Nov 08, 2009
JON RUTTER
A federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Lancaster woman last year against the county, one of its former communications technicians and his boss is headed toward trial.Margaret A. Conner is accusing the county of sex and employment discrimination, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Cou...
Oct 11, 2009
MANDY STOLTZFUS
Franklin & Marshall College will kick off its Week Without Violence campaign by welcoming Professor Diane Rosenfeld, of Harvard University School of Law; she will give a lecture, "Standing Up for Sexual Respect," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in F&M's Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall, 415 Harri...
Sep 06, 2009
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
Despite rising unemployment in Lancaster County, there are still jobs to be found these days, say local labor experts. It's just a matter of making the right connections.One of those opportunities is coming up later this month — the 2009 Chamber Job Fair."Last year, we had well over 1...
Sep 06, 2009
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
Lori Rank, supervisor of Pennsylvania CareerLink of Lancaster County, has some tips for people planning to attend a job fair.Exhibitors will often ask job candidates to fill out applications in addition to accepting their résumés."Employers are asking to see if you can follow direction...
Aug 23, 2009
STAFF
A 72-year-old Lititz man was sent to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $40,000 bail as the result of a three-month investigation into the sexual assault of a 12-year-old child.Samuel R. Snader turned himself in Wednesday and was charged with corruption of minors, felony intimidation of witnesses an...
Jul 12, 2009
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Times are tough at the Lancaster County Assistance Office, Jose Frayre said."We've seen the recession come, and we've seen it get worse," said Frayre, 35, a caseworker. It's not just the number of people seeking assistance, but a "whole new class of people coming into the office, people who are deva...
Jul 05, 2009
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
When Doug Peifer, of Ephrata, lost his controller's job last year after the closure of United Sleep Products, it had been 23 years since he'd had to look for work.A lot had changed in how people search for jobs in that time.A year and more than two dozen interviews later, Peifer is still sea...
Jun 24, 2009
Ken Hoffman
This week I reached out for a Vanilla Soft Serve cone at Baskin-Robbins, the world's biggest ice-cream chain, with 6,000 stores across America and around this crazy blue marble.Let's make sure we're on the same page. It's called "Soft Serve" — not "Soft Ice Cream...
Jun 10, 2009
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A "sexually violent predator" who had been out of contact with local authorities since last year was found Tuesday in Lancaster Township.Richard Scott Wannamaker, a convicted sex offender, was required to provide state police with his address after release from prison.Investigators allege ...
Jun 02, 2009
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A convicted sex offender on the lam since being released from prison in March is back in Lancaster County Prison after he was arrested late last week.Randy-Jay Jones, 31, served a 17-month sentence for a bizarre 2007 robbery in Lancaster city in which he sexually assaulted a woman, took her cell pho...
Jun 01, 2009
MICHAEL YODER
Unionized employees at Wilbur Chocolate in Lititz continued to work Sunday despite the company's plans to severely cut their pay. Wilbur and its parent company, Cargill Inc., told union representatives last week it would institute pay cuts of $4 to $8.47 an hour, beginning Sunday at 6 p.m., for ...
May 14, 2009
CINDY STAUFFER
Sharon Tell was 16 when her family moved to Lancaster, living in a nice, brick home in School Lane Hills.She enrolled at Lancaster Catholic High School, where she worked on the yearbook staff and sang in the choir.The dark-haired girl with the shy smile seemed like a regular teen in 1968. But she sa...
May 12, 2009
PATRICK BURNS
A New Holland man was arrested Saturday and charged with molesting a child in East Earl Township.Joseph Benjamin Hock, 34, of 140 E. Main St., was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and corruption of minors.East Earl police Chief Kevin McCarthy said Hock is alleged...
May 09, 2009
JEANNETTE SCOTT
A Manheim man was sent to Lebanon County Jail on charges he sexually assaulted two Lebanon girls, ages 6 and 9, a newspaper reported late last month.Daniel Earl Edwards, 40, of the 900 block of Hill Street, Manheim, was taken into custody April 23 by Lebanon County Detectives and Lebanon VA Medical ...
May 09, 2009
PATRICK BURNS
A 32-year-old Lancaster man was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.Alfredo Juarez, 32, was charged by Lancaster city police with one count of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years of age.Juarez was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge Cheryl Hartman and committed to...
May 04, 2009
RYAN ROBINSON
Some Southern Lancaster County Republicans are crying foul over a Democrat filling a previously GOP-held township supervisor position.Little Britain Township Supervisors voted 3-1 at a special meeting Thursday night to appoint Democrat Curtis Jones to replace Dave Eller, who died suddenly April 13 a...
Apr 29, 2009
He voted for the death penalty, for permanent tax breaks, for a federal "flat tax," against gun-control measures including a ban on assault weapons and against the Employee Free Choice Act. He entered the 1996 presidential primary because, he said, President Bill Clinton was neglecting U.S...
Apr 20, 2009
JANET KELLEY
The sentencing of a former Lancaster County policeman, convicted of molesting or propositioning teenage girls, has been postponed after his lawyer complained about his client's sexual predator assessment becoming public.Robert Pavlovich, who was once a Manheim Township policeman, was convicted last ...
Apr 15, 2009
SUSAN E. LINDT
Columbia Borough is threatening to crack down on a former state representative operating a residence for convicted sex offenders.Tom Armstrong's group home for offenders already has been chased out of Marietta Borough and Conestoga Township.Now he's relocated his "program" for offe...
Apr 14, 2009
JEFF HAWKES
First-term County Commissioner Scott Martin railed against Somali pirates last night in an address to a joint session of Congress."Lawlessness on the high seas cannot stand," Martin said in a 96-minute prime-time address interrupted 17 times by applauding members of Congress and justices o...
