Lancaster resident George Cooke hopes a T-shirt he designed featuring President-elect Barack Obama will help Americans get back their dream.The front of the T-shirt has a likeness of Obama, and the back has Cooke's Crosseas label across the top with a map of the world underneath. Super......

Warning: The following story contains graphic images and material, and is entirely suitable for kids. Why? Because "graphic" describes the hot item for back-to-school this fall — T-shirts emblazoned with oversized graphics or images. "It's more of a big deal this y......

Kids might love the in-your-face attitude of shirts that scream skulls, skeletons and slogans — looks that no doubt baffle parents who remember the days when even a plain tee was forbidden by school dress codes. But what do school administrators think? Extreme is fine — within limit......

Rock for Life is drawing battle lines through music.The Lancaster chapter of RFL, a Christian anti-abortion organization, held a concert and rally Tuesday at Warehouse 54, at the rear of Manheim Brethren in Christ Church, to promote National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day.The group also used ......

In a week when violence in Iraq exploded, Pfc. Brian Souders wondered why anyone would make a big deal out of a simple T-shirt. Souders, of Holtwood, is serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq. But before shipping out last year, he visited the post exchange at Fort Benning, Ga., and bou......

One day in December, Donald Miller III wore a gun to school. As you might imagine, it got him in trouble. But the gun wasn't loaded; indeed, it wasn't a real gun at all. It was the image of a gun, printed on the front and back of a T-shirt — a shirt the Penn Manor freshman wore to......

Dale Foulk crouched behind a counter in the Lancaster Archery Supply travel trailer parked inside the state Farm Show Complex and plugged and unplugged a series of computer cords."I can't get this to work," Foulk said. "I guess it's time to call someone who knows abo......

This year more than 600 students took time to make cards for soldiers serving overseas as part of the Intelligencer Journal’s 50th annual Holiday Greeting Card Contest.

The theme for the contest was “Honoring Our Troops,” and the cards will be sent to soldiers serving in the Middle East. It a...

“We work hard here,” Brian said, “but we play, too.” They passed an ice-skating pond. Counselors and campers waved. “Is this the North Pole?” Jack asked. “Retired elves head south, too,” Brian said. “We’re in the Blue Mountains of Washington.” “Washington?” “Technology,” Brian said. “......

Surviving chemotherapy and going to work seem to be enough of a challenge.

But for Chad McComsey of Lampeter, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in July, starting a T-shirt design business was both therapeutic and practical.

It helped the graphic designer focus on something posi...

“All I could think of was Thomas Friedman’s book ‘The World is Flat,’ where he describes how the economic and geopolitical playing field has leveled between Third World countries and the West,” he said.

Sheely, Lancaster Workforce Investment Board director, was part of a 12-member delegation ...

“This is treatment that World Series champs get, stuff like this,” the retiring Lancaster Barnstormers’ baseball executive said Wednesday afternoon. He was standing among a dozen or so other well-dressed men from Lancaster ... and one tall kid with big orange shoes. Someone reminded Lupton of ......

Turns out those athletes turned in some of the best performances in the country. Competing at Norcum High School in Newport News, Va., July 29-30, Penn Manor’s powerlifters — pumping iron in the squat, bench and deadlift — won 11 gold medals, broke five national records, collected 120 team points......

Her Kirkwood home, nestled in a large, wooded lot, seemed to be a magnet for the pesky insects. But Johnson, a nurse who runs Christian Health Coaching Inc., and is a self-described educator and consultant on the tick-borne Lyme disease, decided to fight back. Now she has a state-of-the-art ti......

That alludes to the lady Blazers' second-place finish at last year's PIAA State Class AA meet when they were only a mere ten points away from hoisting the champion's trophy, having captured Lancaster-Lebanon League and District Three championships beforehand.

But Lancaster Mennonite will need...

It is a blouse, I determine, after much fumbling and swearing, before dropping it in the laundry basket with the 47 other freshly laundered pieces of my wife’s maternity wear that I have given up even trying to fold competently. When I try, the results look as if we paid a feces-flinging monkey to d...

