2009-09-11 07:35:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Bumping to a techno beat on his iPod, Ray Rivera spins a 6-foot arrow-shaped sign on his head as he stands along Manheim Pike.Then on his back.Then on one finger. While lying on his side.You like that?Watch this.Now he's doing a one-handed flip, all the whil......
2009-04-26 00:21:00
SUZANNE CASSIDY
When the owners of the E.J. Bowman House Bed & Breakfast offered one of their guests — a bonsai artist — a weekend stay in the house's luxury suite in exchange for his bonsai skills, the artist thought they were joking. E.Y. Murphey and his wife, Alice Murphey, owners of the......
2008-11-09 00:20:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Savor it: The first weekend in months without a single political commercial. Call it the calm after the storm, and it was a hurricane indeed. In the final month before the Nov. 4 election, the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain combined to spend more than $3 million on adver......
2008-02-03 00:10:00
JOHN HORN
(Los Angeles Times)This town's infatuation with Super Bowl advertising can be a love-hate relationship: For every great "War of the Worlds" football launch, there's a "Hulk" preview that leaves the Super Bowl as bruised as the linemen. With 30-second spots costing mo......
2008-01-20 00:06:00
JON RUTTER
An update of the 1970 Five Man Electrical Band song might go "Sign, sign, everywhere a [digital] sign." Or, more precisely, a digital sign by Connectedsign. Displays designed by the small Lititz company already guide retail shoppers, college students, airport travelers, motorists......
2008-01-06 00:04:00
JON RUTTER
The digital billboards lighting up Lancaster roadsides are hard to miss. That's a good sign for merchants. But it can be a prickly one for beautification advocates and planners. "It's the perfect outdoor medium for us," said Brian Trout, director of sales and marketi......
2007-12-16 00:18:00
GIL SMART
Fred Nell scoops poop for a living. Dog waste, that is; for a price, "Mr. Scoop" will patrol your yard and remove it. Glamorous it isn't, but Nell figures it's a service, perhaps as valuable as the contractors who remodel homes or the landscapers who trim the bushes. And so he......
2007-12-16 00:02:00
DENNIS LARISON
Like Broadway at night, possibilities loom in the darkness of Shadowlight Group's cavernous photography studio in the Greenfield Corporate Center. Carpenters and stylists stride along its darkened aisles toward the islands of light that illuminate the sets, mostly bathrooms and kitchens....
2007-12-02 00:09:00
JON RUTTER
Bail USA Inc. wants you. If you can't post bond to get out of jail, that is. Anyone traveling East King Street can read all about it, thanks to an advertisement prominently displayed on the side of a building two blocks away from the prison, at North Plum. The positioning of the sign i......
2007-08-22 02:30:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Among the requirements for being a professional journalist are the abilities to observe and question.For example, if Hershey, one of the world's biggest candy makers, closes its U.S. plants and starts making its chocolate goodies in Mexico, will Hershey's Kisses still be called Kisses? Or ......
2007-07-13 00:03:00
Gregory J. Scott, AIA
What do dinosaurs, ducks, ice cream cones and igloos have in common?They were all larger then life advertising gimmicks, standing side by side with giant coffee pots, teepees, shoes, hot dogs, binoculars, milk bottles, castles, chickens and windmills. Long before the advent of television, ......
2007-06-29 02:44:00
BRIAN WALLACE
School District of Lancaster has hired a Harrisburg public relations firm to enhance its communications as it prepares for a massive school improvement project.The school board approved a one-year, $48,000 contract with Neiman Group, a Harrisburg-based advertising, marketing and public rel......
2007-06-09 01:06:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority's state-of-the-art waste transfer station on Harrisburg Pike will open for business Monday morning.James Warner, executive director of the authority, said he received the occupancy permit for the new facility from Manheim Township Frida......
2007-05-24 02:46:00
PATRICK BURNS
A tip to Lancaster City-County Crime Stoppers proved instrumental in making arrests in one murder case this week, and police hope a separate tip might prove equally valuable.A tip Saturday provided police with enough details to charge four Elizabethtown suspects Wednesday for the homicide ......
2007-05-11 03:16:00
Dave Pidgeon
New television commercials added heat Thursday to an already tense Republican primary for Lancaster County commissioner only five days from the election.And during interviews after the ads ran, the four candidates — County Controller Dennis Stuckey, former county Youth Intervention D......
2007-05-04 03:20:00
Dave Pidgeon
Republicans Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin have received about $107,000 in campaign contributions this year, according to campaign finance reports the two Lancaster County commissioner candidates released Thursday.They have spent more than $31,000 on consultants, a radio advertisement, ca......
2007-04-04 00:01:00
Larry Alexander
One of my favorite TV ads features a family preparing to eat breakfast. The teenage daughter is near the refrigerator, and a teenage son and Mom are at the table with Dad, whose face is buried in a newspaper.It is a common family scene repeated in millions of homes across America each day.......
2007-01-27 13:17:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Back in 1966, Irv Gordon of East Patchoque, N.Y., bought a five-speed, cherry-red P1800 Volvo. It cost $4,150, which was a fortune for a car back then, but Gordon, a science teacher who drove 125 miles every day to and from school, wanted a reliable car. And boy, did this g......
2006-12-26 13:39:50
Tim Mekeel
Lancaster County residents, though, didn’t need more R&R. They got right back to shopping. Countians returned to local stores to perform the usual day-after-Christmas retail rituals. They returned unwanted gifts, spent gift cards and snagged deeply discounted holiday merchandise. Stores ......
2006-12-19 01:10:56
Patrick Burns
Beidelman said he’s facing a problem of not being near the contractors he wants for a tricky repair job in Easton — a town along the Delaware River.
Looking to repair the courthouse cupola, Beidelman, a Northampton County purchasing manager, put ads in Lancaster and Harrisburg newspaper...
2006-11-27 21:48:26
Carla Di Fonzo
“I thought the exhibits were wonderful,” said the president of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County. “I was really impressed.”
The experience led to a partnership between the Heritage Center and the Christmas Center’s founder and director, Jim Morrison.
That collaboration became “A ...
2006-11-01 01:09:42
Larry Alexander
I plan to vote just so I can do my part in helping to shut up those politicians.
