2012-02-09 16:03:00
TOM KNAPP
Some artists prefer canvas.
Stephen Gambone, who is showing his work this month at Building Character, prefers tables and chairs.
Some artists like to work in oils or watercolors.
Gambone likes to work with old magazines and comic books.
"I take different types of ......
2012-02-07 20:10:00
BERNARD HARRIS
For most of the last two decades, the Lancaster Press building has stood vacant at North Prince and West Lemon streets.
Paint is peeling on the frames around broken windows on the six-story building.
But now a small corner inside the building stands in contrast to the rest of the ......
2012-01-25 12:09:00
STAFF REPORT
Hempfield High School student Marian Bechtel has been named one of 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search.
The junior from Landisville is the only finalist from Pennsylvania selected to compete in what is considered America's most prestigious pre-college science competition.
......
2012-01-24 11:34:00
CORRESPONDENT
The Quarryville Kryptonite Fast Pitch Softball team will host a chicken pot pie dinner at the Hoffman Building, located on the Solanco Fairgrounds in Quarryville on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Admission is $10 for adults and $6 for children age 10 and younger.
Pot pie will......
2012-01-19 23:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Steve Murray hopes his phoenix will rise from the ashes.
Right now there is an empty space in the 300 block of North Queen Street, where Zap & Co., Murray's vintage clothing and accessories store, once stood.
A year ago today, a fire almost killed Murray and destroyed his buil......
2012-01-19 16:03:00
ELAINE J. JONES
While Penn Manor School District is in the process of constructing a new elementary school, several other schools in the district are in line to undergo repair or renovation in the near future. Pequea Elementary, Conestoga Elementary, Manor Middle School and Penn Manor High School are includ......
2012-01-17 22:47:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The Lancaster city Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday took another step toward construction of a new parking garage on North Market Street.
Authority members voted unanimously to approve a cooperative agreement with the city that allows them to accept $3 million for the project provided t......
2012-01-15 17:39:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
On top of Mark Stivers' desk in his office at the East Hempfield Township office can be found plenty of building plans, reports and other tools of the planning field.
"My office may be organized chaos, but I can usually find what I am looking for," Stivers said.
But one set of pap......
2012-01-11 21:40:00
BERNARD HARRIS
This week, members of the .918 Club began packing up.
The club is being evicted from its space on the third floor of the Heritage Center Museum on Lancaster's Penn Square.
The 1920s era printing shop, a fixture at the museum for eight years, faces the prospect of homelessness.......
2012-01-09 20:15:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Lancaster General Health hopes to extend its reach to a third city block by building an office building and its third parking garage on the former Lancaster YMCA property.
The health care organization has applied for a rezoning of the property, which will be announced tonight at a City Co......
2012-01-08 15:55:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
Christmas trees can be dropped off in the orange fenced area at the rear of the Penn Township Municipal Building, 97 N. Penryn Road, Manheim until Jan. 15. Trees should be free of all decorations and not in plastic bags.......
2011-12-24 20:04:00
CHAD UMBLE
As Steve and Marijane Ember celebrated Christmas last year in their new house outside Lititz, light streamed through their windows. It struck the back edge of a waist-high wall that separates their living room from a foyer running along the front of the house. That light against the wal......
2011-12-12 23:15:00
KIM O'BRIEN
In August 2010, James "Jimmy" Faus accomplished what he thought was the most grueling challenge of his life: hiking the entire Appalachian Trail in just under six months.
This September, however, he was presented with an even tougher journey. Faus, 26, was diagnosed with stage four colon ......
2011-12-07 22:48:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City Planning Commission members Wednesday granted final approval for a $20 million project which may never be built.
The plan for a 76,578-square-foot office building on the redeveloped Lancaster Stockyards received unanimous commission approval. But real estate developer Tim H......
2011-11-27 22:56:00
MIKE GROSS
Way back when he was Penn State's football coach, Joe Paterno would famously entertain the media in informal Friday night gatherings on the road.