The man has recovered from his symptoms after being bitten by a mosquito carrying the virus, the state Department of Health reports. The agency has a policy of not releasing additional details of West Nile victims. The man is the third human case in Pennsylvania so far this year. The other ......

Two 1860s-era baseball teams -- the Flemington Neshanock Base Ball Club and the Mutual Base Ball Club of New York -- will hit the field, sans gloves, at 4 p.m.

The game is sponsored by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland, which will host a picnic Saturday featu...

And about 5,000 people were sprawled out on the wet lawn to greet them.

They sat in chairs, threw Frisbees and baseballs and licked ice cream cones in the minutes before the group was introduced.

One man, obviously energized by Italy's victory over France in the World Cup soccer game e...

Hello cool Canadian air. After a week of rain and flooding and then several days with high temperatures and humidity, a reprieve begins overnight tonight. “It will be a noticeable change,” said Millersville University meteorologist Eric Horst, “a dramatic reduction in haze, lower humidity and ......

But every year, the Fourth of July Celebration in Lititz Springs Park proves that doubtful is possible.

With more than 189 years of tradition behind it and the beautiful Grand Illumination of Candles as its centerpiece, the event is unlike any other.

Believed to be the longest-runn...

As is tradition, the 110-year-old Bainbridge Band kicked off the town's Summer Arts Festival with military marches, big brass and the kind of dignity that comes with being around for 110 years.

"They have a big following," said John Myers, who coordinates the summer festival through Great...

He lies just a few feet from a field on the family farm. Next to him are Aunt Gloria and an infant son. Three sons survive.

Seven months earlier, we held services for his older brother, my Uncle John, in the church a few yards away.

My mother is now the last of her immediate family....

A. Committing to altruistic endeavors like charity rides, runs and triathlons is a great way to get in shape, feel good and have fun at the same time. But for maximum enjoyment, preparation is the key. First, do not scrimp on good gear. You are going to depend on your bike and clothing for hours ......

“Probably hungover,” Patricia Turner told me. She wasn’t, though all 21 employees at Mangold’s Tax Service rented a dining room at Tobias S. Frogg that night to celebrate the end of the “season.” Today, you can get a parking spot smack-dab in front of the friendly Columbia Avenue tax-preparati......

“Probably hungover,” Patricia Turner told me. She wasn’t, though all 21 employees at Mangold’s Tax Service rented a dining room at Tobias S. Frogg that night to celebrate the end of the “season.” Today, you can get a parking spot smack-dab in front of the friendly Columbia Avenue tax-preparati......

It was a gorgeous Saturday in June 1981. Rhinier, then a 17-year-old Wheatland Fire Co. volunteer, was on a risky mission to save lives when he almost lost his own.


An 8-year-old boy had fallen into an old septic tank in School Lane Hills. Carbon dioxide gas had overcome the two paramedic...

German-born Peter Lindbergh, who has taken photos for magazines from Vogue to Vanity Fair to Rolling Stone, as well as portraits of film and recording stars, spent Tuesday and Wednesday shooting fashion photos for the August issue of Harper's Bazaar.

His subject was an Amish-inspired tren...

For the second year in a row. Garman’s team is tops in what has become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. Bowling had a 14 percent gain in boys sports and a 13 percent gain in girls sports last year, out......

She reaches into her purse for her make-up.

Without a trace of irritation, photographer Warren Pennypacker offers her a mirror.

"I got my own," says Fritchlee of East Hempfield, brushing on eye shadow as she peers into the tiny mirror of her compact.

She apologizes as she ex...

In matching red shirts and jeans, the Lancaster city elementary schoolgirls counted the beats as they shook their hips and shimmied their shoulders to imaginary music in the gymnasium at McCaskey East High School.

"I just love to dance. I want to be a dancer," said Bianca, who attends Wickers...

Shop owner George Sayles says that as his business increased by leaps and bounds over the past two years, moving into larger quarters grew more and more necessary.

