The Linglestown Colts Pee-Wee varsity football team ran their record to 3-0 Sunday with a convincing 37-6 victory over the visiting East Pennsboro Panthers. In other varsity action at Koons Park, Linglestown Colts Pony team dropped their first game of the year by a count of 20-14 to the Panthers. In the day’s finale, Panthers rolled over Colts Midget team 22-0. The Colts varsity teams will travel to Steelton this Saturday, Sept. 13, first game will kickoff at 4 pm.

CD Rams recorded their second straight victory of the young season by nipping the Harrisburg Cougars 14-11 on a 21-yard touchdown scamper by Justin Shirk with only 25 ticks left in the game played at Landis Field in Colonial Park. In another game decided in the final minute of play, the Carlisle Thundering Herd stunned CD East Panthers 24-17. Check out a game summary (scroll down to bottom of page) by The Patriot-News for game highlights.

* Linglestown Colts youth varsity football teams earned a clean sweep Saturday over the West Shore Vikings in lopsided games played at Wormleysburg (record for each Colts team is shown in parentheses): Colts Pee-Wee 27, Viking 0 (2-0) Colts Pony 38, Vikings 0 (2-0) Colts Midget 43. Viking 0 (1-1) Colts host East Pennsboro next Sunday, Sept. 7 at Koons Park, first game starts at 1 pm. * Some residents of East Hanover Twp. want no parts of a proposed shopping center at the intersection of Routes 39 and 22. * Bill Hawk, chairman of the Lower Paxton Twp. board of supervisors, and Eric Epstein, head of local government watchdog group SWAN, were guests Saturday on the Michael Parks show on WHP 580 AM. The threesome had a spirited conversation about new housing developments that are sprouting up throughout LP. The 20-minute show is available online and is definitely worth a listen. ____ Hat tip to Eileen Arnold for submitting Linglestown Colts scores.

It’s easy to focus on the negatives of Labor Day Weekend. Pools and parks close for the year. The days are getting alarmingly short. If you are a kid, you’re probably already back in school or pretty close to it. Even Labor Day barbeques tend to lack the joie de vivre of their Memorial Day cousins. But there’s no reason to dwell on that stuff. Seriously, sweatshirts and Elliot Smith albums can wait for a few more weeks. Friday night, high school football is back. Spotobe has compiled the Friday night and Saturday afternoon schedules for every week of the season, so if you need directions to an away game at any time this year, come back and visit us. Friday is also the first day of the Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival in Lancaster, which is one of the biggest events of its kind in the country. I’ve never been, but people tell me that it is absolutely massive. The event runs through Monday, so you have all weekend to check it out. The Senators also open their final series of the season. It appears as though the Sens are going to fall a little bit short of the Eastern League Playoffs, but they just clinched their first winning season since 2002, which is a step in the right direction. Saturday, Penn State opens its schedule against Coastal Carolina, which is not close enough to here to be on the calendar, but is close enough to my heart to be on the Spotoblog. I’ll be there. With bells on. Or a white t-shirt. One of the two. Kipona also starts on Saturday, and you can find the full schedule of events for each day on the calendar. There are two more noteworthy festivals on Saturday as well, the annual Folk Festival at Moon Dancer Winery and the McLain Celtic Festival at the historic Two Mile House. On a weekend dominated by sports and festivals, I think the Public Astronomical Observation looks like something a little bit different. Sunday, Kipona, Long’s Park and the Folk Festival all continue. The Kipona Grand Fireworks Display, is Sunday night. There are also fireworks in Boiling Springs. More fireworks Monday, this time in York. Kipona and Long’s Park wrap up during the day, and you can also tour Shoaf’s Mill at Little Buffalo State Park. I’ve done it, and it’s worth seeing. You can get some corn meal to make cornbread. Friday, I’ll be out to eat somewhere, but I won’t be out late because I’ve got to get up super early to head to Happy Valley. I’ll check out Kipona Sunday or Monday and hopefully catch at least one of the fireworks displays. Enjoy the long weekend and have fun kids.

Linglestown Colts varsity midget football team was overpowered Sunday by the Mechanicsburg Wildcats in the season opener at Koons Park. Mechanicsburg jumped out to an 18-0 lead in the first quarter and cruised to a 38-6 win. Linglestown’s highlight was a 75-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the third quarter by Colts speedster Drew Scales. The Colts played hard, but were overmatched by a much bigger Wildcats team. The midget division features players who are age 14 and under with a maximum weight of 148 pounds. Linglestown teams upended Mechanicsburg in the two other games contested Sunday at sun-drenched Koons Park: * Colts Pee-Wees 18, Wildcats 12 (age 10 and under with maximum weight of 96 pounds) * Colts Pony 18, Wildcats 9 (age 12 and under with maximum weight of 120 pounds) Colts varsity teams travel to meet West Shore Vikings next Saturday, Aug. 30, 3 pm at a field in Wormleysburg. Junior varsity games start next week – check the Linglestown Football Association's Web site for schedules. HELP WANTED: If you like seeing youth football coverage on Linglestown Gazette, please consider being a Gazette contributor by jotting down game scores and highlights, and sending the info to BB. You don't have to be a writer – BB will do all the heavy lifting to produce game summaries. To volunteer to cover a varsity team (Pee-Wee, Pony or Midget), send BB an e-mail or call him at 512-0722. ____ Photo: Linglestown Colts player Erick Boone ( #8 in blue jersey) breaks into the open during second-half action in the Pony division game. Also pictured is Nick Notestine (#21),Justin Salak (#73) and Raleigh Sirb (#42).

Help needed … Linglestown Colts youth football season kicks off this Sunday, Aug. 24 at Koons Park with a triple-header starting at 1 pm. I’m in need of association officials or parents to jot down a few notes – final scores, who scored, top defenders, key plays, etc. – for game summaries that will be published on Linglestown Gazette. Please e-mail game info, or give me a call at 512-0722 if you need more info on what to do. You don't have to be a writer – just jot down a few notes and send them in and I'll do all the heavy lifting. More on child death case … If you’ve been following the story about the au pair living with a Lower Paxton Twp. family that’s been in the news, be sure to jump over to a Patriot-News story about the struggles au pairs face when they come to the U.S. Another retail project in the works … West Hanover Twp. supervisors approved a rezoning request for a large retail development planned for site across from Ciocca Honda on Route 22. Tea time at Roasters … St. Thomas Roaster in the village square will host a demonstration on various types of teas on Thursday, Aug. 21, 6 pm. If you thought tea is tea, then this is the place to be on Thursday. Come to learn from East Indies Coffee and Tea Company. They will show the best way to brew tea and explain the differences in the types and characteristics of tea.