There were adult beverages, and there was Joe discoursing on the following day's game but also, as the conversation shifted and turned, on Broo......
2011-11-21 17:09:00
CAROLE DECK
History is in the making when the New Holland Area Historical Society opens its doors to the public for a Museum Preview & Art Show Dec. 3 and 4. The much-anticipated first look at the spacious new museum, located in the renovated second floor of the former historic Kauffman......
2011-11-09 22:21:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Christmas is coming early for Lancaster city.
The city learned last week that it will receive $10.5 million from the state's Redevelopment Capital Assistance grant program.
The funds, which must be evenly matched, will allow the city to:
• Expand City......
2011-11-03 12:38:00
MARCELLA FEYRE-PERRY
Bart Township officials reported Wednesday that there will be no increase to real estate taxes next year. The board voted to advertise a draft of the township's 2012 budget, with final adoption planned for its December meeting. The budget, which totals $882,289, calls for tax rates to remain......
2011-10-31 21:59:00
JEFF HAWKES
With nearly 800 rising to sing the National Anthem, Building One Pennsylvania's statewide meeting Thursday got off to a strong, unifying start. But it wasn't long before the coalition's big event took on a decidedly Democratic tone.
And that made for an unfortunate turn of events.
...
2011-10-27 22:26:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
There's a big divide in America that could be called "the tyranny of the ZIP code," a member of President Obama's cabinet said in Lancaster on Thursday.
If you live in the right ZIP code, with more access to opportunity, your chances of succeeding are much better.
And "while we ha......
2011-10-25 12:15:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
Main Street Mount Joy will host a Halloween Bash on Fourth Friday, Oct. 28 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Events include face painting, pumpkin painting, ribbon cutting and a pumpkin pie eating contest.
During Fourth Friday, two history t......
2011-10-17 16:05:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Mount Joy residents will have the opportunity to learn about the town's past when they stroll along the streets during the borough's Fourth Friday activities later this month. The evening's activities will feature two ways to learn about Mount Joy's history, as well as fun Halloween-type act......
2011-10-14 20:56:00
JOAN KERN
Titus Peachey recently received a call on the GI Rights Hotline from a weeping mother whose son is in boot camp.
"He said he doesn't think he can kill someone," Peachey, director of peace education for the Mennonite Central Committee, quoted the mother as saying.
"And here I've be......
2011-10-13 07:42:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A Harrisburg woman was arrested after disturbing residents of an apartment complex in Warwick Township early today, police said.
Melissa A. Chirdon, 34, was wandering around in the 500 block of Creekside Lane at about 12:30 a.m., Warwick Township police Sgt. Rick Rhinier.
Chirdon ......
2011-09-20 19:29:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster Door Service and Lancaster Building Supply Windows & Doors have opened a new showroom at 1851 Lincoln Highway East, just west of Greenfield Road.
The roughly 2,300-square-foot store features a variety of doors and windows, including garage doors and openers. It is designed f......
2011-09-15 14:36:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
A zoning hearing that could determine the fate of an apartment project in Akron Borough has been postponed. Latitude 17 wants to build 36 apartment units in two buildings on a 2.26-acre property at 103 Fulton St. The lot was rezoned a high-density parcel earlier this year, but developers sti......
2011-09-14 20:29:00
TIM MEKEEL
When Ephrata National Bank opened its stately headquarters in 1925, there was a purpose to the project.
"They wanted a good looking, substantial building," said facilities manager Jim Brown. "They wanted to make a mark."
Now, 86 years later, the bank is using a renovation to that ......
2011-09-14 20:29:00
TIM MEKEEL
When Ephrata National Bank opened its stately headquarters in 1925, there was a purpose to the project.
"They wanted a good looking, substantial building," said facilities manager Jim Brown. "They wanted to make a mark."
Now, 86 years later, the bank is using a renovation to that ......
2011-09-13 22:09:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Chairs were already lining the streets of Quarryville earlier this week when Lloyd Welk noted how the Solanco Fair is like "one big family homecoming."
