2012-02-08 22:13:00
AD CRABLE
Exelon has filed a draft plan on how it intends to manage recreation, river access, fish passage, cottage leases, 46 miles of shoreline and other uses on some 12,658 acres it owns in and along the Susquehanna River.
Exelon is seeking public comment on its draft Shoreline Management Plans ......
2012-02-07 21:55:00
STAFF REPORT
The westbound Route 30 bridge over the Susquehanna River will be restricted to a single lane Thursday, Feb. 9, so potholes can be filled.
The closure of the right "travel lane" on the Wright's Ferry Bridge between Lancaster and York counties will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., weat......
2012-02-05 08:30:00
JON RUTTER
Scott had wanted to plunge into a lake in the winter for about 50 years, and on Saturday he did. "Very refreshing," reported the Shanks' Mare Outfitters employee from behind a firmly clasped towel. "It took my breath away." Multiply his feat by 1,200 to 1,300 people ......
2012-02-04 11:25:00
STAFF
The search for missing kayaker Nicholas Herr moved south Saturday. As of press time Saturday night, there were no reports that the New Providence man was found. The search moved to Harford County, Md. after local rescue efforts last week came up empty. Boats launched Saturday morni......
2012-02-03 20:16:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police have charged two teenagers with stealing from flood-damaged homes in Conoy Township, police said.
Jamie J. Foulkrod, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, both of Middletown, struck two homes and a storage building along Prescott Road in November, Susquehanna Regional police Lt. Stephen Engle......
2012-02-03 09:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The search for a missing kayaker resumed this morning on the Susquehanna River.
Crews from Rawlinsville Fire Company gathered before 8 a.m. today to begin looking for Nicholas Herr, 24, of New Providence, who has been missing since Saturday night.
Herr's kayak capsized after he an......
2012-01-31 21:55:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The Susquehanna River was like a sheet of glass Saturday night as Archie McConnell and Nick Herr drifted in their kayaks toward an island where they planned to go winter camping.
The childhood buddies, both 24, grew up in in the county's southern end, where they spent a lot of time outsid......
2012-01-30 23:22:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Nicholas B. Herr was trying to help his friend when he disappeared on the Susquehanna River late Saturday night.
Herr, 24, of New Providence, and Archie McConnell, also 24, of Quarryville, were headed out in kayaks from a boat launch on the York County side of the river, an official with ......
2012-01-30 16:33:00
STAFF REPORT
The westbound Route 30 bridge over the Susquehanna River will be restricted to a single lane Tuesday so potholes can be filled and a railing repaired.
The lane closure on the Wright's Ferry Bridge between Lancaster and York counties will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., weather permitting......
2012-01-29 21:35:00
P.J. REILLY
A Lancaster County man remained missing Sunday after his kayak capsized in the Susquehanna River late Saturday night.
A search that lasted about six hours was called off early Sunday morning when rescuers started showing early signs of hypothermia, according to Rawlinsville Fire Company C......
2012-01-29 00:18:00
STAFF
Rescue units from Lancaster and York counties were looking for a male kayaker missing in the Susquehanna River off southern Lancaster County early this morning. Lancaster County Control said one kayaker had managed to make it to shore on the York County side in Lower Chanceford Township....
2012-01-18 11:19:00
AD CRABLE
Lancaster County's largest emitters of greenhouse gases include the county incinerator, two landfills, a natural gas pipeline compressor station and three industries.
But all those sources combined are dwarfed by the 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that PPL's coal-fired Brunner Is......
2011-12-29 15:56:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Three lives were taken here this year in domestic violence confrontations between men and women — the leading motive for local homicides.
In all, police have investigated nine homicides in Lancaster County over the past 12 months.
That number jumped from the six homicides he......
2011-12-28 11:53:00
KARA NEWHOUSE
For several years, Columbia officials have talked about bringing sparkle to the borough park system by adding recreation space and replacing outdated equipment.
And that's exactly what borough officials plan to do, now that they have the cash needed to make the vision a reality.
E......
2011-12-23 10:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
First, Tyrick Walker beat the other homeless man; then he drowned him in the Susquehanna River.
Walker admitted Friday that's what happened when he and Mark McLaughlin engaged in a dispute at a makeshift homeless camp in West Hempfield Township.
McLaughlin died April 4 at the rive......
2011-12-23 13:31:00
KAREN SHUEY
An organization's mission to promote the waterfront heritage along the Susquehanna River in western Lancaster and eastern York counties just got a big boost of support. The recipient of a $250,000 state grant, the Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area will have the resources to begin a few new p......
2011-12-18 00:08:00
DARRYL FEARS, The Washington Post
At the Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam in northeast Maryland, the barbarians are at the sluice gates. Sediment, millions of tons of it, has flowed down the 440-mile Susquehanna River for more than 80 years and massed at the dam. And now a reservoir built to hold it is filling up. The threat......
2011-12-15 22:43:00
DAN NEPHIN
Occupy Lancaster wants to occupy the Art Park a little longer.
The group, which will mark its second month with a rally and community day Saturday, applied to the city to renew its permit to use the Prince and Chestnut streets location.
Its permit for the location expires Jan. 1....
2011-12-13 22:52:00
STAFF REPORT
Eastbound Route 30 on the Wrights Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River between York and Lancaster counties will be reduced to one lane for the daytime hours between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Weather permitting, the right eastbound lane will be closed to traffic and eastbound motoris......
2011-12-09 12:44:00
DEAN LEE EVANS
West Hempfield supervisors approved a series of financial resolutions, including passage of a final 2012 budget, in the final minutes of the board's last meeting of the year on Tuesday. "I want to thank the staff for their efforts with the budget," Supervisor Kent Gardner said. Manager ......
2011-12-09 10:09:00
CHAD UMBLE
Conoy Township supervisors voted Thursday for the final adoption of a $1.57 million budget that continues to fund township operations without a real estate tax. Major funding for the 2012 budget will come from the host fee the township gets from the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Au......
2011-12-06 22:28:00
ELAINE J. JONES
Columbia Borough Council members agreed Tuesday to take ownership of 12.85 acres from Norfolk Southern at a sale price of $100,308.
A handful of residents attended the meeting and actively participated in the discussion.
"We're very fortunate to have the support of (the state Depa......
2011-12-05 21:33:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Bold thieves are targeting homes in Conoy Township that were damaged by flooding in September, police said.
They not only stole a kitchen sink, but took the time to dismantle aluminum siding from one home and take it, too, Susquehanna Regional police Lt. Stephen Englert said.
"Scr......
2011-12-04 21:02:00
STAFF
Facing criticism from waterfowl hunters, anglers and boaters, PPL has reopened the Pequea and York Furnace public boat launches, even though some repairs to safety features near the Holtwood Dam are not complete.
PPL announced Friday that the ramps, which enter Lake Aldred on either side ......
2011-11-30 22:28:00
AD CRABLE
The president of Perdue AgriBusiness says ground will be broken on a $59 million soybean-crushing plant in Conoy Township within months and that the plant will be ready to operate for the 2013 fall harvest.
Dick Willey, in an interview Wednesday, also said the facility will be environment......
