2009-11-06 21:45:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.• It's not even Thanksgiving and already we have something to be thankful for.D.C. & Co. have just announced that they'll be back with their annua......
2009-11-04 07:38:00
TIM MEKEEL
The proposed $440 million expansion of PPL's Holtwood hydroelectric plant has moved a step closer to reality.The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the plan and extended the facility's operating license from 2014 to 2030, the company announced Tuesday.However,......
2009-10-28 00:07:00
JANET KELLEY
After George L. Clayton Jr. forged a customer's signature to steal money, the young bank manager knew he had done something terribly wrong.But he did it again to cover up the first theft, his lawyer said, and then again to cover up the second theft.The total amount of forged loa......
2009-10-22 10:17:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
When 55-year-old Lester H. VanValkenburgh of Lancaster died on Sept. 25, he had no life insurance and no money for a funeral.He did leave an estranged wife, but she wasn't much better off financially than he was, according to his friend, David Soldano."She barely made her r......
2009-10-21 09:23:00
AD CRABLE
Plans for the future of Lancaster County's landfill have again changed direction.The newest plans call for the piling of waste atop the current Frey Farm Landfill on Turkey Hill, 58 feet higher than originally permitted.By encircling the current 96-acre landfill with 60-foot-hig......
2009-10-08 00:13:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The last day that her family and friends saw her, Lilly Colon-Torres went to Walmart with her mom and one of her sisters. She later chatted with her neighbors in the 300 block of Beaver Street.The 33-year-old sat on her stoop with two men she had been letting stay with her. The oldest of h......
2009-10-06 00:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The body pulled from the Susquehanna River Thursday has been identified as a Lancaster city woman who has been missing for almost two weeks.Police said the body of Lydia Colon-Torres, 33, was found near the river bank, not far from the intersection of Route 441 and Donegal Street, in Manor......
2009-10-04 00:15:00
JON RUTTER
"Don't get on the boat," warned the old man on the wharf. "There's sharks in the water." He was joking. But plenty of sinister agents do lurk in the cloudy depths of the Chesapeake Bay. Jenny Engle and her League of Women Voters friends traveled to Balti......
2009-10-03 00:02:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster police are continuing to investigate the case of a missing city woman, according to a news release Friday.Lydia Colon-Torres, 33, was last seen by family members on Sept. 25 at her 324 Beaver St. residence.City police also are working with Manor Township police, the Lancas......
2009-10-02 00:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
An autopsy will be conducted today on a body pulled from the Susquehanna River Thursday in Washington Boro, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said Thursday night.Diamantoni said he could release no other details about the body, including whether it is male or female, because ......
2009-10-01 16:59:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Scott Wright gets adventurous. He's painted while straddling a canoe. He's taken photos from a helicopter without doors, secured with a cord so he won't fall out. He's climbed mountains, cross-country skied and scaled bridges to find his subjects. The derring-d......
2009-09-16 05:49:00
JAMES BUESCHER
The mysterious appearance of documents regarding plans for a levee to protect Marietta Borough prompted officials Sept. 8 to denounce unattributed criticism of council.Mayor Oliver Overlander said at the Sept. 8 meeting, "There are too many things going on in this town. It's fooli......
2009-09-12 10:49:00
JENNIFER TODD
Like many of his ancestors did, David Read is living his life along the Susquehanna River.But unlike members of previous generations, some of whom worked as fishers in Columbia in the 1800s, Read's love of the water has secured him a place in local history.Earlier this week, Rea......
2009-09-09 06:32:00
P.J. REILLY
One down, one to go.The first of two massive steam generators bound for the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island was hauled ashore Tuesday at Tome's Landing Marina in this quaint, Susquehanna River town.The second one is scheduled to arrive at the marina today.On Sund......
2009-09-09 06:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It's been generating power for the past 45 years, and Chicago-based Exelon Corp.'s massive Muddy Run hydroelectric facility could continue working until 2044.At Drumore Township's Sept. 3 supervisors' meeting, local officials announced that Exelon had begun the process of o......
2009-08-31 08:39:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
"Mastersergeantangry" has a chat room on wheels.No Internet connection required.Through the citizens band radio in his truck, his ears are always on.Known outside radio circles as John Appel, the die-hard CB user chose his on-air "handle" or nickname based......
2009-08-26 06:14:00
JAMES BUESCHER
After more than a decade of work, it appears that plans have run aground for a new two-mile, $3 million to $6 million levee system to protect Marietta Borough from Susquehanna River floods.Now, residents and officials are wondering who caused the failure, especially because someone has dis......
2009-08-21 10:00:00
AD CRABLE
This time the federal government means business about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, and the imminent "big stick" should not be ignored by local farmers, officials and residents. That's the view of a key state legislator and state and federal environmental officials who were brou......
2009-08-18 10:10:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
Don't blame it on global warming, but remember the 10-foot-long manatee from Miami that showed up in Havre de Grace, Md., at the mouth of the Susquehanna River in June? That's only 43 miles from downtown Lancaster. Not quite as dramatic, but highly unusual and in keeping with er......
2009-08-17 22:04:00
JENNIFER TODD
Officials have identified a body recovered from the Susquehanna River on Sunday as a Maryland man who fell off a boat south of Peach Bottom on Saturday.Greg J. Temple, 30, of Conowingo, was reported missing after he entered the water around 2:30 a.m. and did not resurface.According ......
2009-08-17 00:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
Fire officials said a body recovered from the Susquehanna River Sunday is believed to be that of a boater reported missing Saturday morning. Robert Fulton Fire Company Deputy Chief Rob Sample said the body was discovered by boaters around 10 a.m. and recovered in Maryland. Although offi......
2009-08-16 00:01:00
STAFF
A man in his 30s is missing after jumping off a boat in the Susquehanna River around 1 a.m. Saturday, one mile south of Peach Bottom Marina. Another man in the 12-foot boat was starting the motor when he looked over his shoulder and saw the victim enter the water, Capt. Chris Hodgden of Robert ......
2009-08-13 10:47:00
P.J. REILLY
Two giant steam generators destined for Three Mile Island are expected to begin their long journey from France any day now.The cargo ship carrying the generators for the Unit 1 reactor at the TMI nuclear power plant are expected to glide through the mouth of the Susquehanna River to a ship......
2009-08-11 09:27:00
AD CRABLE
A $1.5 million federal stimulus fund grant awarded Monday is just the boost needed to launch southcentral Pennsylvania's first commercial wind turbine project atop Turkey Hill in Manor Township, according to a county official."There's nothing really to hold this up now," ......
2009-08-04 09:33:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
Some of the color is gone from this summer. I'm talking about a dramatic and worrisome decline in butterflies, skippers and moths this summer. "Have I noticed it? I don't see anything! It's unbelievable," exclaims well-known Lititz naturalist Al Spoo. ...
2009-07-21 06:01:00
AD CRABLE
Pity the poor eastern hellbender. Cool name, bad rap.This secretive, long-living salamander that can grow to more than to 2 feet long and reach 4-5 pounds, is one of the least-known creatures of its size in Pennsylvania.And horribly misunderstood.Heck, even look at its name. ......
