2009-11-18 07:42:00
CINDY HUMMEL
After 12 years of planning and 12 months of construction, the 1.4-mile Strasburg Bypass opened Tuesday.Borough Mayor Bruce Ryder, who served as volunteer project coordinator, credited the $8.3 million project to "a cast of thousands."During an 8 a.m. ceremony, 22 key membe......
2009-11-16 19:11:00
STAFF REPORT
Route 501 in Lititz will be closed to all traffic on Wednesday.The road will be closed at the railroad tracks on North Broad Street from 8 a.m. to sometime in the evening, police said.Norfolk Southern Railroad will be repairing the track crossing with a rubberized surface and new pa......
2009-11-16 00:03:00
STAFF
A Newark, Del., couple is in serious condition after reportedly driving into the path of a oncoming Coatesville man Sunday afternoon in Leacock Township.Fulton G. Kitson, 84, and Shirley A. Kitson, 82, were listed in serious condition at Lancaster General Hospital Sunday night after the ac......
2009-11-13 08:04:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Wisdom, attorney Tom Scott said Thursday, "is no less wise if it's somewhat late in arriving."When it comes to the proposed Cheswicke development, eyed for one of suburban Lancaster's prime locations, "the time for moving this project forward has arrived," Scott emphasized.Across th......
2009-11-12 09:57:00
AD CRABLE
This being the time of year that it is, you wouldn't think wild turkeys should be pressing their luck by jaywalking in front of impatient motorists.But four to six turkeys are back in the vicinity of the busy Columbia Avenue-Donerville Road intersection, literally stopping traffic, roo......
2009-11-10 06:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Motorists using Route 222 northeast of Lancaster will have to endure the single-lane restrictions on the four-lane highway only until the end of next week — but that is only a winter reprieve.The orange traffic cones will reappear with the first spring flowers and stay around all nex......
2009-11-07 06:28:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Three weeks ago, Alvia Urdaneta was sitting in traffic, waiting to leave McCaskey High School, when another car sideswiped the vehicle she was riding in.A week earlier, two of the McCaskey junior's friends were knocked off their bicycles after cars struck them in front of the school....
2009-11-03 08:09:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It may be the first-ever appeal of its kind in East Hempfield Township.In another twist to the increasingly complicated, increasingly heated battle over the proposed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the township, neighbors are appealing the supervisors' recent approval of......
2009-11-01 00:21:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The car was headed east on Route 322 near Ephrata, moving erratically. When the driver made an illegal U-turn at Hahnstown Road, an Ephrata police officer pulled him over. The driver didn't have identification, said Ephrata police Lt. Chris McKim. Neither did his four passengers. Police ......
2009-10-27 22:21:00
STAFF
A tractor-trailer fire Tuesday afternoon closed a portion of Route 30 near Mountville and snarled traffic for rush-hour commuters.The truck became engulfed in flames after a fire started in its engine compartment, according to Mountville Deputy Chief Robert Evans III.Fire crews, who......
2009-10-23 13:47:00
Staff
Four key intersections in downtown Lancaster are scheduled for overnight repaving work next week.This work will smooth areas where new brick crosswalks have been installed. The schedule is as follows: • Monday Night (7pm-6am): King/Prince repaving. King closed at Water Street, an......
2009-10-13 06:06:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Mike O'Brien had just spent more than an hour Wednesday giving details on his proposed development on the west edge of Rohrerstown, the small village in East Hempfield Township.Then he thought of one more thing — "I also would like to thank Major League Baseball for scheduli......
2009-10-04 00:19:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Charlie Smithgall rolls through town in his big black Chevrolet Suburban, pointing out the things he said have gone wrong since Rick Gray replaced him as mayor of Lancaster. "I don't mean to be critical," he said. "But I'm gonna be critical." "Ever been ......
2009-10-02 08:29:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
The debate over a proposed, much-discussed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in suburban Lancaster looks far from over.In the latest development, a Lancaster County Court judge has sided with East Hempfield Township in an appeal by some of the township's residents, who......
2009-09-29 00:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Two years ago, when several projects were proposed for Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster County transportation planners did something that shouldn't seem that unusual.They did a study of the entire corridor, from Prince Street in Lancaster city to State Road in East Hempfield Township.......
2009-09-16 05:58:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Preliminary work on the "Five Points" road improvement project at Route 72 and Fruitville Pike will close Route 72 at the railroad tracks from Sept. 26 through 28.The road will be closed while the state Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern widen the rail crossing, bo......
2009-09-15 10:23:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County officials today will submit a $91.5 million grant application that promises to increase traffic flow on Harrisburg Pike, reknit long-severed streets, improve walking and bicycling and ensure the economic vitality of the corridor into the future.The application is to the fe......
2009-09-08 00:03:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Dillsburg woman was killed and her husband critically injured in a two-car collision Sunday in Pequea Township.The accident occurred in the 3200 block of Willow Street Pike North (Route 272) at 4:49 p.m., Southern Regional police said.A Buick LeSabre being driven by Amos W. Shissl......
2009-09-02 00:18:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
After a long delay, all needed permits for three downtown Lancaster intersection projects have been received from the state, Mayor Rick Gray said Tuesday. With the permits in hand from the state Department of Transportation, the work to install new signals, brick crosswalks and "bulb-ou......
2009-08-31 00:15:00
TOM KNAPP
A Lebanon County man was killed Sunday afternoon when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck in Manor Township.The incident is still under investigation, Manor Township police Sgt. Carolyn Gundel said Sunday evening. An accident reconstruction team is working to determin......
2009-08-27 08:08:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
One of the bigger issues they "always wrestle with in a rezoning of this size," an East Hempfield Township official said, is "what do we do about traffic?"And as they study plans for a new community near Landisville, which took a step forward Wednesday night, East Hempf......
2009-08-23 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
It's been a frustrating summer for Nick and Tina Flouras. The couple owns the Red Rose a restaurant at East King and North Duke streets, a popular eatery that got an upscale makeover last year. As part of the change, the Red Rose got a permit to place tables on the sidewalk for alfresco din......
2009-08-19 08:21:00
STEPHEN ENGLE
Beginning Monday, motorists who travel Miller Road and Buch Avenue between Manheim and Fruitville pikes will have to use an alternate route because of road reconstruction.Roadwork will close the street to through traffic until the beginning of October, according to John Hogan, owner of Hog......
2009-08-13 10:47:00
P.J. REILLY
Two giant steam generators destined for Three Mile Island are expected to begin their long journey from France any day now.The cargo ship carrying the generators for the Unit 1 reactor at the TMI nuclear power plant are expected to glide through the mouth of the Susquehanna River to a ship......
2009-08-13 08:56:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Driving past Buchanan Elementary School on a morning or afternoon when school is in session can be a perilous experience.Parents often double-park on South West End and Maple avenues while dropping off or picking up their children, and buses frequently block a lane of traffic as they wait ......
2009-08-08 08:24:00
BERNARD HARRIS
For truckers pulling a heavy load or people learning to drive a stick shift on Lititz Pike, help is on the way.Work on the Lititz Pike-Millport Road intersection is more than halfway done and is expected to be completed by the middle of next month.The $900,000 improvement project in......