Are you as fed up with the negative campaigning as I am?
There was a time when candidates didn’t have to slice and dice each other’s character to get elected. Instead, they campaigned on actual issues. ......
2006-10-25 13:44:12
Jane Holahan
For two hours, we get to explore Versailles, look at lavish dresses, amazing wigs, stunning food and scenic gardens. Alas, for two hours, we also get to watch the young queen of France lollygag, looking bored, tired and unfulfilled. The more unhappy she is, the more shoes she buys. Clearly, al......
2006-10-25 00:54:52
Susan E. Lindt
Nearly 21 million people, or 7 percent of Americans, have diabetes. Of those, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation estimates, 3 million have type 1 diabetes, which typically strikes in childhood or adolescence and lasts a lifetime.
For years, Boscov’s department stores have offered child...
2006-10-19 14:26:12
Cindy Stauffer
Local dentists and an athletic trainer agree with a recent article in a dental office newsletter that says water is a better choice, particularly if you want to preserve your pearly whites. Sports drinks are not good for teeth, due to their high sugar and acidic content, one study shows. The arti......
2006-10-13 14:13:13
Anya Litvak
And when they do, it will pay employers to hire them. Two dollars an hour, to be exact. The carpenters-in-the-making will be the seventh graduating class of Construction 101, an eight-week program with the Workforce Investment Board, targeted at women and minorities, as well as young people in th......
2006-10-13 00:47:00
Gregory J. Scott, A I A
Aaron and Samuel Bloch, founders of Mail Pouch Tobacco, decided that advertising on the side of a windowless, highly visible barn was a fabulous way to get their message across.
However, it was the expression "broad side of a barn" that caught the attention of Aaron and Samuel B...
2006-09-13 10:49:52
Jane Holahan
When I make the decision to spend the evening reading a book or working in my garden, as I have consciously been doing lately, I just feel better. I think I get a low-grade fever and a sluggish feeling when the TV is on too long. Must be something coming out of the cathode ray-tube. Maybe it’s......
2006-09-02 23:25:33
Maryalice Bitts
The show is presented by The One Club, an international nonprofit organization that has recognized inventive print, television, radio, outdoor and other advertising and marketing work for more than 30 years. Selected by award-winning creative directors, art directors and copywriters, this year’s 80 ...
2006-08-19 23:40:01
Gil Smart
“Every time a thunderstorm rolled through, I had to go pick up the branches,” said Wenger, founder of Isaac’s Restaurant & Deli. The lawn continually needed to be mowed, a problem for a guy who liked to travel on weekends.
He liked the idea of living in a community where he could walk to ...
2006-08-18 14:37:06
David O’connor
Correct that ... where the rear windshield should have been. And it’s just a mile or two up the road, in this case Route 283, before you see the second one, with the same smashed rear window, and a broken light or two thrown into the mix. One local police chief calls it “kind of like a sportin......
2006-08-17 08:20:13
Dave Pidgeon
Bush told the 400 people gathered at Lancaster Host Resort on Lincoln Highway East that the Middle East policy implemented by the previous administration failed.
"That policy came home on Sept. 11," he said, referencing terror attacks that killed 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and...
2006-08-16 10:51:35
20 YEARS AGO Issue of August 21, 1986 Official delegation leaves Friday for Eberbach, Germany. Mayor Clair L. Wolf and wife, Evelyn and Donald E. and Mary Jane Suter. *** County fires set by children on the increase. $500,000 damage in Lancaster County includes $361,000 in the northern end ......
2006-08-14 10:53:19
Joe Vulopas
R-Stick — apply directly to the forehead. R-Stick — apply directly to the forehead. I can see it now. Millions of people watching the TV ads rush stores across the nation to buy my latest relationship invention — the RelationStick, or R-Stick for short. I’d be famous. I’d be rich. I’d be ab......
2006-08-14 10:44:47
Marianne Heckles
If not, there are ways of finding out. If you have discovered your great-grandfather’s occupation, but wish to find more information, there are resources that can help you. If you’re trying to figure out what line of work your ancestors were in prior to 1850, check your local tax records. They of......
2006-08-08 13:29:43
By Tom Murse
But they’ll also be forced to take up a thorny issue from the recent past — the support of unendorsed candidates by Republicans at the state level in May’s legislative elections. Specifically, some local committee people are still angry about the House Republican Campaign Committee’s support of R......
2006-07-01 23:51:34
Helen Colwell Adams
Eric Conner knows.
Of course, he has 25 of them.
Not to mention the actual license plates from two governors’ official vehicles. And some china from the governor’s mansion. And pens that two governors used to sign legislation.
That’s one benefit of having one of the ...
2006-06-24 23:26:31
Marvin Adams
“Winston takes good, like a cigarette should.’’
“See the USA in your Chevrolet.’’
I’m showing my age with those ads, but that also shows, many years later, how effective those repetitive ads were.
Which brings me (surprise) to two county commissioners, Molly Henderso...
2006-06-24 23:25:29
Paula Wolf
As far as viewership goes, “American Idol” it’s not.
Jonathan Last notes in his column in last Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer that the game between the U.S. and the Czech Republic received a 2.4 Nielsen rating, while the Scripps National Spelling Bee, on ABC for the first time, scored a 5...
2006-06-03 10:05:33
Carla Di Fonzo
"It's too much, and I'm thinking of walking everywhere -- within reason," she said Friday afternoon. "A lot of people I know are."
Red Rose Transit Authority has a better solution.
In response to rising gas prices, RRTA announced Friday it will participate in National Dump the Pump Day...
2006-05-16 08:46:27
Dave Pidgeon
On the eve of today's primary, high-profile figures like Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann and U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts made speeches for Mike Brubaker, who is locked in a tough and expensive fight against Heidi Wheaton for state Senate.
Other candidates spent Monday phoning undeci...
2006-05-16 08:45:11
Susan E. Lindt
Denny Dowd of Lancaster County Office of Aging said thousands of seniors sought her office's help choosing a prescription plan in recent months. But on Monday, she estimated her office enrolled about 100 or so.
"We probably had about 200 phone calls (Monday) alone," Dowd said. "A lot of p...
2006-05-13 23:40:38
Helen Colwell Adams
But in the last few weeks it’s become a campaign about lawsuits, marital infidelity, a gay gym, a marathon, abortion and a dead cat.