2009-07-15 16:48:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Correction — The article below, posted on LancasterOnline Saturday, misstated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards for tritium. Agency rules allow no more than 20,000 picocuries per liter in drinking water....
2009-07-13 00:00:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2009-07-12 00:20:00
JON RUTTER
People are loving Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve to death. Widening the trails and littering them with candy wrappers and drink cartons. Clogging up narrow rural roads with lines of precariously parked cars. Wandering onto bordering properties. That's the word from the neighbor......
2009-07-10 06:02:00
JANE HOLAHAN
If you saw a bright flash of light in the sky about 1 a.m. Monday, it wasn't a leftover firework. It was a meteor.And a pretty impressive one at that.Michael Gaines, who lives near the Costco on Hempstead Road, had gotten home from the Long's Park Patriotic Concert a few hou......
2009-07-09 10:02:00
AD CRABLE
Norfolk Southern is kicking in another $250,000 to help Manor Township convert six miles of the abandoned Enola Low-Grade rail line into a public trail along the Susquehanna River.Another 23 miles of the rail line that was turned over to six southern-end townships has been opened to public......
2009-07-07 14:10:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
It's an evocative painting. A man poles his way across the Susquehanna in the shadow of the Pinnacle, near Pequea, in 1897, eight years before a series of hydroelectric dams began altering the free-flowing nature of the river. The man is floating by the piers left from the Street Road cov......
2009-06-17 11:37:00
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Restaurateur Sam Allen spends a lot of time indoors. But when he has a few hours off, he often winds up outside, along the Susquehanna River. Allen, who co-owns Bube's Brewery, Mount Joy, takes full advantage of the vast recreational playground that runs right through our backyard &mda......
2009-06-17 00:16:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A group of Civil War re-enactors will take a march back in time to help preserve a local historical site.On June 27-28, James Meisenbach and Neil Hobbins, both of Columbia, and about a dozen of their friends will assume the personas of Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia f......
2009-06-08 10:25:00
AD CRABLE
A $1.1 million program will try to get more Amish and Mennonite farmers in Lancaster and Chester counties involved in conservation measures to reduce pollution in local streams and the Chesapeake Bay. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Chesapeake Bay F......
2009-06-04 10:10:00
JOAN KERN
Clark Meshey discovered his talents in art and athletics early in life. Meshey, 17, who will graduate from Columbia High School tonight, won compliments for his drawings and his skill in soccer, baseball and basketball before he was 10 years old. Recently, the son of John and Tammy Meshey,......
2009-06-03 00:01:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Stand at the overlook at Susquehannock State Park in rural Drumore Township and you'll see them: modest, one- or two-room cabins built on the rocky islands dotting the Susquehanna River, many of them cozy cottages complete with boat tie-ups, small porches and even working chimneys.&quo......
2009-05-23 00:33:00
P.J. REILLY
PPL's Holtwood hydroelectric plant is lowering the water level in Lake Aldred early next week for maintenance work at the dam.Again.From 6 p.m. Tuesday through 6 p.m. Wednesday, PPL officials recommend boaters and anglers stay off the lake because of low water.Again....
2009-05-19 10:05:00
AD CRABLE
The county waste authority is buying 51 acres of land from Frey Dairy Farm in Manor Township for more than $1 million. The three parcels, which adjoin the Frey Farm Landfill and Turkey Hill Dairy, will be used to satisfy setback regulations for a proposed wind-turbine project at the landfill an......
2009-05-02 00:02:00
STAFF REPORT
PPL's Holtwood hydroelectric plant will lower the water levels of Lake Aldred from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. today for maintenance work at the dam.Water will be low while this work is being conducted. During that time, recreational boating and fishing are not recommended on the lake because of shal......
2009-04-22 00:13:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Near the west entrance to Safe Harbor Park in Conestoga Township stands a testament to an odd chapter in Lancaster County history — the Port of Lancaster.The almost-forgotten 19th-century port attempted to use the Conestoga River to put Lancaster on par with the ports of Boston, Sava......
2009-04-21 00:56:00
P.J. REILLY
It sure doesn't seem like a drought.Assuming it rains at some point today — which it's supposed to do — Lancaster County will have been dampened or soaked by rain on 10 of April's 21 days so far.On five of those days, more than a half-inch of rain fell. Four ......
2009-04-14 07:02:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
Professional anglers have their Bassmasters Classic. There are walk-a-thons and enviro-thons. Now, local birdwatchers, from rank amateurs to veritable ornithologists, have a Birding Classic. Combining elements of all of these, the Lancaster County Conservancy and the Lancaster County Bird Club ......
2009-04-10 14:43:00
TIM MEKEEL
PPL Corp. has decided to play "Beat the Clock." The grand prize: up to $100 million. PPL said Thursday it will revive its Holtwood expansion project and pursue federal stimulus money to help finance it. If obtained, the stimulus package's tax credits would offset the soa......
2009-04-10 01:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
PPL Electric Utilities said Thursday that it will seek federal stimulus money to resurrect an expansion project at its hydroelectric plant at the Holtwood Dam.In December, the electric utility scrapped a plan to more than double electric output from its Holtwood hydroelectric plant on the ......
2009-04-08 10:01:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Commissioners waded into a national debate over union organizing this morning, formally opposing congressional legislation that would make it easier for unions to form. The proposed Employee Free Choice Act of 2009, also known as card check, would bypass the traditional process......
2009-04-08 00:54:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County commissioners in 1977 began acquiring the land that is now Chickies Rock County Park.And throughout the history of the popular, picturesque park along the Susquehanna River in West Hempfield Township, the only way to get from one side of Chickies Creek to the other —......
2009-04-08 00:49:00
PATRICK BURNS
Gov. Ed Rendell is seeking federal economic stimulus funds to eliminate 10 dams — five of them in Lancaster County — on tributaries that flow into the Susquehanna River.Rendell has applied for a $14.6 million grant for the project, which also includes building fish passages at ......
2009-04-07 10:46:00
AD CRABLE
If you're a glass-half-empty type of person: Don't look now but Lancaster County's rainfall is already 41-w inches below normal for the year and state and federal agencies have just mobilized drought-watch committees. If, on the other hand, you lean toward a glass-half-full mentalit......
2009-03-29 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
The former Enola Low-Grade Line in Solanco is opening — gradually — for nonmotorized business. A hiker here. A birdwatcher there. People cannot legally traverse the easternmost segment of the 23-mile-long corridor, through Sadsbury Township, where officials have not yet de......
2009-03-28 01:00:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Mary Wickenheiser was looking across the sunshine-painted Susquehanna River as a handful of happy-looking ducks floated near the shore. But the Columbia Borough councilwoman's thoughts were onshore — in the river park where she stood, and in the town behind her. Plans to improve the ......
2009-03-27 01:28:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It was 4 a.m., Wednesday, March 28, 1979, when a series of things that should not have happened in the operation of Unit 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant happened.The plant was running at full capacity when a pump that controls the coolant level failed. Pressure began to incr......