2011-11-28 23:39:00
JIMMY PIANKA
The first lantern rocked as it ascended, climbing in the sky above the Susquehanna River until it resembled a new, orange star.
Approximately 30 adults and giddy children watched the test flight from below in Wissler's Run Fisherman's Park, suddenly invigorated.
The sky lantern ce......
2011-11-16 23:49:00
TOM KNAPP
It's hard to say how many people came out Wednesday evening to discuss the fate of Speedwell Forge.
More than 300 people packed into Brickerville Fire Hall for a public meeting hosted by state Sen. Mike Brubaker and state Rep. Tom Creighton.
More folks lingered outside, unable to ......
2011-11-15 22:57:00
AD CRABLE
For decades, residents who live in Lancaster County's most flood-prone areas, such as Marietta and near Chiques Creek in Manheim Borough and Penn Township, have withstood rising waters and been able to stay in their homes because of federal flood insurance.
Between 1978 and the end of Jul......
2011-11-13 20:51:00
AD CRABLE
Sportsmen are unhappy with PPL because the only two public boat launches between the Safe Harbor and Holtwood dams have been closed since Hurricane Irene hit in September.
PPL already has raised the ire of anglers who have been unable to get to their favorite spots during the peak of wall......
2011-11-10 20:08:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
A fiery crash on the Route 30 bridge closed the span's eastbound lanes for nearly 11 hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
The state Department of Transportation said the vehicle involved was a tractor-trailer.
Hellam Township police on Thursday said the driver, Barry Brand......
2011-11-09 21:36:00
STAFF REPORT
A tractor-trailer fire has shut down Route 30 east at the Susquehanna River bridge.
Eastbound traffic is being detoured off the highway at the Wrightsville exit.
The fire was reported just after 9 p.m. The truck, reported to be a flatbed trailer, is located on the York County side......
2011-10-27 16:29:00
JANE HOLAHAN
In its travels, the Susquehanna River passes by many towns.
Each town is unique, with its own personality, yet all are defined by the river and its enduring presence.
River towns often draw artists to them and this area is no exception.
The new exhibit at the Marietta ArtH......
2011-10-25 10:28:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The body found in the Susquehanna River at the Safe Harbor Dam last week was that of a York County resident who disappeared in late September during a gathering on the water.
Dental records were used to identify the body of Jeffrey Shostak, 60, Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamant......
2011-10-21 21:24:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Joy Shannon said there is a correlation between how happy they are to talk to her and the amount of water they got in their homes during last month's flooding.
"Most are receptive. Some people are extremely happy to get it," Shannon said of the pamphlets and booklets she was distributing ......
2011-10-21 19:54:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Emergency crews from three counties scoured the Susquehanna River in a possible river rescue Friday night.
Crews from Lancaster, York and Dauphin counties responded to a call, saying a canoe tipped over north of the York Haven dam.
Lancaster County 911 dispatched the call at 5:56 ......
2011-10-19 17:39:00
LARRY ALEXANDER and RYAN ROBINSON
The man whose body was found in the Susquehanna River at Safe Harbor Dam on Tuesday died accidentally of freshwater drowning.
That was the finding after an autopsy performed by Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen G. Diamantoni.
The body is probably that of Jeffrey Shostak, 60, of......
2011-10-18 13:03:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The body of a man was found late Tuesday morning in the Susquehanna River, next to Safe Harbor Dam.
The man was found in debris that was up against the dam, a Safe Harbor official said. His body was closer to the Lancaster County side than to the York County side, he said.
Lancast......
2011-10-13 20:44:00
STAFF REPORT
A Lancaster County woman died when she got out of her vehicle after a minor car accident and was struck by a truck Thursday on Route 30 in York County, according to a published report.
Helen Hammes, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 9 a.m. crash by York County Deputy Coroner Ste......
2011-10-06 21:51:00
AD CRABLE
Last month's torrential rains from Tropical Storm Lee caused the Susquehanna River to whisk away about 4 million tons of sediment and flush it into the Chesapeake Bay. That's about four years' worth of runaway soil, and it has touched off worries of suffocated underwater grass......
2011-10-02 19:58:00
JENNIFER TODD
A man who disappeared from a boat on the Susquehanna River on Friday night was still missing Sunday night.
Although the official search had been suspended Saturday, some crews went back out on their own Sunday to look for Jeffrey Shostak, said Mike Ditzler, chief of Blue Rock Fire Rescue'......
2011-10-01 22:12:00
JENNIFER TODD
A York County man remains missing after he disappeared from a boat on the Susquehanna River Friday night, a fire official said late Saturday. Searchers scoured the area between Long Level Marina and Safe Harbor Dam Saturday afternoon but found no sign of 60-year-old Jeffrey Shostak, said Mik......
2011-09-30 23:39:00
Staff
Rescue crews' search for a man last seen on the Susquehanna River Friday night came up empty, a fire official said. Boat crews and people along the shore searched the river shortly after 9 p.m. until sometime between 1 and 1:30 a.m., said Jimmy Knapp, deputy fire chief of Blue Rock Fire &......
2011-09-28 22:33:00
AD CRABLE
The owners of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant apparently years ago miscalculated the potential danger of flooding at the plant and now say the Susquehanna River could rise 4 feet higher than what they had originally projected.
Because of an updated analysis, Exelon in recent months up......
2011-09-26 10:25:00
DEAN LEE EVANS
Donegal School District officials applauded individuals and groups that assisted the district during the floods that led to the closing of schools for two days earlier this month. At the board's meeting Thursday, Acting Superintendent Susan Ursprung thanked staff for its efforts in preparing......
2011-09-24 07:09:00
TOM MURSE
A 24-year-old motorcyclist from Lancaster County led cops on a 100-mph chase across York County early Friday morning before he crashed into a police cruiser near Wrightsville, authorities said. Chad E. Cardella suffered minor injuries and was treated at York Hospital. He was charged wit......
2011-09-23 22:02:00
DAN NEPHIN
Fall arrived to a soggy and record-setting welcome Friday, and meteorologists forecast more rain at least through Tuesday.
As of Friday afternoon, 16.5 inches of rain had fallen this month at Middletown — the closest recording station to Lancaster — making it the wettest Septe......
2011-09-18 00:07:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently renewed a contract to buy American shad eggs stripped from Potomac River fish. While that ensures a source of eggs for the agency to hatch at its Van Dyke Research Station in Juniata County, it's not as robust a source as the ......
2011-09-16 21:54:00
TOM KNAPP
Steve Bailey bears the Susquehanna River no ill will.
He enjoys its beauty. He's fascinated by its history. And, although he isn't into boating or fishing, he likes to stroll along its nature trails when he has the time.
But when rain falls, snow melts or ice starts piling up, Bai......
2011-09-13 21:58:00
P.J. REILLY
The historic Siegrist's Mill covered bridge will rise again — literally.
Built in 1885, the 5-ton structure spanning Chiques Creek on the Rapho-West Hempfield township line was swept off its piers and washed downstream Sept. 8 as the creek overflowed its banks because of Tropical St......