The nearly million-dollar race looks more like one for the U.S. Senate than the state Senate.
That’s because the incumbent is one of ...
2006-05-08 07:51:36
Linda Espenshade
For starters, there's the front-page article in today's New York Times about her, her new cookbook and Good Books, the Intercourse publishing company she and her husband, Merle Good, own with other shareholders.
That article soon will be followed by a cooking demonstration on Fox and Frie...
2006-05-04 09:21:24
Thursday’s Record Express May 2, 1996
• Nine Lives - It was a “purrfect” Sunday afternoon on April 28.
Patches, the three-legged studio cat at Randolph Academy of the Arts, had been missing for a week following the fire that gutted Deborah Randolph’s pottery barn on Front Street......
2006-05-02 08:19:45
Lori Van Ingen
Lancaster County's new voting machines have been touted for their ease of use by people with handicaps.
To see how easy it would be, about 20 people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing attended an instructional workshop on the system Monday night at Manheim Township Ambulance Association. ......
2006-04-29 23:46:03
Helen Colwell Adams
That’s the imagery Leisey used to open his welcome-home speech Saturday in front of the borough office.
Leisey, the 25-year-old Iraq War veteran seeking the Democratic nomination in the 36th state Senate district, spoke to mark his homecoming from the military, which is just a...
2006-04-28 13:27:09
Chad Umble
The team’s new local radio affiliate, WPDC-AM 1600, is in a similar situation. The Elizabethtown station took over Phillies’ broadcasts this year when the team’s longtime affiliate, WLPA-AM 1490, dropped them to carry the Barnstormers. By now, WPDC officials expected to be to be up and running......
2006-04-26 12:39:41
Jane Holahan
Back then, in the dark ages of the 1960s, you made decisions like that and you rarely deviated from them. Our motto: We’re a CBS family and we’re going to stay a CBS family. Huntley-Brinkley? John Chancellor? Tom Brokaw? Nope. Howard K. Smith? Babwa Wawa? Peter Jennings? Sorry, no tha......
2006-04-26 12:36:27
Jane Holahan
Back then, in the dark ages of the 1960s, you made decisions like that and you rarely deviated from them. Our motto: We’re a CBS family and we’re going to stay a CBS family. Huntley-Brinkley? John Chancellor? Tom Brokaw? Nope. Howard K. Smith? Babwa Wawa? Peter Jennings? Sorry, no tha......
2006-04-26 08:21:39
Kevin Freeman
Who would have thunk it?
The Hershey Bears, losers of seven games in 10 against the Norfolk Admirals during the regular season, figured to have a tough time with the Ads, despite the fact that Hershey had accumulated more points in the standings.
But there were the Bears, skating t...
2006-04-05 08:31:25
Dave Pidgeon
In comparison, her party-endorsed opponent, Mike Brubaker, has been low key.
Brubaker has sent a pair of press releases to the media and will host fundraisers tonight and Tuesday.
"This operation is in full swing," he said Monday in an e-mail. "Throughout the upcoming weeks, expect...
2006-03-17 13:10:34
Jack Brubaker
These Susquehanna River islands, today known as the Conejohela Flats, were called “Islands of Promise’’ in the ad, and no doubt some Spy readers thought of the fertile alluvial islands precisely that way. The Scribbler never would have known about this ad for offshore farmland that “produces good......
2006-03-17 13:01:17
Jack Brubaker
These Susquehanna River islands, today known as the Conejohela Flats, were called “Islands of Promise’’ in the ad, and no doubt some Spy readers thought of the fertile alluvial islands precisely that way. The Scribbler never would have known about this ad for offshore farmland that “produces good......
2006-02-25 23:28:23
Mike Gross
They still don’t have a radio affiliate in Lancaster.
WLPA-AM 1490, the Phillies longtime local affiliate, has dropped the Phillies in lieu of carrying broadcasts of all 126 Lancaster Barnstormers games.
Rob Brooks, the Phillies’ manager of broadcasting, said the cl...
2006-02-09 08:23:10
Kevin Freeman
The Norfolk Admirals have Hershey's number.
The Bears entered Wednesday night's game against the Admirals with 16 more points in the standings and six more wins.
Hershey had won four of its last five games while Norfolk had lost three of five.
But the positives didn't matter...
2006-02-06 13:29:44
Jane Holahan
So this year, as the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks battled it out Sunday night, which ads actually registered with football fans? Which bombed? And which ones made viewers scratch their heads in utter confusion? A highly unscientific poll conducted at Teck’s News Agency, 19 W. Ches......
2006-02-02 11:17:19
Robert Stiffler
For information on ivy care, go to www.ivy.org and click on “Between the Vines.” Plant buyer beware This is the time of year when thoughts turn to gardening, fired up by mailboxes stuffed with catalogs offering everything from tree tomatoes to purple green beans. To avoid disappointment, be......
2006-01-30 09:17:58
Kevin Freeman
On Friday night in Norfolk, the Bears erupted for six straight goals and turned a 4-1 deficit into a 7-4 win.
On Sunday night, Hershey trailed 3-1 and managed to knot the score at 3-3.
This time, however, Hershey couldn't build on the momentum of the comeback and lost to the Admirals, ...
2006-01-28 23:42:06
Marv Adams
In a two-week, admittedly unscientific survey, most callers and e-mailers said they like the level of difficulty, although some said they wouldn’t mind an easier one now and then. Others confessed that working the puzzle had them banging their heads against walls. But a few people even c...
2006-01-25 14:46:32
DIED: Ruth N. Haushouer, New Holland; Noah R. Groff, Farmerville Road, Ephrata; Earl Witmer, Ephrata; Rose De Nicola, Ephrata; Beulah M. Kline, Ephrata; Sara V. Stricker, Denver. *** 20 YEARS AGO Issue of January 23, 1986 Kristen Chupp wins State Reserve Market Lamb Title. *** Akron C......
2006-01-21 09:11:33
Paula Holzman
Captain of administrative services Donald Palmer, 56, will serve as interim police chief, Mayor Rick Gray announced at a Friday morning press conference.
The 35-year veteran will take over for Heim on Feb. 1, when Heim is scheduled to begin as Reading's chief of police.
