Celebrate Lancaster is back for its 11th year, returning to Binns Park on Friday with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra to kick off the Independence Day holiday week.The celebration, sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Special Events and Fulton Bank, begins at 11:30 a.m. with numerous fo......

While the recession has been accompanied by a drop in sales at many businesses, one sector has had a sudden spurt of growth. "It started last year," said Jeff Watson, who runs the retail store at Rohrer Seeds in Smoketown. As the recession set in, he said, more and more people de......

Like a siren's song, the warmer weather beckons us outside into the season's sights and sounds to appreciate things like the perennial plants breaking through and springing to life in our gardens.Some homeowners take their landscaping and gardening efforts a step further by adding ......

The Jenkins School, which operated for many years under the roof of the Stayer Education Center at Millersville University, has likely found a new home in an East Hempfield Township church.Representatives of the school and Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 3131 Columbia Ave., asked the township......

Think of them as compassionate cooks hungry for better health — even a healthier planet. Vegetarians — and particularly vegans, who avoid eating all animal-based products — may be motivated to go meatless to help prevent animal cruelty. "We don't eat anything ......

Even if you're a regular shopper at Stauffers of Kissel Hill, chances are you've never bumped into or heard of Barry Parsons.But you ought to be very thankful he's there.The 45-year-old East Hempfield Township man is the food-safety coordinator for all three Stauffers su......

The customer bought a few packs of Lance peanut butter crackers. Then, at home later, she saw the news: At least 486 people in more than 40 states have gotten sick in the growing salmonella-and-peanuts outbreak. She panicked. And then she called the store. "Can I eat them? Are......

The odd-looking, red orbs in the produce section of your grocery store may seem foreign to you. Perhaps you wonder what to do with them and what they have to offer.Pomegranates are fruit hand-picked in early August through January with the season winding down now, according to David Julian......

Emergency responders spent about 90 minutes Wednesday evening trying to find the source of a "burning rubber" odor inside the Stauffers of Kissel Hill market at 1850 Oregon Pike in Manheim Township.The store was evacuated about 5:40 p.m. Firefighters then used thermal-imaging cam......

Five hours of driving was no obstacle for Alicelynne Watson. Watson, who grew up in Gap and now lives in Virginia Beach, Va., drove all the way to Clipper Magazine Stadium, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, for final judging in the Lancaster New Era's 2008 Holiday Cookie Contest. It turns out ......

YES, IT'S TIME. Time to dig out and dust off your most fabulous cookie recipes — the ones everybody "oohs" and "ahhs" over, the ones people gobble up faster than you can say "Cookie Monster." And yes, we know you haven't hand......

As the Intelligencer Journal's first-place winner in the Taste of Home Cooking School, Flavors of Lancaster County recipe contest Mary Foltz will receive a $50 gift certificate to the Pressroom Restaurant and Stauffers of Kissel Hill and an invitation to appear on stage with culinary speciali......

When Mary Foltz's neighbor told her this year's Taste of Home Cooking School, Flavors of Lancaster County recipe contest would help the Children's Miracle Network, she knew she had to enter."I had a loved one pass away years ago," she said. Children's Miracle Netw......

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so flavor is in the taste buds of the whoopie pie connoisseur.Each person has his or her own idea of what the ideal whoopie pie should taste like. The whoopie pie that delights the palate of one person can be detestable to another.We dis......

Eight days from now, customers will get their first look inside Stauffers of Kissel Hill's new Rohrerstown supermarket. When they do, company president Paul Stauffer is confident they'll love what they see. "The word that people working inside the store use is 'fabulous......

The Hawk is alive and well.Hawk Valley golf course in Brecknock Township is open, and, despite lacking a club house, appears to be in very good shape.Owner Jim Fricke three years ago announced plans to close the course and and build an additional 159 new homes on the golf course tha......

Candace Sandberg wanted a border between her backyard and the street to help define a safe playing space for her children and dog.As a landscaping enthusiast, she didn't want just a row of bushes — "boring.""I wanted to make a statement. I wanted to be creat......

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Vance gripped a baseball in his right hand as he stepped to the mound at Clipper Magazine Stadium Friday evening.Vance, a 21-year Army veteran, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to mark the beginning of the Barnstormers' Salute to Veterans, an event co......

Veterans this year can mark Memorial Day weekend with a ball game and matinee.State Rep. John C. Bear is inviting all veterans who live in the 97th district, which includes Lititz, Warwick Township, most of Manheim Township and part of East Petersburg and nearby townships, to two events in......

A woman walked into a local food store recently and bought a reusable bag. The checkout clerk promptly wrapped the thing in thin, crinkly plastic. It was pure reflex. We're a throwaway society. And plastic bags are cheap, light and practically indestructible, to the dismay of envi......

Stauffers of Kissel Hill is expected to finalize the purchase of two garden center stores in central Pennsylvania next week.The company said it will finalize an agreement signed in August to purchase a pair of Country Market Nursery locations in Mechanicsburg and Hershey.Stauffers d......

Standing in the parking lot of the Stauffers of Kissel Hill on Rohrerstown Road Friday morning, Scott Bowers of Mountville looked thoughtful when asked what he thought about the massive remodeling project unfolding all around him. Or maybe he just couldn't hear. To his right, a backhoe......

Now that you've finished that Thanksgiving turkey, it's time to start thinking about a Christmas tree.That's right. For many nurseries, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, marks the start of the Christmas tree sales rush."That's pretty much the beginning o......

After five years of planning a new level of shopping experience, it's time to start construction. Stauffers of Kissel Hill will break ground Tuesday on an $18 million project that will transform its Rohrerstown location. The combined supermarket and garden center there now will be repl......

Accusations of a questionable campaign solicitation, a write-in campaign for an incumbent and an attack on a supervisor who's not even running for office — welcome to the East Hempfield Township supervisors race.Three names appear on today's ballot for township supervisor — Dem......

Insinuations of improprieties involving campaign contributions were made among supervisors in East Hempfield Township supervisors at their meeting Wednesday.Township Supervisor Heidi Wheaton questioned contributions made this year to the Hempfield Area Republican Committee during discussio......

When Debra Reese of Manheim entered the Flavors of Lancaster County 2007 recipe contest not only was her Club Day Chicken chosen as the Intelligencer Journal's first place winner, but her Red Pepper Dip recipe also won for second place. The contest was sponsored by Lancaster Newspapers Inc. T......

Lancaster County residents aren't likely to mingle with Broadway talent at Sunday's Tony Awards, but the stars attending the awards will go home with products made by a small Lancaster city company.Attendee gift baskets will include Enduring Sun specialty food products, made by Myr......

This week's warmer weather is sure to get many people thinking about their backyards. After months of looking at drab, sparsely occupied flower beds, gardeners are gearing up to descend on local nurseries, determined to put some punch back into their landscapes. But a gardening expe......

Editor's note: Numerous reports have been issued stating families who dine together on a regular basis tend to be healthier and children in such families are at lower risk of experimenting with drugs or alcohol. Through this occasional column, Lifestyle hopes to make it easier for......