2009-03-26 00:45:00
PATRICK BURNS
PPL Electric Utilities said Wednesday it hopes to obtain federal stimulus money to resurrect an expansion project at its hydroelectric plant at the Holtwood Dam.In December, the electric utility ditched a plan to more than double electric output from its Holtwood hydroelectric plant on the......
2009-03-24 07:53:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
Anglers, birdwatchers, families looking for convenient outings and anyone who loves the character of the Susquehanna River can all rejoice at new opportunities opening up around the Conowingo Dam. The hydroelectric dam 4 miles south of the Lancaster County-Maryland line has long been a destinat......
2009-03-20 11:10:00
CHAD UMBLE
The breeze at Turkey Point along the Susquehanna River is strong enough to keep a planned $8.25 million wind turbine project there moving forward. This morning the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority board approved an application for a $175,000 state grant to help pay for continue......
2009-03-11 01:11:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
The body of a woman recovered Saturday from the Susquehanna River was identified Tuesday as that of Young Na, 54, of Wormleysburg, Cumberland County.Her death has been ruled a suicide, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said. He earlier determined she had died of drowning.......
2009-03-10 01:23:00
TIM STUHLDREHER
Nathan Kauffman said he kept up his search for his father's body for months after authorities had called off theirs."I needed to see what I could find," he said.York County businessman Kenneth Kauffman, 60, had not been seen since Dec. 26. A motorist had reported seein......
2009-03-08 00:22:00
JON RUTTER
The bodies of an adult man and woman were found by boaters within several hours of each other Saturday at opposite ends of Lake Clarke in the Susquehanna River. The woman's body was discovered shortly after 1 p.m. washed up at the York County shore two or three miles south of Long Level ......
2009-03-04 10:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Robert B. Noll fell in love with flying as a farm boy. Several times a year, he'd finish his chores on his family's Rohrerstown farm and walk two miles to the former Lancaster Airport on Manheim Pike. "I watched the airplanes," the 88-year-old Lancaster man said. "Ba......
2009-02-28 01:05:00
PATRICK BURNS
A Holtwood man searching for American Indian artifacts was killed Friday in a boating accident on the frigid Susquehanna River.Dale Robert Glick, 59, died when the boat he and a friend were in capsized about 4:14 p.m. in the 36-degree water, police said.Lancaster County Deputy Coron......
2009-02-25 10:30:00
CHAD UMBLE
A lot of Lancaster County's green space has been used up or changed by development, so county officials are making careful plans about managing what remains. Today, Lancaster County Commissioners adopted a blueprint for "green infrastructure" that emphasizes preserving woods and open spaces and......
2009-02-04 00:21:00
MICHAEL YODER
Chalk up another casualty of the global economic and credit crisis.Plans are on hold for the construction of a $700-million, gas-fired power plant in the River Hills of Fulton Township.Officials of Exelon, the utility that owns the Peach Bottom and Three Mile Island nuclear plants, ......
2009-01-30 00:19:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area would comprise Lancaster and York counties. It could promote public-private partnerships in preservation, education and recreation.•••Pennsylvania's two senators introduced a bill Thurs......
2009-01-29 00:28:00
MICHAEL YODER
Stricter standards on farm pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed take effect in less than a year. State agencies are looking for innovative ways for Pennsylvania to meet them.That's where Bion Environmental Technologies Inc. comes in. The New York-based firm received a $7.8 million......
2009-01-17 00:14:00
P.J. REILLY
Sam Allen was standing on the shore of Muddy Run Recreation Lake Tuesday afternoon, dressed in his insulated coveralls, fishing for trout.A year ago, the Lancaster angler would have been fishing his favorite winter spot a short distance away — Muddy Run Reservoir, which is connected ......
2009-01-16 01:04:00
P.J. REILLY
Barack Obama is scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday as the 44th President of the United States.Though he's not in office yet, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission this week began pressing him to fund a critical flood-warning system."We know this is going to be a challenging ......
2009-01-15 10:00:00
AD CRABLE
A bald eagle found badly injured in Lancaster County last month, and later euthanized, turns out to be one of the grand dames of Pennsylvania's eagle comeback. The 21˝-year-old female that hit a transmission tower in Martic Township was one of the original 88 eaglets plucked from nes......
2009-01-06 00:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Another search of the Susquehanna River came up empty Monday when local crews combed the waters for the body of a missing York businessman.Investigators are hoping assistance from two state agencies will result in a find.The 60-year-old York man has been missing since Dec. 26, when ......
2008-12-31 01:28:00
JAMES BUESCHER
What, exactly, is the meaning of the word "manor" in the Penn Manor School District?"This is a tough problem, since the people who would have chosen the name of the Penn Manor School District would no longer be alive," said Jack Loose, historian with the Lancaster Count......
2008-12-30 00:34:00
MICHAEL YODER
Rescue crews have suspended the search for a York County man who apparently jumped into the Susquehanna River on Friday morning.Members of West Hempfield Township Fire and Rescue and Bainbridge and Susquehanna fire companies searched the waters beneath the Columbia-Wrightsville Route 462 B......
2008-12-29 00:24:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 61-year-old York man believed to have plunged into the Susquehanna River last week remained missing after another day of searching.Search crews from at least six fire and rescue stations scoured the water beneath the Columbia-Wrightsville (Route 462) Bridge from Sunday morning into the e......
2008-12-26 13:45:00
STAFF
Emergency boats and rescue personnel searched the Susquehanna River today after a motorist reported seeing a man put his leg up over the side of the Route 462 Columbia/Wrightsville bridge, according to a county dispatch supervisor. By the time the motorist turned around to check on him, the ......
2008-12-11 07:05:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
Need a little holiday cheer? Take a break from shopping and gift-wrapping, grab a group of friends and hit the town.
DOWNTOWN LANCASTER FOR THE HOLIDAYS
For holiday fun, look no further than downtown Lancaster, where each weekend, the city offers a variety of activi......
2008-12-10 00:43:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County commissioners on Tuesday helped quicken the step of two local trail projects.At their weekly work session Tuesday morning, the commissioners voted to put Manor Township officials in charge of a $1 million state grant to develop a rail-trail along the Susquehanna River.......
2008-12-10 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
PPL said Tuesday it has dropped plans to expand its Holtwood hydroelectric plant on the Susquehanna River in Martic Township.The cost of the expansion, which would have included construction of two additional hydroelectric turbine-generators with a combined capacity of 125 megawatts, or en......
2008-12-09 11:30:00
TIM MEKEEL
PPL said today it has dropped plans to expand its Holtwood hydroelectric plant, citing the venture's soaring estimated cost and other factors. The project price tag has grown to $440 million, compared to initial estimates of $250 million when the project was unveiled in March 2006. &qu......
2008-12-09 10:49:00
AD CRABLE
The long-feared zebra mussels have arrived in the Lower Susquehanna River, including Lancaster County. If they get established here, as they have in the Great Lakes, Mississippi and Ohio rivers and numerous lakes around the country, the economic impacts and disruption to the Susquehanna's e......