City officials ...
2006-01-06 09:25:18
Dave Pidgeon
An official for Yellow Cab said Thursday it will resume operating in Lancaster County on Tuesday, starting with seven taxicabs.
The two taxi companies, however, will be friendly rivals.
Yellow Cab and Friendly Taxi will share the same headquarters and garage at 625 E. Orange St.
...
2005-12-08 10:26:00
Colby Itkowitz
The next day, the papers were recalled before they could be distributed. The Limelight was reprinted without the Common Roads ad and distributed Dec. 2.
According to L-S officials, the ad was pulled on the advice of the school district's solicitor.
Macy claims the action was a discrimi...
2005-11-30 14:27:22
Dr. Lori
“But finding such a pro can be daunting. There is no licensing for antique appraisers, so anyone can take out a Yellow Pages ad and call themselves an antique appraiser.” During a recent What’s it Worth? appraisal event, after I appraised everything from oil paintings and redware pottery to vinta......
2005-11-18 14:41:00
Tim Mekeel
It’s LUXE Lancaster, a new magazine that promotes businesses and attractions in the Downtown Investment District and James Street Improvement District. Produced by Bloom, a local marketing and public relations agency founded by Tracy Cutler and Deborah Brandt, LUXE Lancaster will be published fou......
2005-11-02 07:10:26
Ed Gruver
Both were on hand at Wachovia Center to support former teammate Maurice Cheeks, who worked overtime in his first official game as the Sixers' new coach but dropped a 117-108 decision to Milwaukee as the NBA's regular season began in earnest.
"We should've won this game, no doubt about it," Ch...
2005-10-28 16:44:43
Stephen Kopfinger
The ubiquitous Muppet can currently be seen on television commercials, swaying to the classic 1960s song “Shout,” which itself has been co-opted as a jingle for the popular stain remover of the same name.
Where will all this cross-promoting end? Has everything and every place in America becom...
2005-10-14 16:44:40
Sally Melcher Jarvis
Credit a free Web site called Facebook, students’ newest obsession.
It is less than 2 years old, and has spread so quickly that many faculty and parents still have not heard of the online social directory in which students can “talk” back and forth to each other. It’s a way to know more about...
2005-09-30 08:43:34
Kevin Freeman
Those three players make the Flyers better than they were when they fell in the Eastern Conference finals in the pre-lockout spring of 2004.
Those three, however, aren't the sole reason some have pegged the Flyers as potential Stanley Cup finalists this season. The veteran infusion is great b...
2005-09-24 23:55:55
Jon Rutter
God help the unsuspecting telemarketer.
Or the visitor who drops in for a few minutes only to linger through the passage of an entire storm front. But Raffaele’s an engaging guy with a booming voice. He has something to say.
And he’s been busy as hell saying it i......
2005-09-23 12:08:42
Patrick Burns
"There's so many stories we're fond of in our history in Lancaster," Alan said. "But a guy who pulled his Harley up on the sidewalk, came in and bought a ring, and then proposed next to his bike is one of our favorites."
In another not-so-common event at Ream recently, a just-married couple o...
2005-09-23 11:58:21
Roxanne Mcroberts
I'd grab a tall glass of water, pull a string to try to keep things level and going in the right direction. Then I would dig, stack and fill.
For probably ten of the 13 years we've lived in our house, I've assumed the daunting task of maintaining the curb space that had apparently always been...
2005-08-26 16:20:37
Tom Murse
New Providence-based WDAC, which holds one of the largest market shares among Christian broadcasters in the country, will be the first local media outlet to run a controversial ad by Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania. The suburban Harrisburg-based group is trying to flood the airwaves and purch......
2005-08-17 10:42:11
Charles Lardner
Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania has begun a campaign to erect billboards and air radio spots criticizing the senators for their "liberal voting records."
A billboard scheduled to go up next week along Interstate 70 near Altoona will feature the likeness of Senate President Pro Tem Robert ...
2005-08-01 14:03:51
Dom Yanchunas
With three little children to raise, Thomas, 33, needs good pay, job security and no overnight travel. She has decided to become a truck driver. Thomas figures she can handle it, because she has driven a car across the country by herself and doesn’t mind the solitude. “It appealed to me bec......
2005-06-27 14:09:50
Ryan Robinson
“Huge Annual Development Yard Sale.” “Mother of all Garage Sales!” The newspaper ads jump out at you like an antique on a yard-sale table. They signal that the suburban pastime of selling unwanted stuff from garages and front yards is more popular than ever. But yard sales aren’t just ya......
2005-06-07 10:09:15
Susan E. Lindt
Puppy mills operate for people who love dogs.
The notion might seem backward, but Stephanie Shain knows the puppy-mill business as director of outreach for Humane Society of the United States.
Shain spoke Monday to United Against Puppy Mills, a newly formed local group aimed at c.....
2005-05-22 00:23:32
E. A. H. Goss
I often hear derogatory comments about how much of a nuisance certain animals are; how dirty, noisy, smelly, unruly ...
I read news stories of how they’re used in research, warfare, law enforcement. I see ads touting methods by which to rid ourselves of roaches and rabbits.
City reside...
2005-04-22 20:17:28
Jack Brubaker
Between 1950 and 2000, the population more than doubled, approaching half a million. Tens of thousands of new residents exerted enormous pressure on existing resources, including schools, highways, housing and farmland. In the 1990s, the flood began to recede. The stream slowly fell to a more man......
2005-04-13 14:31:50
Cindy Stauffer
Paul K. Vaccarelli, 52, was prosecuted with the help of a secret recording device worn by one of the teens, who knew Vaccarelli through his work as the manager of a suburban restaurant. In the conversation, Vaccarelli talks about a pornographic video he wanted the two teens to make, which Vaccare......
2005-03-30 13:54:27
Jane Holahan
I picked an arbitrary time (Monday, 10:15 p.m.) and, beginning on 1, worked my way up the dial to see what was on all the stations — cable and network —up to and including channel 78, the Food Network. I don’t get the premium stations, so it turned out to be a total of 71 channels. It took 20 min......
