Berkeley Breathed, the creator of the comic strips "Bloom County" and "Opus," lives on a high hilltop in Santa Barbara, Calif. — yes, the money from all those Bill the Cat T-shirts has added up nicely — but on a recent afternoon when he looked down at the churn of the...

Fred Rodger strikes you as the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with — or maybe a glass of wine. It's hard to tell which suits him better.At 61, Rodger retains the stature of the wrestler he once was. In jeans and a sweatshirt, dug into a comfortable green couch in the Strasb...

Restoration of the Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, resting place of famed 1800s abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, kicked into high gear Saturday afternoon as volunteers converged on the historic burial ground at West Chestnut and North Mulberry streets.More than 150 broken and sunken memorials, including th...

The first phase of the Northwest Gateway Project will be officially dedicated Friday, Oct. 9, marking an important milestone in the transformation of the former Armstrong World Industries' Liberty Street flooring plant site.A partnership between Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster General...

A decade after she brought First Fridays downtown, Carol Foley Bolt is adding a new facet to the Lancaster arts scene.Bolt will open the doors of the first orientation center of the Pennsylvania Arts Experience, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to promoting cultural tourism in southeastern Pe...

If truth be told, who among us hasn't committed several, if not all, of the Seven Deadly Sins at some time in our lives? Hence their fascination.Anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride and sloth — we can identify with them all. They are part of the human condition.The latest artistic por...

Theirs is a tale of allegiance.Over comic books and coffee, three college friends make a pact: Whoever "makes it big" first promises to carry the others to stardom.This is the story of underground artists David Choe, Rob Sato and Joseph To as embellished by fans and friends. The actual eve...

Like a lot of successful volunteer programs, the Power Packs Project began as a simple, basic idea."In 2005, I learned that some local children were food-insecure on weekends when the school's free lunch program was not available to them," Power Packs founder Joan Espenshade said.The f...

They could have been lying on the soft sand, listening to the waves, baking in the sun. They could have been boating, water skiing, watching TV or sleeping in. They could have been doing a lot of other things.They weren't.Instead, the United Support Group Summer Enrichment camp counselors selfle...

Pick an artistic medium, and there's a good chance someone at the 35th annual Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show will be working in it.Among the more than 280 artists and craftspeople expected Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 15 and 16, at the popular event are painters, sculptors, watercolorists, woodwork...

Where else would fanatical dogs, futuristic glorified stick figures, massive bodybuilders and mini neon-colored heroes all hang out together?This fantasy cartoon action was happening at the first aspiring cartoonist workshop held at Steinman Park, where children and teens met Tuesday to create their...

DNA is a powerful tool that can link perpetrators to crimes or free them from suspicion.Yet, in a 5-4 ruling that can only be described as cruelly short-sighted, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month ruled that inmates do not have a constitutional right to demand DNA testing of evidence that rem...

It's no secret Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity partners with many local businesses.But for some companies, the extent of that involvement is deeper than the public realizes, with support for Habitat manifesting itself at many levels.Susquehanna Bank is a perfect example. While it supplies fi...

A dozen McCaskey East High School students are enjoying a nine-day summer camp at Millersville University.Since Saturday, the students have been frolicking in the Pucillo Gymnasium pool, lounging in the lobbies and halls of their dorms and basking in the sunshine around MU's pond.But a closer lo...

Three people were injured Sunday night in a violent two-car wreck on a winding stretch of road in Warwick Township.One woman was flown by helicopter from the scene to an undisclosed hospital. The occupants of the second vehicle, a man and a woman, were transported by ambulance to Lancaster General H...

Karen Puracan is on a mission.The naturalist at Lancaster's Central Park is determined to help average homeowners realize how easy — and affordable — it is to create a wildlife habitat right in their own backyard."The habitat around us is being swallowed up, day by day, acre by ...

The earrings that Kenyan Mike Muchilwa sells to Ten Thousand Villages started as cans that otherwise would be thrown away.Soda cans or food cans — their metal is not only the basis for the earrings, it's income for the people in Kisumu and Nairobi who collect them. Collectors sell the cans...

Marelly Guzman liked to play with LEGO® when she was younger, but her dream job was to become a model.The high school junior later realized she was "too shy" for modeling, but still enjoyed "building stuff, creating different stuff."That love of tinkering led Marelly to enrol...

The mayor was there, and two county commissioners.U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts sent a staffer, too.The event was a breakfast meeting to address worrisome trends in the Latino community.And so it was a good thing elected leaders or their representatives attended, but let's be honest. It's probably the...

Remember August 1999?That's when civic and business leaders unveiled an ambitious plan.Where the landmark Watt & Shand building had stood empty for years, they envisioned a luxury hotel and convention center.It took 10 stormy years, but developers are about to deliver. Time will tell whether...