In response to an inquiry of Franklin & Marshall if there were plans to tear down the Harrisburg Pike pedestrian overpass, NewsLanc received the following response from Dulcey Antonucci, Director of Media Relations: “To answer your question, our long term master plan that was approved in February of this year does include removal of the […]

In a decisive 9-1 vote, the Lancaster County Government Study Commission voted, Tuesday afternoon, to reject member Sam Mecum’s proposal for each of the five Commissioners to be elected from one of five geographic districts. The districts would have been roughly equal in population size (about 94,000) and the district plan would have eliminated the […]

When Director of the Lancaster County Drug and Alcohol Commission, Rick Kastner, appeared before the Commissioners for routine business, Tuesday morning, he brought with him some eye-opening statistics about the prevalence of substance addition right here in Lancaster County. An amended agreement up for a vote by the Commissioners on Wednesday involves increasing the amount […]

Here’s a look at what’s happening around Lancaster this week: From July 5th to 27th, Theater of the Seventh Sister presents: Seed of a Nation: Lancaster and Penn’s Holy Experiment. “Beginning with the founding of William Penn’s ‘Holy Experiment’ and culminating with the American Revolution, this play explores the conflict that results when beliefs collide […]

How sad it is that not one of the three Lancaster Newspapers will write critically about the proposal to put trolley cars back on city streets, let alone challenge the project editorially. LNP’s approach of supporting business cronies (especially the Big Five), not investigating anything, and never offending the establishment continues. The only improvement, and […]

On July 6 at or about 11 AM, C-SPAN radio presented a delayed broadcast of speakers at the Conference of American Dream Coalition that took place on May 17, a segment of which was devoted to Houston, TX and the alleged detrimental effect on visitors and businesses due to the introduction of Light Rail Transit […]

The following grants relating to Lancaster County were included in the State Budget as passed and signed on July 4. However, the list below is not all inclusive, since there are references to other grants elsewhere in the Bill. (36) Lancaster County 4 (i) County projects 5 (A) Acquisition, infrastructure, 6 renovations, construction and other […]

Pennsylvania HB 1589 was signed into law on July 4th, 2008. Several provisions were added at the last minute, resulting in Printer’s No. 4129: *(I) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER RELATED COSTS <– 26 FOR THE CONESTOGA PLAZA PROJECT 5,000,000 27 (J) ACQUISITION, DEMOLITION, CONSTRUCTION, 28 ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION, 29 INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER RELATED COSTS 30 FOR THE […]

Was it arrogance or was it fear of discovery of the identity of his passenger that caused Kristian Armstrong to flee by driving through a cornfield on Dec. 1 after first denying to a deputy game warden that he had a rifle in his car and subsequently refusing to identify his passenger or give his […]

The following is but one of an ongoing series of reports on the reality of street (trolley) car systems which proponents have cited as example of successful operations. A Sept. 9, 2007 Sunday News article on a proposal to bring trolley cars back to Lancaster downtown streets quoted Jack Howell of the Lancaster Alliance, and […]

Among the resolutions the County Commissioners approved at their Wednesday meeting was the sale of an agricultural conservation easement to preserve a 110-acre farm in East Drumore Township. The cost to the County is $331,380. Director of the Agricultural Preserve Board, Matt Knepper, indicated that Lancaster County still leads the nation with a total of […]

NewsLanc’s sister organization, Common Sense for Drug Policy (www.csdp.org), received the following from a prison inmate. The letter provides a human element to the statistics we read every day about the USA incarcerating the highest percentage of its population of any nation in the world with more than two million in prison. “I’m serving a […]

As part of efforts to involve other areas of the county in county government, the commissioners held a public meeting in West Lampeter Township, Tuesday night. A brief but lively debate ensued when one of the few residents in attendance asked the Commissioners whether the township/school board model of government – with an elected board […]

The cornerstone of the City of Lancaster’s Independence Day celebration was last Friday’s “Celebrate Lancaster” festival, which included street vendors, concerts, and a fireworks display. But here are some of the other events the City and various groups have planned for Independence Day: Musser Park, at Lime and Chestnut streets, will hold its annual “Old […]