2009-08-03 00:28:00
P.J. REILLY
Two men were seriously injured Saturday night in a two-car crash in Lancaster Township.Juan Rosario, 63, of Lancaster, was in critical condition, and Dean Patterson, 42, of Norristown, was in fair condition at Lancaster General Hospital on Sunday night, a nursing supervisor said.Cit......
2009-07-28 08:03:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
In recent days, you might have seen some Manheim Township commissioners studying rush-hour traffic at one of their community's most congested spots.That would be New Holland Pike and Route 30, also the site of a housing development the commissioners considered Monday evening.It ......
2009-07-26 00:10:00
PAULA WOLF
A year-and-a-half after the Red Rose Council of the Blind requested audible traffic signals, the city confirmed last week that they will be installed at four downtown Lancaster intersections. Charlotte Katzenmoyer, Lancaster's director of public works, said via e-mail that there are plans t......
2009-07-22 10:04:00
DIANA MARTIN
The consensus after a meeting on a proposed Manheim Township development Tuesday evening was to choose the "lesser of evils.""As much as we all hate the idea, the property behind us is going to be developed — no matter what — and the best outcome for our neighbor......
2009-07-16 00:08:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Harrisburg couple and two teenagers were injured Wednesday afternoon when the sport utility vehicle in which they were traveling struck a concrete median on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in East Cocalico Township, state police said.Edward George, 63, was listed in good condition and Barbara ......
2009-07-10 05:01:00
JAMES BUESCHER
A portion of River Road in Conestoga Township is being closed so that work crews can perform drainage repairs.The township's supervisors on Tuesday approved the temporary closing of the road in the area near Safe Harbor Dam.The road is being closed from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each ......
2009-07-03 00:12:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It's a project that will "eliminate some congestion and make it easier to make left-hand turns on that road."And the plans, to add a middle turning lane to heavily traveled Manheim Pike in the suburbs north of Lancaster, took a step toward reality this week.Supervisors......
2009-06-30 00:17:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Traffic issues tied to Maibach LLC's proposed agri-energy center in Rapho Township were the key topics discussed at the continuation of a hearing Monday.Questions about fire department access were raised by an attorney at the hearing, which was attended by about 30 people. The biofuels......
2009-06-29 00:25:00
TOM KNAPP
A Gap woman was killed and her husband and infant son injured Sunday morning when their buggy was struck from behind by a car in Chester County.Rebecca Glick was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a news release issued by Trooper Mark W. Knock.Her husband, 29-year-old Reuben......
2009-06-16 22:53:00
TOM KNAPP
A developer eyeing a new shopping center at Route 283 and Hershey Road wants Mount Joy Township to dedicate its traffic impact fees for construction of a new connector road.The plan for Elizabethtown Crossings calls for 70,000 square feet of retail space on about 20 acres in the southeast ......
2009-06-14 00:19:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Lancaster city is putting a dimmer on some of its bulb-outs. After discussions with local transit officials, the city decided to reduce the size of planned curb extensions at four downtown intersections. Bulb-outs will be reduced from six to three feet from the original curb — and......
2009-06-06 13:40:00
STAFF
A mother and daughter were taken to Lancaster General Hospital late Saturday morning after their car was in a collision with a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup was not injured. Police said the truck was traveling southbound on Fruitville Pike heading into Lancaster city when the driver of......
2009-06-05 01:44:00
JENNIFER TODD
It's been a bumpy journey for city motorists the last few weeks, but smoother sailing is expected next week.Crews next week are scheduled to pave the first block of South Queen Street and the first blocks of East and West Vine streets as a months-long street reconstruction project near......
2009-05-27 18:49:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — An article posted on LancasterOnline Wednesday incorrectly stated who is operating the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island. The plant is operated by Exelon Nuclear.•••...
2009-05-19 00:54:00
JENNIFER TODD
A $19 million transportation project that includes replacement of the Lititz Pike bridge and significant redesign of traffic patterns in the city's northeast is still on track to begin in 2012, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials said Monday.Environmental studies are be......
2009-05-18 23:02:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Neighbors of a proposed 88-unit development along Rockvale Road expressed concerns about the project last week during a conditional-use hearing in West Lampeter Township.The owners of 19 existing homes along Rockvale Road would be forced to hook up to public sewer if the ages-55-and-older ......
2009-05-07 01:19:00
JENNIFER TODD
City planners Wednesday said improvements to the Lititz Pike and Marshall Avenue intersection do not have to be completed as part of the development of the former Lancaster Stockyards site.Developers originally planned to install a 100-foot right-turn lane on Marshall Avenue for traffic tu......
2009-05-01 00:48:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Millersville University will start a project on George Street next week meant to improve pedestrian safety, school officials said.The first part of the project will be the installation of "talking signals" at George and Frederick streets, which is one of the busiest pedestrian cr......
2009-04-15 00:46:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster's commitment to heritage preservation has earned the city national recognition as a Preserve America Community.The designation recognizes cities for their efforts to promote heritage tourism, foster economic vitality and involve public and private partnerships in preservation......
2009-04-06 00:27:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A violent two-vehicle crash March 29 in Leacock Township involving seven young people has claimed a fourth life.Amos Lee Beiler, 20, of Springville Road, Kinzers, died Sunday afternoon at Reading Hospital.An autopsy is scheduled for this morning, according to the Berks County corone......
2009-04-01 11:14:00
CARLA DI FONZO
What began as a routine traffic stop in downtown Lancaster turned into a tense situation that required 15 police officers to defuse. Officer Anthony Weaver reported that he was conducting a routine traffic stop in the 500 block of Palm Street just after 9 p.m. Tuesday when a nearby observer be......
2009-04-01 01:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
A new day, a new detour.Beginning at 6 this morning, the first block of South Queen Street, between Vine and King streets, will be closed temporarily as crews begin reconstruction of the roadway.The work is expected to take two to three weeks and will involve taking the road down to......
2009-03-30 01:09:00
DAVE PIDGEON
A two-vehicle wreck just east of Intercourse in Leacock Township claimed the lives of three people Sunday night.Two pickup trucks collided and became entangled in the 4100 block of Old Philadelphia Pike east of New Holland Road at 7 p.m.The names of those involved in the wreck and w......
2009-03-14 01:12:00
STAFF REPORT
Road repair projects on Route 896 in Smoketown and Route 72 in Manheim will start next week, the state Department of Transportation announced Friday.Motorists are warned to watch for delays in work areas with temporary traffic signals, single lanes of traffic or detours.On Monday, c......
2009-03-11 00:46:00
TOM KNAPP
A shopping center proposed in Manheim Township is drawing flak from residents of neighboring East Hempfield Township.About 80 residents gathered at the East Hempfield municipal building Tuesday to sound off on two proposals to handle the anticipated traffic from The Crossings at Conestoga ......
2009-03-07 00:47:00
MICHAEL YODER
Having lived his whole life there on his family farm, which dates to the early 1700s, Robert Miller has seen many changes to the region surrounding Farmingdale Road.He watched as Route 30, adjacent to the road, became a major highway in the early 1960s. He also was there to see Park City C......