"People who are from here come back just for the fair," Welk, the fair association's president, said. "And it's when a lot of people from......
2011-09-13 22:09:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Chairs were already lining the streets of Quarryville earlier this week when Lloyd Welk noted how the Solanco Fair is like "one big family homecoming."
"People who are from here come back just for the fair," Welk, the fair association's president, said. "And it's when a lot of people from......
2011-09-12 16:38:00
PATRICK BURNS
Homeowners wanting to complete minor home repairs or replace fixtures in West Cocalico Township may no longer need to fill out all the paperwork that traditional comes along with the job. West Cocalico supervisors on Thursday adopted an ordinance that eliminates the need for a building perm......
2011-08-31 23:21:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When construction workers find old, unused utility pipes while working in Lancaster city, the rule is that they have to be filled.
So when nine utility lines were found during excavation for the Red Rose Transit Authority's parking garage at North Queen and East Chestnut streets, city off......
2011-08-25 19:20:00
ROXANNE McROBERTS
When a stock storm door fits an existing opening, it's like the bells and whistles are going off and the jackpot sign is flashing. When it doesn't, there are two choices. Order a custom door or modify a stock door to fit.
That's where this story begins. A friend needed a replacement storm......
2011-08-16 13:46:00
PATRICK BURNS
Eastern Lancaster County School District students returning to the classroom later this month will notice some changes as the $25 million Garden Spot campus improvement project nears completion. Superintendent Robert Hollister said Monday that the schools are "ready to roll" and that constru......
2011-08-09 22:53:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City Council members unanimously approved the demolition of a North Queen Street building on Tuesday to allow access to a planned North Market Street parking garage.
The council vote was a rare instance of members rejecting the recommendation of the city Historical Commission. T......
2011-08-09 19:53:00
CHAD UMBLE
Good's Store has finished a major expansion and renovation that added 20,000 square feet of retail space and a new entrance for the household, clothing and hardware store at 1338 Main St., East Earl.
The store's main entrance was moved from the north side of the building to the southwest ......
2011-08-07 00:05:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Joey Oster is a go-getter, a hands-on kind of kid. Saturday morning, the 5-year-old Manheim Township resident toted wooden pieces taller than he was to help make a snake fence, popular during the colonial era of the United States. And he took to cutting pieces of slate for roofs like a ......
2011-08-04 14:37:00
Staff
Cottage Ease ... Saturday
HGTV has given us access to everything from New York City apartments to modest bungalows to million-dollar residences in exotic locations -- but there's nothing quite like getting a glimpse inside a beautiful home firsthand. The 27th annual Mt. Gretna Tour of Hom......
2011-07-27 20:46:00
JEFF HAWKES
As the steel industry declined, the small, Ohio-bordering city of Farrell approached insolvency and became in 1987 the first Pennsylvania municipality to be designated "fiscally distressed."
Other communities hit hard by the changing economy — Aliquippa, Braddock, Scranton, Johnstow......
2011-07-19 08:28:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A busy downtown street was briefly closed Tuesday morning after part of a building's facade fell to the sidewalk.
No one was hurt as a 2-by-4-foot concrete panel fell from 51-55 N. Queen St.
The concrete panel crumbled into a small pile of rubble when it hit the sidewalk below the......
2011-07-15 15:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Zumba, a Latin-inspired fitness craze, bills itself as a "fitness party." But that nightclub party atmosphere often is hard to replicate in small fitness rooms, where, an hour later, there might be a yoga or a spin class. And, at the few area nightclubs with dance floors, the dancing......
2011-07-08 21:44:00
ENELLY BETANCOURT
Building Character, a salvaged goods store in downtown Lancaster, is building something for Sundays — second Sundays, that is.
Its Sunday Flavor Fair will be held this weekend from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 342 N. Queen St., in the rear warehouses.
"Sundays are kind of dead aroun......
2011-07-03 00:01:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Parking in the City of Lancaster could soon get a little easier — and costlier.
