When it rains, it pours.Columbia Borough residents and officials attending the finance committee meeting Wednesday learned about three looming financial challenges which are expected to require more than $1.2 million in revenue to balance the budget.Due to the severity of the budget......

As a busy grocery store president, Joe Darrenkamp could have been doing lots of other things on a rainy and raw Wednesday morning.Same for Keith Eshleman, an owner of John Herr's Village Market in Millersville, whose voice is heard frequently announcing in-store specials to shoppers....

Where, oh where have the humble sardines gone?To the deep end of the ocean?Shoved to the side by tuna, that chicken of the sea?Since the last part of the 20th century, many Americans have turned up their noses at tins of sardines, the seafood version of Spam.And face i......

Turkey Hill Minit Markets, having dotted much of Pennsylvania with stores, now is targeting the Midwest too.The new strategy became evident Wednesday when Turkey Hill said it has acquired five On the Run convenience stores in Ohio.The stores, bought for an undisclosed price from Gil......

Linda Kauffman of Manheim Township had a great, up-close seat at the concert, and she hadn't had to get there at 5 in the morning on Sunday to it.That was taken care of by her daughter Colleen Kauffman and neighbor Laura Yates, who WERE the ones there at that chilly predawn hour to sec......

City police are investigating five cases of fraud in the past week.Victims lost a total of $3,485, police said.City police Lt. Todd Umstead said it didn't appear the cases were related."It sounds like people were careless with their cards and somebody is taking advan......

FallFest '09
They may look like country music's answer to ABBA, but Little Big Town has a sound all its own. The band, which has been nominated Vocal Group of the Year four straight years at the CMA Awards, will headline the daylong Big I-105 Turkey Hill FallFest on ......

A young city man who last year held up a convenience store at gunpoint with his friends was sentenced Monday to 4 to 8 years in state prison.Melvin Keith, 20, of Lancaster, pleaded guilty in July to robbery, conspiracy, burglary and theft.On Monday, Lancaster County Court President ......

City police nabbed a teenager they say used a fake pistol in a robbery in the 200 block of Harrisburg Avenue, near North Prince Street, Monday night.It is one of several robberies police are investigating in recent days.Police got a call that a 23-year-old man had been robbed of a s......

More than 1,000 children received stuffed animals collected in memory of 6-year-old Kyle Wintersteen."We wanted to say a big 'thank you' " to the community for their donations, family friend Annmarie Hoctor said.Wintersteen, who would have been a first-grader at La......

Plans for a new boutique hotel in a former downtown bank building will be reviewed today by Columbia Borough's Historic Architectural Review Board.The Timeless Inn proposal features 12 suites plus 8 rooms with a watch and clock theme, a spa and a bistro, developers said Monday at the m......

Tourists will have to wait an extra year to savor a new experience.Contaminated groundwater has been discovered on the future site of the Turkey Hill Experience, delaying its opening until April 2011."It's not a show-stopper by any stretch of the imagination, but we have to......

They're one of the biggest names in country music, with a string of hits and top-selling albums to their credit.They also have a strong crossover appeal to non-country fans, thanks to covering some rock and pop songs and appearing with rock legends such as John Mellencamp and Fleetwood......

Six-year-old Kyle Wintersteen didn't know the impact he would have on the Lancaster community and across the nation.Kyle, who would have started first grade at Lafayette Elementary School on Thursday, unbuckled his seat belt Monday shortly before the car in which he was a passenger rea......

A $1.5 million federal stimulus fund grant awarded Monday is just the boost needed to launch southcentral Pennsylvania's first commercial wind turbine project atop Turkey Hill in Manor Township, according to a county official."There's nothing really to hold this up now," ......

It was a sun-splashed autumn Sunday last year filled with country music and a record crowd at the event's new home — Manheim Township's Overlook Park.After such a boffo first year at the park between Lititz and Fruitville pikes, Fallfest will return to Overlook on Sunday, Oct......

A stop at a Lititz convenience store proved to be most inconvenient to a Stevens man.Lititz Borough police said they charged Brian James Eshleman, 30, of Stevens with possession of cocaine.According to police, on May 30, Eshleman entered the Turkey Hill store at 735 S. Broad St. Whe......