2005-03-30 13:52:28
Jane Holahan
I picked an arbitrary time (Monday, 10:15 p.m.) and, beginning on 1, worked my way up the dial to see what was on all the stations — cable and network —up to and including channel 78, the Food Network. I don’t get the premium stations, so it turned out to be a total of 71 channels. It took 20 min......
2005-03-26 23:40:33
Helen Colwell Adams
WGAL-TV is lending the message some amplification.
The station is teaming with the South Central Assembly for Effective Governance to air a series of anti-predatory lending commercials, starting April 4.
It’s a three-month campaign, said Willonda McCloud, the senior fair housin...
2005-03-26 12:07:29
Dom Yanchunas
Now a new generation of entrepreneurs is ready to introduce a different kind of meeting place —with the roar of NASCAR races on 85 televisions, vibrations from electronic-speaker “butt-kickers” and aroma of spicy chicken wings. The Brickyard Restaurant and Sports Pub will open probably in the nex......
2005-03-14 09:12:31
Kevin Freeman
Fourth-line grinder? Souza was up for that. Need a rugged winger, someone who can play along the wall? Just say the word.
Lately, Fixter has asked Souza to go into the corners and chip in with a goal here and there.
Sunday night, Souza chipped in with a pair of goals......
2005-03-05 22:46:56
Gil Smart
“I’ve been invited to birthday parties and weddings,” said Lugo, who has worked at the Manheim Pike dealership for about eight years. “And some of them will say, ‘Would you help me buy a house?’ ”
After all, buying a car can be tough enough when you do understand t...
2005-02-24 14:27:49
Cindy Stauffer And Tom Murse
So when police got a tip over the weekend that Mizzoni himself allegedly had molested a boy, and then searched his Stevens home, Mizzoni knew what they had found. It was a collection of Polaroid photos of children, pornographic magazines, numerous computer discs, some labeled “girls” and “boys,” and...
2005-02-11 07:46:15
Tom Murse
But to the seemingly endless barrage of advertisements, add this particularly troublesome one _ unwanted faxes, known as “paper spam.” Small businesses nationwide are complaining about the growing number of unsolicited advertisements sliding across their fax machines. They waste paper, ink &ts......
2005-02-07 14:00:12
Greg Grasa And Tim Mekeel
They’re an indispensable part of interscholastic athletics and organized sports at all levels. Yet they’re unappreciated and often the object of derision. When they’re at the top of their game, they go virtually unnoticed. But when they make a mistake, they suddenly find themselves in the middle ......
2005-02-03 13:30:44
Jason Guarente
If your team isn’t headed for the playoffs, the end of your season doesn’t matter. No, the message wasn’t stated directly. But when Ephrata chose to forfeit its final boys’ basketball game against Elizabethtown Wednesday, it might as well have been. You see, if E-town was one win away from Dis......
2005-01-22 11:48:07
Janet Kelley
How about having your picture taken with him for everyone to see, including more than 68,000 thousand of people buying programs at the stadium during Sunday’s game? Josh Steffy and Mary Kate Wells, two Lancaster County children working with Lancaster’s In The Spotlight talent agency, posed with B......
2005-01-19 14:21:55
Jane Holahan
· Why are there so few movie theaters in Lancaster County? Anyone who heads over to the Regal Cinemas in the Manor Shopping Center on a Friday or Saturday night knows what I’m talking about. The place is packed, the parking lot is a nightmare that makes driving in Midtown Manhattan seem......
2005-01-19 14:19:07
Jane Holahan
· Why are there so few movie theaters in Lancaster County? Anyone who heads over to the Regal Cinemas in the Manor Shopping Center on a Friday or Saturday night knows what I’m talking about. The place is packed, the parking lot is a nightmare that makes driving in Midtown Manhattan seem......
2005-01-07 10:53:00
Marty Crisp
People glance at comedian Pat Hazell's credits, and the first thing likely to pop out of their mouths is: "Wow, you wrote for "Seinfeld'!'' Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's just that "Seinfeld'' is only one in a lon...
2004-12-25 20:41:46
Helen Colwell Adams
The only challenge in doing a political year-in-review column this year is picking just one.
That was a problem for our panel of randomly selected (and available; it’s not easy finding people in town in the days before Christmas) experts.
Most of them identified the nasty p...
2004-12-10 10:36:32
Lori Van Ingen
The United Church of Christ advertising campaign is scheduled to run here through Dec. 26, but NBC and CBS networks rejected nationwide broadcasts.
WGAL-TV, an NBC affiliate, isn't bound by the network's decision and agreed to run the ad starting today, Paul Quinn, WGAL's general...
2004-11-24 12:58:36
Jane Holahan
The 30-year-old software engineer has been a contestant on “Jeopardy!” since June 2, and over the course of 70 games he’s won $2,355,001, more than any other contestant has won on any game show in the history of game shows. Every night, legions of “Jeopardy!” fans tune in to see if the mild-manne......
2004-11-24 12:56:52
Jane Holahan
The 30-year-old software engineer has been a contestant on “Jeopardy!” since June 2, and over the course of 70 games he’s won $2,355,001, more than any other contestant has won on any game show in the history of game shows. Every night, legions of “Jeopardy!” fans tune in to see if the mild-manne......
2004-11-16 11:59:51
Ad Crable
There should be a way more hunters could view these tremendous deer and enjoy the yarns, he thought to himself. There was a way, and the 28-year-old Penryn resident made it happen. The premiere issue of Pennsylvania Trophy magazine has been flying off the shelves of Turkey Hill Minit Markets this......
2004-11-16 11:57:21
Ad Crable
There should be a way more hunters could view these tremendous deer and enjoy the yarns, he thought to himself. There was a way, and the 28-year-old Penryn resident made it happen. The premiere issue of Pennsylvania Trophy magazine has been flying off the shelves of Turkey Hill Minit Markets this......
2004-11-15 09:24:14
Patrick Burns
A seven-page ad placed by the Pennsylvania Treasury highlighted the department's daunting challenge in disbursing a bounty of $1.4 billion accumulated through Pennsylvania's Unclaimed Property Law.
It was the first of two newspaper advertisements that seek to locate more......
2004-11-13 16:47:41
Jon Rutter
When he hid from the bad guys on a Plain sect farm and fell for Rachel Lapp, played by Kelly McGillis, the culture and landscape wowed millions of viewers.