“You know how it is, you have the vision but you have to wait for the ‘right’ time,” Sayles explained. “When I heard that thi...

With the exception of celery, succotash, and raw lemon rinds, I have engaged, engorged, and pretty much gleefully devoured anything that falls between artichokes and zucchini in the wonderful world of food these past weeks. I have indulged...OK, overindulged. I have visited the trough of Holiday Eat...

Picture the bloated rat Templeton after he feasted at the fair in “Charlotte’s Web.” I deserve my gluttonous day off from work after the holiday I’ve had. Young fathers unite, grab the Elmo guitar and join in singing my version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”: On the first day of Christma......

Picture the bloated rat Templeton after he feasted at the fair in “Charlotte’s Web.” I deserve my gluttonous day off from work after the holiday I’ve had. Young fathers unite, grab the Elmo guitar and join in singing my version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”: On the first day of Christma......

In September, the pair created a line of "founder T-shirts" to generate interest in the college's namesakes: Benjamin Franklin and John Marshall.

The shirts turned out so well the twins wondered if people would be interested in buying them.

"We took about 15 to a field hockey game on B...

After five days and about 3,000 miles, a caravan that included 40 students and 18 chaperones, pulled into the high school at 10 a.m. A crowd filled with grandparents, moms, dads and friends broke into applause when the final bus approached the school. Students said the trip changed their lives......

On stage, Hot Apple Pie could have been mistaken for a rock 'n' roll band in their nondescript black T-shirts, and Aaron Tippin sang his in-your-face, cowboy-attitude hit, "Kiss This," without a 10-gallon hat on his head or in his hand.

It seems that the Western influence on country music fas...

How student-run campus activity boards are able to find hilarious comedians, fascinating speakers and amazing magicians? Or how students manage to get their school’s logo put on sweat shirts, key chains and mugs that they give away at orientation? The answer is at the Lancaster Host and Resort......

"Stop Snitching" T-shirts have arrived in Lancaster, after making a name for themselves in larger cities.

"It's one of our more popular sellers," says Alberto Gonzalez, manager of the New Style store at 25 W. King St., which has been selling the $25 shirts for about two weeks.

Some peo...

Event organizers hosted a basketball tournament, three bands -- one from as far away as San Francisco -- and several local restaurants offering samples of their fare and dubbed the evening Rock the Park.

Emily Wells, a recent graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and head of Campus Central,...

Temperatures were cresting in the mid-90s, the warmest and muggiest so far of the season. Both men were wearing shorts and sneakers and little else. Both were middle-aged and, as writer John McPhee once turned the phrase, “somewhat beyond athletic trim.”

Santa-style midsections may gross out ...

And he knows stuff about downtown parking, around which controversy has swirled since Byrne’s announcement of plans to build a garage near Central Market.

The parking authority envisions a $19 million, seven-story garage on West King Street big enough for 707 cars, 15 buses and three delivery...

The girl went on to explain that it is a rule in her home that if they are going to be playing in a ball game, they are not supposed to go to the pool on the same day. This rule is to prevent the ball-player from getting fried and tired in the sun so that they can perform well in the game.

Pa...

Some of the items that the patients ask for are: paperback books, toilet articles (shaving cream, toothpaste, toothbrush, powder, body lotion, deodorant (no spray), shampoo), body wash, playing cards, t-shirts, hats, caps, shorts, socks, pullovers, shirts, games, pens, writing paper, puzzle books, p...

In fact, according to the slogan on a popular T-shirt, real men wear pink. Pink shirts, pink watches, even pink boxer shorts, shoelaces and ’do rags. “Pink is the new black,” says Jay Schrantz, manager of the American Eagle Outfitters store at Park City, where the hottest-selling men’s polo sh......

If you’ve been to any Penn Manor boys’ volleyball games this spring, you’ve seen that slogan plastered on the front of the bright yellow t-shirts the team wears during pre-game warm-ups. Senior setter Kevin Steinkirchner came up with the catchy slogan. Turns out it was a line in a movie called Na......