2008-12-08 10:46:00
AD CRABLE
The environment, both urban and rural, is about to become a major focus in the future development of Lancaster County. A new "green infrastructure" blueprint for the county's updated comprehensive plan proposes a bold new emphasis on preserving woods, waterways and open spaces as ......
2008-12-06 00:54:00
LES ADDICOTT
One month ago, a southern Lancaster County volunteer fire company known for its Susquehanna River rescues thought it had found a place to build a new home.But that was before 40 residents near the proposed site signed a petition to stop the fire company's plans. Now the case is headed ......
2008-11-26 00:24:00
P.J. REILLY
A popular local fishing hole has been closed to the public.Officials at Exelon on Nov. 19 ordered the closure of the company's entire Muddy Run Reservoir in Drumore Township to all public access.The reservoir is adjacent to Muddy Run Recreation Lake, which remains open for publi......
2008-11-25 01:13:00
MICHAEL YODER
Thanksgiving is a few days away, but the bountiful year-round harvest of Lancaster and York counties is being promoted and celebrated in a new guide.Lancaster-York Heritage Region, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of the cultural and economic character of the two counties sep......
2008-11-24 10:48:00
AD CRABLE
Weird as it seems, the work of a coral reef is being replicated on the rocky banks of the Susquehanna River near Holtwood. Here at the Muddy Run Pumped Storage power plant, two scientists are convinced they have found a proven way to, at last, clean up the Chesapeake Bay and, at the same time, ......
2008-11-05 17:56:00
LYNN SCHMIDT
The New England states surely offer brilliant foliage in autumn, but Lancaster County has some surprising polychromatic panoramas of its own — one of which is a mere half-hour from the city: House Rock, along the Conestoga Trail in Martic Township. Pathways, fields and forests nearby &mdash......
2008-10-29 10:20:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Rob Evans stood beaming at the center of his art collection. "This is a fairy tale ending to an idea that began three years ago," he said. The idea was to assemble a collection of art related to the Susquehanna River. The fairy tale ending is a permanent location for part of......
2008-10-29 01:06:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A wind-fueled fire torched a vacation home in Peach Bottom on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.The one-story house at 473 Peach Bottom Road, Fulton Township, was engulfed in flames when first-responders arrived about 1:30 p.m. ...
2008-10-16 01:27:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Authorities charged a former county bank executive Wednesday with stealing three of his customers' identities to obtain loans worth more than $700,000.George L. Clayton Jr., 27, forged the customers' signatures and signatures of his employees at Union National Community Bank in Man......
2008-10-13 00:01:00
KRISTY BULLER
Volunteers took Lititz by foot Sunday, asking residents an important question: Is your drinking water safe?Although it's a query some locals have heard before, it's one that members of The Sierra Club and The League of Humane Voters of Central Pennsylvania think is worth posing aga......
2008-10-07 01:52:00
BILL HANNEGAN
Large-scale Lancaster County livestock farmers have found themselves caught in a dispute between an environmental group and the state Department of Environmental Protection regarding paperwork needed for operational permits.This disagreement led PennFuture to list more than half the farms ......
2008-10-02 11:08:00
AD CRABLE
A grand experiment to please everybody has failed. Lancaster developer Joseph Nadu Jr. had proposed to develop a small portion of 200 acres of wooded ravines near Safe Harbor while preserving most of it for public use. But he has let his option expire with the Safe Harbor Water Power Corp....
2008-10-01 00:14:00
P.J. REILLY
The Susquehanna River Flood Forecast and Warning System will remain intact — for now.At an emergency meeting in central Pennsylvania on Monday of the multiagency committee that funds and oversees the system, members pledged to plug a budget shortfall that threatened to shut down toda......
2008-09-29 00:57:00
P.J. REILLY
According to Stephen Bailey's extensive records, there has never been a death in Marietta caused by a flood.And he wants to keep it that way.But Bailey, who serves as the borough's emergency services coordinator and unofficial flood historian, wondered Sunday how effective flood war......
2008-09-24 12:05:00
AD CRABLE
The "river shore" they call it in Marietta. For nearly 3 miles, a narrow strip of woods between the railroad tracks and the dark water of the Susquehanna River wraps around the borough. It's as much a part of Marietta as high water and historic buildings. In 1995, county......
2008-09-18 01:16:00
MICHAEL YODER
Lax state oversight of large-scale livestock farms in Lancaster County is abetting the pollution of the Susquehanna River, an environmental advocacy group charges.More than half of the county's industrial farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are out of comp......
2008-09-17 11:16:00
JACK BRUBAKER
As the Susquehanna rolled by, a number of the river's friends gathered at Long Level Tuesday to praise its virtues. Earlier this summer, the National Park Service designated the middle and lower sections of the river — from Sunbury to the Maryland border — as a National Recreati......
2008-09-17 00:48:00
PATRICK BURNS
Conoy Township supervisors in March approved Lancaster Biofuels' request to build a 60 million gallon-per-year corn ethanol distillery plant.But Seth Obetz, who helped form Lancaster Biofuels in 2006, now says the $120 million plant might process winter barley, not corn, into ethanol w......
2008-09-10 21:15:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Correction/Clarification — The story below, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday, incorrectly described the prospects of The Crossings at Conestoga Creek shopping center. Manheim Township's rejection on Monday of a revised stormwater plan h......
2008-09-05 01:22:00
PATRICK BURNS
A former supervisor of Penn Township's sewage treatment plant is accused of falsifying data and altering wastewater samples submitted to state environmental officials.J. Scott Shank, former superintendent of Northwestern Lancaster County Water and Sewer Authority, was arraigned Thursda......
2008-09-04 01:29:00
TOM KNAPP
A freight train struck a sport utility vehicle driving on train tracks in Conoy Township late Wednesday. The Chevy Blazer was demolished, and its occupants apparently fled the scene, Bainbridge Assistant Fire Chief Dave Willenbecher said.The incident happened about 10 p.m. just north of Ba......
2008-08-21 01:17:00
P.J. REILLY
The loud music emanating from the middle of the Susquehanna River and a crowd of people standing onshore Saturday night helped Middletown Borough police realize what was happening.Someone was having a party on Little Stoney Island, just a few miles north of the Lancaster County line in Dau......
2008-08-20 11:14:00
AD CRABLE
The Conestoga River and its feeder streams, which meander across most of Lancaster County, are far from being fishable and swimmable as required by the federal Clean Water Act, according to the findings of a new state study. Although both activities take place in the river, about 330 miles o......
2008-08-02 01:39:00
JAMES BUESCHER
When it comes to the rolling river hills of northwestern Lancaster County, there's not a lot to do on a Saturday night — at least without heading north to Harrisburg or crossing the Susquehanna River west to York County.This summer, however, Nissley Vineyards & Winery Estate ......
2008-08-01 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER
One year ago today, 13 people lost their lives when the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour.In an instant, public attention was focused on the United States' infrastructure deficiencies and the dangers they pose.Since the tragedy, transportation departments ac......
