Mayor Rick Gray announced at Tuesday’s City Council meeting that plumbing and electrical inspections will be out sourced to outside firms and the results would be an anticipated savings of $140,000 by eliminating city inspectors. NewsLanc inquired to determine whether $140,000 savings would be real or, at least in part, illusionary. According to Randy S. […]

Construction of the Convention Center has fallen further behind schedule, Construction Manager Tim Reynolds told a Convention Center Authority committee, Thursday evening. Progress on the “critical path” is now a full 60 days behind schedule after site work fell behind another 12 days in November, according to Reynolds. Reynolds attributes the “slippage” to poor weather, […]

A special nominating committee of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority met late Thursday afternoon and voted to retain its current slate of officers for 2009. Sharron Nelson, who chaired the committee, explained that she contacted each of the parties involved and all agreed that the current arrangement is working well. Julianne Dickson made the […]

Fourteen Lancaster Post red distribution boxes are back on the streets, this time identified by temporary NewsLanc bumper stickers. To our current readers, their presence is of little importance. But it is a way for drivers and pedestrians to become aware of NewsLanc, to sample our work, and hopefully to be attracted to our website.

By Matt Henderson Drug addictions are physical dependencies and those affected have very high relapse rates. Addicts in a state of withdrawal are not themselves and will sometimes lash out in antisocial or criminal behavior either in generalized frustration or in trying to find money to support their habit. With this in mind, consider that […]

Prohibition doesn’t work. That’s the message Elizabethtown College President Dr. Theodore “Ted” Long had for the Rotary Club of Lancaster on Wednesday afternoon with regard to drinking on college campuses. Long called instead for what he considers a more realistic and comprehensive approach – one that relies heavily on education and carrots and sticks as […]

The county commissioners this morning approved the expenditure of a $108,235 state grant on partnering with the Pennsylvania State University to control the spread of West Nile Virus by mosquitoes. In 2008, 10 of 849 samples from 192 test sites throughout the county tested positive for the virus, according to Matt Mercer, the West Nile […]

According to a Dec. 8 article in the McClatchy-Tribune Regional News, “Convention centers always wheel and deal to win trade shows and conventions, but the negotiations tend to be held behind closed doors.Now, with the economy in a tailspin, a number of cities are rolling out sweetened financial incentives and broadcasting their availability.”It goes on […]

Publisher and broadcaster Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. NewsMax and CNBC News have reported that The New York Times is seeking to mortgage their office building in New York in order to cover a $400 million debt payment coming due in a […]

At an otherwise fairly uneventful city council meeting on Tuesday night, a handful of local plumbers rose to express their concerns about the city’s plan to eliminate the position of plumbing inspector as per the proposed 2009 budget. Without a dedicated full-time city employee, contractors will tend to care only about the bottom line, said […]

At their weekly worksession on Tuesday, the county commissioners agreed to transfer sponsorship of a $1M state grant to Manor Township “to convert five miles of abandoned trail bed along the Susquehanna river into a recreational trail for joggers, bicyclists, and horseback riders.” The five miles of railway to be converted run from roughly Turkey […]