2011-09-12 20:44:00
TIM MEKEEL
With floodwaters receded, the Holtwood hydroelectric plant is expected to be back in operation in a week or two, PPL said Monday.
The Susquehanna River facility was shut down and evacuated late Thursday afternoon, with about 100 workers leaving the site.
The decision to temporaril......
2011-09-12 20:44:00
TIM MEKEEL
With floodwaters receded, the Holtwood hydroelectric plant is expected to be back in operation in a week or two, PPL said Monday.
The Susquehanna River facility was shut down and evacuated late Thursday afternoon, with about 100 workers leaving the site.
The decision to temporaril......
2011-09-11 22:30:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Correction Sept. 13, 2011 — The article below contained incorrect information. The name of the church cited is Community Bible Church.
Also, an incorrect time was listed for the cresting of the Susquehanna River. The......
2011-09-11 00:02:00
Paula Wolf
Eric Horst was 8 years old during Hurricane Agnes in 1972, and watching that storm of a lifetime is what inspired him to become a meteorologist. So what's the difference between Agnes and the severe flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee? There are a couple of factors inv......
2011-09-10 23:57:00
Brett Hambright
First, they waited for the water. Now, they are hoping for power. Hours after the worst flooding here in nearly 40 years, Marietta residents began to plod back into their waterfront town Saturday. Waterfront became water-filled when the Susquehanna River swelled out of its ba......
2011-09-10 19:46:00
Justin Graybill
Footage and interviews with Marietta residents cleaning up after last week's flooding.......
2011-09-10 09:05:00
Staff
Marietta's sewage treatmentment plant was back in operation today after flood water receded, and police reported no looting or curfew violations during the flood emergency, it was announced at a 9 a.m. briefing in the borough.
After curfew was lifted at......
2011-09-10 06:31:00
staff
The Susquehanna River crested earlier than expected in Marietta — late Friday instead of daybreak Saturday. At 6 a.m. Saturday, a Lancaster County-Wide Communications dispatcher said the situation was quiet overnight and emergency personnel were leaving the borough. With roads still cl......
2011-09-09 22:38:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Marietta residents cautiously watched the Susquehanna River on Friday while others started tackling the muddy mess left by a four-day storm that dumped 8 to 15 inches of rain here.
The Conestoga River, creeks and streams began receding Thursday as the rain tapered off.
The Susqueh......
2011-09-09 22:11:00
AD CRABLE
Amid the permeating smell of heating oil, Marietta's waterlogged residents on Friday allowed themselves to hope the worst was over.
Floodwater from the neighboring Susquehanna River had started to subside, giving rise to cautious optimism, even as bad as it was — the worst, in fact,......
2011-09-09 16:51:00
ROXANNE TODD
They came by car, truck, lawn mower, horse and buggy and skid loader to view the flooding Susquehanna River in Pequea, where water recreation has come to a halt.
The railroad tunnels that normally provide boaters access to the river are underwater and filled with debris.
Trolley L......
2011-09-08 22:32:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Yep, Tropical Storm Lee really did a number on Lancaster County.
Not since Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972, many locals said, have we been hit with a flood event of such proportion.
That means nearly 40 years have passed since this sort of soaker.
And it seems everyone has a ......
2011-09-08 22:15:00
AD CRABLE
In this 199-year-old river town, floods do not panic.
But as the first stained river water bubbled up through storm drains and began inundating Front Street Thursday morning, Jerry Rice and family members had already muscled furniture from the first floor onto the second floor of Rice's h......
2011-09-08 14:18:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
There is a sense of serenity in the works of John David Wissler, and of the familiar, too.
After all, many of his landscapes depict nearby bodies of water, such as the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. Or Middle Creek Wildlife Preserve, where even winter looks inviting in the oils......
2011-09-08 09:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER
As rains pounded northwestern Lancaster County Wednesday, Marietta officials were preparing for yet more headaches this weekend. Forecasters are predicting the worst flooding since Tropical Storm Agnes hit the borough in 1972. The Susquehanna River is expected to crest in Marietta Satur......
2011-09-08 18:05:00
DEAN LEE EVANS
Residents along Front Street in Marietta prepared for the worst Thursday as they began clearing out furniture, appliances and personal possessions in preparation for historic flooding along the Susquehanna River. A Marietta fire truck drove down Front Street this afternoon with loud speakers......
2011-09-07 18:50:00
CINDY STAUFFER, TOM KNAPP and BERNARD HARRIS
Heavy rains hammered the northwestern section of Lancaster County today, touching off mudslides, trapping motorists in rising water, closing schools and flooding homes from Elizabethtown to Columbia. The storm dumped as much as 4 to 6 inches of rain, remnants of Tropical Storm......
2011-09-06 23:04:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Local officials have their road barricades ready, their generators gassed up and their eyes on the Susquehanna and Conestoga rivers as they brace for possible flooding from steady rains this week.
"I'm looking at it every other hour all day," Steve Bailey, emergency management coordinator......
2011-08-26 22:55:00
TOM MURSE
Hurricane Irene is expected to drench eastern parts of Lancaster County with as much as 4 inches of rain Saturday night through Sunday afternoon, bringing with it wind gusts up to 50 mph, forecasters said.
The massive Atlantic storm, packing 100 mph-plus winds, is expected to have a far m......
2011-08-18 17:24:00
TERESA BONO
Norfolk Southern is considering abandoning two miles of railway from Bridge Street to the East Donegal Township line, Marietta Borough Council President Miriam Fletcher announced Aug. 9.
Council approved Fletcher's request to have the borough solicitor write a letter to Norfolk Southern g......
2011-08-09 13:41:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
After lining up in apparent support of a proposed apartment community over the last several months, Akron Borough Council members reversed course Monday night. Council convened an executive session at the end of its regular business meeting, at which solicitor Kenelm Shirk said they were to ......
2011-08-08 08:27:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Four swimmers were rescued after being stranded on a large rock in the Susquehanna River on Sunday night, an official said.
Emergency units were dispatched at 8:49 p.m. to an area south of the Norman Wood bridge, near Crow Island, Rawlinsville Fire Company Chief Carl Strickler said.
......
2011-08-07 00:10:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
The lower Susquehanna River continues to cough up monster flatheads this summer. And it's keeping the folks at Columbia Bait & Tackle, who run Lancaster County's only certified weigh station for record fish, busy. According to a report from the store, William Gebhart ......
2011-08-07 23:18:00
STAFF
Quick rapids hampered efforts to rescue four people stranded on a rock late Sunday on the Susquehanna River.
Emergency units were dispatched at 8:49 p.m. to an area south of the Norman Wood bridge.
The four were reportedly swimming in the area and couldn't make it back to shore....
2011-07-28 15:40:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Think you know the John Wright Restaurant?
Think again.
The longtime eatery along the Susquehanna River is still very much there and still as pretty as a postcard. It was, in fact, profiled by this writer almost a year ago to the day.
But, my goodness, how things have chan......