2009-03-02 00:40:00
Staff report
Northwest Regional police ticketed 27 speeders Thursday as part of an ongoing effort to stop aggressive driving.During the department's first detail under the Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving and Education Project, 30 motorists were stopped. Twenty-seven of them drove away with speeding tic......
2009-02-16 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man was killed and two other people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday in Colerain Township.The vehicle veered out of control at Route 472 and Bartville Road, east of Quarryville, about 3:20 p.m.A man in his 20s was pinned inside the vehicle and pronounced dead while in......
2009-01-03 00:48:00
STAFF REPORT
The 100 block of North Queen Street will be closed this weekend and next so workers can demolish the pedestrian bridge spanning the street in Lancaster Square.North Queen will be closed between Orange and Chestnut streets today and Sunday and Jan. 10 and 11.Signs will direct motoris......
2008-12-29 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A motorcyclist was killed Sunday when his cycle collided with a sport-utility vehicle in southern Lancaster city.The 25-year-old rider died after the 4 p.m. collision in the 500 block of South Duke Street, according to city police.Police were trying Sunday night to determine which w......
2008-12-26 09:02:00
JACK BRUBAKER
How are Lancaster County and New York City residents alike? They drive less than other residents of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Maybe. Metropolitan Lancaster — that's the entire county — ranks 99th among metro areas in a new study of ve......
2008-12-18 00:35:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The aging bridge that carries Marietta Avenue over the Amtrak rail line in Mount Joy will be replaced with a lookalike next year.The steel truss bridge that has spanned the rail line since 1896 will give way to a similar steel bridge that planners say will meld with the historic district t......
2008-12-17 01:36:00
DAVE PIDGEON
If Lancaster County had a theme song, it probably wouldn't be the Beatles' "Drive My Car."That's because in spite of traffic jams on Fruitville Pike and congestion in Lancaster city's stop-and-go streets, county residents don't drive their automobiles as much ......
2008-12-11 00:57:00
JENNIFER TODD
Pat Fruehauf pulls as close as possible to the center yellow line when waiting to make a left turn into the Mission Hills development off Oregon Pike in Manheim Township.As she waits for a break in oncoming traffic, cars speed by."They whiz right around you," Fruehauf, who......
2008-12-09 01:21:00
MICHAEL YODER
Despite a vocal outcry from dozens of residents at a packed meeting, Manheim Township commissioners Monday night gave the go-ahead for the construction of a new shopping center destined to change the look of Fruitville Pike.The commissioners approved the conditional-use request for the dev......
2008-12-08 10:45:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Worried school officials at Martin Elementary School were afraid of it. Lots of motorists, especially those who often were forced to wait — and wait — to make a left turn from Wabank Road onto Route 741, hated it. And Rob Eckenrode and his Lancaster Township salt truck and snow......
2008-12-04 01:02:00
TOM KNAPP
One woman called the proposed church "a monstrosity."About a dozen East Hempfield Township residents united Wednesday to ask township supervisors to appeal a decision by the zoning board allowing construction of a church — planned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day......
2008-11-29 00:42:00
PATRICK BURNS
Holiday purists this time of year love to expound on how Black Friday is the ultimate distortion of the true meaning of Christmas.But the East Cocalico Lions Club has devised a "double-reverse exploitation" strategy that twists Black Friday commercialism back into line with the t......
2008-11-25 01:41:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Manheim Township residents tried one last time Monday to persuade their township commissioners to reject a shopping center proposal that calls for taking some homeowners' land in order to widen the busy Fruitville Pike.A near-capacity crowd jammed into the township building. The loud g......
2008-11-21 09:51:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A water main along Willow Street Pike, south of Lancaster, broke in two places early today, causing a major drop in water pressure and traffic problems. The recent cold weather caused the 10-inch line, which runs along the southbound lane of Willow Street Pike, to break just south of Buchmiller......
2008-11-16 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The knock on Hilda Garrett's door came July 2. In the doorway stood Michael Hession, Denver borough manager, with a letter. Mrs. Garrett, an 86-year-old widow who lives alone in a small but stately home along South Fifth Avenue, opened the letter. To this day, she's bothered by what it ......
2008-10-28 10:29:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Traffic congestion, air pollution, the health effects of obesity and a stagnant economy are common problems for towns and cities nationwide. Carmel, Ind., had a simple, two-wheeled solution: promote bicycle use. The Indianapolis suburb turned an abandoned rail line into a rail-trail and es......
2008-10-23 02:25:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Two precast concrete arches were lifted into place Wednesday evening at the new bridge straddling Big Chiques Creek between Penn and Rapho townships.The original Big Chiques No. 2 Bridge had been one of only four reinforced concrete through-arch style bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. Ere......
2008-10-20 00:01:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A man was killed and his passenger was seriously injured Sunday morning in a single-vehicle crash in Sadsbury Township.Fred Swatski, 65, of Kulpmont, Northumberland County, drove through a stop sign at Upper Valley Road and Noble Road in Sadsbury Township about 12:30 a.m., investigators sa......
2008-10-14 00:07:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Improvements proposed for Fruitville Pike between Granite Run Drive and Delp Road would lessen the number of accidents along that busy stretch of road.That's what traffic engineer Jody Evans said Monday during a meeting with Manheim Township commissioners, who are being asked to allow ......
2008-10-04 00:58:00
STAFF REPORT
A portion of Peters Road in Upper Leacock and Earl townships will be closed to through traffic for three days, beginning Tuesday.The road closing, at the railroad crossing south of Route 23 near Groffdale, will continue through Thursday.During that time, Norfolk Southern Railway Co.......
2008-09-29 00:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 22-year-old Marietta man recently pleaded guilty to causing a violent two-car crash in 2006 that killed a York man and seriously injured three people.David L. Broadwater was speeding on Route 772 in Rapho Township when his Mazda collided head-on with a Subaru on Dec. 9, 2006, officials s......
2008-09-23 01:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Fruitville Pike will be widened, officials say, whether a planned shopping center at Granite Run is built or not and whether residents living along the busy roadway like it or not. And many don't. About a half-dozen people who live along Fruitville Pike between Delp and Granite Run roads a......
2008-09-15 11:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Call it a cheap fix: no speed bumps or tables, no "bulb out" curbs, no signs or flashing lights — just some paint. Lancaster City and East King Improvement District officials are claiming speeds of passing traffic were lowered as much as six miles per hour on East King Street si......
2008-09-14 00:18:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
The Lancaster City Traffic Commission on Tuesday approved angled parking on both sides of the 400 through 700 blocks of College Avenue. Installation of angled parking, said Mayor Rick Gray, will provide additional parking spaces to residents, as well as narrow the traffic lanes to reduce vehicl......
2008-09-09 11:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER
As thefts go, this one was bold. And rather odd. In broad daylight, someone swiped 36 30-inch, fluorescent-orange traffic cones that a line-painting company had placed along three roads in Manor Township. The thief or thieves plucked the three dozen cones off Donerville, Bender Mill a......