The beginning of the Turkey Hill Experience project has changed.But the end will be the same.With two problems solved in imaginative ways, site work for the agri-tourism venture in Columbia Borough started last week.That keeps the Third and Linden streets project, anchored by......

Southern Regional Police reported a curious theft on Saturday in Pequea Township. Aiban Rivera, 26, of the 500 block of East Mifflin Street, was a passenger in a car that pulled into the parking lot of the Turkey Hill store at 2101 New Danville Pike and parked right next to two police patrol ca......

Turkey Hill Dairy and Turkey Hill Minit Markets are requesting donations for Pennsylvania National Guard troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.Donated items may be dropped off at any of the 250 Minit Markets, including 61 in Lancaster County, through July 31. The dairy and the convenience store c......

Norfolk Southern is kicking in another $250,000 to help Manor Township convert six miles of the abandoned Enola Low-Grade rail line into a public trail along the Susquehanna River.Another 23 miles of the rail line that was turned over to six southern-end townships has been opened to public......

Police believe they have arrested the knife-wielding bandit responsible for slashing a teenage clerk during a recent string of violent holdups.The suspect, Andrew Stephen Johns, 21, was captured Tuesday in Penn Township. He was free on bail after Manheim Borough and Warwick Township police......

Eleven-year-old Jhiaire Felton took a break from dancing to the tunes of a merry-go-round Monday night to reflect on the adventure ahead of him. "It's about facing your fears," he said, drawing an excited breath as he prepared to board a UFO. "It's not scary," 9......

Jeff Mearig has a word of advice for anyone thinking of opening a plain old gas station. Don't. "If we were relying on gas sales alone, we'd be out of business. There isn't enough of a markup to stay open," said Mearig, an owner of Brunnerville Garage. And many s......

A masked man held a knife to the throat of a female convenience store clerk Wednesday night, as he helped himself to a handful of cash from the Brickerville store. The clerk, a 28-year-old Lititz woman, was unhurt, state police said. Troopers said a man entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market......

The county waste authority is buying 51 acres of land from Frey Dairy Farm in Manor Township for more than $1 million. The three parcels, which adjoin the Frey Farm Landfill and Turkey Hill Dairy, will be used to satisfy setback regulations for a proposed wind-turbine project at the landfill an......

Chicken lovers everywhere can rejoice — the annual event hailed as the world's largest chicken barbecue will be held in Long's Park on Saturday. The fundraiser, now in its 56th year, is held by the Sertoma Club of Lancaster. More than 30,000 chicken dinners will be cooked,......

A man arrested for allegedly robbing a Wrightsville bank Tuesday is a suspect in the armed holdups of nearly a dozen other businesses in southcentral Pennsylvania, police said Thursday.Arien Jamal Moore, 22, of Chanceford Township, York County, was taken into custody shortly after police s......

Police in East Lampeter Township said they're looking for a man who robbed a Turkey Hill in Bridgeport early today. Investigators said the robber entered the store at 612 Lincoln Highway East shortly after 4  a.m. The robber was described as a black male in his 20s or 30s, wearing......

It's double or nothing. The developer of a Columbia agri-tourism attraction needs two favorable state decisions so his $14 million project can go forward. And he needs them soon. Bill Roberts must obtain a stream-channeling permit and a prevailing-wage exclusion in time to start const......

A teen employee of a Turkey Hill store in Ephrata was caught allegedly using prepaid phone cards that were supposedly sold to customers — about $300 worth, police said. On Saturday, managers of the Turkey Hill at 4 Hahnstown Road, discovered that one of their employees, had activated the ......

Professional anglers have their Bassmasters Classic. There are walk-a-thons and enviro-thons. Now, local birdwatchers, from rank amateurs to veritable ornithologists, have a Birding Classic. Combining elements of all of these, the Lancaster County Conservancy and the Lancaster County Bird Club ......

An early morning armed robbery at a Mount Joy convenience store attracted police from departments across northwestern Lancaster County, leading to arrests hours later.Hector Jesus Adorno-Burgos, 30, of West Strawberry Street, Lancaster, and Michael Velazquez-Rivera, 29, no known address, w......

Police in Mount Joy Borough nabbed two men who allegedly brandished guns and robbed a Turkey Hill early today. Investigators said the two suspects walked into the Turkey Hill store at 325 W. Main St. just after 2:30. One of the suspects entered the back room of the store and pulled a gun ......