2008-07-28 00:04:00
CARLA DI FONZO
If any peregrine falcons or eagles are still nesting around Norman Wood Bridge over the Susquehanna River, local birder Tom Raub said they're staying out view.Of course, he said, because it's too late in the season for nesting, it's even more likely the birds have simply flown ......
2008-07-21 11:10:00
AD CRABLE
The state has fined PPL for two fish kills at its Brunner Island power plant along the Susquehanna River in York County, across from Bainbridge. Previous fish kills had occurred at Brunner Island in 2002, 2005 and 2006. In addition to a $77,500 fine for the two fish kills in October 200......
2008-07-18 12:22:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
If there's one thing people on both sides of the emotion-packed issue might agree on, it's that "it's a very, very difficult subject," as one official put it. Because on one hand, parents and others in Conestoga, Marietta, Columbia or any other town where former sex offenders reside or even ......
2008-07-17 00:58:00
JENNIFER TODD
Thieves targeted copper wire in one of two metal-theft incidents earlier this week in West Hempfield Township.Three teenagers attempted to steal copper cables Tuesday morning from power poles along a railroad line that runs through Chickies Rock Park, police said.Justin M. Shade, 18......
2008-07-17 00:55:00
JAMES BUESCHER
After more than a decade of waiting, about 100 Marietta residents got a peek at plans Wednesday to construct a two-mile, $3 million to $6 million levee system that would protect their town from Susquehanna River flooding.Now, the decision about whether to construct the levee rests in the h......
2008-07-11 11:33:00
AD CRABLE
If you pay a sewage bill, Pennsylvania's new budget may spell relief from big rates hikes that have been anticipated. Many customers served by 17 regional sewage plants in Lancaster County have been told to expect steep increases in their bills because of state and federal clean-water manda......
2008-07-09 11:28:00
JANET KELLEY
For 10 years, police have wondered about the man in the Susquehanna River. His body was discovered floating in the water by fishermen in April 1998. There was no sign of foul play or trauma to the body, Manor Township Police Detective C. Michael Phenneger said, and an autopsy confirmed &qu......
2008-07-08 00:17:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Tourism was not a cause of the American Civil War, but it certainly has been an effect.And now, to help promote Pennsylvania's pivotal role in that conflict, which pitted American against American, the state Department of Transportation has placed 73 new signs in six counties promoting......
2008-07-01 23:46:00
JAMES BUESCHER
One year ago, Marietta's "green" initiatives were the talk of local governments around the state. Now, it seems the borough's environmental efforts are being ignored, the victim of gross mismanagement and neglect.Marietta resident Stacey VonStein criticized the borough......
2008-06-28 01:55:00
JOHN WALK
For 10-year-old Craig McKee, operating robots at the North Museum was more difficult than playing with his toys at home."I like the cranes," Craig said Wednesday while visiting the museum. "I play with LEGOs® at home but the cranes are hard (to operate)."The ......
2008-06-28 01:29:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A brush fire swept across Upper Bear Island in the Susquehanna River Thursday, damaging about two acres of the popular camping spot and home of several bald eagles.The fire started about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, on the 65-acre island south of Holtwood Dam and the Norman Wood Bridge in Martic To......
2008-06-24 01:17:00
JENNIFER TODD
More than 50 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the Susquehanna River on Monday evening after two tractor-trailers collided on the Route 30 Wrights Ferry Bridge.One of the trucks was carrying approximately 200 gallons of fuel, of which 50 to 75 spilled into the river, Columbia No. 1 fire ......
2008-06-24 01:14:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A troubled 27-year-old man dove head-first off the Route 462 bridge Monday morning — and survived a 75-foot fall into the Susquehanna River, police said.A fisherman pulled George Clayton Jr. of Manheim onto his boat after Clayton jumped into the river about 10:20 a.m., according to p......
2008-06-13 01:08:00
MICHAEL YODER
The Conejohela Flats near Washington Boro holds a special place for Liz and Steve Winard, and they are anxious to show off its varied wildlife — from swimming baby beavers to bald eagles and ospreys soaring overhead.Thursday afternoon the couple who owns Shank's Mare outfitter in......
2008-06-11 11:30:00
AD CRABLE
Residents and officials in two southern Lancaster County townships say they've been kept in the dark about a controversial $415 million interstate natural gas pipeline that would be built in their midst. About 8 miles of the proposed 88-mile Mid-Atlantic Express pipeline would pass through ......
2008-06-11 01:31:00
JAMES BUESCHER
West Earl Township supervisors on Monday gave the go-ahead for an important engineering study concerning a medical facility that has been proposed for the area.Lancaster General Hospital and Ephrata Community Hospital are working toward construction of a facility at Routes 322 and 222 on a......
2008-06-10 18:36:00
GREG CALDWELL
Moon Dancer Vineyards & Winery in Wrightsville awes customers with its breathtaking view. Visitors walk out of the back of the French country chateau to see a panoramic view of the Susquehanna River. The river and setting are two big draws for the winery, which is the newest one in the a......
2008-06-08 00:04:00
JOHN McGONIGLE
With 50 years of experience fishing the Susquehanna River, John Rupp of Ephrata qualifies as a good candidate to talk about bass fishing prior to the June 14 season opener. Rupp, who fishes about 125 days a year, retired from running his own auto parts and tire store in Ephrata six years ago. B......
2008-06-08 00:02:00
JOHN McGONIGLE
John Rupp has some advice concerning equipment and lure for beginner-to-intermediate-level smallmouth bass anglers on the Susquehanna River. Use a spinning rod, at least 6˝-feet long, designed for one-eighth-ounce to three-quarter-ounce lures, with a spinning reel (either open or closed-......
2008-06-04 11:17:00
STEPHEN ZOOK
There were two parts to Chris Johnson's life, according to his pastor. There was the side that needed solace, and the side that "had a sparkle," was outgoing and charming. The second side of Johnson, a Penn Manor High School graduate and Iraq War veteran, was abundantly evident at......
2008-06-04 01:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand, that an angel came and called my name, and took me by the hand;
She said my place was ready, in heaven far above, and that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly love.
— Erica Shea Liupae......
2008-05-29 11:20:00
JANET KELLEY
The body of a missing Iraq War veteran, found in the Susquehanna River Wednesday, was draped in an American flag as it was brought to shore. About two dozen friends and family members were waiting at the Lancaster County side of the river as Chris Johnson's body was brought to land. Jo......
2008-05-29 11:25:00
AD CRABLE
Around Lancaster County, at least seven old dams have been removed on the Conestoga River and tributaries to aid their swim to a population boom. In Columbia, officials envision a new riverfront park attracting anglers fishing for them. Pennsylvania is hoping their restoration will spawn a......
2008-05-29 01:08:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two boaters found Chris Johnson's body Wednesday on the York County shore of the Susquehanna River a week after the Iraq War veteran apparently fell out of his boat.The 24-year-old's clothed body, still partially submerged in the river, was found on the shore in Chanceford Township......