2011-07-24 00:09:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
As coordinator of the U.S. Coast Guard's Search & Rescue Detail stationed at Long Level, Robert Kuhn has recovered more than his fair share of dead boaters from the Susquehanna River. All of them had one thing in common. "Not one of them had a life jacket on," Kuhn sa......
2011-07-21 22:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Red Lion man is facing charges after officers said they found him operating a boat while drunk.
State Fish & Boat Commission officers allege Rodney Eid Sr. was drunk Sunday while steering a boat in Lake Clarke, Lock 2, of the Susquehanna River.
Four other people were aboard ......
2011-07-12 19:46:00
TERESA BONO
A state Fish & Boat Commission officer asked Columbia Borough Council on Monday to consider a ban on alcohol possession by Susquehanna River boaters using River Park.
Officer Jeff Schmidt said, "I don't want it on my conscience when there's an alcohol-related accident. And it's inevit......
2011-07-10 20:56:00
P.J. REILLY
Jumping off a cliff and landing in the Susquehanna River near Cooks Landing Road in Fulton Township seems to be a rite of summer.
Unfortunately, getting there is illegal.
And state police in recent weeks have been practicing their own summer ritual of citing people there for tresp......
2011-07-05 22:14:00
CHAD UMBLE
The Prince Street HideAway has opened at 235 N. Prince St. The roughly 700-square-foot shop features vintage and antique items, including clothing, home accessories and art.
The store is behind a courtyard, next to Senorita Burrita.
Owners are sisters Kate Root and Barb Scott, who......
2011-06-28 22:57:00
P.J. REILLY
Vernie Wood considered Muddy Run Reservoir to be "the best kept secret in Pennsylvania."
"The walleye fishing in there was unbelievable," the Holtwood resident said. "I used to fish it a lot, but my son would be down there every day catching walleyes."
The water that Wood and his ......
2011-06-21 22:46:00
TERESA BONO
Columbia Borough's charitable expenditures will approach $95,000 for 2011, officials announced June 13.
The list of contributions included $57,000 to the three fire companies ($19,000 each to Columbia, Keystone Truck & Engine and Susquehanna Fire & Rescue), $7,500 to the Columbia ......
2011-06-19 20:12:00
AD CRABLE
Two anglers did not act quick enough Sunday evening when the operators of the Holtwood Dam triggered warning lights and sirens, indicating water was about to be released.
As a result, two fishermen were left stranded on a rock island, and had to be rescued by a Rawlinsville Fire Company b......
2011-06-19 19:21:00
TOM KNAPP
During 19th-century Lancaster County winters, farmers could sometimes be found plowing the Susquehanna River.
That's right. Plowing the river.
Ice was the dominant crop in January, when Lancaster County's fertile fields lay fallow and the farmers had idle time.
And, while ......
2011-06-09 20:48:00
TOM KNAPP
Perhaps for York and Lancaster counties, the third time will be the charm.
U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. this month reintroduced a bill to establish the two counties as the Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area.
The bill, if enacted, would grant national recognition to the ......
2011-06-08 15:55:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Efforts to clean up the Lititz Run Watershed are on the right track, but there is still a long way to go.
Experts in stream water restoration detailed accomplishments and outlined steps that still need to be taken to improve the quality of water that ultimately flows into the Chesapeake B......
2011-05-30 22:25:00
P.J. REILLY
Michael Alper did not see Alice Ann Herzon fall on the Kelly's Run Recreation Trail Sunday afternoon.
But when he reached the area where the 66-year-old Jenkintown woman went down, Alper was alarmed.
"We knew right away it was serious," he said.
State police said Herzon st......
2011-05-24 23:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER
In the barbershop and the deli, outside the post office and at a market, Marietta folks are buzzing about the weird, disturbing discovery.
A large puddle of human blood was found Saturday morning in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store just outside of town.
Some people ar......
2011-05-24 19:50:00
AD CRABLE
Tests show that Lancaster's drinking water contains no radioactivity from wastewater used in upstate Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.
City officials last month ordered expanded testing of drinking water taken out of the Susquehanna River after it was revealed that some wastewater use......
2011-05-15 17:26:00
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 Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St.
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2011-05-12 07:52:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A man was rescued after jumping off Chickies Rock in an apparent suicide attempt early Thursday morning, according to police.
Emergency responders were dispatched just after midnight to the Chickies Rock County Park along the Susquehanna River in West Hempfield Township.
"A 20-yea......
2011-05-10 09:11:00
STAFF REPORT
Traffic patterns changed for eastbound motorists on Route 30 approaching the Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River between York and Lancaster counties on Tuesday.
Motorists will have to choose to take either a newly opened "express lane," installed on the westbound side of the ......
2011-05-04 10:57:00
NICK GALLUP
The Caernarvon Township Agriculture Advisory Committee on recently discussed the role of Lancaster County in improving water quality in streams and tributaries to the Conestoga River, which ultimately affects the Chesapeake Bay. The county is working with the nonprofit Chesapeake Bay Foundat......
2011-05-01 21:15:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A construction company is handling claims for damage done to vehicles that recently ran over a protruding piece of metal on a bridge over the Susquehanna River.
Almost 40 motorists have made claims that the metal damaged their vehicles earlier this month on the Wright's Ferry Bridge.
......
2011-04-25 19:21:00
AD CRABLE
Ever since the Conestoga Country Club opened 63 years ago, the Little Conestoga Creek has chewed away at the golf course, sending smothering silt downstream.
Golfers were known to tumble off the vertical banks. The fairways shrank. In 1999 alone, the club had to replace four bridges acros......
2011-04-19 08:31:00
P.J. REILLY and RYAN ROBINSON
Repairs were completed and both westbound lanes of the Route 30 bridge have been reopened, according to a PennDOT spokesman. A piece of metal sticking up from the deck of the Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River damaged more than 30 vehicles, forcing the closure of the westbound ......
2011-04-07 22:59:00
P.J. REILLY
Ever since Lancaster County commissioners in 1977 began buying the land that is now Chickies Rock County Park, there's been no way for hikers to cross Chiques Creek in the park without getting their feet wet or walking along busy Route 441.
On Wednesday, the current board of commissioners......
2011-04-05 23:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON and CINDY STAUFFER
West Hempfield Township police have accused a 41-year-old homeless man of killing another homeless man Monday night at a tent encampment along the Susquehanna River.
Police said they have charged Tyrick Donte Walker, 29, with homicide on Tuesday.
Walker beat and then drowned Mark ......
2011-03-28 22:31:00
AD CRABLE
Lancaster city officials are scrambling to begin additional testing of drinking water drawn from the Susquehanna River to make sure it doesn't have radioactivity or salty bromides from Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling. "It's a huge concern for us. It's such a new animal for everyone in t......
2011-03-24 22:35:00
TOM KNAPP
Traffic lanes are shifting on Route 30 near Columbia to accommodate a $9.3 million rehabilitation project on Wright's Ferry Bridge.
The 39-year-old bridge over the Susquehanna River is due for extensive maintenance that will take two construction seasons to complete, wrapping up in Novemb......
2011-03-21 21:27:00
AD CRABLE
A Massachusetts energy company has abruptly withdrawn its federal application to build a $1 billion hydroelectric reservoir at a Girl Scout camp in the River Hills of York County.