2008-09-06 01:35:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Officials hope that by talking about the substantial monetary costs of DUI arrests, the number of offenders will fall.•••Some motorists who drove drunk during the holiday weekend woke up to expensive hangovers.Increased drunken-d......
2008-08-31 20:31:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two people were critically injured and a third person also was hospitalized after a high-speed crash early Sunday in Warwick Township, officials said.Warwick Township police said speed was a factor in the 2:30 a.m. crash in the first block of West Newport Road near Sherry Drive.Two ......
2008-08-26 22:16:00
STAFF REPORT
The bridge that carries Route 324 over the Pequea Creek between Conestoga and Martic townships will be closed to all traffic starting Sept. 2.A signed detour will direct motorists around the bridge closure by way of Bridge Valley and River roads. Nearly a thousand vehicles cross over this ......
2008-08-26 20:03:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Correction — A Manheim Township resident who spoke against an ordinance approved by township commissioners on Monday allowing apartment buildings up to 50 feet in height was misidentified in the story below, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday......
2008-08-05 01:51:00
JEFF HAWKES
Planners are asking us to think of Harrisburg Pike as a laboratory.And you thought it was just another congested strip of Lancaster County asphalt.Well, you're right about the congested part. Up to 28,000 vehicles a day travel the section between Prince Street and Dillerville Ro......
2008-07-31 01:50:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The five miles of Harrisburg Pike from Prince Street in Lancaster to State Road in East Hempfield Township comprise one of the most heavily traveled stretches of road in the county.Figuring out how to accommodate all that traffic is the goal of the Harrisburg Pike Transportation and Land U......
2008-07-29 11:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Narvon man was injured in a late-night crash Monday on Route 322 near the Lancaster-Chester line. A Ford Focus driven by Gordon Brent Jameson, 34, Narvon, traveled off the highway in Caernarvon Township, struck a telephone pole, and rolled over against another pole shortly after 11 p.m.......
2008-07-28 11:18:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When consultants studying Harrisburg Pike drove the roadway during the peak morning and evening periods, they found what area motorists already knew was there: congestion. The five-mile trip from Prince Street in Lancaster City to State Road in East Hempfield Township took an average of 14 minu......
2008-07-08 00:21:00
JOHN WALK
Nearly 10 months after a $2.86 million redesign of the intersection of routes 272 and 372 in Buck, residents and township officials say the project has been a success."I think it's a lot safer," East Drumore Township resident Frank Seal said. "Overall, I'm very pleas......
2008-06-30 00:05:00
P.J. REILLY
The start of the workweek this morning could cause headaches for motorists who need to travel through the center of Lancaster.On Saturday, East King Street was blocked off between Duke and Lime streets in anticipation of work on a $14 million, six-story parking garage planned for the south......
2008-06-24 01:36:00
KIM O’BRIEN
An elite group of cyclists will race through Lancaster County Wednesday morning.Competitors in the American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania will pedal through Ephrata in the second stage of the six-day race, which began this morning in Philadelphia.Cyclists will travel Route 3......
2008-06-15 00:19:00
JON RUTTER
A kid on a BMX bike barreled down the middle of West King Street recently, rolling down the hill against traffic. As vehicles approached, he popped his ride up onto the sidewalk and banked around some pedestrians. Outlaw bicycling is a familiar sight around here. Some say it has gotte......
2008-05-30 10:16:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A motorcyclist from Willow Street and a 7-year-old boy from Harrisburg were injured in separate crashes on Lititz Pike in Manheim Township and on Route 743 near Elizabethtown. The motorcyclist, Steven J. Weidman, 26, was riding his Honda bike north on Lititz Pike shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday ......
2008-05-25 00:18:00
GIL SMART
Start at Village Grande, along Harrisburg Pike in East Hempfield Township. Say you live in the neighborhood, and have an appointment at the Lancaster General Health Campus, less than half a mile away. In theory, you could walk, but there are no sidewalks. Sauntering along the busy road, you tak......
2008-05-23 10:17:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Driving into Elizabethtown on Thursday night, Stephen Gabriel saw a lot of traffic going the other way out of town. It reminded him of "the challenge ... and it's a nice challenge to have" that planners like him have as they chart the Elizabethtown area's future. "After all, it could alway......
2008-05-22 01:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
Route 30 East is Lancaster County's most recognizable and most visited tourist destination, but the bustling corridor is quickly losing its identity as a thriving business district.That's the conclusion of a new county-level look at the highway.A lack of coordinated planning......
2008-05-19 10:32:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Several people were injured in crashes that happened this past weekend and early today on Lancaster County roadways. Shortly after 6:15 a.m. today, Lancaster County Control received word that a pickup truck had overturned on Boulder Hill Road, north of Bowmansville, in Brecknock Township. ......
2008-05-17 01:17:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Motorists who have been navigating the single-lane restrictions on Route 30 near Prospect Road will have more construction to contend with next week.The Route 30 entrance and exit ramps at the Prospect Road and Route 441 interchanges will be closed for repairs sequentially from Monday to T......
2008-05-13 11:26:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Four people, including three occupants of a horse-drawn buggy, were seriously injured in crashes Monday in East Lampeter Township and Martic Township. Christ Beiler, 19, of Ivy Road, Paradise, was operating a buggy that collided with a Dodge Durango truck at 6:50 p.m. at Mount Sidney Road and S......
2008-05-13 00:50:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Motorists will have an easier time moving through Lancaster city today with the reopening of North Duke Street between Frederick and James streets.North Duke was closed from May 2 to Monday for construction of a two-story pedestrian bridge from Lancaster General Hospital to a new outpatien......
2008-05-11 00:20:00
GIL SMART
Dianne Mousley's had enough. Every day, she drives the Fruitville Pike from her home in Manheim Township to her job in Lancaster. Every day it's the same: Start. Stop. Red light after red light along one of the county's busiest corridors — a corridor that, she thinks, might be......
2008-05-08 14:20:00
STAFF
Lancaster police have filed charges against a Lancaster woman whose minivan collided with a city police cruiser April 28 at West King and Water streets. Iris N. Morrison, 21, of North Reservoir Street, has been charged with a red-light violation and driving during suspension, Sgt. Todd Umste......
2008-05-08 01:16:00
MICHAEL YODER
A vat of sunflower oil fell off a truck traveling on South Queen Street Wednesday afternoon, forcing motorists following in its wake to navigate a slick, sticky roadway.A city official said the vat was not secured when it broke through the door of the truck and crashed onto the street, spi......
2008-05-03 01:46:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
If motorists in Lancaster city are upset over being detoured around Lancaster General Hospital's construction project closing North Duke Street, they haven't shown it. Lancaster police Sgt. Jarrad Berkheiser, stationed outside LGH to help with traffic, said Friday that he hadn't hea......
2008-05-02 09:29:00
STAFF
A school bus believed to be carrying children was involved in a minor accident with a sport-utility vehicle at West Vine and and South Water streets shortly before 8 a.m. today. City police declined to give any information about the accident at the scene. LaRonda Reid, 37, of Lancaster,......