Today, the 1985 movie “Witness” still shapes many people’s perceptions of Lancaster County.
Australian director Peter Weir...
2004-10-30 22:29:20
Helen Colwell-adams
The impetus for the letter actually arose from the Jim Clymer campaign.
Specter’s team is concerned that Clymer, the Constitution Party’s U.S. Senate nominee, has been attaching himself to Bush in the campaign’s endgame.
They point to the “Bush-Clymer” stickers recently plaster...
2004-10-30 17:20:51
Helen Colwell-adams
First it was southern Lancaster County, where he grew up.
Now he’s running a company aimed at helping to oust President George W. Bush – headquartered in Texas.
“That’s one of the things that’s helped us, the allure of being here,” said Lewis, whose parents, Charles and Ellen L...
2004-10-23 17:39:40
David Hennigan
“Baseball, homes, politics – you name it, Mr. Editor."
All revved up, huh?
“You might say that," my jogging friend said, sipping his coffee.
Guess you were excited by the Red Sox-Yankees series?
“One of the classics, no doubt, Mr. Editor. Most people that I know were root...
2004-10-22 12:58:15
OCCUPATION: State representative
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, Cornell University
QUALIFICATIONS: Manheim Township Commissioner for eight years, Governor’s Sound Land Use Committee member for four years, Little Conestoga Watershed Authority member for four years, Lancaster County Trans...
2004-10-13 13:13:53
Tom Murse
If you’ve been paying attention to the race for president, you’ve undoubtedly heard of those groups. They are the so-called 527s, and they have raised more than $326 million — and spent most of it — to influence national and statewide elections, especially the race for the White House. It is t......
2004-10-05 09:12:35
Paula Holzman
Twelve people formed the Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness in April, united by a growing unease with the U.S. war in Iraq.
Now the group, representing 11 different Christian denominations and organizations, has begun a campaign to counter that war with a message of peace.......
2004-10-02 22:29:24
Helen Colwell Adams
“Good question,” the Rev. Peter Marshall observed.
He had just finished quoting the passage from Psalm 11 to some 115 Lancaster County ACTION supporters at a Saturday breakfast.
Congressman Joe Pitts used the same verse minutes earlier, talking about efforts in Congress to pass a const...
2004-09-18 19:58:20
Helen Colwell Adams
Some of the hottest speculation in the GOP is over Wenger's intentions when his seat comes up in 2006. The consensus has been that the 28-year veteran of the Legislature will retire, triggering a stampede by ambitious Republicans for the job.
But Wenger was raising money Thursday night for hi...
2004-09-17 14:41:09
Cindy Stauffer
But they can, an expert told a group of local business leaders and legislators today. “It’s not only possible, it’s the direction we should be moving,” said Karen Wolk Feinstein, chairwoman of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative. But it’s going to take some work, acknowledged the hea......
2004-08-27 11:05:46
Charles Lardner
The Committee, a political rock band with Democratic leanings, led the cheers for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in between covers of blues songs .
As they listened to tunes like "Born Under a Bad Sign," about 500 ebullient Kerry supporters and local and state Democratic offi....
2004-08-09 09:19:01
Rebecca J. Ritzel
Last month, a federal appeals court overturned a Pennsylvania law banning college newspapers from printing paid advertisements for alcohol. The Pitt News, published by University of Pittsburgh students, challenged the 1996 liquor code statute on free-speech grounds.
A three-judge panel fr......
2004-07-17 20:15:08
Helen Colwell Adams
Why does the United States have 17,000 troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where al-Qaida is holed up, and 170,000 in Iraq?
Hoeffel, the Democrat seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Nov. 2 – assuming no electoral delays – issued a statement Saturday urging President Bush and Defense ...
2004-07-09 12:50:44
Jack Brubaker
In a surprise announcement, UPN said Thursday afternoon that “Amish in the City’’ already has been produced. Variety.com called the unexpected announcement “a stealth move designed to head off potential critics.’’ Members of Congress and various groups and individuals in Lancaster County and othe......
2004-06-15 10:30:28
Roxanne Todd
Jeff Coleman, musician, songwriter and designer draftsman for Clair Brothers Audio, a Lititz-based company that handles the famous (Elton John, Madonna, Paul Simon, Garth Brooks and the Eagles), is certain that big change is coming to the music industry.
"I know what the guys in the industry ...
2004-04-28 14:58:19
Jane Holahan
Your assignment is to take the ads to a higher level, make them sexier, more mysterious, more appealing.
So you're thinking, hmm, maybe we get a man in there. He can smolder and then the woman wearing wings and a Victoria's Secret bra can smolder back. It will be sexy and evocative.
...
2004-04-28 09:02:18
Carrie Caldwell
Weeks of relentless negative campaigning by both GOP candidates culminated in a victory in Tuesday's primary election for Corbett, who becomes the Republicans' pick for the state's top lawyer.
Residents statewide cast more than 450,000 votes - 30,659 of them in Lancaster County - ......
2004-04-27 13:00:18
Cindy Stauffer
His victims also were quiet at hearing the sentence. Many of them white-haired, they turned out in such great numbers for Perry's sentencing that it had to be moved to a larger courtroom at the last minute.
Perry also was sentenced to 12 years of probation and was ordered to pay $2.57 mil...
2004-04-26 12:27:46
Tom Murse
In separate developments, a new poll shows Specter hanging on to a 6-percent lead after a late surge by Toomey, and Specter has hit the airwaves with a new round of ads featuring President Bush bought with a late $300,000 infusion from the Republican National Committee.
The race -- by far...
2004-04-22 09:17:49
Justin Quinn
Martino said the station won't run his political advertisement challenging an endorsement by Dr. James Dobson of Congressman Pat Toomey, a Lehigh Valley Republican running against Specter in Tuesday's primary. A radio ad spotlighting Dobson's support of Toomey has aired on WDAC.
......
2004-04-20 13:03:12
Bernard Harris
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said Republicans will have to emphasize their "ground game'' because of restrictions placed on them by federal election fund-raising law.
That means voter registration drives, phone banks and lots of volunteers, Pitts told local Republicans at the county GOP's spring d...
2004-04-17 12:02:08
Tom Murse
Dr. James Dobson -- the radio personality, newspaper columnist and author who gives voice to millions of conservatives -- will campaign for Toomey in Lancaster County Friday night.
