The Lancaster County Planning Commission is seeking public input in crafting its Long-Range Transportation Plan. The public is encouraged to take a brief survey on the Commission’s website to help them better understand which transportation issues residents consider in most need of improvement. The Commission intends to then analyze that feedback and draft a plan […]

The County Commissioners held a delayed meeting after much confusion and misinformation due to the inclement weather, Wednesday, in which they approved a set of updated rules for the County parks and hired Bonnie Ashworth as the Interim Director of Human Resources to replace Jane E’Del, according to a reliable source. E’Del was dismissed last […]

Jeff Weis is the co-owner and general manager of “Home Instead Senior Care,” an organization which aims to provide comfortable, human-centered, in-home assisted living care to seniors and those with special needs. He spoke to the Rotary Club of Lancaster, Wednesday, about what he calls “the boomer tsunami” and its implications. “A tsunami begins with […]

In a Feb. 13th editorial “Hold on to your hats,” the Intelligencer Journal editors state: “The U. S. government, showing its tenacity in learning nothing, has instructed its officials abroad to defend the trials in part by reference to the Nuremberg Trials, a horrible example of both victors’ justice and subjecting military men to retroactive […]

According to the The Christian Science Monitor, 2/12/08: “…The Voice of San Diego, a nonprofit online media outlet, doesn’t have enough journalists to field a softball team. Yet it has managed to take on the powerful with the panache of a scrappy big-city paper. “It provides ‘the best coverage of city politics that we’ve had […]

Lancaster City Council approved grant applications to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for two different projects, Tuesday night. A $245,000 grant application was unanimously approved for improvements to the Eastern Market Plaza and market building by Tabor Community Services, and a $300,000 grant application by Community Basics was approved for the “Park […]

You may qualify for property tax relief under what are called the “Homestead” or “Farmstead” exclusions. If you own your home and your primary residence is in the State of Pennsylvania, you may qualify for the “Homestead Exception.” If you claim as your primary residence a dwelling on a farm of “at least ten contiguous […]

In a Letter to the Editor in the Feb. 10 Sunday News, Fred Sherick of Lancaster suggests: “We should go back 200 years and only allow horses and buggies in the first two blocks of Penn Square in all directions. We could take out all the macadam, bricks and cobblestones and have only dirt roads […]

According to the Feb. 10 New York Times: “Ohio is scrambling to correct serious flaws in its voting systems that were uncovered in a study released in December. Touch-screen machines were found to be vulnerable to hackers using devices as rudimentary as magnets and personal digital assistants, and security measures were found to be inadequate […]

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The Lancaster County Planning Commission and a 120-member plenary task force met at Franklin & Marshall College, Friday morning, to begin to give form to what the Commission hopes will be a successful county-wide economic development plan, known as “Lancaster County – Our Economic Future – Strategies and Indicators.” Friday’s meeting represented the first step […]

The Lancaster Bar Association and Lancaster Bar Association Foundation in partnership with MidPenn Legal Services offers free child custody services to those within 125% of the federal poverty level under its “We Care about Families Campaign. “ The initiative was founded in 2005 in response to a sharp rise in the number of requests the […]

The Commissioners will vote next week on revised rules and regulations for the County’s Parks. The last time the rules were updated was 1991. Updates to the parks regulations include decreasing the default speed limit from 25 mph to 15 mph, prohibiting “swimming, bathing, and wading” except when fishing, requiring that feces deposited by pets […]