homeless encampment, dubbed “tent city.” City resource providers have long known that the camp, which has housed over 100 people in south Harrisburg near the PennDOT building at various times, would be closed. As part of a project to expand I-83, PennDOT shared that the encampment site would be impacted, and occupants would be required to move. Since then, c

Tonight’s Hometown Heroes raised thousands for veterans by letting loose. Langan Financial Group in Camp Hill presented a $60,000 check to Veterans Outreach of PA. The company raised the money by hosting a dance party last weekend.

When the red, white and blue ribbon fluttered to the ground over the fresh concrete and fragile new sprouts of grass at Veterans Grove in south Harrisburg last year, it felt like Christmas, a birthday and a graduation all in one.