This week, the Lancaster Parking Authority will unveil a proposal to expand the number of parking meters in the city by some 17 percent, adding 170 new meters along eight city streets, all of them north ......
2011-06-29 23:08:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Plans for a new Lancaster city parking garage took an incremental step forward Wednesday when the city Redevelopment Authority voted to purchase the land.
Authority members voted unanimously to acquire an 88-space parking lot in the 400 block of North Market Street. An apartment building,......
2011-06-29 17:58:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Maybe it was all in the cards for 85-year-old Doris "Dorie" Van Antwerp.
She raised her kids in Bethlehem, retired in Arizona, but then, about two years ago, after she was widowed, she decided she wanted to be closer to her daughter and moved to Lancaster.
There was one other ince......
2011-06-16 23:51:00
STAFF REPORT
The home-building firms Costello Builders of East Petersburg and Landmark Homes of Ephrata took top honors at the Lancaster/Lebanon Parade of Homes Gala, held Friday at the Eden Resort & Suites.
Costello was presented with the 2011 Parade of Homes Fulton Award for Lancaster County for......
2011-06-16 18:14:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to your house, that's not quite true.
How your home looks on the outside — otherwise known as "curb appeal" — matters.
"Your home's curb appeal is many people's first impression of your home," said Arden C......
2011-06-14 14:47:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Manheim Community Library unveiled the sketch plan of a proposed 18,400-square foot facility along Ferdinand and Oak streets during an event on Monday, June 13. The library is also presenting its plan to the Manheim Borough planning commission at 7 p.m. on June 20.
Commu......
2011-06-11 12:56:00
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Garden Spot Village announced the opening of its sales office for the Lancaster Press Building, its new community in downtown Lancaster. Open from 9 a.m. until noon, Monday through Friday, and at other times by appointment, the sales office is located at 237 N. Prince St. in Lancaster, just a sho......
2011-06-09 16:01:00
Staff
Josh Groban ... Wednesday
Ladies, get ready to swoon. Josh Groban is coming "Straight To You" Wednesday night -- that is, if you have the $80 to $100 for tickets to his performance at the Giant Center. The singer, named by Barnes & Noble in 2007 as the No. 1 Best Selling Artist of All......
2011-05-24 18:03:00
CHAD UMBLE
Gardner's Mattress & More opened Thursday at 830 Plaza Blvd., behind Park City Center.
The store previously operated as Gardner's Bedrooms & Mattresses at 165 Rohrerstown Road in Regency Square shopping center. That location closed in March.
With its move the store underwe......
2011-05-16 16:05:00
TOM KNAPP and DAVID O'CONNOR
For the second time this month, a bomb scare shut down part of downtown Lancaster.
But the "suspicious package" that caused police to route traffic away from Penn Square Monday afternoon turned out to contain nothing more than an empty wine bottle.
The black, rectangular package w......
2011-05-12 15:39:00
Carole Deck
Sunny and 70-degrees was ideal weather for opening day at the New Holland farmers market on Saturday, May 7.
"We were thrilled with our first market day of the season," said Ginny Dissinger, market manager.
This is the fifth season for the newest Lancaster County market that......
2011-04-21 20:21:00
TIM MEKEEL
A manufacturer that makes flooring out of recycled rubber has launched a logical initiative:
A recycling program.
ECORE International has started "Redeux," in which the company takes back its old products and uses them as raw material for new products.
Customers have to pa......
2011-04-10 00:16:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
When business was booming, Stephen Artz built 12-15 homes a year. "The most I ever did was 28," said Artz, founder and president of Your Towne Builders, a custom home building company in Lancaster. "I had a staff of four." That was then. Now, four years after the housing ......
2011-04-08 22:32:00
TIM MEKEEL
For most of the past 20 years, the former Lancaster Press building has stood silent.
But there likely will be countless conversations in there over the next 20 years.
Garden Spot Village's board of directors has approved plans for a 44-unit residential community there for active a......
