Bernard Gordon, now 86 and retired in Florida, returned to Lancaster County and spoke at the Planning Commission meeting on Monday. The WWII Naval Aviator and founder of Gordon’s Waste Company suggested a different way to realign Route 441 through Columbia. “It will only cost a couple thousand dollars to try this,” Gordon told the […]

Barnabus House on Main Street in Conestoga has moved, NewsLanc has learned. The four residents, all parolees living in a halfway home, were seen moving furniture and other household items from the ministry Monday afternoon. Despite the sweltering heat, eyewitness reports confirmed the residents of Barnabus House were moving out. NewsLanc had reported earlier that […]

Last week, five Lancaster County restaurants were found to be out of compliance during inspections conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Those in violation were: Citgo Mart – Subway, Quarryville Garden Gate Diner, Paradise General Sutter Inn, Lititz Green Tree Inn, Quarryville The Ritz on Main, New Holland Several of the inspections were triggered […]

About 50 attendees attended a meeting on Sunday evening and elected five members to a Board of Directors of the newly formed School Lane Hills Neighborhood Association. Bob Desmarais who called the meeting and who serves on the Lancaster Township Planning Board was elected chair. Also joining the Board are Ms. Wynne Kinder, Mrs. Sharon […]

No one in Lancaster knows more about garbage, trash, and litter than Michael J. Devaney. He’s the manager of the city’s Bureau of Solid Waste and Recycling. And when it comes to waste, he has a passion and a goal: keep Lancaster clean. To that end, Devaney has all kinds of simple rules: • Put […]

Excerpts from Franklin and Marshall’s description of their Department of Public Safety. (Emphasis added.) “The Department of Public Safety is a round-the-clock, full service, sworn police department under Pennsylvania Title 22 § 501. The Department currently staffs a Director and Associate Director, 3 Supervisors, 14 Officers, 4 Dispatchers, a full-time investigator and full-time training supervisor. […]

Another legal issue is whether Franklin & Marshall College can legally enforce a Defiant Trespass notice on a member of the media whose ‘offense’ is trying to obtain an interview. How can that be reconciled with First Amendment media rights? John Fry has certainly opened a tin of worms by first seeking to intimidate, then […]

We may await litigation that will lead to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania before we will know for sure whether Franklin & Marshall Security Force have the legal right to exercise police power at or near the college owned residence of the college premises, a location approximately 2/3rds of a mile from campus. But if […]

According to Pennsylvania Statute Title 22, Section 501, Special Police are “authorized to arrest persons for the commission of any offense of cruelty to children or aged persons. The keepers of jails and other places of detention in any county of this Commonwealth shall receive all persons arrested by such policemen for purposes of detention […]

Franklin & Marshall is a public corporation and, as such, is exempt from paying real estate taxes and is entitled to other special privileges at public expense. Yet is has gone unchallenged in banning apparently hundreds of persons from entering its expansive campus, many of whom have done nothing more than criticize F & M […]

Late Saturday morning, NewsLanc received a call from a neighbor of John Fry who saw a lady lurking behind bushes on John Fry’s lawn who took his picture when he retrieved a Lancaster Post from the distribution box on the corner. NewsLanc will seek an explanation from Fry why F & M College is doing […]

Groundbreaking on the northeast corner of the intersection of Queen and Chestnut Streets is expected before the end of summer, NewsLanc has learned. Currently a parking lot that has existed over five decades in the city, the location is being developed by the Lancaster Museum of Art, Red Rose Transit Authority, and Lancaster Parking Authority. […]

A review of a recorded video made by Ron Harper, Jr. clearly shows a Franklin & Marshall Public Safety Officer ordering the camera turned off at Tuesday’s arrests. Sergent Edward Carroll is wearing a blue uniform shirt, and has commendation ribbons above his right pocket. “You are done with filming right now,” the Public Safety […]

NewsLanc has learned that the red Lancaster Post distribution box that was missing from the corner of Marietta and School Lane since Monday had been in the custody of Franklin and Marshall Security Officers since Monday and stored at their facility. F & M Security dropped off the box, still containing a Lancaster Post tabloid, […]