Police have charged a Lancaster city man with a pair of convenience store robberies, including one heist that led to the imprisonment of an innocent man for five weeks.Jason T. Karlow, 32, is accused of committing knife-point robberies at Turkey Hill markets in Mountville Borough and Manor......

At lunch on Feb. 12, Clark Lilley studied for an Old Testament history quiz coming up in his next class. But as the 28-year-old pastoral ministry student walked out of Lancaster Bible College's dining commons, a school employee approached Lilley and said the president of student services......

The breeze at Turkey Point along the Susquehanna River is strong enough to keep a planned $8.25 million wind turbine project there moving forward. This morning the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority board approved an application for a $175,000 state grant to help pay for continue......

Clark Lilley looked like the armed man who robbed a Manor Township convenience store last month, but he and his attorney insisted police had the wrong guy when he was arrested and charged."He looked very much like him," defense attorney Jeff Conrad said of the surveillance video taken of t......

A man who robbed a Turkey Hill in Mountville on Wednesday night used a knife to threaten a store employee, police said, before making his getaway in a car. The clerk on duty at the convenience store at 320 E. Main St. told police that a man entered the store around 10 p.m. and picked up a snack......

The more Frank Bewersdorff learns about the local farming community, the more he believes that others will want to learn about it too. Now he's planning to give them that chance. Bewersdorff wants to create Lancaster Farm World, to tell the story of local agriculture "in an edu......

A Pennsylvania dairy has expanded a voluntary recall of its ice cream because of a possible link to salmonella-tainted peanuts. The recall announced Friday by Turkey Hill in Lancaster County is for a new flavor containing peanuts from the Peanut Corporation of America. The dairy says the......

No need to scream about the missing Turkey Hill ice cream flavors — they'll be back lickety-split. Turkey Hill Dairy pulled six ice cream and frozen yogurt flavors, including Tin Roof Sundae Premium, off store shelves last week in response to a widening recall of peanut products....

A precious piece of Philadelphia sports history made a brief visit to Lancaster County on Tuesday.The 2008 Commissioner's Trophy, awarded to the Phillies for winning last year's World Series, spent two hours at Turkey Hill Dairy's headquarters in Manor Township.Phillies ......

Parole officers wondered why Thuan Tang had missed his appointment last Tuesday in York. The next day — when they saw the surveillance photos of a robbery in downtown Lancaster, police said —suddenly, they knew. Tang, 36, who had been released from York County Prison on Monday,......

Redner's Markets Inc. said Friday it is voluntarily recalling its Redner's Warehouse Markets Sundae Cones, UPC 1598410417, and Redner's Warehouse Markets Round Top Vanilla Cones, UPC 1598404006, due to the expanded recall notice issued by the FDA and Peanut Corp. of America. No illnes......

A crumbling former sewing factory in Columbia has been called an eyesore for decades. But soon it should start being transformed into something very different — a destination. By March 1, the conversion of the former Tidy Products site into a major agri-tourism attraction, anchored b......

Passe, an antiques and collectibles shop, opened in mid-November at 307 N. Queen St. in what had been a barbershop. The new store sells an array of items, with most pieces coming from the collection of store owner Jennifer Edgerton's parents. Among the varied offerings are old metal sign......

A pair of men wielding handguns robbed a Lancaster city convenience store Tuesday night.The men robbed Turkey Hill Market at 806 New Holland Ave. about 9:45 p.m. and fled with an unknown amount of loot, investigators said.As of press time Tuesday night, investigators said no one was......

The rain didn't put a damper on the 22nd annual Lancaster County Project for the Needy."We did as well as last year," Tom Fasnacht, project chairman said Wednesday. "We gathered up 1,200 boxes of food last year, and we received the same amount today."And whil......

The same man has robbed a Sadsbury Township convenience store for the second time in a few weeks, state police believe. The most recent incident occurred Tuesday when police said the suspect entered the Turkey Hill Minit Market on Route 41 shortly after 2 a.m. and demanded money from the clerk....

The number of families who need a hot meal is on the rise.However, food supplies at Water Street Rescue Mission are dwindling because of a major slowdown in donations.Maria Schaszberger, a spokesperson for the mission, said Monday that food donations aren't coming in as they hav......

