Ask anybody who’s been through band camp – it is hard work, leaving the musicians and performers hot, sweaty, and tired. On Friday, August 8, however, about 100 students and staff members of the Central Dauphin High School RamBand will take hot, sweaty and dirty to a new level as they dedicate a day of band camp to the group’s inaugural Community Service Day. Keep reading >>

* Rob Nease of Harrisburg at Home has info about the Milk Mustache Mobile Tour that will be making a stop at Karns Foods on Allentown Blvd. this Thursday, Aug. 7, from 5-7 pm. CLICK HERE to view the tour’s Web site, and HERE for a video report from WHP-TV 21. * Hey, it’s chicken BBQ time again this Saturday, Aug. 9, at Linglestown Fire Co. #1. The birds will be cooked up and ready to go starting at 10:30 am and will be available until the last one is sold. This take-out event will feature a half chicken, baked potato, and roll, for $ 6.50, and will take place on the parking lot adjacent to the engine room at 5831 Linglestown Rd., at the west end of the village. Linglestown TV stopped by the BBQ that was held on July 12. * Central Dauphin Band Boosters Association is proud to welcome the legendary sound of The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra to the Central Dauphin High School for one night only on Tuesday, September 16, at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $9 for students and senior citizens, $12 for adults. Ticket order forms are available on the association’s website, or call (717) 979-2312.

Click the headline above for a brief about the latest development with troubled Capital Tax Collection Bureau, the agency that Lower Paxton Twp. and Central Dauphin schools recently gave the boot. CLICK HERE for background on this story and other local tax issues.

CD elementary school librarian goes the extra mile to help kids keep reading during the summer. … Schenk's Pastry & Ice Cream Shoppe on N. Mountain Road in Linglestown wins taste test.

If you live in Lower Paxton Twp., you should have received by now a postcard (pictured) from CD School District asking you not to send school property-tax payments to Diane Bair, LP's elected tax collector, but to a post office box in Bethlehem. T.W. Burger, Patriot-News beat reporter for LP and CD schools, did a good job explaining what’s happening in today’s edition. The change throws a few more moving parts into paying property taxes – school property-tax payments go to a post office box in Bethlehem, and Diane Bair will continue to collect payments for township and county property taxes. The school district having to come up with a creative way to get tax dollars sooner is proof that the system for collecting local taxes in Pennsylvania needs to be put out to pasture. Electing citizens to collect taxes no longer works in many places, like LP. Some help is on the way though. Gov. Ed Rendell signed into law a bill today that will eliminate most local tax collectors for local earned income taxes – that's the 2 percent local tax on paychecks for LP residents. In a typical move by state lawmakers, the deadline for implementing the new setup for collecting wage taxes isn't until January 2012, according to an article published by a Chambersburg paper (scroll down to bottom of article). Unfortunately, the new law does not address the collection of school property taxes.

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Emily is a 2008 CD High School graduate. The photo appeared in The Paxton Herald, which is available at many retail stores every Wednesday – free copies are available at Karns and Amelia's Grocery Outlet.