In our look back at the year 2024, one of the truest promises of spring sprang as early as February.
The year’s first sighting of a Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) trout stocking truck in Adams County was Feb. 2, when a haul of tasty torpedoes was dropped into the Conewago Creek.
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