No injuries were reported Thursday after a Turkey Hill tractor-trailer traveling near the intersection of Routes 222 and 272 in Fulton Township crossed the lawn and went through the front picture window of a home about 3:40 p.m., according to an EMT with Wakefield Ambulance Company who respo......

The New England states surely offer brilliant foliage in autumn, but Lancaster County has some surprising polychromatic panoramas of its own — one of which is a mere half-hour from the city: House Rock, along the Conestoga Trail in Martic Township. Pathways, fields and forests nearby &mdash......

State police are investigating an incident in which a woman used several old coins to make a purchase from a convenience store last month.Among the coins were a 1964 silver half dollar, four Mercury dimes, a 100-year-old wheat penny, two Canadian coins and a 1955 coin from Denmark, police ......

The lifestyle and attitude of a self-proclaimed teenage "gangster" were outlined Wednesday in Lancaster County Court.At the hearing, Kewuan Jones, 17, was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in state prison for a 2007 armed robbery at a Manheim Township convenience store.But before......

Manheim Township police are looking for suspects in two crimes committed over the weekend: a violent street robbery that left two men injured and a convenience-store holdup.Police said that, based on descriptions provided by the victims, they believe the weekend crimes were committed by di......

Months of financial misery seemed to melt Monday as Wall Street rallied by 936 points and, closer to home, gasoline prices fell below $3 per gallon at many area stations.Regular gas sold Monday for about $2.95 at many Turkey Hill, Wawa and Hess Express convenience stores — that's......

Lancaster and Columbia are the big winners in a $5.7 million loan package approved Tuesday in Harrisburg.Gov. Ed Rendell said Tuesday the loans approved by the Commonwealth Financing Authority are a good investment that will secure millions more in private capital while assisting in local ......

When she was a little girl, Joanne Ladley watched tour buses pull up outside Kitchen Kettle Village. She summoned the village owners — who happened to be her parents, Bob and Pat Burnley — by jubilantly shouting, "It's a bus! It's a bus!" Fifty years later, a ......

The Big I 105 Turkey Hill Fallfest might be changing locations from Long's Park to Overlook Community Campus this year, but the day-long show's spirit won't be changing. Not with Jo Dee Messina headlining the show. Festivities begin Sunday at Overlook at 8 a.m., when the gat......

LANCASTER, PA — The appeal of Turkey Hill Dairy products might transform a crumbling vacant sewing factory in Columbia into a magnet for visitors. The dairy and developer Bill Roberts intend to convert the former Tidy Products site — which has defied revitalization since the ea......

A woman has been charged with committing an armed robbery early Tuesday morning at a Turkey Hill convenience store in East Hempfield Township.Meanwhile, police in Lancaster city are investigating a separate strong-arm robbery — also at a Turkey Hill store — that occurred late T......

A woman was in jail today, one day after said she allegedly displayed a gun and robbed a Centerville Road convenience store clerk, East Hempfield Township police said. Tara Leigh Dorsey, 35, of 3026 Todd Lane, was arrested by township police Detective Tammy Marsh and charged with robbing the......

Last summer, Lifestyle featured the story of Simon Mayen, a Lost Boy of Sudan, and his quest to visit the village he last saw when he fled in 1987.Civil war forced 8- or 9-year-old Mayen away from his family and into a long journey, crossing deserts and the dangerous Gilo River, until he r......

Jean Edwards went from anonymous retiree to millionaire celebrity this week.But as far as she's concerned, not much in her life has changed.Edwards plans to stay in her Willow Street home and maybe take a vacation to Jackson Hole, Wyo., but that's about it."I jus......

One lucky person took home more than a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread from the Turkey Hill store in Willow Street. A lot more. On Saturday, someone bought a winning Powerball ticket at that store. The ticket is worth $86.3 million in an annuity or $42.5 million in a lump sum payment....

By most accounts, a trip to a convenience store is about as exciting as watching grass grow.You may find yourself there to purchase gas, a pack of cigarettes or maybe a pint of iced tea.No doubt thousands of such trips have taken place at the Turkey Hill in Willow Street. On Saturda......

A search for an armed robber shut down Lancaster General Hospital's parking garage for about an hour Tuesday night. The incident began when a white man, about 18 to 20 years old, entered the Turkey Hill at North Queen and East Clay streets at 10 p.m. He displayed what appeared to be a large......

