Nov 08, 2009
GREG CALDWELL
Elco's Kayleigh Perry has had her share of success as a cross-country runner the past four years, always finishing in the upper half of the field in the state meet.Saturday' PIAA meet was nearly a perfect finish for Perry, who finished second in Class AA in a battle that went back and forth ...
Nov 08, 2009
STAFF
Millersville top-ranked men's soccer team fought hard but fell to host No. 12 Slippery Rock 2-1 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship game Saturday.The Rock (17-3-1) scored in the 31st minute to take a 1-0 lead on Jeremy Deighton's 17th goal of the season. Marauders keeper M...
Nov 01, 2009
STAFF
Elizabethtown College won its third consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference women's cross-country championship on Saturday at DeSales University, scoring 56 points to edge Messiah College by four points for the team title.Blue Jay senior Megan VanDenHengel won the individual championship with a t...
Oct 25, 2009
JEANNETTE SCOTT
The American Legion Home Association of Elizabethtown was cited by state police liquor control enforcement officers Oct. 15 on five charges, including serving an intoxicated patron and violating laws for small games of chance.The latest citation's violations date from April, said Sgt. Mark J. Crossa...
Oct 18, 2009
MIKE GROSS, Assistant Sports Editor
There's a girls' cross-country dynasty growing in Lititz.Yes, the overused D-word applies here. And "growing" might not be quite right. This thing seems pretty mature.The Warwick girls have won 62 straight regular-season meets and three straight Lancaster-Lebanon League regular-sea...
Oct 18, 2009
GREG CALDWELL
Most competitive runners take years of practice to reach the top of their class, but Sean Trott is excelling four years after picking up the sport.Trott, 19, a junior at Lancaster Bible College, is dominating the competition in cross-country this season, winning four of six races. He is known to pus...
Oct 04, 2009
BARRY DECKER
The sun heated up the excitement for the sixth edition of the Hands-on House Half Marathon and five-kilometer race Saturday.Nearly 1,100 ran in the two races, making it the largest turnout in the event's history, according to race chairman Bill Young."We wanted the runners and walkers to ha...
Sep 13, 2009
BARRY DECKER
A new course covered with a thin coat of rain yielded the same result for Andrew Yoder in the 27th edition of Lancaster Family YMCA's Triathlon at Speedwell Forge on Saturday.Yoder, 20, a 2008 Hempfield High School graduate, won the race in 1 hour, 56 minutes, 1 second.Yoder led all swimmers out...
Sep 06, 2009
JON RUTTER
The packed stone path led down the south bank of the Pequea Creek, crossed the water and angled auspiciously toward a roadside sign that read: "Jesus is Coming. Are you ready?"Well, Jesus may or may not detour around the Route 272 bridge this month.But the generators will soon be on their ...
Sep 06, 2009
JON RUTTER
Three Mile Island is replacing its two steam generators two decades late, contends nuclear industry critic Eric Epstein.Lots of people are waiting to glimpse the ponderous new machines.The generators will be slowly piggybacked through the county this month on their way from Port Deposit, Md., to the...
Sep 06, 2009
JON RUTTER
Two huge new steam generators will be moved through Lancaster County to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the latter half of this month.The generator convoy will drive about 3 mph and will pause for the first of two weekends it's on the road. The procession is expected to take 2...
Jul 05, 2009
STAFF
State police at Lancaster reported Saturday that they investigated a theft of services at the Frogtown Cafe, 684 Marticville Road, which happened between March 29 and June 22.Police said that owner Brett Faulds, 35, Pequea, tampered with an electric meter to provide electricity after it had been blo...
Jul 05, 2009
CHIP SMEDLEY
High Properties has purchased the tract of land at 521 Greenfield Road occupied by the former Holiday Inn that was the subject of local, state and federal investigations last September and October.According to the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds, High purchased the property from the estate of Dor...
Jun 28, 2009
STAFF
Manheim Township graduate Craig Miller has earned a spot among the nation's top performers in the 1,500 meters.Miller, who recently completed his junior season at the University of Wisconsin, will run in the finals of the USA Outdoors Track and Field Championships today at Hayward Field in Eugen...
Jun 17, 2009
AD CRABLE
The economic downturn has caused funds set aside for the safe closure of the Three Mile Island and Peach Bottom nuclear plants to drop dramatically in the last two years.Since 2007, estimates of dismantling costs at the nation's 104 nuclear plants have risen by more than $4.6 billion while the i...
Jun 15, 2009
AD CRABLE
A former reactor operator at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant deliberately failed to report a drunk-driving arrest, according to an investigation by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.In a second apparent violation of nuclear requirements, the NRC said a former maintenance supervisor at the plant ...
Jun 14, 2009
STAFF
Wisconsin junior Craig Miller finished ninth in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.The finish made an All-American of Miller, a Manheim Township graduate, for the sixth time in his career and for the third consecutive year in t...
Jun 14, 2009
JIM HERSH, Sports Editor
There's a road race in Lancaster County just about every weekend from spring through fall.Chances are good that only one of them began as a student's school project: the second annual Craig Heisey Memorial 5k, which will be run Saturday, June 20, in Mount Joy.The race founder and director is 17-year...
Jun 14, 2009
JEANNETTE SCOTT
As members gathered at the Lancaster Liederkranz in January, conversation turned to football. A few men said, "Hey, let's start a pool for the game," according to the club's president, Paul Stanavage.Then, state Liquor Control Enforcement officers — acting on an anonymous tip — showed up...
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 ...