The attorney for Wallace Terry Leary, a Lancaster man accused of burglarizing a home and hitting its occupant with a sledgehammer, said Monday police lacked probable cause for his client's arrest and that Leary wasn't properly informed of his Miranda rights.

In a suppressio......

Although she and her husband bought season tickets in February for Lancaster Barnstormers games, she’s waiting until the home opener next week before she buys any team gear. A trip to Clipper Magazine Stadium should include buying a team cap or T-shirt, she believes, as well as rooting for the ho......

After more than 40 years without a robbery, two males armed with a pistol stormed into the Manor Township eatery Wednesday night and demanded money.

Their faces covered with scarves, they shouted demands at the trio of teenage waitresses and a lone customer. They grabbed...

I’m sure guilt and a strong desire not to have Deb come home and find too many things out of place will spur me into action at some-RED ALERT! DEFCON 4...I REPEAT...DEFCON 4!!! Deb has just called and she’s coming home early...in fact she’s just getting off the PA Turnpike and is only a few minutes ...

Not a revolution with weapons, but a revolution of voices. “It’s about making voices heard,” said Ebersole, of Akron, Ohio. In the fall, the young men founded Revolution Threads, a company that silk screens revolutionary messages and symbols on T-shirts. The company slogan is “Fatigues for ......

After 21 years of selling and fixing bikes along North Queen Street, Cycle Circle owner Thom Podlesny, 46, has begun manufacturing them. It’s the realization of a lifelong dream for Podlesny, who has been tinkering with bicycles since he was 14. Podlesny spent two weeks in January attending a ......

Except for her Asian features, Julia looks like any child being reared among Lancaster County's Plain religious sects.

The 3-year-old daughter of Brent and Stacey-jean Inion, of Leola, however, is not like most of the children who live here.

Julia is autistic.

She is Chinese....

Any girl, ages 5 to 18 years old, is invited to register for the upcoming season. Players must reside or attend school in the Warwick School District.

The fee to play is $45 a child for the first child, and $40 for each additional family member. All players are expected to participate in the ...

She told the group about her experiences as a nurse serving in some of the most dangerous parts of Iraq, including Fallujah and Mosul since January of 2004. Walters also described how community efforts at home have a major impact on troops in the military.

“It was difficult at times, but you ...

Wouldn’t you? We all know what Orphie’s quick move back into his cozy den means on Groundhog Day: Six more weeks of winter. “We have to go with what he told us,” declared Dr. James Pennington, chairman of the board of the Hibernating Governors of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville. ......

In the Ephrata Performing Arts Center's production of the Broadway hit, "Sweet Charity,'' Kristie Ohlinger dazzles and delights as Charity Hope Valentine, the New York City Fandango Ballroom dancer who is waiting for Prince Charming to sweep her away to his castle ... his gas station ... or any plac...

“Shooter set!” the man calls out, watching from a safe distance as the woman flexes her hand above the holster. Shot after shot rings out and the sulfurous smell of gun smoke hangs in the air at 6 Juniata Court. Just another Wednesday night at the Shinglers’. Howard Shingler walks to the re......

In October 2002, the duo paired their sewing zest with the dream of business ownership and founded J&K Embroidery Plus.

As the second anniversary of their Columbia home-centered business approaches, the two are looking to increase their customer base.

"We've learned a lot o......

Knowing the nuances of the flavors only comes from living and growing up inside each group. But like ice cream, there are some differences you can tell just by sight.

The following list describes the most common flavors of Mennonites and Amish by their more obvious differences.

MODERN:...

Stores now rent and sell tuxedos in colors ranging from red, silver and even periwinkle. Jackets come in crushed velvet, vests come in patterns and shirts come with ruffles. Despite these bold new directions, there are a few guidelines to contemporary tuxedo style, straight from fashion experts. Her...