Lancaster city police scoured a construction site along North Queen Street late Tuesday night searching for a man who reportedly robbed a nearby Turkey Hill.The suspect hadn't been apprehended as of the Intelligencer Journal's press time, and some police remained on the scene &mdas......

A convenience store clerk wrestled with a man who tried to rob him as he emptied trash early Wednesday morning in East Petersburg, police said. Manheim Township police Sgt. Robert Baldwin said the robber used an unorthodox technique in an attempt to obtain cash from the Turkey Hill Minit Market......

A lawsuit filed against state Sen. Michael Brubaker, which stemmed from an incident at a Turkey Hill store last year, has been tossed out of court for the second time.Barbara Showalter, a Denver resident who advocates for tighter regulations on Pennsylvania's commercial dog kennels, fi......

A man accused of robbing a Lancaster city convenience store at gunpoint then fleeing in a stolen pickup truck was ordered this week to stand trail.Henry Medina-Cedeno and defense attorney Barrie Wellener waived a preliminary hearing at District Judge Mary Sponaugle's office Wednesday. ......

Two years ago, Turkey Hill Dairy began shipping its refrigerated iced tea to the Cincinnati headquarters of its owner, The Kroger Co. The dairy wanted Kroger's top executives — who decide what products to put in which stores — to taste it for themselves. "You have to get yourse......

The 10-year-old boy struck Wednesday by an unmarked police cruiser spent Thursday in stable condition at Hershey Medical Center, Lancaster city police said.The boy, whose identity has not been released, was riding a bicycle at East New and North Cherry streets when he and an unmarked cruis......

Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing five convenience stores in northeastern Lancaster County and Berks County during a recent five-day period. Three of the robberies allegedly committed by 41-year-old Edward Raynell Salter happened at Turkey Hill Minit Markets in Denver Borough, Eas......

There used to be only two things in life that were inescapable — death and taxes. But now there's another — higher gas prices. The price of regular gas continues to climb, spiking at $4.099 a gallon at one local station, as new record highs keep being set in the county a......

Two Turkey Hill convenience stores in northeastern Lancaster County and one in neighboring Berks County were held up by a lone gunman Monday night and early today, police report. A fourth Turkey Hill store robbery that happened early Saturday morning in northern Lancaster County also could......

With summer approaching, friends and families will be looking to fill their leisure time with inexpensive, fun activities.Turkey Hill Minit Markets and its sister company, Turkey Hill Dairy, have partnered to provide just that to people in south-central Pennsylvania.The companies re......

A 21-year-old East Lampeter Township man was sentenced Monday to 8 to 16 years in state prison for a pair of knifepoint robberies at Lancaster city convenience stores.Dustin Vedder robbed a Turkey Hill on Columbia Avenue and Sun Grocery on High Street Jan. 14, 2007, according to court test......

Skyrocketing gas prices have inflicted pain at the pump for providers as well as drivers.A domino effect initiated by higher gas prices has prompted more people to charge fuel to credit cards, which ultimately sucks more money out of a retailer's pocket, reducing profit margins.......

When you're the top refrigerated iced tea producer in the nation, and expect to grow, you need more water. Turkey Hill Dairy has completed a new 4,250-foot water line to draw groundwater from four wells at the base of Turkey Hill to its dairy facilities atop the hill. The newly buried ......

The third Saturday in May is approaching, and in Lancaster County that means just one thing: the 55th annual Sertoma Club of Lancaster chicken barbecue.The barbecue, hailed as the world's largest by "The Guinness Book of World Records," will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May......

Ryan Weitzel fought cancer in the same way that he performed on and off the lacrosse field.With integrity, passion, courage and with no surrender.And though Ryan lost his four-year battle with the disease last Saturday, his legacy will survive and will be honored by the entire lacro......

The Brubaker family never thought they would be in the energy business, but today their dairy farm is creating enough electricity to light a small town.Hundreds of people, ranging from politicians to local farmers, were at Brubaker Farms in Mount Joy Wednesday afternoon to help unveil a ne......

For some local farmers and food makers, a trip to the hospital is a good thing. Lancaster General Hospital has set the goal of spending $800,000 to $1 million more a year on food from within Pennsylvania. Patients and customers of LGH cafes will be able to chow down on more of their favori......