2008-05-28 11:01:00
AD CRABLE
The Susquehanna River, mighty as it is, is not limitless. Every year, more and more water from the river, its tributaries and groundwater is sucked up by power companies, farmers, for drinking water, industry, mining and golf courses. Drinking water from the Susquehanna is pumped as far......
2008-05-27 01:18:00
P.J. REILLY
The Lake Clarke section of the Susquehanna River was full of boats Monday afternoon.It was just what York resident Jason Matthews said he'd expect on a holiday with temperatures in the 80s.Matthews spent several hours on his power boat on Lake Clarke Monday with six friends and ......
2008-05-25 00:20:00
PAUL FRANZ and JON RUTTER
The search for Chris Johnson, a former Marine Corps lance corporal and Iraq war veteran, continued Saturday along the banks of the Susquehanna River. Searchers found no trace of the West Hempfield Township fisherman by the time the operation wrapped up at dusk, said Brian Morrin, the public inf......
2008-05-24 01:15:00
MICHAEL YODER
The staging area of Lock No. 2 at Long Level in York County took on a quiet and calm appearance Friday evening as waves from motorboats lapped on the shoreline of the Susquehanna River.Emergency crews awaited the arrival of a diving team in the search for Chris Johnson, the West Hempfield ......
2008-05-23 11:45:00
TOM MURSE and STEPHEN ZOOK
As teens, Greg Blackburn and Chris Johnson were inseparable. So when Blackburn graduated from Penn Manor in 2001, a year ahead of his pal, he stuck around his hometown and waited for Johnson to finish high school. Then they joined the Marines. Together. "He was my little bro......
2008-05-23 02:25:00
JENNIFER TODD and LAURA FREEMAN
Deteriorating weather conditions forced rescue crews Thursday evening to suspend the search on the Susquehanna River for a missing West Hempfield Township fisherman.Chris Johnson, a 2002 Penn Manor High School graduate and Iraq War veteran, has been missing since Wednesday, when his boat w......
2008-05-23 01:54:00
P.J. REILLY
The Mount Airy Road bridge over Middle Creek in Clay Township has seen better days, according to township manager Bruce Leisey.With school buses, large trucks and cars rumbling over it every day, the concrete deck is crumbling.In 2006, a survey of bridges across the state listed the......
2008-05-22 12:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER and STEPHEN ZOOK
Chris Johnson lost an arm but survived the battle of Fallujah in Iraq. But he may have died Wednesday doing what he loved — fishing on the Susquehanna River. The 24-year-old former U.S. Marine lance corporal's bass boat was found along the York County shoreline, just south of Lon......
2008-05-22 02:29:00
PATRICK BURNS
A Texas energy company announced plans Tuesday to build a 33-mile natural gas pipeline that would run from a Marietta compressor station into York County.The pipeline proposed by Texas Eastern Transmission, a subsidiary of Houston-based Spectra Energy, cleared its first hurdle Tuesday when......
2008-05-22 02:21:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County fisherman was still missing late Wednesday night after he apparently fell off his boat and disappeared into the Susquehanna River, rescue officials said.The search is expected to resume this morning.The missing boater — whom officials said is an Iraq War vet......
2008-05-21 12:47:00
STAFF
Lancaster County rescue units responded to call for "a boat in distress" late this morning in the Susquehanna River. Rescue units from Lancaster and York counties responded to the report of a boat in trouble near Green Branch Creek on the York County side of the river, across from Tur......
2008-05-14 10:51:00
AD CRABLE
When you're the top refrigerated iced tea producer in the nation, and expect to grow, you need more water. Turkey Hill Dairy has completed a new 4,250-foot water line to draw groundwater from four wells at the base of Turkey Hill to its dairy facilities atop the hill. The newly buried ......
2008-05-13 11:31:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A tragic mishap killed a York County teacher found dead in rugged terrain along the Susquehanna River in March, police have concluded. "It was an accidental death consistent with a fall and exposure," Susquehanna Regional Police Chief Ed Haugh said today. Police had been waiting ......
2008-05-10 00:48:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Police have identified the body found floating in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island Thursday.An autopsy Friday determined that Gregory Stone, 49, drowned sometime this week in the river, Susquehanna Regional Police Lt. Stephen Englert said.Englert did not release an addre......
2008-05-09 02:29:00
P.J. REILLY
Two fishermen found a man's body floating in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island on Thursday night.Police had not identified the man as of late Thursday. They also had not determined how he died."We found some information on him to give us an idea who he might be,&......
2008-05-08 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Proposal would allot percentage of sales tax to state wildlife agencies•••Take a drive up to State Game Lands 156 near Brickerville on a pleasant, spring Sunday afternoon.Odds are you'll find the parking lots surrounding the ......
2008-05-02 01:05:00
P.J. REILLY
It's been four years since the state Department of Environmental Protection placed the Speedwell Forge Lake dam on Hammer Creek in Elizabeth Township on its list of "unsafe, high-hazard dams," but nothing has happened yet to move the structure off that list.That's unaccep......
2008-04-21 00:26:00
STAFF REPORTS
A woman was injured Sunday morning when she fell in Chickies Rock County Park, according to investigators.The woman's name and condition were not available Sunday.West Hempfield Township police said they're investigating the fall, which happened about 11:25 a.m.It wasn't clea......
2008-04-17 14:22:00
AD CRABLE
The state will soon begin spraying waterways used for recreation around the state to kill the larvae of biting black flies. Thirty-four counties have enrolled in the spraying program. For the sixth straight year, Lancaster is not among them. From 1990 through 2002, DEP sprayed a black fly-......
2008-04-13 00:02:00
John McGonigle
Lancastrians have a wide selection of spots suitable for wildlife watching.The biggest player in conserving open space, thus wildlife, is the Lancaster County Conservancy. The conservancy's scattered holdings protect exceptional properties, many offering recreational opportunities for ......
2008-04-07 00:02:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Filled with a deep sense of purpose, scores of volunteers spent a blustery morning Sunday planting seeds in a Martic Township field.Their mission was to help re-establish Lancaster County's population of chestnut trees, which used to cover the region's rolling hills.About 40......
2008-03-31 09:18:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Five people, including several Columbia residents, fell out of a boat that capsized late Sunday afternoon in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island, Harrisburg state police said. All five occupants, including a 6-year-old boy, made it safely to Shelley Island, south of Middletow......
2008-03-27 00:46:00
Associated Press
A security problem occurred last year at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, but federal regulators who are reviewing it have refused to reveal what happened.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission examined the issue as part of a routine security inspection that was completed Feb. 8, agen......
2008-03-20 11:41:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Sara Yorty's family believes she died from a fall. The 30-year-old York woman's body was found in rugged terrain along the Susquehanna River Tuesday, two days after she left her parents' house saying she was going hiking. An autopsy showed her cause of death was a broken pelvis......