2011-03-20 21:43:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County commissioners are working on three building construction and acquisition projects valued at $15 million.
Including those projects, county government has expanded and/or improved its infrastructure holdings since 2000 by more than $110 million.
"It's a big number,"......
2011-03-02 22:45:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city zoners this week approved plans for two neighborhood grocery stores.
Lolita Haverstick received permission Monday to add a cafe seating area to a grocery store she is planning at 237 W. Lemon St.
That space, owned by the Boys and Girls Club, has previously housed th......
2011-02-21 22:20:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster city's ubiquitous row homes can be charming, but renovations to improve energy efficiency can be a challenge.
LIVE Green, a local environmental initiative, will hold two workshops to teach owners of row homes and the contractors who work on the buildings about cost-effective way......
2011-02-17 21:26:00
TIM MEKEEL
The former Lancaster Press building has stood vacant for 13 years, without any outward signs that it's going to be revitalized.
But soon there could be two signs.
Two really big signs.
Garden Spot Village will seek the city's permission to hang two banners on the building,......
2011-02-08 22:58:00
BRIAN WALLACE
School District of Lancaster is considering moving students who now attend Fulton Elementary School to another building for the 2012-13 school year to make way for renovations at Fulton.
The proposal, which the school board has yet to vote on, was outlined during a presentation Tuesday on......
2011-01-25 20:58:00
P.J. REILLY
As far as the commissioners know, Lancaster County has never awarded a construction contract that required a contractor to use only union labor.
And commissioners Chairman Scott Martin said as long as he's in office, he'll never support such an agreement.
In a move he said is aime......
2011-01-22 00:32:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A Lancaster city business owner affectionately called "the godfather of downtown retail" was in critical but stable condition Friday after being injured in a fire that destroyed his vintage clothing store.
Firefighters pulled Steve Murray, the owner of Zap & Co., from the store in the......
2011-01-13 21:29:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Sometimes it seems like it takes years for trends to reach Lancaster. Sometimes that's a good thing.
The down economy finally reached Lancaster city's building industry last year.
The city saw its worst year for building in at least five years.
The $58.4 million in constru......
2011-01-10 21:52:00
TIM MEKEEL
Armstrong World Industries has picked a new leader for its biggest business, building products.
The Lancaster-based firm said Monday it has hired Victor Grizzle as executive vice president of its Armstrong Building Products.
Grizzle, 49, will start Monday.
He comes here fr......
2010-12-09 21:39:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city officials will seek financing this month for the construction of a parking garage at Market and Lemon streets.
The garage could range in size from 307-380 spaces and in cost from $7.5 million to $8.5 million, depending on the amount of financing the city is able to secure, ......
2010-12-09 16:07:00
JANE HOLAHAN
If you liked the Creative Works of Lancaster's "Sock Puppet Psycho," in which Hitchcock's classic film was retold using sock puppets, then odds are you'll like "Yule Laugh."
It's an irreverent evening of holiday humor, a chance to unpaste the smile on your face -- the one you wear at the ......
2010-11-04 19:52:00
TOM KNAPP
Joseph Strider is happy when the phone rings and interrupts his work.
"I'm working on a set list for Friday, and I hate doing it," he says, with a good-natured growl.
"I just want to play everything," he says. "If I could get on the stage and play for four hours, I'd be a happy ca......
2010-10-24 21:40:00
TOM KNAPP
Pat Stepanchak couldn't have timed it better.
Stepanchak, a volunteer for Sunday's tour of Lancaster city architecture, was waxing rhapsodic about the beauty of the ballroom on the third floor of Stevens School Apartments.
"People are amazed when they walk in here," she said. "The......
2010-10-21 16:15:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.
• Starting with Friday night!
You know, it seems like hardly a month goes by that we don't get a singer-songwriter showcase at the Lancaster Dispensing ......
2010-10-14 17:05:00
LAURA KNOWLES
For artist Dean Radinovsky, having an exhibition at Millersville University is something of a homecoming.