One of three men responsible for the "random" and severe beating of a Quarryville man at a Buck convenience store in 2006 was sentenced to county prison Monday.Anthony N. McElroy, 20, of Peach Bottom, was part of a trio that repeatedly punched and kicked Matthew McFalls Dec. 20, ......

The fight started when three men fired rubber pellets at a car outside the Turkey Hill at the Buck in southern Lancaster County five days before Christmas 2006. It ended when the three men beat the car's owner, after he confronted them about the pellets. The victim, Matthew J. McFalls, ......

The bad news about gas prices is that there is no good news: Pump prices continue to spiral upward with no end in sight.On Thursday, the price for regular gas hit another record nationwide, averaging $3.27 a gallon. According to AAA's Web site, that's 2 cents higher than Wednesday&......

A brazen convenience store robber, labeled last year the "Turkey Hill bandit" for a string of violent holdups, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 to 80 years in state prison.Eugene Thye Bonner, 29, pleaded guilty in November to robbing Turkey Hill stores in Lancaster County eight times, from July......

A city man who prosecutors said was responsible for a rash of brazen, violent convenience store robberies last year, was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison today in Lancaster County Court. Eugene Bonner, 29, whose last known address was the 900 block of Columbia Avenue, was charged with r......

Hundreds of lids for chocolate ice cream churn in a metal bin as they're scooped up by a conveyor belt at Turkey Hill Dairy near Conestoga. About 50 per minute are pressed down on cartons of ice cream along each of the five lines in the plant, enough cartons and lids to empty two to three s......

Police say a man charged in a 2006 armed robbery of an East Petersburg convenience store had an accomplice: the store clerk, who handed the gunman more than $600.Manheim Township police Monday filed charges of theft and false reports against Gregory L. Shorter, 26, a former clerk at the Tu......

After spending a few decades in the corporate world, Lynn DeBlois is now "The Pretzel Lady." And for good reason. DeBlois, 65, of Strasburg, started Pretzelphoria in 2002. The company's offerings are a mix of her own recipes and products from the county's other family-run......

For the second time in five months, a manager at a fast-food restaurant on Lititz Pike faces a harassment charge from an incident involving an employee, Manheim Township police report. Jay W. Rutter, 22, of Nanticoke Road, who is a manager at the Burger King, 1408 Lititz Pike,  allege......

Police allege a 19-year-old woman stole cash and merchandise while working at an Ephrata Township convenience store.Tiffany Ann Homsher, of Ephrata, is accused of stealing about $200 in cash from registers while employed as a clerk at Turkey Hill Minit Market, 4 Hahnstown Road.Homsh......

It's a pesky little article shared by only The Hague in the Netherlands, The Bronx in New York and, of course, the Buck, which straddles the border between Drumore and East Drumore townships in southern Lancaster County.The answer to how the Buck got its "the" seems to raise ......

The spirit of giving during the Christmas season could be seen Monday morning stretching along the sidewalk of North Price Street.A record number of recipients and volunteers turned out for the 21st annual Lancaster County Project for the Needy holiday dinner distribution. More than 1,000 ......

Scott Dierwechter would love to be awakened Christmas morning by his two boys, Aiden, 3, and Gabriel, 4, before they excitedly run downstairs to see what presents Santa Claus brought them. He'd love to linger over breakfast with his wife, Kerry, and spend all day watching his boys play w......

West Lampeter Township police are looking for two men who assaulted a clerk while robbing a convenience store, then fled on bicycles.One of the robbers wielded a gun and the other carried a knife as they robbed Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1561 Millport Road, about 4 a.m. Wednesday, police sa......

A pair of armed men wearing ski masks held up the Turkey Hill Minit Market at 1561 Millport Road, roughed up a clerk, and fled on bicycles shortly before 4 a.m. today, West Lampeter Township police said. The bandits were pedaling north on Millport Road toward Lancaster when they saw police cars......

With more families looking for assistance during the holiday season, local food banks are hoping to collect enough supplies to last the winter."Sometimes donations thin out after Thanksgiving," said Dee Thomas, who runs a food bank from Real Hope Fellowship Church's basement ......

When Caroline Novak started consulting for the Lancaster Farmland Trust in 2004, she made some bold statements. The nonprofit farmland preservation group and the county's Agricultural Preserve Board could double the number of acres they save from development each year, she predicted. M......