In November, Free Flow Power had filed an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study th......
2011-03-13 00:09:00
STAFF
River Park in Columbia (first photo) just south of the Route 462 bridge was the picture of tranquility when this photo was taken at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday. But a walkway lined by lampposts remained covered with water, a reminder of torrential rain Thursday. The Susquehanna River made it ro......
2011-03-11 21:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Flooding from Thursday's rain did not cause serious problems in Lancaster County on Friday and none are expected for Saturday either, an official said.
Flooding along the Susquehanna River in Marietta will likely only affect a few basements, said Randy Gockley, the county's emergency mana......
2011-03-10 20:32:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
When you're watching river levels and floods are possible, "you always prepare for the worst … and hope it doesn't happen," Marietta's Steve Bailey said Thursday.
Bailey is the Susquehanna River town's emergency management coordinator, and he's been busy the last few days watching ......
2011-03-09 22:06:00
TOM KNAPP
It's going to be a wet few days, as rain pours from the sky and waters rise from below.
The rainstorm building in the Carolinas Thursday morning will move north with a vengeance. And, with the ground already saturated with recent rains, it won't take long for local streams and creeks......
2011-03-08 21:03:00
AD CRABLE
A decade ago, Lancaster County, Manor Township and local Girl Scout officials breathed a sigh of relief when a proposed $1 billion hydroelectric reservoir project along the Susquehanna River was abandoned.
Now, a Massachusetts-based company is reviving the project, which would drown the C......
2011-02-21 20:17:00
AD CRABLE
You've been hearing about it for nearly four years now: eight islands and some 3,414 mostly wooded acres of River Hills on both sides of the Susquehanna River owned by PPL to be protected for public use forever.
It's been slow in coming, getting this precious land in Lancaster and York co......
2011-02-18 22:29:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
There was something fishy about Friday's catch on the Susquehanna River as firefighters pulled a pickup truck from the water.
The truck, which had no license plate, was discovered about 12:40 p.m. by a fisherman just off the Muddy Creek Boat Access in Martic Township.
No one knows......
2011-02-17 21:03:00
AD CRABLE
After a do-over, Pennsylvania's detailed plan for how it will vastly reduce the amount of smothering soil and nutrients it's flushing into the Chesapeake Bay has been accepted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Farmers will be profoundly affected, of course, but so will almos......
2011-02-14 22:35:00
BERNARD HARRIS
On his way out the door last month, former state Department of Transportation Secretary Allen Biehler gave Lancaster County and 40 other communities a parting gift.
For Lancaster, that came in the form of a new road in Warwick Township and Lititz Borough.
On Monday, the ......
2011-02-06 00:04:00
STAFF
Special Olympics Pennsylvania supporters proved Saturday that cold hands do, indeed, signal warm hearts when they took a plunge into the Susquehanna River. They dipped fingers, toes and much more into 33.6-degree water in the name of the organization that provides year-round training and com......
2011-02-02 23:03:00
AD CRABLE
Will it be illegal for a cow to stand in a stream in Lancaster County?
Or for a local farmer to spread manure in winter?
That's what local ag consultant Peter Hughes foresees as the federal government cracks down on sources of nutrients flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.
In ......
2011-01-27 21:18:00
ALEX WOODEND
An agreement to replace a natural gas pipeline along the Susquehanna River was reached by a Texas energy company and East Donegal Township supervisors this month.
The project near Marietta Borough will be one of 11 proposed work areas across Pennsylvania, Marylee Hanley, a spokesperson fo......
2011-01-26 21:07:00
AD CRABLE
Could trash-by-rail be coming to Lancaster County?
The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority has hired consultants for $27,500 to determine the options and costs of installing railroad sidings to the waste-to-energy incinerator in Conoy Township and the trash-transfer station ......
2011-01-24 13:51:00
RYAN ROBINSON
UPDATE (2/24/2011): The theft by unlawful taking charge was dropped on February 23, 2011 after full restitution was made by Lemp, according to Susquehanna Regional police.
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2011-01-21 13:04:00
AD CRABLE
Lancaster County's landfill in Manor Township is best known for, well, trash.
But a waste-truck full of newly completed and near-future projects aimed at entertaining the public might make the Frey Farm Landfill something of an attraction.
The enhancements include:
...
2011-01-02 16:17:00
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 Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St.
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2010-12-22 20:29:00
AD CRABLE
One of the two giant wind turbines overlooking the Susquehanna River south of Columbia rotated in the wind for the first time Tuesday afternoon.
The 397-foot-high Unit A turbine, located just outside the Frey Farm Landfill atop Turkey Hill in Manor Township, generated electricity for seve......
2010-12-22 12:09:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Lancaster man who accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into the Susquehanna River three months ago was drunk at the time, police said Wednesday.
Zachary Ritter, 22, of 1393 Union St., was driving west on Route 999 on Sept. 29, Manor Township police said.
Ritter failed to t......
2010-12-07 22:14:00
AD CRABLE
It's their turn on the hot seat for 90-some small Amish farmers north of Intercourse.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday plans to begin going farm to farm to determine if the owners have installed state-required conservation plans to keep soil and manure out of local st......
2010-12-07 08:29:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Fire destroyed a summer cabin along the Susquehanna River in Fulton Township early Tuesday morning.
No one was inside the 30-by-20-foot cabin at 449 Peach Bottom Road when the fire broke out shortly before 3 a.m., according to Chris Hodgden, Assistant Fire Chief of Robert Fulton Fire Comp......
2010-12-02 22:47:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city's proposal to double water rates for customers outside the city is "huge" — it's unfair to suburban residents, small businesses and seniors and should be phased in over several years, if it is allowed at all.
That was the sentiment of speakers at a pair of public hear......
2010-11-11 21:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Police called out the dogs and a helicopter Wednesday to aid them in a high-speed, 25-mile chase that ended with the arrest of two local men.
"They put a lot of people's lives in danger, including police officers and citizens," Millersville Borough police Sgt. Howard Bauman said.
......
2010-11-08 20:22:00
AD CRABLE
Sometimes, some of the most interesting stuff I get comes AFTER I've written a column or a feature story.
Readers also send me a steady stream of stories, photos and queries they think I'd be interested in. They're right. Here's a sampling.
After a recent story about the seemingly......
2010-11-07 00:06:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
"Dang it, Jerry. I'm snagged."
"Take up the slack. Let me see," Jerry Grube said to me last Sunday on the Susquehanna River. Grube watched the tip of my rod closely and gave his assessment. "You're not snagged. Set the hook." I did as I was told, even though I was ......
2010-11-01 21:29:00
JEFF HAWKES
John Hines has had a month to calm down, and I think he's going to be OK.
But in September when the federal Environmental Protection Agency called his work "seriously deficient," Hines was not a happy camper.
A deputy secretary with Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Prote......
2010-10-30 19:50:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Until recently, a green fringe of trees and shrubs lined the east bank of the Susquehanna River at Washington Boro. The tree roots helped to reduce riverbank erosion. Their branches and leaves provided a bit of shade for bankside aquatic life and a place for migrating birds to......