Although his work has been nationally and even internationally acclaimed, the Lancaster native and Millersville graduate -- who now lives in Queens, N.Y. -- is very pleased to be havi......
2010-10-14 16:14:00
RAY GRUNNERT
This past Sunday evening's full house at The Pressroom restaurant, 26 W. King St., was attributable to several obvious factors: The Lancaster Symphony performance at the Fulton, the latest glorious Phillies playoff win playing on the twin TVs at the bar, and the fact that Rue de la Pompe, the gyp......
2010-09-07 22:44:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city officials had hoped federal stimulus funds would help them build a new parking garage along North Market Street.
When that didn't happen, they hoped for $3 million from a state grant program to help build the $10 million garage.
So, with the promise of $1 million be......
2010-08-27 18:41:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The revitalization of a fire-ravaged parcel in Mount Joy's central business district has begun.The borough on Friday celebrated the launch of the Mount Joy Fire Rebuild Project at 74-76 E. Main St., Mount Joy.Destroyed by a February 2007 fire that destroyed five properties and t......
2010-08-21 00:01:00
JOAN KERN
Lancaster's Julie Campbell ministers to the impoverished people of Wachara, Kenya.She couldn't do it without the support of her home church, Hempfield United Methodist, at 3050 Marietta Ave....
2010-08-05 20:47:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Three years ago, Matt Keasey wanted to open a brewpub in downtown Lancaster.Those plans, however, fell through.So Keasey went in a different direction. He bought a property in Conestoga and renovated an old barn into a brewery. His Spring House brewery has been going gangbuster......
2010-08-05 16:37:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
Steve Wilson, whose watercolor paintings will be featured in a show opening Friday evening at the Red Raven Art Company, 138 N. Queen St., draws his influences from the woods, large meadows and open spaces of his native Chester County.It is not surprising that one of his favorite artists a......
2010-08-05 16:27:00
JENNA EBERSOLE
In a basement room of a building that once housed the Pennsylvania National Guard, a bonanza of donated materials awaits new owners -- and new visions.Vinyl wallpaper samples, colorful plastic tubing, fabric and more populate the 1,200 square foot space, which a group of women hopes will b......
2010-08-03 12:07:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Los adolescentes quienes abandonan la escuela podrían tener dificultades para dar el salto a un trabajo bien pagado.El salto puede parecer un salto sobre un abismo para un hispano sin buenos conocimientos del idioma Inglés o sin capacitación básica para un emple......
2010-07-29 16:46:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.• When Rich Ruoff told us he'd be bringing national acts to the Ephrata Main Theatre, he wasn't kidding.Rich has just announced that Joan Osbor......
2010-07-19 22:25:00
P.J. REILLY
A violent line of storms ripped through Lancaster County on Monday evening, causing localized damage in several areas.In Strasburg Township, a storage barn at 64 Refton Road was flattened by high winds around 5:20 p.m."It went down all the way to the ground," Refton Fire C......
2010-07-19 20:06:00
JEFF HAWKES
Ecological calamity in the Gulf. An economy beset by joblessness and jittery investors. A growing fear we're fighting a war we can't win.These are not the best of times, and it's easy to feel there's nothing we can do about it.But before we throw up our hands and ret......
2010-07-14 22:39:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Kathy Kelley tucked her pocketbook under the desk in her office on the second floor of the Coho Building in downtown Lancaster.Just out of high school, the 17-year-old graduate of McCaskey in 1964 was working at her first real job — as a secretary and receptionist.Kelley left ......
2010-07-09 22:06:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Plans for a beet ethanol plant in Rapho Township have survived a court challenge.A Lancaster County Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by four businesses who own land near the site. They had asked the court to throw out the township supervisors' approval of the plant.Judge Jame......
2010-07-01 17:50:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
Artist George M. Clark, best known in recent years for his abstract mixed-media works, has taken a new direction into abstract figurative painting in his new show, opening Friday from 5 to 8 at the Kalargyros Gallery, 112 W. Orange Street. The playful and poignant images all draw from the sa......