Knowing the nuances of the flavors only comes from living and growing up inside each group. But like ice cream, there are some differences you can tell just by sight.

The following list describes the most common flavors of Mennonites and Amish by their more obvious differences.
...

From the Bible to Doctor Phil, people are warned that worrying about the future uses up time you could spend enjoying the present.

Linda Morrow, 46, threw herself into “living in the moment” Saturday. She put on a party for more than 30 family members, from 10-month-old cousin Becky Bourne to...

She can’t brush her hair or teeth without help. She can’t write her own name. Cerebral palsy has taken away Carly Long’s ability to care for herself, but it hasn’t stopped her from becoming a social butterfly, especially at Camp Schreiber. Camp Schreiber, a five-week Schreiber Pediatric Reh......

In 2002, arts organizations across the country blamed their financial woes on the Sept. 11 fallout. Yet Norcross and a committed board pushed ahead with plans to found Allegro, The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster.

Allegro has defied all financial odds. Board members say the orch......

Give the Player of the Year in Berks County an opportunity like that and chances are she's not going to miss.

In Thursday afternoon's District Three Class AA Girls' Soccer semifinal game played on the artificial turf at Pequea Valley, Fromuth got just such a chance and buried it t......

The one in which you wrote, "I'm going to a place where I'll be able to start over and finally be happy.'' The one in which you vowed, "I will call or write in a few weeks once I get settled in, I promise.'' But you never did call. Or write. Or e-mail. Or anything at all.

Days and weeks a...

The mayor planned to divert $143,000 from social service agencies to help pay for curb cuts needed to help wheelchair users navigate the city's streets.

His compromise added $45,660 to the $271,000 already earmarked for social service agencies. The extra money was taken from $1......

"I'm not comfortable with the amount of money that was taken away from social services and shifted over for various reasons," said councilman John Graupera during Monday's meeting. "I see areas where there's wiggle room, where we can bring some of these funds back and provide moneys for ......

You take a walk after dinner and it's not dark yet. Your winter coat seems downright suffocating.

The temperature might hit 60 on Monday.

Dare we say it? Spring is still 23 days away, but that subtle awakening already has begun, the one that whispers in our ear: open the windows, s...

Or maybe if you hear 40 degrees is the best you'll get from Mother Nature this week.

Today and Tuesday will be a relief from the remarkably cold Arctic air that's socked Lancaster County over the past few days.

That's the good news.

The bad news: Frigid air from eastern Cana...

Although Dr. Anthony J. Mauriello Jr. has known the Italian opera icon since treating him in July 1998, he still was shocked when he got the Nov. 29 call from the legend himself inviting him to his wedding in the central theater of Pavarotti's hometown, Modena, Italy.

"It was the nea......

The storied Barons football team came home with its first state championship.

The town went nuts.

"We've lived here 20 years, and I' m happy -- but it's almost relief, because we've been so close. We've been through this so many times before,'' said Brian Weidle, who heads the foot...

"It's kind of morbid, but that's what is going to happen if these cuts go through," Bill Wright, spokesman for the downtown library, said. "Most of the other libraries in the county are doing something, too. We all want to take one last push to get the word out."

Legislator......

Residents or "inmates'' at the Mennonite Old People's Home, as it was known, helped to pick their own food from fields surrounding the Harrisburg Pike home, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

During the Depression, transients and poor people showed up at the "back porch...

The 100-pound Rottweiler hadn't yet come outside for his sunrise romp. Sage pulled two dog biscuits from a pouch and tossed them over the fence.

"He'll know I was by," said Sage, 47, resuming his patrol of a north-central section of Lancaster.

Leaving treats for dogs isn't in Sage's....

Children in Freeman's physical education classes toss rubber

chickens, learn about stress management and use a game of freeze

tag to brush up on math and spelling skills.



"We're not traditional," she said Wednesday afternoon.



Freeman's inventive st.....

On Thursday, they visited campus as the college's business partners.

The two men founded a small clothing company in 1999 they called Franklin & Marshall Srl., unaware of the Lancaster liberal-arts college of the same name.

