Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide which school board candidates get to run for office in the November general election.While the outcome of the primary is far from certain, it's clear the fall ballot will feature plenty of new faces.Thirty-two seats are contested i......

It's been three years since city resident Eugene Freeman voted in an election.This year, he and his wife, Glenda, decided it was time he got back into the electoral game."I felt I need to now," the National Novelty Brush Co. employee said Monday afternoon. "The wa......

Local officials hope to encourage the use of "green roof" technology in Lancaster by showing people how it's done in the Philadelphia area.The Lancaster County Lancaster County Roof Greening Project has organized a bus tour Thursday for building owners, engineers, architects,......

Spring planting was a tall order on Lancaster's East Fulton Street. It took place about 25 feet up. And rather than your typical crops or garden-variety plants, landscapers working on the new National Novelty Brush Co. building spread cuttings from sedums onto a coconut fiber mat. The ......

These days, it's common for businesses to "go green."In fact, environmental action on the corporate level has become a somewhat trendy approach to the critical issue of global warming.National Novelty Brush Co. is no exception. But the Lancaster firm has gone far beyon......

Lancaster-based National Novelty Brush Co. announced Friday it will close Hocker Manufacturing, a sister company in Lewes, Del., which it purchased last January.Richard Seavy, Novelty Brush president and CEO, said the company will merge operations from Lewes into its Lancaster plant....

A city retail center built around a Lowe's Home Improvement store moved a step closer to reality Thursday as the Lancaster city planning commission approved the store's preliminary plan.To be built on the site of the former Kemp's Foods at Pitney and Hempstead roads, the planned retail cen......

In Lancaster city, the Kendig C. Bare Public Safety Building at Duke and Chestnut streets is being rehabbed into offices with plans to include a green roof, according to owner/developer Bill Roberts of IBS Development Corporation.A permeable membrane roof covering has been installed on the......

A city manufacturer wants to put a new twist on the concept of "growing greener." National Novelty Brush hopes to add another warehousing and production building, with a roof covered by soil and plants. This so-called "green roof" may be the first on a commercial buildi......