2008-04-28 18:39:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster city police have issued updated information regarding altered downtown traffic patterns in coming weeks.The changes are due to several construction projects. Revisions to originally released information are:• The 100 block of East King Street between ......
2008-04-28 11:50:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Sixteen people were injured in four weekend traffic accidents across Lancaster County. Ambulances took four 17-year-olds to Lancaster General Hospital after two sport-utility vehicles crashed Sunday night on Route 23 in front of Wendy's restaurant, just west of New Holland. Cary S. Fox......
2008-04-24 00:36:00
TOM KNAPP
An inevitable occurrence on the roads in Lancaster County each summer is an increase in the number of slow-moving farm vehicles that can bog down traffic — and cause impatient motorists to attempt reckless maneuvers while trying to pass them.Pennsylvania, with its side-by-side blend ......
2008-04-23 10:16:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster police early today chased and apprehended a man who allegedly drove about 100 mph on North Prince Street and then scampered across the Franklin & Marshall College campus. Officers caught up with 18-year-old Derek Byrnes at about 1:40 in the 900 block of Buchanan Avenue. He was tak......
2008-04-18 10:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A young Lancaster County man was badly hurt in a one-car crash late Thursday night on Route 222 in northern Manheim Township. Shawn D. Keller, 22, Reinholds, lost control of his 2001 Pontiac Grand Am as he drove north at about 11:05 p.m., said township police Sgt. Thomas Rudzinski. T......
2008-04-17 00:16:00
JENNIFER TODD
City planners approved the final plan for a new $30 million retail center on Hempstead Road Wednesday night.The shopping center will be anchored by a 117,000-square-foot Lowe's home-improvement store and also will include a 45,933-square-foot retail store, plus a restaurant and bank....
2008-04-15 11:49:00
CHAD UMBLE
The $100 million Crossings at Conestoga Creek cleared a key hurdle Monday, but High Real Estate Group is still many months and millions of dollars away from turning the shopping center plan into reality. By a 3-2 vote, Manheim Township commissioners approved High's conditional use reques......
2008-04-15 01:03:00
MICHAEL YODER
A controversial shopping complex that would become the second-largest retail center in Lancaster County passed its first major hurdle Monday night.Manheim Township commissioners granted the High Real Estate Group conditional use for The Crossings at Conestoga Creek by a 3-2 vote, with one ......
2008-04-14 14:59:00
JACK BRUBAKER
About the series
The $170 million Lancaster County Convention Center and Marriott Hotel is scheduled to open next March on Penn Square in downtown Lancaster. Thousands of conventioneers will visit the 220,000-square-foot center and stay overnight in the 300-room M......
2008-04-14 13:46:00
STAFF
Emergency crews were at the scene of a one-vehicle accident along Route 322 in northern Lancaster County early this afternoon. County dispatchers reported a single-vehicle accident with entrapment at 1731 W. Main St., Ephrata, at 1:10 p.m. today. Dispatchers said a vehicle struck a pole......
2008-04-11 10:33:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A tractor-trailer carrying medical supplies struck a guardrail and caught on fire early today along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County Control said. Denver and Schoeneck firefighters responded at 4:16 a.m. and were still at the scene at 7 a.m. Th......
2008-04-10 09:59:00
STAFF
At least one person reportedly was hurt when a vehicle rolled over several times today along a foggy stretch of Route 272, south of Willow Street. The 7:56 a.m. crash happened at the Brooks Avenue intersection, south of the E.M. Herr hardware store, in Pequea Township. Three people were be......
2008-04-10 01:17:00
JENNIFER TODD
Sure, there were concerns — traffic, angled parking and the convention center.But something seemed to glide under the radar at Wednesday night's public meeting to discuss the city's proposed streetscape design standards — the streetscape plan itself.Of the 50 or ......
2008-04-09 00:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
Portions of two of the city's main thoroughfares will be closed in coming weeks, presenting challenges to motorists navigating their way around Lancaster's northeast.The altered traffic patterns are a result of two major construction projects — Lancaster General Hospital'......
2008-04-03 10:15:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Gap woman was injured in a Wednesday afternoon crash along Route 340 at Intercourse. Christine Murray, 49, was driving west on Route 340 at 1:30 p.m. when she came upon a minivan stopped in a line of traffic, just west of Route 772, Lancaster state police said. Murray's 1999 Ford Esc......
2008-03-29 00:22:00
PATRICK BURNS
Despite a prolonged advertising campaign warning that seat-belt use is mandatory in Pennsylvania, some people still ignore the law.But not many.West Hempfield Township police officers stopped 613 vehicles at a safety checkpoint Friday afternoon and found that only a dozen failed to ......
2008-03-27 11:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Three teenage boys were hurt when a car flipped early today at the Route 23/Long Lane intersection near Marietta, Susquehanna Regional police said. A 17-year-old Marietta-area boy was driving the Ford Focus west on Long Lane in East Donegal Township. He lost control when he reached Route 23, an......
2008-03-24 11:22:00
JANET KELLEY
A Lancaster County judge told a drunken driver today that he'd be going to jail for at least 3 to 6 years for the accident that killed a Lebanon County man and injured his wife last year. "The only real question is," President Judge Louis J. Farina told Michael J. Tovo, "a......
2008-03-24 11:05:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A car operated by a suspected drunken driver slid under a tractor-trailer loaded with chickens Sunday night on Route 30, east of Lancaster. No serious injuries were reported. Carl Spickler, of Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, was driving the truck east on Route 30 when he stopped for a red l......
2008-03-21 13:52:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Manheim Township police have filed more charges against the Harrisburg motorist who allegedly drove his car into a row of parked cars in a Franklin & Marshall College parking lot last month. Laboratory reports showed Frederick A. Patterson, 24, of Brooks Vale Court, Harrisburg, had marijuan......
2008-03-20 01:44:00
MICHAEL YODER
A clerical mistake by East Hempfield Township's solicitor has allowed a controversial development plan along Church Street in Landisville to move forward despite supervisors' denial of the project in December.An attorney with Blakinger, Byler & Thomas of Lancaster, the township......
2008-03-17 10:30:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A New Jersey woman was hurt when her car and a tractor-trailer collided Sunday night on Route 222 in West Earl Township, police said. Rescue workers freed Doris Adams-Chayka, Parsippany, N.J. from a 2003 Saturn following the 9 p.m. crash that happened in the northbound lanes, about one mile sou......
2008-03-14 11:36:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The two truck drivers saw the SUV coming the wrong way toward them on the highway just before 3 a.m. Tuesday. They got out of its way. A silver Honda could not, and was hit head-on. That's when truck drivers Javier Hernandez and Ritchie Slagle found themselves in the middle of a n......
2008-03-13 09:38:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
An Elizabethtown-area man was badly injured when his car struck a tree late Wednesday night on Route 230 in Mount Joy, borough police said. Witnesses saw Bradley R. Sandidge, 28, of 1963 Sheaffer Road, Elizabethtown, lose control of his white Chrysler while driving west at a high rate of speed ......
