Words and Light

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dave Peterson of Shrewsbury walks down a rural cul-de-sac, at the end of which he is allowed to hunt, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in northern Baltimore County, Md. Under Pennsylvania law, hunting is not permitted on Sundays. Dave Peterson of Shrewsbury is licensed to hunt in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, and likes hunting in Maryland because of the state's fewer restrictions.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Friends and family of York County Judge Chuck Patterson watch as balloons they just released float up into the sky in front of the York County Judicial Center on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The funeral procession for Patterson stopped briefly in front of the judicial center after the service, where a police officer played the bagpipes and a moment of silence was observed.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Members of the York County Quick Response Team arrive at the intersection of Chestnut Run Road and Primrose Lane, near the 2730 block of Chestnut Run, in response to an alleged hostage situation on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. The standoff was not in fact a hostage situation, but rather a man alone in his home who fired off several gunshots and refused to exit his house in a nine-hour standoff. The man exited his home peacefully and was taken to Central Booking at 8:45 p.m.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Joey Duffy, 18 months, throws a teddy bear in the air as baby formula is pumped into his stomach via a tube in his family's Springettsbury Township home on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The Duffy family lost electricity in their Springettsbury Township home during the snowstorm on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. Because their youngest son Joey is fed via a feeding tube due to esophogeal stricture, Tom Duffy purchased a generator in Dec. 2010 to power the feeding tube pump in case the house lost power. When their block lost power, the Duffy family rotated the generator to power Joey's feeding tube, the refrigerator and the house's heat in turns.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Patches, a 5-year-old cat belonging to Carol Bishop and her mother Mary of East Manchester Township, hisses at veterinarian Lisa Wade just as Wade asked her to open her mouth during a routine check-up on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at Shiloh Veterinary Hospital East. Carol Bishop said Patches wasn't very happy about going to the vet, and an assistant had to throw a towel over Patches' head and hold the cat in place while wearing welder's gloves as Wade gave Patches a rabies shot in the rump. Capital BlueCross is now offering insurance for pets through a partnership with pet insurer Petplan.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. This photo shows the wound sustained by Witten, a 19-year-old Belgian horse owned by Amy Burkholder of Paradise Township, several days after he was shot in his right hindquarter while grazing on a Peach Bottom Township pasture on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Burkholder said the muscular horse, who measures at 18 hands and is a retired Amish workhorse, probably felt the bullet as a bee sting and was still standing when she discovered the bullet wound the next day. Burkholder has owned Witten for about a year and said she cleaned the wound and expects the scar tissue to eventually push the bullet out.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dallastown shooting team assistant coach Gregory Zampier adjusts the airtube intake valve of an air rifle in need of repair at the first annual Dallastown Marine JROTC Fall Shoot Out competition on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erica Mannino, 12 of York Township, eyes her mother Daniela after Daniela tried on (and decided on) a Dutch-themed costume in the dressing room in the York Little Theatre costume shop on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. The costume shop at York Little Theatre has thousands of costumes that it is renting out in the weeks leading up to Halloween. Costume shop coordinator Judi Miller recommended that customers know what they want to dress up as before they come to the costume shop, due to the large variety of costumes available.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church music director and organist Jonathan Noel, right, talks with church members Dale and Lois Grove of West Manchester Township on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, about the church's new organ that is being installed as part of the church's $4 million renovation. Noel said the organ will have a warmer tone and will be dedicated on Nov. 13. St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church dedicated its $4 million addition and renovation on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, that was in the works for about six years. The renovations include a larger pipe organ, a double-sided elevator, an updated child-care area, an expanded parking area and a lobby off a new main entrance from West Market Street.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. The steeple of St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church is now visible from the interior of the building's new lobby via a triangular window.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Paige Carbaugh, whose son Justin was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and abuse of a corpse, speaks to the media on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, outside the York County Judicial Center after the verdict was announced. Justin Carbaugh was convicted of killing his older brother and Paige's son Brandon and dismembering his fingers and one of his legs in Aug. 2010. Following the verdict, Paige Carbaugh expressed gratitude to defense attorney Steve Rice. "People who know me know I would never make up something or lie about one of my children to save another one," said Carbaugh, who said she was satisfied with the verdict.