When F&M the college caught wind of their venture, offic.....

"We're here to help our community,'' said Villarreal, on her knees as she yanked at a particularly ornery clump of weeds.

The weather did little to dampen the spirits of these volunteers.

"It's cleansing,'' said Marrie, "when you are doing something good for the community. Doing so...

How are you supposed to find out what's in style this year without kids. Where are the kids?

They're probably catching a few last rays at the pool or squeaking out one more paycheck from their summer job. They aren't dragging their moms to shop like they used to do.

Following a nat...

Anyway, as I was shopping, I spotted what appeared to be a perfectly practical mini-skirt. But when I picked it up, I realized it was a shirt! Are you joking me? I can't wear this or half the other stuff lying on the shelves this season. There's a little thing called the school dress code.
...

Ah, viciousness.

Last week’s little missive was certain to provoke it, and it did – read today’s letters to the editor page, where you’ll find out that I’m a sniveling weasel.

Heck, you didn’t have to spend 10 minutes of your life reading my column to find that out. You could’ve asked ...

It was the final stop on our whirlwind summer baseball tour, and we're very happy to report that it was one of our best experiences yet -- even though the heavens opened up Thursday night and dumped buckets of rain on us.

The view was gorgeous nonetheless.

Campbell's Field is situa...

Kyle Lonaberger, along with his dad, Barry, 42, and brother, Brandon, 9, had the chance of a lifetime Thursday when they were invited to meet President George W. Bush during his brief visit to Philadelphia.

The Lonabergers, of Narvon, plus two other Pennsylvania families, were invited to ...

The college and Cortez/Franklin & Marshall Clothing of Verona, Italy, signed a licensing agreement in June that allows the clothier to sell its F&M-brand clothing in Europe and the United States.

The college retains the rights to its name and still will market its o......

There was the time Matt Torchia put his twin brother's photo on his passport, and another time when the Torchia twins swapped roles, and shirts, for the day.

"Changing shirts, that's very important," Christopher said.

For the six sets of twins who will graduate fr......

After a few seconds of thought, he knew the answer was no. Greg Testa has never played on a losing team. Not in soccer, basketball or baseball. Not in middle school, rec leagues or high school. Never.

Anyone who followed his career at Lancaster Catholic is probably not surprised.

"...

"I think we're less worried about terrorism now because we went over and took care of business,'' said Willie Conyers Jr. of Lancaster, who was doing a little Easter shopping of his own this morning at Central Market.

"I think President Bush did a hell of a job,'' he said.

Conyers ...

Though she can be spotted anywhere in the courthouse, McGovern works out of a tiny office surrounded by judges' chambers, a holding cell for prisoners and the bailiff administrator's office. Sheriff deputies escort handcuffed prisoners by her door.

McGovern and her lifetime fri......

That's the message children, attorneys, judges, social workers and guidance counselors want parents to hear. Even some divorced parents are waving the warning flag.

"I wish they (other divorced parents) would realize their kids are kids and they are the adults," said Ann, a div......

Curry, the district's director of the Office of Teaching and Learning, has already been endorsed by Phillips. And a majority of school board members have indicated they plan to promote him tonight to assistant superintendent at a salary of $120,000.

The district does not currently have an...

Jim Morrison is a protege of Santa Claus, and the National Christmas Center is his gift to those who want to believe in the magic of the holiday season.

Since childhood, Morrison has collected keepsakes from his favorite holiday, starting with a glass Christmas tree ornament he found in someo...

Lions' tackle tandem has serious plans for season
Adams, Kennedy like to keep things loose, but on the field, these guys are all business
Tackles: PSU's Adams, Kennedy have serious plans


   This couldn't be good, and Zack Mills knew it....

The story of a silent "shadow' - and his Brownstown sun
By Tom Murse
New Era Staff Writer
   Paul is waving his arms in the kitchen of The Brownstown Restaurant. He is trying to speak but cannot. His lips are moving - they are alw......