2008-03-20 01:13:00
JENNIFER TODD
The female York County high school teacher whose body was found Tuesday on the shore of the Susquehanna River died of multiple injuries and hypothermia, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said Wednesday.An autopsy showed that 30-year-old Sara Yorty, of Springettsbury Township,......
2008-03-19 11:25:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Police hope that an autopsy will help determine the cause of death of a York County high school teacher whose body was found Tuesday afternoon along the Susquehanna River in northwest Lancaster County. Investigators identified the woman as 30-year-old Sara Yorty of Springettsbury Township....
2008-03-19 02:48:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The body of a York County high school teacher was found Tuesday on the shore of the Susquehanna River in northwest Lancaster County, investigators said.The woman, missing since Sunday, was found dead on the eastern shore of the river in Conoy Township, just south of Three Mile Island, inve......
2008-03-18 01:03:00
MICHAEL YODER
West Hempfield Township police continued searching Monday for an unidentified female seen falling into the Susquehanna River near Columbia late Sunday.Sgt. Russell Geier said police received a few calls Monday from people reporting missing family members, but gained no solid leads as to th......
2008-03-17 00:07:00
MICHAEL YODER and JENNIFER TODD
Rescue crews searched the Susquehanna River for nearly two hours Sunday night for a young woman who witnesses said either fell or jumped from Veterans Memorial Bridge shortly before 9:30 p.m.The search was called off at 11 p.m. because of poor river conditions, police said.According......
2008-03-14 11:20:00
AD CRABLE
A majority of Conoy Township supervisors dissed ethanol Thursday night, then voted 3-2 to permit a $120 million ethanol distillery in the township. The granting of a conditional-use permit — with 77 conditions — to Lancaster Biofuels after five months of hearings clears a major hurd......
2008-03-14 01:53:00
TOM KNAPP
After months of testimony, it took Conoy Township supervisors less than 15 minutes Thursday evening to decide the future of ethanol in Lancaster County.Despite staunch opposition from some segments of the community, supervisors approved the conditional-use application by Lancaster Biofuels......
2008-03-13 01:33:00
TOM KNAPP
The fate of a $100 million ethanol plant hangs on a decision expected this evening from Conoy Township supervisors.The supervisors' meeting, slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., will be held at Bainbridge Fire Hall to accommodate the anticipated crowd.Testimony closed Jan. 24 on the pl......
2008-03-07 11:08:00
CHAD UMBLE
Helping clean up the Chesapeake Bay can seem like an abstract and onerous requirement for Lancaster County. But state Sen. Mike Brubaker says the county has played a role in polluting the bay and must do its part to restore its health. And back in 2000, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virgin......
2008-03-06 00:59:00
TOM KNAPP
Well now, that wasn't so bad after all.The heavy rains predicted for the area late Tuesday and early Wednesday fell fast and hard, but not nearly as dramatically as anticipated.While floodwaters rose in some low-lying areas, the result for most Lancaster County residents was mor......
2008-03-05 10:28:00
AD CRABLE
While the ultimate fate of 23 miles of the Enola Low-Grade rail line remains uncertain, Manor Township is eagerly moving forward to convert a scenic 5-mile portion along the Susquehanna River into a public trail. On Monday, township supervisors unanimously voted to hire a consultant and committ......
2008-03-01 01:25:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
If you've always thought about taking a scenic bicycle ride along the Susquehanna River but didn't know the best route, Landis Valley Museum may soon have the information you need.Working in conjunction with Lancaster-York Heritage Region and the Department of Conservation and Natu......
2008-02-29 01:24:00
TOM KNAPP
The Susquehanna River once was the major source of prosperity for the riverfront communities of Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville.Those three boroughs now hope to hearken back to those glory days by creating new gateways to the river, as well as business and cultural opportunities....
2008-02-20 01:38:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Lawmakers in Harrisburg will try to figure out this week how to keep municipalities from being bankrupted by the cost of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.Under a federal mandate, municipalities in the bay's watershed, which includes the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, have just tw......
2008-02-18 11:55:00
AD CRABLE
Your sewer bill is likely going up. And state officials are feeling the heat for requiring upgrades to sewage treatment plants to help the Chesapeake Bay — without offering state financial help to offset the costs. Finger-pointing and legislative probes are in full force. Among the n......
2008-02-12 11:34:00
AD CRABLE
The privilege of having Susquehanna riverfront or island property on popular Lake Clarke is about to come with a higher price. To prevent sewage pollution of the river and Chesapeake Bay, Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. is requiring all 72 renters on five islands in Lancaster County below Columbi......
2008-02-07 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Spring season contingent on federal approval•••Spring conservation snow goose hunts are becoming quite popular in the western United States.Held after all other waterfowl seasons have closed and when snow geese are migrating back......
2008-02-06 02:32:00
TOM KNAPP
Conoy Township Planning Commission said Tuesday it is unable to recommend approval of plans to build the state's first corn-to-ethanol production facility on the banks of the Susquehanna River.But it won't recommend denial, either."We can't endorse this proposal bec......
2008-02-04 01:21:00
P.J. REILLY and MICHAEL YODER
A hiker who fell and broke his leg Sunday night in a rugged section of the River Hills in Martic Township was rescued after a massive manhunt involving 65 searchers from Lancaster County and Maryland.The hiker, described by Chief Carl Strickler of Rawlinsville Fire Company as a man in his ......
2008-01-24 01:03:00
TOM KNAPP
The hearing on a proposed Conoy Township ethanol plant is closed, but a decision on whether to allow the $100 million facility to be built on the eastern shore of the Susquehanna River is nearly two months away.Township supervisors expect to announce their decision March 13.At stake......
2008-01-22 01:20:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Police coaxed an apparently suicidal man off his perch on Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River Monday morning. The bridge, which carries Route 30 from Lancaster to York County, was briefly closed.A motorist spotted the man about 6:30 a.m. and called 911, police said. Police sai......
2008-01-22 01:06:00
TOM KNAPP
A long-running ethanol-plant hearing is drawing to a close in Conoy Township."It is our expectation that the hearing sessions will wrap up this week," township solicitor Matthew Creme said Monday.Monday's session was reserved solely for public comment on the $100 million corn-to-eth......
2008-01-21 12:20:00
STAFF REPORT
A York County man stopped his motorcycle on the Route 30 bridge over the Susquehanna River, climbed over a protective railing and threatened to commit suicide just after daybreak today. But a West Hempfield Township police officer calmed the 32-year-old man and persuaded him not to jump into th......
2008-01-18 02:41:00
DAVE PIDGEON
PPL officials announced Thursday that the company would petition a federal agency to approve plans for substantial additions to the Holtwood Dam.During a news conference at the dam in southern Lancaster County, PPL and state officials said that by asking for the Federal Energy Regulatory C......
2008-01-17 12:05:00
AD CRABLE
The work of two Franklin & Marshall College scientists who have rocked the Chesapeake Bay cleanup world will be the cover story in Science magazine on Friday. The world's leading journal of scientific research chronicles the startling discovery of Dorothy Merritts and Robert Walter in 2......
