Octorara AUGUST 5, 2026
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 3,720 HOMES
A New Way to Keep Score
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BY LOGAN MOYER
t takes a village. Octorara Area Little League has its village. The league’s homebase, Lions Park in Christiana, needed a ne w scoreboard on the main field. The new scoreboard, donated by Houghton Enterprises, was recently installed by a group of nearly a dozen dads on a warm Monday night at the park, 4 Sadsbury Ave., Christiana. The new scoreboard is nearly twice as large as its predecessor A group of dads spent hours installing the new scoreboard on a Monday night. Photo by Logan Moyer. and can be controlled remotely and wirelessly from any- coordinator for the Little League. division, which goes up to 16 years of where around the field. Previously, “The Houghtons have donated age. Many other areas have shifted wired cables had to be run from the everything for the scoreboard. They away from a formal affiliation with dugouts to control the scoreboard have kids in the league; they want to Little League International, which has expanded Octorara Area Little see everything elevated.” remotely. Octorara Area Little League ros- League’s borders to include much “The Houghton family has been what we call our grand slam spon- tered about 215 kids last season, of the Pequea Valley and Solanco sors,” said Craig Fackler, sponsorship ranging from T-ball to the senior school districts.
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VOL XXXVI • NO 23
Annual Yard Sale Set in Gap BY LOGAN MOYER
A communitywide yard sale will be held in Gap from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 15. T he s ale w ill b e held on Pequea Avenue; on Newport Avenue; on Bellevue Avenue; at Sunset Village; and at the Gap Fire Hall, 802 Pequea Ave., Gap. Communitywide yard sales, o r ga n i z e d by J i m S h a f fe r, were held annually in Gap for roughly 30 years. The effort was brought back last year on a smaller scale. “It is really just tr ying to revitalize the yard sales in Gap,” local resident Paula Diem said. “It always ran with Rough and Tumble week, so it used to be a three-day yard sale on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.” L ast year, the community tried the sale for just two days. Roughly 20 to 25 homes participated, although Diem would love to see it go back to the 50-plus homes that took part in the sale’s glory days. Diem said that last year, most of the homes that participated had items that would typically be found at a yard sale, including old toys, books and kitchenware. “There’s new faces, new families in Gap,” Diem said. “So lots of new things that they can clean out and get rid of.” Those outside of Gap who would like to participate in the sale are welcome to set up at the Gap Fire Hall, Diem said. “It is a nice community thing that everybody gets so involved,” she said. “We just really want to get it back out there so that people know that we’re having it.”
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