This marks the third consecutive year that Mechanicsburg has won Group IV, the division for the largest bands, with 85 or more members. Since 1990, Mechanicsburg has won the division four times and Carlisle has won three, which leaves a zero for all the other large marching bands from North Carolina to Ohio to New Jersey. The kids never really appreciate how good our area is. And I think that's good and healthy that we have that good competition. Mid-Penn I in football.
Every band makes the others better.
Talking to band members Saturday, one gets the idea that competition takes second place. We really don't see them as enemies. We do it for the crowds. Perry County A Perry County chemical spill closed a section of Route 74 near the village of Lebo for more than four hours Sunday evening. Perry County Emergency Management Agency says four 5-gallon containers in the back of a 1989 Ford pickup truck were leaking the chemical Tylohexanediamine, which is a corrosive liquid containing epoxy.