As part of an ongoing effort to reach out to all County residents, the County Commissioners announced Tuesday that they will be holding a public meeting next Tuesday evening, July 1 in West Lampeter Township. At the meeting, the Commissioners will act on a portion of their usual weekly agenda and take public comments, the […]

The Lancaster County Convention Center Authority has $400,000 in expenses it cannot afford to pay as of May 31, it was reported Monday evening. The biggest factors in May’s deficit are change orders and the Authority having to purchase another year of Builder’s Risk Insurance, according to Finance Committee Chair Laura Douglas. The added insurance […]

NewsLanc has belatedly received the following report dated June 19 from a reliable source:“Just strolled by the Lancaster Post box at School Lane and Marietta and someone has caulked it shut with heavy duty caulk — I know the caulk type because the genius who did it threw the caulk tube into the box before […]

An early morning attempt to leave a voice mail message at the Convention Center Authority (LCCCA) was met with the following automated response: “If you have a mail box on this system, press pound.” (The number called was 717.399.7630 as provided on the www.lccca.com web site.) The caller tried a second time, thinking he had […]

A June 22 Sunday News article entitled “Recognized for doing the right thing” identified the Horst Group as the 2008 recipient of the “Ethics in Business Award” for a business and J. Gary Langmuir as the individual winner. It is probably no coincidence that both the Horst firm and Langmuir, Owner and CEO of Wohlsen […]

The June 21st New Era headline aptly described the reaction at Thursday’s public gathering of those most affected by the choice of re-location of the Norfolk-Southern freight yard as “skeptical.” Mark Whallon, a member of TRRAAC, an organization consisting largely of those most impacted, made a halting presentation at the meeting but clearly set forth […]

NewsLanc received the following letter from its counsel further exploring the implications of Franklin & Marshall serving Ron Harper, Jr., News Editor of the Lancaster Post with a Defiant Trespass notice and advising him not to step foot on F&M’s campus or the college owned estate 2/3rds of a mile away in which its president […]

What may be a first step in an orchestrated attempt to avoid colossal punitive damages resulting from anticipated law suits by Ron Harper, Jr. and Chris Hart-Nibbrig against the college, Franklin & Marshall College has notified Harper, Co-Publisher of the Lancaster Post, that the college has “withdrawn the citations issued to you on June 3, […]

Three city policemen stood near the entryway to the exhibition hall at the Franklin & Marshall Alumni Center Thursday evening, looking somewhat out of place and, some suggested, perhaps on a Ron Harper, Jr. watch. It was significant that the college chose not to use its own private security force, perhaps not wanting to risk […]

The public meeting at Franklin & Marshall’s Alumni Building sponsored by the college, Lancaster General Hospital and Norfolk Southern drew from 400 to 500 persons over its three hour course, with close to 300 attending a presentation from 7:00 to 7:30 PM and almost as many at the Questions and Answers portion from 8:30 to […]

Celebrate our nation’s Independence in Downtown Lancaster on Friday, June 27th! The event, presented by Fulton Bank, features a dynamic patriotic concert by the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra followed by the county’s largest fireworks extravaganza. The day begins at 11:30 a.m. with a variety of food vendors on North Queen Street – enjoy the taste of […]

NewsLanc investigates, it doesn’t just report. So we engaged a law firm to analyze and write an opinion concerning whether Franklin & Marshall properly is interpreting and utilizing Defiant Trespass notices. The report follows: There are a couple of issues surrounding this situation. First the trespass statute provides that one could be charged with defiant […]

The Following is courtesy of the Lancaster Independent Press of June 16 / 17: “Ron Harper, Jr. said by telephone today that Turkey Hill was being paid by the Lancaster Post to distribute the paper there… So, while the paper is free, Turkey Hill was making money off their distribution of the paper. And Harper […]

In a report required by federal and state law entitled “Staying Safe,” Franklin & Marshall published crime statistics relating to years 2004 through 2006. In general the report suggests that College Security has made progress in making the campus safer, especially in reducing occurrences of “Forceable Rape” (1 in 2004, 12 in 2005 and 4 […]