The rain is over. Now brace for wind and cold. Nearly seven-tenths of an inch of rain soaked Lancaster County over a 19-hour period Monday. The rain, heavy fog at times and a stiff wind amounted to the worst-case scenario for deer hunters on the opening day of rifle season. "I......

Here's a scoop: Ice cream is helping to save a 63-acre Amish farm in Fulton Township. Turkey Hill Dairy in 2005 began giving a portion of the proceeds from sales of its All Natural Recipe ice cream to the nonprofit farmland preserver, Lancaster Farmland Trust. Through the end of 2006, that......

A jailed Berks County man suspected in at least six holdups in a weekend crime spree spanning three counties earlier this month has been charged with robbing a Caernarvon Township convenience store.State Police in Ephrata reported Michael A. DeLossantos, 27, of Leesport was charged with th......

Three Lancaster city teenagers were cleared of all charges Thursday after being jailed and accused of robbing a Manheim Township convenience store.Police say another city teen, 15-year-old Terralonce Miller Jr., falsely incriminated the boys after he was arrested at the Sept. 22 holdup of ......

In an effort to bring businesses back downtown and make streets safer for pedestrians, officials in Columbia Borough are working on a way to help large trucks bypass the center of town.One of the options, however, has at least one resident furious.At Columbia Borough's most recent c......

Police are searching for a man who robbed at least two convenience stores over the weekend.State Trooper James Algeo said the suspect entered a Turkey Hill Minit Market at 2848 Main St. in Caernarvon Township about 6:50 p.m. Saturday night and asked a clerk for two cartons of cigarettes....

One thing about Sunday's 18th Annual Tailwagger's Trot — it's all about the dogs.The big event that benefits Humane League of Lancaster County has the same fun events as previous years, but is concentrated in one location rather than two this time to boost the festivities......

Some would argue conservative southern Lancaster County has always resisted change, but when it comes to the realigned intersection of Routes 272 and 372 at the Buck, residents' refusal to adapt could wind up costing lives.A Drumore Township official pleaded Friday for residents to fol......

A young woman attacked a 70-year-old Lancaster woman with a baseball bat, apparently because the older woman took too long to get out of her vehicle at a suburban convenience store, East Hempfield Township police  said. The incident, which happened Sunday morning at the Turkey Hill Minit M......

Police are searching for an unidentified female accused of attacking a 70-year-old woman with a baseball bat inside a convenience store Sunday.The assault followed a verbal altercation that began in the parking lot of Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1503 Columbia Ave., according to East Hempfiel......

The uncle of two of the teens charged with robbing a Manheim Township convenience store Saturday night said his nephews are innocent.Odell Ashford of 625 First St. said his nephews, Otis Ashford and Kendell Foster Jr., both 15, were at home with him at midnight Saturday.That's w......

Police have arrested four teenage boys who allegedly robbed a New Holland Avenue convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday night. The four boys, all of Lancaster City, are being charged as adults with robbery. They are: Evincii C. Dixon, 16, Otis Ashford, 15, Kendall C. Foster Jr., 15, and Te......

Four teenage boys were sitting in Lancaster County Prison Sunday night after they allegedly robbed a Manheim Township convenience store at gunpoint late Saturday.The boys, three 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old, all were charged as adults with robbery and criminal conspiracy, and each is b......

Penn Manor School District's new athletic field might soon be named Turkey Hill Field at Comet Field.But first, corporate executives at Turkey Hill Minit Markets must sign an agreement that would give $50,000 to the school district over 10 years in exchange for naming rights.The agr......

Columbia may have the "shifter" sandwich and Washington Boro may be famous for its Native American past, but when it comes to Marietta, the buzz these days is focused on only one thing: the borough's pioneering efforts to go green."Cleaning up the environment is never a bad thing and doing......

There was a strange sort of symmetry to it. The three young men walked into the convenience store, pulling their shirts over their faces to hide them from the clerk they allegedly robbed and shot at early Monday. Nine hours later, one of the suspects walked into a courtroom the same way......

A 20-year-old Lancaster man was charged with attempted murder Monday for shooting at a Manheim Township convenience store clerk while robbing the store with two friends, police said.Junior F. Santana fired at least six shots from a .22-caliber rifle — two at the male clerk — as......

