I just heard from the Peace Corps today. They’re now planning to have me depart for The Gambia to begin training in June of 2021 — one year after my departure was initially planned. They gave me the option of planning to leave then, or withdrawing my application with the option to reapply with an… Read More »
For years, I was registered to vote as a Republican. I saw myself as part of a tradition going back to national politicians I admire including Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Eventually, I left the party over the racism that party leaders were willing to tolerate, if not embrace. I never thought I’d… Read More »
It was more than 10 years ago that I showed up in Elizabethtown for the first time. I had been living in Philadelphia, where I’d worked for The Associated Press since 1998, mostly working night shifts to cover the news of Pennsylvania. But I’d reported for three small-town daily newspapers before that, so I knew… Read More »
Well, as everyone knows by now, there’s a global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. The Peace Corps announced in March that it was recalling all of its volunteers worldwide. I checked at that point and was told that things could change, but that I should continue to plan for a June 2 departure. Then, on… Read More »
Hi, I’m Dan Robrish. I’m best known as the founder of The Elizabethtown Advocate, a weekly newspaper in central Pennsylvania. I started the paper in 2010 after more than 11 years working in the Philadelphia bureau of The Associated Press. In 2017, I sold the paper to a division of the LNP Media Group and… Read More »