2008-01-11 02:22:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The body of a middle-aged man was found Thursday floating in the Susquehanna River, just north of Safe Harbor Dam in Manor Township.A duck hunter found the man's body floating near Turkey Point just after noon, according to Manor Township police Officer Clay Smoker.Investigators sai......
2008-01-11 02:03:00
TOM KNAPP
It's hard to say exactly how noisy a proposed ethanol plant in Conoy Township would be until the plant is built.But a noise-abatement expert who testified before Conoy Township supervisors Thursday said setting restrictions based solely on decibel levels at the property line "is n......
2008-01-10 12:26:00
AD CRABLE
Farmer Jake Stoltzfus has been told he might want to keep an eye on his baby Boer goats. In an unusual but not unprecedented occurrence, a pair of bald eagles has erected a huge stick nest in farmland along Mill Creek, between Intercourse and New Holland. Lancaster County has become a hotb......
2008-01-08 02:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Tom Arnold walked away from his final assignment as Lancaster County senior deputy coroner on Sunday and asked himself a question he was often left with during his four-year term. "Why?" he said softly as he stepped out of a northern Lancaster County home that was the site o......
2008-01-05 01:49:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
And then there were five.Five Republicans from Lancaster and York counties are vying to fill the seat being vacated by retiring state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong.The deadline for candidates filing with the Lancaster County GOP in order to win the party's endorsement was 5 p.m. Frid......
2008-01-03 12:10:00
TOM MURSE
Ticktock, ticktock. Republicans weighing a run for state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong's seat face a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to file paperwork with the Lancaster County GOP if they intend to seek endorsement. The race for party support in what is certain to be high-profile primary could f......
2008-01-02 01:07:00
DAVE PIDGEON
They are stories of triumph and kindness in the face of catastrophe and poverty.They are stories about children, a grandmother, brave passers-by and an idyllic landscape forever preserved.The Intelligencer Journal has chosen the following five stories as the most inspirational tales......
2007-12-28 00:02:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It's a pesky little article shared by only The Hague in the Netherlands, The Bronx in New York and, of course, the Buck, which straddles the border between Drumore and East Drumore townships in southern Lancaster County.The answer to how the Buck got its "the" seems to raise ......
2007-12-20 02:01:00
TOM KNAPP
Plans for a $100 million ethanol plant in western Lancaster County don't include the right trees and shrubs, a landscaping expert testified Wednesday.Conoy Township supervisors are considering a conditional-use application by Lancaster Biofuels to build a corn-to-ethanol distillery on ......
2007-12-19 12:01:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It was the talk of the township in September: a cool million dollars gone missing, money provided by Philadelphia Electric Co. to Drumore Township and nearby Martic Township as compensation for the construction of the Muddy Run pump storage facility in the late 1960s. However, after combing thr......
2007-12-19 01:37:00
TOM KNAPP
Even as Conoy Township supervisors are hearing arguments on an ethanol plant planned along the Susquehanna River, the township planning commission is gearing up to play its own part in the complicated review process.Supervisors will hold the seventh in a series of conditional-use hearings ......
2007-12-13 00:20:00
STAFF REPORT
A massive land transfer announced Wednesday by PPL will include the Pinnacle Overlook, Shenk's Ferry Wildflower Preserve, Otter Creek Campground and Holtwood Arboretum. PPL Corp. plans to give 3,500 acres it now owns on both the Lancaster and York county sides of the Susquehanna River to th......
2007-12-12 12:26:00
JACK BRUBAKER
The Pinnacle Overlook. Shenk's Ferry Wildflower Preserve. Otter Creek Campground. Holtwood Arboretum. These are among the well-known Lancaster and York county natural features included in one of the largest land transfers in this region's history. PPL Corp. plans to ......
2007-12-10 12:16:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
A missing 17-year-old teen who police worried went into the Susquehanna River has gone home, West Hempfield Township Police said. The 17-year-old from Washington Boro was reported as a runaway from his father's home. The incident began around 1 p.m. Sunday. Witnesses reported seeing a ......
2007-12-10 00:08:00
MICHAEL YODER
Emergency responders searched the Susquehanna River without success Sunday afternoon for a missing Manor Township teen."As of now, he has not been located," West Hempfield Township Officer Doug Ober said Sunday night. "But we believe he is not in the river."Fire ......
2007-12-07 01:44:00
BRIAN WALLACE
More than $2 million in state grants is headed to Lancaster County to help pay for two new nature preserves, four township parks, a recreational trail and an expansion of Tucquan Glen Preserve.The funding also will support the Lancaster-York Heritage Region.The grants are among the ......
2007-11-23 00:35:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Turkey, cranberries, potatoes, squash and even the pumpkin in the pumpkin pie — when it comes to the traditional Thanksgiving table, as Lancaster resident Chris Thompson points out, almost everything being set out comes not from Europe, but from American Indians in the New World."Reg......
2007-11-09 02:26:00
MARC LEVY
(AP)The mayor of Pennsylvania's debt-ridden capital spent millions of dollars in public money on everything from covered wagons to copper marshal's badges for a museum about cowboys, Indians and the Wild West.He did so even though the city is on the other side of the country from t......
2007-11-08 11:46:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Marietta's Susquehanna River shore cleanup in September and Columbia's Shawnee Run cleanup in October show that the western Lancaster County boroughs are leading the charge toward going green. Now, according to two members of borough council, Columbia is exploring the idea of constructi......
2007-11-01 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Regular readers of this page should be fully aware of my love for Penns Creek in the Bald Eagle State Forest near State College.I've tried to spend at least a few days there every year for the past 15 years or so, hunting its fertile water for native brown trout with fly-fishing and sp......
2007-10-31 01:32:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Some people think about monsters only once a year, around Halloween.Others think about them every day.If you belong to the latter group, Pennsylvania is a particularly good place to be — especially now, with alleged bigfoot photographs circulating in the news.The pictur......
2007-10-29 00:01:00
ROBERTA STRICKLER
The river is an intimate neighbor. It makes sounds, hosts parties and may cause some trouble now and then, sending you to the plumber or to buy flood insurance. A river is both entertainer and entertainment."I can feel its presence," said Georgia Townsend who, with her partner, R......
2007-10-27 12:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
The coming of the railroads, the heyday of the 19th century iron industry and the devastating damage Hurricane Agnes caused in June 1972 mark Marietta Borough's history. Determined not to let storm history repeat itself, the state is proposing to build a protective levee along the town's Susque......
2007-10-25 01:58:00
TOM KNAPP
Traffic generated by a proposed ethanol plant in Conoy Township would have only a marginal effect on the local community, a traffic engineer testified Wednesday.The number of vehicles entering and exiting the site would be so slight, according to engineer Jeffrey G. Bergsten, that state De......
2007-10-24 01:00:00
MICHAEL YODER
The president of Lancaster Biofuels finished his testimony Tuesday night on the proposed ethanol plant in Conoy Township.Seth Obetz, president of Worley & Obetz and the new biofuels company, was questioned for more than an hour during the conditional-use hearing at the Bainbridge Fire ......
