Top photos of 2023 from WITF Digital Producer Jeremy Long
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Take a look back through the year at some of WITF Digital Producer Jeremy Long’s favorite photos he took while on assignment with reporters and WITF Music.
Tabitha Rudy of 25th Hour performs for WITF Music on June 5, 2023 Jeremy Long – WITF News
25th Hour rocked the WITF Music studio earlier this year. Check out their performance.
People stand on a hill and watch as emergency crews sift through the rubble on March 25, for several missing people after an explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. on March 24, 2023 after an explosion destroyed part of the candy factory. (Jeremy Long – WITF)
The Berks County community was devastated in March when part of the R.M. Palmer Co. exploded killing seven people and injuring 10.
Fink’s Constant performs for WITF Music on April 5, 2023. (Jeremy Long – WITF)
Local ska band, Fink’s Constant, stopped by the WITF Music studio this spring.
Yvette “Milkweed” Furnia, 36, of Orange County, New York an Appalachian Trail thru hiker takes part in the half gallon challenge at the Pine Grove Furnace store on Tuesday, July 19, 2023.
What do you do if you’re hiking the Appalachian Trail and make it the halfway point? Eat a half-gallon of ice cream of course.
Harrisburg officials have declared the encampment under the Mulberry Street bridge a danger and is forcing all the people living there to move out so it can be cleaned.
Harrisburg officials cleared out a homeless encampment under the Mulberry Street bridge in January.
Public Disco Porch performs for WITF Music
Public Disco Porch is a collaborative music project created by Spencer McCreary. He was joined in our studio by drummer Robby Everly, bassist Caleb Miller and guitarist David Portelles.
People walk towards Harrisburg on the Walnut Street Bridge as haze hangs over Harrisburg as smoke from Canadian wildfires filtered into Pennsylvania on June 8, 2023. The smoke degraded air quality across Pennsylvania and other states in the northeast. Jeremy Long – WITF News
For several days this summer smoke from the Canadian wildfires filtered into Pennsylvania creating a thick haze throughout the region.
Tanjo and Crow perform for WITF Music on Jan. 17, 2023
Tanner Bingaman was at a bar in Bloomsburg on a night that Allan Combs II happened to be playing there. Tanner offered to join him with his banjo and, after a few years of staying in touch via social media, the two have formally joined forces to combine their blend of roots, blues and Americana. The result is the Tanjo & Crow Project.
Mike Shaw demonstrates as hundreds gathered at the state capitol building and marched to the governor’s residence in Harrisburg on Dec. 10, 2023 calling for a permanent cease fire in the war between Israel and Palestine. Jeremy Long – WITF
Hundreds of Pro-Palestine supporters marched through Harrisburg calling for ceasefire earlier this month.
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