Dobson and Toomey will appear together at a rally scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Lancaster Host Resort on Linco...
2004-04-10 12:45:17
Tom Murse
The Akron man is heading Toomey's campaign for U.S. Senate in Lancaster County -- perhaps the most important bloc of voters in one of the most closely watched races in the nation.
He is working to overcome what has been Toomey's greatest obstacle -- the lack of name recognition. He's got ...
2004-04-10 22:38:31
Helen Colwell Adams
For someone whose campaign has been virtually given up for dead by mainstream politicians, Pat Toomey was sounding remarkably lively.
"We're about to pull off the biggest political upset in Pennsylvania,'' he predicted.
Bold words. But the Lehigh Valley congressman who's trying to topp...
2004-04-03 20:30:39
They almost needed a shoehorn to wedge in all the people at Saturday's Lancaster County ACTION breakfast.
Which could be a leading indicator of how energized the county's conservative Republican base is.
With 23 days, and counting, until the April 27 primary between U.S. Sen. Arlen Spe...
2004-03-08 13:59:44
Tom Murse
Nutritionists and food-industry experts far and wide are heaping praise upon the fast-food giant, which made the announcement last week.
Headline writers breathlessly proclaim that McDonald's is "slimming down its menu.''
"With obesity on the rise and looking for methods of preven...
2004-03-06 23:24:47
Helen Colwell Adams
There's still a month and a half before the primary, and already you can recite the words by heart.
"This is Arlen Specter, and I authorized this message to tell you about my record.'' "I'm Congressman Pat Toomey, and I approved this message because Pennsylvania Republicans deserve a senator ...
2004-03-03 13:51:22
John M. Spidaliere
And that beginning, said Mayor Charlie Smithgall, is what he and downtown business owners have waited for for decades: the chance to open shops, boutiques and eateries to hordes of tourists.
Seven days a week.
The Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum, which will feature the world-ren...
2004-02-26 12:59:29
Susan Lindt
State police say incoming tips have slowed, but they're still tracking leads that may eventually bring them to the baby's mother, who likely gave birth between Dec. 24 and Dec. 29.
But then what?
If the mother did abandon her baby, whose body was discovered by schoolchildren on N...
2004-02-18 14:31:40
Jack Brubaker
They will fire the next shot in a campaign to stop production of a TV reality series starring Amish teenagers.
Weather permitting, the community rally, open to the public, will be held outside, amid the frozen cornfields and dormant greenhouses of Jeff and Sue Frey's 650-acre spread.
...
2004-01-21 13:27:29
Jane Holahan
· There are way too many commercials on TV. The number of minutes devoted to selling us stuff has been growing steadily, and I'm afraid one of these days the balance between how much time is devoted to a show and how much is devoted to commercials will tilt over to the other side.
I...
2004-01-14 13:35:38
Jane Holahan
So I will continue to watch my 19-inch screen at home and go to the movie theater when I want to have the true movie-going experience.
And you know, it's always more interesting to go to the movies than to stay home, even if you do have a 500-inch high definition TV that you paid $5,000 ...
2003-12-15 09:02:49
Helen Colwell Adams
In other words, the GOP should keep its fingers off the FDR 10-cent piece.
Clay Township supervisor Jon Price, who narrowly lost a bid for a county commissioner nomination in the May primary, issued a statement last week protesting a bill in the U.S. House to replace Franklin Delano Roose...
2003-12-01 09:37:03
Eric Stark
“They are,” she said to no one in particular, as she heard a Christmas song.
“They’re trying to beat us at our own game,” West said. “We’ve always been known as the Christmas station. Our listeners will not change to hear Christmas music on The Rose.”
Like it or not, it...
2003-11-24 13:33:15
John M. Spidaliere
The Lancaster County Foundation, a nonprofit corporation and trust that aims to improve the quality of life around the county, has changed its name to the Lancaster County Community Foundation.
"The "Community' fit much better with what we do,'' said Doug Levering, director of programs an...
2003-11-01 23:41:07
Cris Foehlinger
Dr. David Emmert has a patient who needed to see a neurologist as soon as possible for evaluation and treatment.
When he set out to make the appointment, he found no one locally who could see the patient for four months. An appointment at Hershey Medical Center would have to wait until June, ...
2003-11-01 23:40:47
Helen Colwell Adams
They would rather have been in Philadelphia.
But Saturday, the Friends of Better Government PAC split its forces, sending 10 volunteers to campaign for Philly’s Republican mayoral candidate, Sam Katz, while leaving another 10 at home to prepare a mailing trying to keep local Republicans on th...
2003-11-01 23:40:27
Helen Colwell Adams
The radio ads on WDAC-FM linking Molly Henderson and abortion are another sign that the race for a minority seat on the county commissioner board has become a contest between Henderson and Jim Clymer.
And that makes Henderson a big target for Clymer supporters. A summer poll by the Constit......
2003-10-18 12:51:14
David O'connor
It was 1988, and Michael Dukakis could have been president.
The brainy governor of a rebounded Rust Belt state, a man "who appealed to the best instincts of the American people'' and a candidate with a photogenic wife, he was still defeated -- in large part by a TV ad from his opponent....
2003-09-10 14:49:53
Jane Holahan
New TV seasons are always overwhelming, especially when you've got so many networks vying for your prime time.
So what shows have the buzz and what shows are lost causes before they even hit the airwaves?
It's sad when you see a 30-second commercial for a show and you know, with ...
2003-08-09 10:31:25
Laura M. Good
It was a first for Kellam, who has modeled for five years.
"I know the character I'm supposed to be is an 1800s English officer named Nicholas," Kellam said. "But as far as what he does and doesn't do, I haven't read it yet."
Kellam is a character in his own right.
...
2003-07-31 12:03:59
Bernard Harris
They sarcastically thank "Big Tobacco'' for singling them out as a target market, making them beautiful by smoking cigarettes, making them impotent and slowly killing them.
The television ad, aimed at getting young people to quit smoking or not to start, may soon be showing up on your tel...
2003-07-06 09:32:53
Helen Colwell Adams
About the only thing you can't find on PoliticsPA.com is the true identity of its pseudonymous editor, Sy Snyder.