2008-03-10 00:40:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 23-year-old Lititz motorist died early Sunday when his car struck a bridge in Manor Township and overturned, investigators said.Michael Wright, of 639 Lincoln Road, died at the scene of the 1:40 a.m. crash in the 300 block of South Duke Street, Manor Township police said.A passeng......
2008-03-09 00:10:00
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
Inside City Council chambers Tuesday evening, with little public debate, the Lancaster City Traffic Commission approved Mayor Rick Gray's plan to study angled parking as a way to slow traffic. Outside those chambers, the debate livened up considerably. Moirajeanne FitzGerald, owner of Here......
2008-03-08 02:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Some major long-term road projects might make daily commutes longer in the coming months.On Monday, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will start work in West Hempfield Township on the bridge that carries Prospect Road over Route 30.Crews will funnel all traffic on Prospect R......
2008-03-06 09:16:00
JANET KELLEY
It was bad enough when the Lebanon County woman crashed her sport-utility vehicle early this morning in Clay Township. But making matters worse, police said, when Melissa M. Herr, 37, of Kleinfeltersville, got out of her vehicle to look at the damage, she tumbled down a well. Herr was even......
2008-03-06 12:11:00
BERNARD HARRIS
An effort to increase parking and slow speeding motorists in Lancaster City might start with some tape, a few pieces of carpet, traffic cones and a lot of resident input. The Lancaster City Traffic Commission this week approved a City Hall initiative to study back-in angled parking on three str......
2008-03-06 00:58:00
PATRICK BURNS
Anxious motorists bracing for the day construction at Lancaster Airport shuts down traffic on Lititz Pike can take a deep breath.Yes, a stretch of Lititz Pike (Route 501) just west of the airport will be closed beginning April 4. But accompanying detours will last only one weekend, an airp......
2008-03-05 09:35:00
JANET KELLEY
A Columbia man was seriously injured Tuesday night, police said, when he was struck by a vehicle while standing on an Ephrata road. Paul Kline, 78, was struck by a vehicle while he was standing in the northbound lane of travel around 9:30 p.m. in the 500 block of North Reading Road. He was......
2008-03-05 01:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Before it hires a new police chief, Ephrata Borough Council will conduct a study to see how the department in general is running.Council likely will vote March 10 to hire International City/County Management Association to perform "a comprehensive operations evaluation," accordin......
2008-03-03 00:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Marietta woman was killed and three other women were seriously hurt this weekend in separate crashes in East Donegal Township, police said.Mary Ann Geesey, 70, died after she and her two sisters were involved in a one-car wreck Saturday morning in the 1500 block of River Road. All are fr......
2008-03-02 00:18:00
GIL SMART
Call this one a whole new angle on city parking. On Tuesday, Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray will approach the Lancaster City Traffic Commission with an idea. What if, he'll ask, the normal parallel parking on six northwest Lancaster streets is discontinued — and motorists are instead requi......
2008-02-19 02:03:00
PATRICK BURNS
The owners of an Intercourse publishing company Monday unveiled a $45 million development plan designed to upgrade accommodations for the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the small village each year.Merle and Phyllis Good, owners of Good Enterprises Ltd., which includes a publishi......
2008-02-15 10:19:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A westbound car crashed into a traffic-light pole on Harrisburg Pike near Park City shopping center shortly before 3 a.m. today, and the entire pole came crashing to the ground. The 2:47 a.m. accident happened at the Plaza Boulevard intersection, and it closed the westbound ......
2008-02-08 08:22:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A man and woman were injured early Thursday in a one-car crash on Penn Grant Road in Strasburg Township, Lancaster state police said. Harry G. Kreiser III, 23, Lancaster, was driving west when his 2002 Volkswagen left the road at about 1 a.m. and struck a concrete walk, Trooper Timot......
2008-02-01 01:27:00
MICHAEL YODER
Transportation officials discussed ways to change mindsets when it comes to infrastructure and land development so that roads and bridges can be maintained and fewer cars crowd the roads.•••Traffic is increasing, budgets are shrinking a......
2008-01-31 01:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The fate of the Crossings At Conestoga Creek is now in the hands of the Manheim Township board of commissioners.The commissioners have been trying to decide if the proposed 646,000-square-foot shopping complex across Harrisburg Pike from Long's Park fits the township's planned comm......
2008-01-22 12:06:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
West Hempfield Township police have identified the woman who died in a Monday morning crash on Marietta Pike, but why the crash happened remains under investigation. Carrie Danielle Burns, 23, of Jasmine Place, Mount Joy, was thrown from her late-model Chevrolet Impala when it veered off ......
2008-01-22 01:06:00
TOM KNAPP
A long-running ethanol-plant hearing is drawing to a close in Conoy Township."It is our expectation that the hearing sessions will wrap up this week," township solicitor Matthew Creme said Monday.Monday's session was reserved solely for public comment on the $100 million corn-to-eth......
2008-01-18 12:04:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Thursday's snowstorm produced hordes of traffic accidents across Lancaster County. During the 17-hour period between noon Thursday and 5 a.m. today, Lancaster County Control dispatched police/fire/rescue units to 187 crashes, including about 50 with reported or possible injuries. A War......
2008-01-16 11:59:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A truck and a van collided Tuesday afternoon on Route 41 near Christiana, and the impact sent the truck into the sales lot of a car dealership, Lancaster state police said. Joan McCartney, 68, of Christiana, had stopped for a red light on Pine Creek Drive at Route 41 but pulled into the interse......
2008-01-10 12:14:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A young Berks County man escaped serious injury when his car struck an embankment and overturned Tuesday night on a Strasburg Township road, Lancaster state police said. Andrew Alan Gaspari, 20, of Reading, missed a right curve as he drove north on May Post Office Road, south of Strasburg, shor......
2008-01-09 01:58:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster City Council approved construction projects Tuesday night for two city institutions.Lancaster Newspapers Inc. received approval to build a seven-story parking garage adjacent to the company's central parking structure on West Vine Street.The 470-space garage will be built ......
2008-01-08 12:06:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Pequea Valley High School senior died when his motorcycle struck a turning vehicle Monday afternoon on Route 30 at Gap, Lancaster state police said. Keith Michael VanDyke, 18, of Narvon, was thrown from the cycle and pronounced dead at Lancaster General Hospital following the 3:23 p.m. crash.......
2008-01-07 12:01:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
State police troopers from Lancaser-based Troop J investigated 68 accidents during the New Year's Day holiday travel period, including one fatal crash in Chester County. Seven of the 68 crashes were alcohol-related. There were 21 injuries reported from all the accidents, state police offici......
2008-01-06 00:20:00
GIL SMART
In 2006 Mark Herr's car was totaled, through no fault of his own. A driver was speeding through his neighborhood in the 600 block of Poplar Street and slammed into it. So he got a new car. And twice in 2007, people driving recklessly down his street — speeding — plowed into that......
2008-01-04 01:30:00
JENNIFER TODD
New crosswalk signals in the city, which tell pedestrians exactly how much time they have to cross the street, are getting rave reviews."We've gotten a lot of positive feedback," Charlotte Katzenmoyer, the city's director of public works, said Thursday of the signals. &qu......