2010-10-30 19:45:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Riverside railroads, a 19th-century creation, clash with a 21st-century initiative to create greenways along the same water, says Michael Helfrick, riverkeeper for the lower Susquehanna. "Railroads restrict hundreds of miles of waterway access throughout the commonwealth," says the York r......
2010-10-29 21:40:00
TOM KNAPP
William Penn had a grand vision for peaceful interaction between European settlers and the indigenous natives of Pennsylvania.
It didn't really work out that way.
Local Mennonite, Presbyterian and Quaker leaders apologized for 300 years of misunderstanding, neglect and abuse of th......
2010-10-28 21:19:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JENNIFER TODD
Two related three-vehicle wrecks injured two people and snarled traffic on Routes 30 and 462 in West Hempfield Township on Thursday morning.
The incident was reported originally as a six-vehicle wreck but it was actually two wrecks, township police Cpl. Douglas Ober said.
Motorist......
2010-10-26 21:02:00
TOM KNAPP
The national network of Underground Railroad sites has lacked an actual railroad — until now.
A portion of Amtrak's Keystone Corridor, which stretches from Lancaster to Philadelphia, has just made the list.
The National Park Service announced Oct. 21 that the busy 70-mile-lo......
2010-10-25 22:16:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Public safety radio in Lancaster County is part of a nationwide crazy-quilt pattern of emergency communications that hasn't lived up to its promises.
The federal government has spent $7 billion over the past seven years trying to get all first responders in the country to communicate on t......
2010-10-25 13:35:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The Ephrata man burned when his personal watercraft exploded in the Susquehanna River on Sunday afternoon was reportedly recovering on Monday.
"His wife said he is doing well in the hospital," Sgt. Tim Caldwell, of the Lower Windsor Township Police in York County, said. "He suffered super......
2010-10-20 17:51:00
AD CRABLE
Grants totaling $875,000 for recreation and conservation projects have been awarded by the state to four Lancaster County municipalities and a nonprofit conservation group.
Conoy Township will get $320,000 for further development of the Northwest River Trail along the Susquehanna River....
2010-10-18 22:23:00
AD CRABLE
For 27 years, Pennsylvania and five other border states have tried to reduce farm runoff, make sewage plants perform better and keep pollution-prone stormwater from running into the Chesapeake Bay.
But the bay, an acknowledged national treasure, continued to decline.
Now, buttress......
2010-10-07 20:49:00
AD CRABLE
"No offense to anybody else, but I don't give a damn about the Chesapeake Bay," Lancaster County's watershed coordinator told about 100 people assembled Thursday for just that purpose. But there was a method to Matt Kofroth's shocking sentence — delivered to environmental regulators......
2010-10-06 21:19:00
AD CRABLE
In a bid to save a once-famous smallmouth bass fishery, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Tuesday passed emergency regulations for catch-and-release-only bass fishing on much of the Lower Susquehanna River and part of the Juniata River. The new PFBC regulations also ba......
2010-09-30 22:49:00
TOM KNAPP and CINDY STAUFFER
An unusual confluence of weather patterns on Thursday formed a miniature "perfect storm" over Lancaster County, creating nightmare conditions for many residents as rising waters stranded motorists, flooded homes and businesses and overflowed the banks of creeks and rivers.
And, although a......
2010-09-30 19:55:00
CINDY STAUFFER and TOM KNAPP
Torrential rains created nightmare conditions for parts of Lancaster County today, stranding motorists in rising waters, pouring into homes and businesses and swelling creeks and rivers.
Almost every county school district dismissed students early, fearing buses might have a hard time get......
2010-09-29 20:12:00
JEFF HAWKES
You don't tug on Superman's cape or pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger.
And, if you're smart, you don't mess around with the Environmental Protection Agency.
Just ask Barry Smith, manager for Manor Township.
Smith was required to spend two days with five EPA inspectors ......
2010-09-28 21:03:00
TOM KNAPP
When crowds flock to the Veterans Memorial Bridge on Saturday for the 22nd annual Bridge Bust, they'll be walking on history.
While the 5,183-foot-long bridge, which carries Route 462 over the Susquehanna River, is less than a century old — in fact, it opened 80 years ago Thursday, ......
2010-09-19 00:06:00
P.J. REILLY
Steve Pennell was born and raised in Columbia and he now lives in Wrightsville. The U.S. Navy logistics coordinator considers his home, however, to be about halfway in between. Yes, that means the place he calls "home" is smack in the middle of the Susquehanna River....
2010-09-09 22:31:00
AD CRABLE
Becky Sprenkle can't imagine a summer without weekends at the tiny but cozy cottage overlooking the Susquehanna River.
She believed that someday she'd teach her grandchildren to swim in the Susquehanna and they would fall in love with the river just as she had — and just as her gran......
2010-09-09 21:41:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Because of the dry conditions, Lancaster County commissioners are expected to enact a countywide ban on open burning at their public meeting Tuesday.
"The Bureau of Forestry has requested the ban," Randy Gockley, the county's emergency management coordinator, said.
"At least 10 fi......
2010-09-09 20:41:00
TIM MEKEEL
PPL Corp. has agreed to sell its one-third stake in Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. plus two wholly owned generating plants for $381 million cash.
The buyer of the assets is LS Power Group, a New York-based generation and transmission company, it was announced Thursday.
The deal, se......
2010-09-07 20:36:00
TOM MURSE
Think twice before you flick that cigarette butt out the car window or light your backyard fire pit.
And forget about open burning.
It's way too dry out there. The slightest spark can — and has — set off brush fires.
With no substantial rain in the forecast, em......
2010-09-06 16:36:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
An early-morning fire ravaged a Washington Boro home Monday, forcing three people to flee the flames.
The two-story house with attached garage at 16 Elizabeth Street was "pretty much fully involved" when firefighters got there, Washington Boro Fire Chief Brett A. Graham said.
"Unf......
2010-09-03 13:36:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The brush fire near the railroad tracks along the Susquehanna River in Manor Township which started Wednesday night is still smoldering.
It likely won't be completely extinguished until the next good rain in the area.
That is according to Rick Deppen, a wildfire-prevention expert ......
2010-09-02 22:51:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Two marathon fires were burning in Manor Township on Thursday.
A brush fire started near the railroad tracks along the Susquehanna River about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Highville Fire Company Fire Chief Mike Ditzler said. It is partially on the Lancaster County landfill property.
That fir......
2010-08-24 19:59:00
JAMES BUESCHER
A recent archaeological dig at Rotary Park has set Columbia Borough's historical clock back a few thousand years, revealing an American Indian community dating to a time when pharaohs ruled Egypt and Stonehenge was under construction."We've found spear points dating back ......
2010-08-21 17:55:00
JON RUTTER
He's an award-winning nature photographer who noticed a problem with nature. It was being paved, drained, looted and polluted. So Miguel Angel de la Cueva became a conservation photographer. He joined an international expedition to document the imperiled outback around his home on t......