Twenty minutes after the crime, police nabbed three men suspected of robbing and firing shots into a Manheim Township convenience store early today, charging one with attempted murder. And police are investigating whether the men could be connected to another recent robbery, during which a c......

Lancaster County-based Turkey Hill Dairy continued its westward expansion Thursday as the company's ice cream and iced tea marked their first months of sales in more than 600 stores in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.The move comes less than two years after Turkey Hill products fi......

Simon Mayen went to the convenience store and bought four $5 phone cards.He knew each card would allow him to talk to his mother for one hour.Even though he was excited, he said nothing to his roommate, JokAyom JokAyom. Mayen has learned how to be patient — to wait a long time......

West Earl Township police are seeking a man who robbed a Turkey Hill convenience store early Wednesday.According to police, the suspect entered the store on North State Street in Brownstown about 1:10 a.m. and robbed the clerk at gunpoint. Police said the suspect appeared to have a ha......

A disgruntled boyfriend shot his girlfriend, three of her relatives and another man Sunday morning at a Lancaster city home, police said.The shooting happened about 6:22 a.m. outside 516 Hand Ave., according to city police.Mark Q. Galloway, 39, of Philadelphia allegedly shot his gir......

Police are looking for suspects in connection with a spree of Lancaster city robberies Tuesday and early Wednesday.Three convenience stores, a pawn shop and a restaurant were targeted during a 13-hour span, city police said.After each heist, the bandits fled with a small amount of c......

It's not every day a chicken barbecue requires 200 gallons of "special sauce."But then again, Sertoma Club of Lancaster's annual chicken barbecue is not just an everyday picnic in the park. It's the "World's Largest Chicken Barbecue" — just check t......

A judge Tuesday dismissed two of the charges against a man accused of robbing 10 convenience stores to support his drug habit.Eugene Thye Bonner has been in Lancaster County Prison since city police arrested him Jan. 9.Overall, Bonner has been charged with seven robberies in the cit......

A Coatesville man robbed the Turkey Hill Minit Market at Smoketown during a Monday night crime spree in eastern Lancaster County, police report. State police captured Norman Jay Seese Jr., 33, of 17 Maplewood Drive, Coatesville, at about 11:40 p.m. Monday along Route 30 near Paradise. He ju......

Police have arrested a man who allegedly robbed three small Lancaster-area stores on the same day in January. Dustin Adam Vedder, 20, of 1665 Susan Ave., East Lampeter Township, committed the knifepoint robberies over approximately eight hours on Jan. 14, police said. At 2:12 p.m., Vedder ......

Lancaster city police arrested an East Lampeter Township man Wednesday morning in connection with a one-day robbery spree earlier this year.Dustin Adam Vedder, 20, of 1665 Susan Ave., allegedly robbed two Lancaster city grocery stores and a Lancaster Township convenience store, all on Jan.......

How would you like to change pennies into dimes? A man tried that feat twice at a convenience store in Manheim on Sunday, and for awhile he got away with it. But eventually, Manheim police went looking for 37-year-old David Robert Waltman of New Providence, who is being charged with two mi......

A county agency has made history through its market approach to battling global warming.The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority announced Thursday it had recorded the first-ever trans-Atlantic exchange of project-based greenhouse-gas reduction credits, also called "carbon cre......

No one was injured Thursday morning, state police said, when a Lincoln Town Car crashed through the front of the Turkey Hill Minit Market on Route 41 in Salisbury Township.State Trooper Samuel Laureto said 80-year-old Barbara Myers of Rehobeth, Del., accidentally pushed the gas pedal while......

Gasoline prices have jumped nearly 40 cents a gallon in the last month, returning to levels not seen since late last summer. And, they could go higher. Prices for regular unleaded are expected to rise through June, peaking around $2.67 per gallon, according to a federal report rele......

Police said they are looking for a man who robbed a West Hempfield Township convenience store at gunpoint late Wednesday night, then fled on foot.A white male entered Turkey Hill Minit Market, 1490 Stony Battery Road, about 11 p.m. and demanded money while displaying a semi-automatic handg......

A young gunman held up a Turkey Hill Minit Market in West Hempfield Township late Wednesday night, police said. The suspect entered the store at 1490 Stony Battery Road, north of Marietta Avenue, shortly before 11 p.m. He pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and fled on foot after stealing an un......