2008-01-02 12:09:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Northampton County woman was among those injured in area traffic accidents during the New Year's holiday period. Mary Buch, 84, of Bath, was driving south on Route 222 in West Earl Township late Tuesday morning when she lost control of her Ford Taurus near the Miley Road overpass, West Ea......
2007-12-24 10:40:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Police have linked possible drinking to several weekend traffic accidents in which injuries were reported. A 2008 Ford F-250 pickup truck driven by Amy Richman, 39, of Southview Lane, Lititz, struck a telephone pole at about 9 p.m. Saturday on Rudy Dam Road, just south of Owl Hill Road, Warwick......
2007-12-23 00:19:00
GIL SMART
In one respect, it seems like much ado over not much. Beginning in early January, Franklin & Marshall College will begin construction of a median strip in the center of Harrisburg Avenue, designed to discourage pedestrians from crossing in the middle of the busy block. The strip will be a m......
2007-12-20 12:09:00
STAFF REPORT
A pair of crashes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike this morning in Penn Township sent three motorists to the hospital and closed the westbound lanes of the highway for four hours.According to Cpl. Manuel Deleon, of the State Police barracks at Bowmansville, Joseph Kimvile of Keyser, W.Va., eit......
2007-12-20 02:25:00
JEFF HAWKES
In East Hempfield Township this week, the pessimists got their say.Resident after resident after resident stood before the township supervisors Monday and said they don't believe it's possible to build a future in which opportunities for growth in Lancaster County are balanced with preserv......
2007-12-19 12:05:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Unanimously and with little comment, Lancaster City Council members Tuesday passed a 2008 budget that will raise property taxes 4 percent and eliminate resident and per capita taxes. The city expects to spend $44,987,681 next year. For the owner of an average city home, valued at $75,00......
2007-12-18 12:08:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A Gordonville woman suffered severe injuries when she walked into the path of a large pickup truck Monday afternoon along Route 30 near Paradise, Lancaster state police said. Malinda Stoltzfus, 55, is in critical condition at Lancaster General Hospital, a nursing supervisor reported this mornin......
2007-12-17 12:15:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two Lancaster men were hurt when their pickup truck rolled over four times late Sunday morning on Interstate Route 81 in Lebanon County, state police said. Traveling south on the divided highway at 10:39 a.m., Leopoldo Hernandez, 32, Lancaster, drove a 1986 Ford F-250 truck off the left side of......
2007-12-11 11:58:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Even through last week's falling snow, Ed Arnold didn't have any problem seeing the traffic signals across George Street on the edge of Millersville. The signals' visibility has been markedly improved by the installation of a new black background behind the red-yellow-green arrangem......
2007-12-11 00:45:00
MICHAEL YODER
A school bus contracted by School District of Lancaster was involved in an early morning crash Monday in East Lampeter Township.The bus, carrying 28 students from Lancaster Mennonite School, Locust Grove School and Seventh Day Adventist School, was rear-ended on Route 462 near the entrance......
2007-12-10 12:15:00
ANYA LITVAK
A School District of Lancaster school bus heading east on Lincoln Highway was rear-ended by a passenger car at about 7:40 a.m. today. Keesha Pompey, 31, of Lancaster City, slammed into the bus when it was stopped at a red light near the 2000 block of Lincoln Highway. He......
2007-12-08 01:06:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
A Morgantown man is charged with homicide by vehicle following a two-month investigation into a fatal Caernarvon Township car collision. Joshua Lee Martin, 19, surrendered Thursday to Pennsylvania State Police and was arraigned before District Justice Isaac H. Stoltzfus. He was released on $50,......
2007-12-06 11:53:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
The morning commute today was much smoother for drivers across Lancaster County than Wednesday's afternoon drive home. The roads were slick in some spots, but overall the county had at most 20 accidents by mid-morning. Compare that to the more than 200 crashes on Wednesday througho......
2007-12-03 11:23:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Multiple rescue units responded to separate traffic accidents shortly before 8 a.m. today on Rothsville Road near Akron and on Route 772 between Mount Joy and Marietta. A woman was trapped in a 7:45 a.m. two-vehicle crash in the 3000 block of Rothsville Road, near Royer Road, in Ephrata Town......
2007-12-03 00:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A mixed bag of wintry weather caused problems Sunday for Lancaster County motorists facing the first icy road conditions of the season.Many crashes were reported across the county Sunday morning and early afternoon, officials said.Many of the wrecks happened on slick bridges in the ......
2007-11-27 11:31:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Speed might have been a factor in Monday morning's fatal crash on slippery Millcross Road, East Lampeter Township police said. Conor P. Barry, 24, died in the 7:24 crash in the 600 block of Millcross Road, near Pine Drive, police said. Barry, who had addresses in the 2000 block of Will......
2007-11-26 11:00:00
RYAN ROBINSON
East Lampeter Township residents Tuesday night will learn how much traffic a huge housing development could generate. Keystone Custom Homes wants to build 405 homes and some businesses on 46 acres along the south side of Route 23, between Hornig and Hartman Station roads. The Warrington de......
2007-11-26 10:57:00
JANET KELLEY
A young Lititz man will stand trial on charges stemming from a hit-and-run accident involving a 9-year-old city boy last month. The child was likely saved from serious injury or death when the violin case he was carrying took the brunt of the speeding car's impact, police said. Dayton L. C......
2007-11-24 11:59:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Paul Flury both lives and works in Elizabethtown, which gives him two much-different thoughts about an ongoing traffic project in town. As a resident, "it can get very frustrating" to sit in snarled traffic, which sometimes backs up at peak hours in Elizabethtown much more than usual ......
2007-11-24 02:03:00
P.J. REILLY
The concrete-arch bridge that carries Auction Road across Big Chiques Creek near Manheim is one of just five bridges of that design in Pennsylvania.Built in 1922, the bridge is considered a historic structure by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.PennDOT, however......
2007-11-23 00:48:00
LAURA KNOWLES
The Warwick Township supervisors voted 4-1 Wednesday to change the zoning of a site off Route 501 south of Lititz to permit a Target store.The decision came about a month earlier than expected. It followed three public hearings and nearly eight hours of testimony.Logan Myers, Michae......
2007-11-21 11:15:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A two-vehicle accident happened Monday evening when a 17-year-old girl searched for her cell phone while driving on Stony Battery Road, near Mountville, West Hempfield Township police said. The 17-year-old, who is from Lancaster, was not watching traffic, and her sedan struck the back of a van ......
2007-11-20 00:11:00
CARLA DI FONZO
When it comes to holiday traffic, it seems as if everyone wants to beat it or wait it out.Maggie and John Dern of Millersville decided to visit relatives in Maryland for Thanksgiving this Thursday, but left town on Sunday."We'd go earlier if we could, but that's the lat......
2007-11-19 11:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER
The car into the utility pole. The electrical wires everywhere. The crackling fire. The terrified kid trapped in the car, pounding on the windows. People around you screaming, "Don't touch the car! Don't touch the car!" What would you do? Would you act? Could you?...