2010-08-15 00:07:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
Published in 1612, the first map of the Chesapeake Bay region drafted by English explorer John Smith depicts a river emanating from the uppermost end of the bay as a snaking, dark line. Next to it, Smith wrote the word "Sasquesahanough." Born at the southern end of Otsego Lake......
2010-08-10 21:34:00
STAFF REPORT
Dozens of volunteer firefighters were searching for a missing man in and along the Susquehanna River near Marietta on Tuesday evening.Firefighters reportedly began the effort around 11 a.m. but were still looking after 9 p.m. Tuesday.No further information was available Tuesday nigh......
2010-08-06 20:28:00
JANET KELLEY
The body of a Marietta man was pulled from the Susquehanna River on Thursday night after the 59-year-old drowned while swimming, police said.Volunteer firefighters pulled John Ziegler, of 112 E. Hazel Ave., from the water shortly after 10 p.m.Ziegler and a friend had gone to the riv......
2010-08-05 23:45:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police said they recovered the body of a Marietta man who went swimming in the Susquehanna River on Thursday night.Lt. Stephen Englert, of Susquehanna Regional police, would not disclose the name of the victim, pending notification of family.The victim, police said, was with a frien......
2010-08-04 22:26:00
TOM KNAPP
History tells of an "old Negro" who "sat very coolly on the edge of the pier, smoking a cigar" as Confederate troops marched toward the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on June 28, 1863.The man, possibly a former slave, helped destroy the bridge and stop Confederates from c......
2010-08-04 10:37:00
TOM MURSE
A wildfire prevention expert with Pennsylvania's Bureau of Forestry is investigating the cause of a brush fire that burned across 2 1/2 acres near the scenic Pinnacle Overlook earlier this week.The stubborn brush fire was fully extinguished at 6:42 p.m. Tuesday, said Rick Deppen, an as......
2010-08-03 12:30:00
TOM MURSE
More than 100 firefighters battled a stubborn brush fires along the Susquehanna River in southern Lancaster County on Tuesday.The brush fires, reported at around 8:30 a.m., were spread across an area of more than 3 acres at the Pinnacle Overlook in Martic Township, said Tony Williams, assi......
2010-08-02 14:14:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The teenager who died in the Susquehanna River on Thursday evening apparently did not strike something hard or sharp when he dived into the water, an official said Monday.The body of John Albright, a 19-year-old from Manheim Township, was recovered by rescue crews Friday afternoon, about 2......
2010-08-01 21:43:00
P.J. REILLY
The first successful nesting effort by rare peregrine falcons in Lancaster County in 63 years nearly went under last week — literally.Within a span of three days, both chicks hatched by a pair of adults in a nest underneath the Route 462 bridge over the Susquehanna River were rescued......
2010-07-31 09:08:00
CINDY STAUFFER and TOM MURSE
Authorities have identified the man who likely drowned in the Susquehanna River on Thursday evening as John Albright, a 19-year-old from Manheim Township.Rescue crews recovered Albright's body on Friday, about 20 hours after he dove off a 20- to 30-foot cliff near Peach Bottom.D......
2010-07-30 00:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
A 19-year-old Lancaster County man remained missing late Thursday after a diving accident earlier in the day near Peach Bottom, state police said.The man was with a group of friends when he dove from a cliff into the Susquehanna River and then failed to surface, according to Trooper Chad D......
2010-06-24 20:46:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A planned maintenance project on the Wrights Ferry bridge recently became much bigger.State Department of Transportation officials had planned to do repairs on the expansion joints, structural steel and painting of the span that carries Route 30 over the Susquehanna River, between Columbia......
2010-06-24 12:52:00
STAFF
Emergency crews were conducting a water rescue on the Susquehanna River just before 12:30 p.m. today, county dispatchers reported.The area was described as north of the Route 30 bridge at Columbia. Shortly after 1 p.m., the rescue was called off when it was discovered that ......
2010-06-21 22:10:00
AD CRABLE
The Lancaster County Conservancy has acquired 45 acres in York County with vistas of the Susquehanna River.The nonprofit conservancy acquired Wilton Meadows in Hellam Township. It includes the Mason-Dixon Trail, providing hikers with an expansive view of the river. Long Level Road, which r......
2010-06-20 00:04:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
The shad lifts on the Susquehanna River quit running for the 2010 season on June 13. How was the run this year? That's kind of a "is-the-glass-half-empty-or-half-full?" question. On the glass-is-half-full side, the run was better than last year's, and it continued......
2010-06-18 23:27:00
AD CRABLE
Where is the only place in Pennsylvania where rare bald eagles, ospreys and peregrine falcons are nesting near one another?Hint: It's on an island with a nuclear plant.The 382-acre Three Mile Island, in Dauphin County, best known for its nuclear plant by the same name, has indee......
2010-06-14 11:26:00
CINDY STAUFFER
More than $10,000 worth of electronics and other items were taken during a burglary of a home in the 300 block of Blossom Hill Drive in Manheim Township.The burglary took place sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, police said. Televisions and computers were stolen....
2010-06-08 13:01:00
STAFF
Water rescue crews were dispatched to the Susquehanna River at 11:29 a.m. today for a report of a boat on the water that could not get to shore, a county dispatch supervisor said.By 1 p.m., dispatchers said the boat had safely reached land.
The location was reported only as ne......
2010-06-03 21:22:00
P.J. REILLY
People apparently looking to beat the heat in the Susquehanna River this week kept police busy.On Wednesday, seven people from Delaware between the ages of 17 and 21 were cited with trespassing on Norfolk Southern property in Fulton Township.According to state Trooper Jared Fluck, t......
2010-06-02 23:41:00
AD CRABLE
Invoking President Barack Obama's executive order to get serious about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a Manheim-area farm to stop sending pollutants into a local stream.EPA said it inspected the farm owned by Melvin and Moses Peters......
2010-06-01 10:35:00
AD CRABLE, Outdoor Trails
There is a magical glen near the Susquehanna River just upriver of the Holtwood Dam where the water gurgles, pools and rushes through moss-covered boulders and walls of rhododendron that should be erupting in blooms in the next couple weeks. Oakland Run is a ravine only reached by foot o......
2010-05-27 17:00:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
For years, Lancaster Countians have made it a tradition to close out the summer with a visit to the Long's Park Art & Craft Festival, a highly acclaimed and popular festival which takes place annually over Labor Day Weekend.Meanwhile, for the last four decades our neighbors in Harr......
2010-05-23 00:04:00
P.J. REILLY, Woods and Waters
The number of empty spaces that I can see in the Fisherman's Park parking lot as I drive across the Conowingo Dam on Route 1 May 13 has me worried. When the shad are running thick up the Susquehanna River in the spring, anglers migrate to Fisherman's Park in equally impressive number......
2010-05-20 08:52:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Rescue crews searched the Susquehanna River on Wednesday night after a motorist reported seeing a pedestrian on the Route 30 bridge, West Hempfield Township police said.The motorist saw the pedestrian "at the railing" of the bridge, township police Chief Mark Pugliese said. There......