'Figuring out who Sy is it's an exciting parlor game in Harrisburg,'' said pundit Dr. G. Terry Madonna.
Snyder himself (or herself, or themselves), interviewed by ...
2003-07-03 12:13:40
Cindy Stauffer
Community will build a women's health center housing a maternity unit at its $60 million hospital under construction in Warwick Township, hospital executive director Michael Arno said. The hospital will open next spring.
Four months ago, Community officials said they were suspending plans...
2003-06-30 13:34:03
Tim Mekeel
"COLORED MAID. Permanent Position for neat appearing girl. 5 Day Week. Store Discount. Watt & Shand.''
It was a different time, a different world.
By today's standards, the job market in Lancaster County 50 years ago often was one of narrowly defined opportunity, frequently restric...
2003-06-28 22:49:41
Gail Rippey
Forty-thousand folks of a particular persuasion have been asked to spend a day on Mayor Charlie Smithgall's stomping grounds.
"When you need a break, need to just get away some place new for a day (without spending hours in your car), head to downtown Lancaster,'' reads his invitation.
...
2003-06-09 11:33:11
Patrick Burns
"Although primarily fueled by advertising revenue, PrivateAd was developed to encompass multiple venues, most notably the health care industry," Pierzga said.
In less than three months, Private Ad has established a base of more than 50 customers, though restaurants and gyms are......
2003-06-09 09:15:21
Gail Rippey
The two work with people who can't do things for themselves, such as eating and bathing.
Their clients range from people with wires and tubes connecting their bodies to machines, to those who are physically sound but often don't know what day it is.
So it wasn't a surprise that...
2003-06-06 09:51:24
Larry Alexander
City voters will be asked to answer "yes" to the following question if the city is successful in getting it on the ballot for the Nov. 4 election: "Do you favor eliminating the occupation tax by increasing the rate of the City of Lancaster earned income tax from .50 percen......
2003-05-22 13:42:05
Cindy Stauffer
So here they all were at The Pressroom this week, sneaking glances at each other as they waited to file in the back room of the city restaurant, sit down at tables and talk to a dozen, available members of the opposite sex -- for precisely six minutes each.
Welcome to speed dating, the la...
2003-05-10 22:31:44
Helen Colwell Adams
In the county commissioner money derby, Republican incumbent Pete Shaub nearly lapped the field.
But challenger Dennis Stuckey is moving up fast on the inside.
And on the other side of the ballot, Jon Price was the dark-horse winner.
The nine commissioner candidates, six Republi...
2003-05-08 13:22:47
Susan Jurgelski
She has style. She has grace. And lots of whiskers on her face. This Lady is a real beauty -- and a real dog.
And tonight, she'll be a contestant, on the "First Annual Miss Dog Beauty Pageant 2003.''
Lady, a 3-year-old Jack Russell terrier owned by longtime dog trainer Tony Cucuzella o...
2003-04-09 13:51:26
Jane Holahan
Take "America's Most Talented Kid,'' for example.
I know I hate this show just by watching the commercials.
We see lots of miniature "adults'' who should be riding their bikes, skinning their knees and taking spelling tests. Instead, they are all gussied up in evening gowns, tuxe...
2003-02-24 12:54:24
Michael J. Forbes
But with every new band member, he would need an extra instrument. And in Watson's case, that could mean an extra instrument that he doesn't have.
McCaskey's band has experienced a severe shortage of instruments for the past year. As a result, the school has undertaken a relentless effort...
2003-01-11 20:10:54
Jon Rutter
Lay in one gallon of gas and one gallon of heating oil in Lancaster County these days and you shell out a total of about 50 cents more than you would have last year this time.
It may get worse.
But will the added burden force people to stay home and ./i./i. not shop?
In an alrea...
2002-12-30 08:54:15
By Kevin Freeman Intelligencer Journal Sports Writer
Video replays showed that Norfolk Admirals right wing Mike Peluso kicked the puck into the Hershey net to give the Admirals a 1-0 lead early in their game with Hershey at the Giant Center.
Pucks intentionally kicked into the net are not allowed by rule but referee Craig Spada let the ...
2002-12-22 10:55:14
Helen Colwell Adams
Don't tell Stephen Medvic the old jokes about "campaign ethics" being a contradiction in terms. He's heard 'em all.
To the point that in the first paragraph of a new book, Medvic and his co-authors wrote, "It is difficult to blame those who think that [ic]campaign ethics[nm] is an oxymoron."...
2002-12-16 09:40:51
Patricia A. Poist
Yes, Mayor Charlie Smithgall and downtown business owners, there is a Santa Claus.
Or, at the very least, some sympathetic elves in state government.
Long vexed about the closed Fruitville Pike bridge and its reported adverse impact on city businesses, downtown Lancaster businesses rec...
2002-12-12 06:14:01
Jeff Hawkes
Then - blammo! - you wake to find you have to be responsible for your kids today because school-bus drivers have taken a holiday.
Hey, don't bus drivers get the summer off, too?
I don't get the summer off, and I was a liberal arts major.
Unlike school-bus drivers, I get only two...
2002-12-05 10:58:57
Carla Di Fonzo
Jim Morrison is a protege of Santa Claus, and the National Christmas Center is his gift to those who want to believe in the magic of the holiday season.
Since childhood, Morrison has collected keepsakes from his favorite holiday, starting with a glass Christmas tree ornament he found in someo...
2002-12-02 11:22:55
Helen Colwell Adams
If 2002 turns out to be an especially good year for WGAL-TV, the station can give some credit to George Gekas and Tim Holden.
The wild 17th Congressional District race, which cost around $7 million, contributed to Lancaster's WGAL airing more political ads than any other TV station in Pennsyl...
2002-11-22 15:12:31
Jack Brubaker
You may have noticed that the yellow pages of the new Verizon telephone directory are crawling with lawyers. Before you find anything else in there, you are likely to trip over an ad for an attorney.
The largest type on the front page promotes a Lancaster law practice. An ad from a different ...
2002-11-14 10:37:21
What you see is not what you get.
Open a magazine, watch television or veg out to a movie, but when you look at the women, know that most likely their breasts have been digitally enhanced, their waistlines has been trimmed with Photoshop and their blemishes have been airbrushed away.
L...