2007-11-19 00:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two Lancaster County women were killed late Friday night when their sedan collided head-on with a speeding sport-utility vehicle in Dauphin County, investigators said.Derry Township police on Sunday identified the women as Crystal Rudy, of Lancaster, and Morgan Long, of Elizabethtown &mdas......
2007-11-15 13:22:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Lancaster County police and rescue units responded to several crashes during today's rainstorm, but no serious injuries were reported. The crashes caused no lengthy closure of major roadways in Lancaster County, but that was not the same in neighboring Dauphin County. A tractor-trailer cra......
2007-11-08 01:35:00
MICHAEL YODER
When Fred Lane was 14 years old, he worked baling hay on Amos Herr's farm, which was on the present site of the East Hempfield Township municipal building.Lane said Herr used to talk about his vision for the township and the land he would ultimately donate to the citizens in his community.......
2007-11-06 01:03:00
P.J. REILLY
Over the past 25 years, the number of miles vehicles have traveled on county roads has doubled.Amtrak ridership is up.But the number of Red Rose bus passengers is declining.So say local transportation statistics, according to Brian Funkhouser, a consultant with Gannett Flemin......
2007-11-02 03:22:00
DAVE PIDGEON
At their only political debate this year the six candidates for Lancaster City Council outlined different strategies for stimulating economic development during the next four years.Three four-year terms are up for grabs on Tuesday. The League of Humane Voters sponsored Thursday night's......
2007-10-31 11:50:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A young Columbia man was injured when his car crashed into a parked truck Monday night on Kinderhook Road, south of Mount Joy, Ephrata state police said. The injured driver, Adam Schaeffer, 18, was treated at Lancaster General Hospital. Schaeffer was driving north in the 1300 block of Kind......
2007-10-30 02:30:00
PATRICK BURNS
People formed multiple lines on the third floor of Lancaster General Health Campus Main Building about 15 minutes before Monday's meeting to discuss a study of Harrisburg Pike traffic.Eventually, about 110 area residents filtered into the meeting, where they got to look at preliminary ......
2007-10-28 00:18:00
GIL SMART
Jim Warner looks out his office window along Harrisburg Pike and sees traffic. Plenty of it is coming into the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, where Warner is executive director. Over the past three years, like so much else on Harrisburg Pike, the facility has been renovated,......
2007-10-25 01:58:00
TOM KNAPP
Traffic generated by a proposed ethanol plant in Conoy Township would have only a marginal effect on the local community, a traffic engineer testified Wednesday.The number of vehicles entering and exiting the site would be so slight, according to engineer Jeffrey G. Bergsten, that state De......
2007-10-24 11:41:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
The weather turned dismal this morning, and Lancaster County police had a busy time investigating accidents, including several with one or more reported injuries. More than a dozen crashes happened between 6 and 8 while a steady rain fell across most areas of the county. Lancaster Cit......
2007-10-23 11:45:00
AD CRABLE
A paint van being driven to a job this morning sheared a utility pole and skidded upside down on West Roseville Road, injuring the driver and knocking out power to more than 100 customers in Manheim Township. A co-worker of the injured man was driving in front of the van when he looked in his r......
2007-10-23 03:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A lengthy hearing into whether a 646,000-square-foot shopping complex will be built in Manheim Township across from Long's Park continued Monday, with the project's opponents going on the offensive.Attorney William J. Cluck — representing a group of residents calling themselv......
2007-10-17 20:16:00
ROXANNE TODD
East Drumore Township residents questioned supervisors Oct. 4 about the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's placement of a "signal ahead" sign on the south side of the new Buck intersection at Route 272 and Friendly Drive.Residents Fran Reining and Marie Kinch said th......
2007-10-17 20:09:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Elizabeth Township supervisors approved improvements Oct. 8 to the traffic signal at Route 501 and Brubaker Valley Road that has operated for several months.The engineering updates include LED street light installation at a cost of $2,748 and a sign for "Traffic Signal Ahead" at ......
2007-10-17 20:04:00
LAURA KNOWLES
Warwick Township will be looking at ways to improve traffic along the Route 772 corridor.At the Oct. 3 meeting of supervisors, township manager Daniel Zimmerman reported a feasibility study will be split five ways between Warwick Township and adjacent municipalities where Route 772 is loca......
2007-10-17 11:26:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two northern Lancaster County men were thrown from a motorcycle that struck the back of a car late Tuesday night on Route 222 in Brecknock Township, state police said. Bruce MacDowell, 46, and Lonnie Rolinski, 35, both of Stevens, suffered major to severe injuries in the 10:39 crash, said ......
2007-10-17 11:24:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
The place where State Road meets Route 283 has long been identified as "a dangerous intersection, and we are committed to finding a solution," local official John Bingham said. With plans being developed for a nearly $20 million project that would be completed by around 2013, East Hem......
2007-10-17 02:28:00
MICHAEL YODER
The builders of a proposed $40 million shopping center along Route 30 passed a major hurdle Tuesday night as the East Lampeter Township supervisors approved their conditional-use application.East Lampeter supervisors voted 3-1, with one abstention, to move Mill Creek Square, a 300,000-squa......
2007-10-16 11:24:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A two-vehicle crash with reported entrapment happened this morning on Route 222 near the village of Refton in Strasburg Township. Refton-area firefighters, several ambulance crews and Lancaster state police responded to the 7:39 a.m. crash, reported to be on Beaver Valley Pike (Route 222) at Or......
2007-10-16 01:03:00
TOM KNAPP
A tense meeting in Mount Joy Township turned volatile Monday after one resident threw his agenda at supervisors and a police officer was summoned to keep order.Residents gathered in force to oppose a new host agreement, which deals with issues relating to zoning and traffic, between the to......
2007-10-15 11:14:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
An Ephrata man died in a Sunday night motorcycle crash on Route 897 in Brecknock Township, Ephrata state police said. Scott Hackman, 49, of Ephrata, was riding his 2007 Harley Davidson Electro-glide cycle north on Route 897 at about 7:20 p.m. when he missed a "moderately sharp" left c......
2007-10-12 11:26:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Darren Sensenig was the outgoing older brother. The 16-year-old loved the outdoors and singing hymns. His 13-year-old brother, Devon, was more reserved and shy. He liked making wood crafts with a scroll saw and riding his bike. The brothers, who lived at 2850 Newport Road, Manheim, were cl......
2007-10-10 18:35:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
A residential development on a 60.6-acre tract along Pinch Road received conditional approval from Rapho Township supervisors Oct. 4.Quail Creek will contain 29 single-family home lots; 26 of those lots are new lots. The new lots are approximately 1-acre each. The development will have one......
2007-10-10 10:59:00
STAFF REPORT
A 13-year-old girl was injured today as she was about to board her school bus in East Petersburg. She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. Fog might have been a factor in the apparent hit-and-run accident at about 7 a.m. at Lemon Street and Linden Street. A school bus headi......
2007-10-10 01:28:00
JENNIFER TODD
Get set to make one more stop.City Council on Tuesday night authorized staff to seek an application from PennDOT for a permit to install a traffic signal at South Lime and East Mifflin streets in the southeast section of the city.The installation of the signal is part of constructio......