2010-05-19 16:35:00
STAFF REPORT
Motorists who drive along a nearly 4-mile stretch of Route 441 from Columbia to Washington Boro during nighttime hours this week are being urged to practice extra caution.The state Transportation Department has announced that shifting traffic patterns and single-lane restrictions, with fla......
2010-05-12 21:16:00
AD CRABLE
Local farmers, communities with stormwater runoff problems and sewage plant owners got a clearer picture of their marching orders Wednesday from a federal government that has vowed to do what it takes to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed a 176-pa......
2010-05-07 21:58:00
TOM KNAPP
Most days, you can find Ray Glick working at his sales job in the county's southern end.When there's a fire, you can find him directing operations as chief of Robert Fulton Fire Company.But things are a little different when someone is in trouble on the Susquehanna River....
2010-05-06 21:51:00
JENNIFER TODD
Officials said they have recovered the body of a Delta man who went missing Saturday in the Susquehanna River.The body of Phillip A. Shimboff, 49, of Delta, was recovered around 4:45 p.m. Thursday near the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, according to Sgt. Art Windemuth of the Maryland Natural R......
2010-05-03 22:13:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Ed Rendell admitted he would rather not have spent a couple of hours Monday morning traversing "crummy" back roads by car to attend a windswept ceremony overlooking the Susquehanna River.But the governor was there, hobnobbing with other dignitaries in a fluttering white tent on a......
2010-05-03 20:45:00
TOM KNAPP
The search for a missing Delta man — who leapt into the Susquehanna River near Peach Bottom on Saturday to save a struggling companion and then was himself swept away in the current — continued Monday without success."We are continuing with aerial searches as well as boat ......
2010-05-02 20:36:00
TOM KNAPP
A man lost Saturday evening in the swift, chilly waters of the Susquehanna River apparently was trying to rescue a companion when he, too, was swept away by the fast-moving water.Maryland officials continued the search Sunday but were unable to find the missing man, identified as 49-year-o......
2010-05-02 00:03:00
TOM KNAPP
A day on the Susquehanna River turned tragic Saturday when a party of boaters ended up in the water — and one man was lost in the swift river current near the Maryland line. Water-rescue teams from three counties in two states searched the river for several hours Saturday evening,......
2010-04-19 20:56:00
AD CRABLE
With a purchase option agreement expired on a controversial $120 million ethanol plant, the county waste authority again is shopping around a 65-acre industrial-zoned tract next to the county incinerator in Conoy Township.The latest to show interest in the former farmland located along rai......
2010-04-19 20:16:00
JEFF HAWKES
If you watched TV in the 1970s, you remember the tear on the Indian's cheek.The iconic image of the heartbroken Native American was the climax of one of the most famous public-service ads of all time.As urgent music builds, the somber canoeist paddles from wilderness into an ind......
2010-04-15 11:37:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The body recovered Wednesday from the Susquehanna River in Manor Township is that of a Manheim Township woman missing since last month, the Lancaster County Coroner said.Tracy A. Kiebach, 43, died as the result of freshwater drowning, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said after conducting an autopsy......
2010-04-14 23:19:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police late Wednesday were trying to determine the identity of a body recovered earlier in the day from the Susquehanna River in Manor Township.Emergency crews were dispatched to an area stretching from Turkey Point to Safe Harbor Dam around 12:30 p.m., according to Lancaster County-Wide C......
2010-04-13 20:33:00
AD CRABLE
A federal agency and Audubon Pennsylvania are among about 40 conservation groups from around the world critical of a wind turbine project that's been approved for Turkey Hill along the Susquehanna River.All the concerns except one revolve around perceived threats 120-foot-long blades o......
2010-04-13 17:45:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Due to the existence of a now-rare fish that once thrived across the Mid-Atlantic region, the state's Department of Environmental Protection is recommending that Fishing Creek in southern Lancaster County retain its "protected use" designation.That's according to a 12-pag......
2010-03-29 21:02:00
TOM MURSE
Boaters searched the Susquehanna River again this weekend for a missing Manheim Township woman whose car was found abandoned on the Route 30 bridge nearly three weeks ago.But they found no sign of the woman, Tracy A. Kiebach."As far as I know, they didn't find anything,&quo......
2010-03-25 08:31:00
AD CRABLE
The three-day move of a 460-ton electrical generator from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant through western Lancaster County has been delayed again.The slow transport, which will result in traffic delays along Route 441 and across the Route 30 bridge, was scheduled to begin Friday....
2010-03-17 06:25:00
ROXANNE TODD
East Drumore Township supervisors learned March 4 that their emergency management coordinator would like to combine efforts with neighboring municipalities such as Quarryville Borough.Tim Ryan, who is also a firefighter with the Quarryville Fire Company, said he will be calling in fellow f......
2010-03-13 07:01:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It made headlines around the world in February:Berkshire Hathaway, led by renowned investor Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," completed its purchase of the Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad."Warren Buffett, like a lot of people, feels that rail is going to pl......
2010-03-13 00:03:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Many basement sump pumps already are running.The ground already is saturated from the melting snow.And periods of heavy rain are expected today, totaling 1 to 3 inches.Don't build an ark, but emergency officials are urging you to be alert to possible rising water.&......
2010-03-11 21:59:00
JENNIFER TODD
Police continued late Thursday to investigate the disappearance of a Manheim Township woman whose vehicle was found parked on the Route 30 bridge between Columbia and Wrightsville Wednesday night.The white Volkswagen, with its engine running and flashers on, was discovered a short time aft......
2010-03-11 13:30:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The borough secretaries looked up from their work in Columbia.A Chestnut Street resident, about to go upstairs in her home, paused.A woman in another part of town thought a next-door neighbor in her row of homes had dropped something while cleaning.The earth shook just before......
2010-03-11 07:51:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Rescue teams searched the Susquehanna River overnight after an abandoned car was found on the Route 30 bridge in Columbia, police said. A white Volkswagen was found on the bridge with its engine running and emergency flashers operating at about 11:30 p.m., West Hempfield Township police said....
2010-02-25 00:03:00
AD CRABLE
Sales agreements should be signed this week to pave the way for PPL to transfer 3,500 acres of land along the Susquehanna River in Lancaster and York counties for public preservation.The private, nonprofit Lancaster County Conservancy will receive between 2,000 to 2,200 acres, mostly in La......
2010-02-23 00:04:00
AD CRABLE
The federal government has concluded that building two wind turbines with 120-foot-long propellers atop Turkey Point does not threaten eagles, other raptors or bats.But some birding groups that missed the opportunity to weigh in on the project when public comment was invited believe the en......
2010-02-17 00:03:00
JEFF HAWKES
Two miles of sewer line in Talmage.An outing to the symphony for city kids.Solar panels glinting on a Penn Township roof.All across Lancaster County, people are finding an astonishing number of ways to spend federal stimulus dollars.And the list of projects goes on and......
2010-02-14 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
The Susquehanna River seems to speed up as it thunders over the brink and jumps 55 feet down the face of Holtwood Dam. Despite its eternal rush, the water always leaves behind baggage. Michael Helfrich hiked the York County shoreline on a recent wintry day and stooped to study the lates......