2010-06-30 19:53:00
JEFF HAWKES
Why is it that, financially speaking, Lancaster city is on the ropes?Well, that's easy to answer. The city's stagnant tax base can't keep up with the costly demand for police and other services.No, wait. It's because absentee landlords turned single-family homes into......
2010-06-22 21:03:00
TAYLOR BUNDY
Tyree Kemp made a No-Smoking sign — entirely out of cigarette butts.And Natasha Warshawsky transformed a pile of plastic grocery bags into yet another bag.The remake is a stylish tote that warns its audience to RECYCLE and was created entirely from ironed, fused and sewn groce......
2010-06-17 16:33:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
It's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.•It's Music Friday and you know what that means. The streets of Lancaster will be filled with tunes.Especially the 100 block of North Queen Street, where Musi......
2010-06-13 00:12:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
With a big, hot sun staring her in the face, it was hard to tell whether that was a squint or a smile that Charlotte "Charlie" Ballantyne's face was wearing. But with a closer look, it was clear the New Providence resident, sitting under an umbrella in a steamy Quarryville M......
2010-06-11 21:41:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Against the backdrop of a blue sky Friday, workers high above Penn Square worked on scaffolding suspended from the top of the landmark Griest building. The scaffolding has become a familiar sight to people in downtown Lancaster since a chunk of ornamental terra cotta fell to the sidewalk, na......
2010-06-10 16:34:00
Staff
Music for the soul -- but not necessarily soul music -- will reverberate Saturday in southern Lancaster County when the Witness Festival takes command of Memorial Park in Quarryville.After a one-year absence, the free Christian music festival returns with a strong, varied lineup that has s......
2010-06-09 17:01:00
LAURA KNOWLES
The Lancaster garden of Barb and Ken Hammel is a city garden, tucked away in a third-floor hideaway above the street.This unique floral gem, filled with flowering jasmine, clematis, cultivated honeysuckle and trumpet vines, will be revealed this weekend when the Demuth Museum holds its 27t......
2010-05-24 22:30:00
TIM MEKEEL
Construction in Lancaster County soared in April to more than triple its year-earlier level, a new report shows.But it might quickly come back to earth.Contracts signed last month for future construction totaled $41.6 million, McGraw-Hill Construction said.That compared with ......
2010-05-20 23:36:00
TOM MURSE
The Lancaster County GOP thanked its many rank-and-file workers for their efforts in Tuesday's primary."Dear Committeeperson, WOW! You did a great job yesterday," an e-mail from headquarters states. "We will be able to reuse all polling place signs again for the general ......
2010-05-09 00:04:00
JON RUTTER
You don't need a stud finder to tell you that framing lumber prices have shot up. Lumber futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reached $301 per 1,000 board feet on April 30. They started the year at $203. But local builders and lumber sellers, some of whom have seen price incre......
2010-05-06 16:59:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Ever since he opened Building Character in 2007, Marty Hulse has dreamed about moving beyond just selling salvage materials into using them to create new things, like tables, candlesticks and picture frames, which he could sell in his store.Take an old window that was recovered from a hous......
2010-04-29 20:28:00
TOM MURSE
Penn Township businessman Chet Beiler said in a fundraising letter this week that recent polls show him leading fellow front-runner Jim Cawley in the nine-way GOP race for lieutenant governor.A local politico said at least one of the surveys was conducted ......
2010-04-25 00:20:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
At first, the new office building at Rohrerstown Road and Noll Drive in East Hempfield Township might seem a dicey proposal. Commercial real estate has slumped nationally, with defaults soaring; the local market has been flat for 18 months, said one local expert, with a glut of office space ......
2010-04-25 00:06:00
PATRICK BURNS
Protection could come with a price. New federal lead-paint regulations, aimed at preventing lead poisoning, could trigger costlier home repairs for thousands of county homeowners. The regulations, which took effect Thursday, cover contractors working in homes, child-care facilities and ......
2010-04-18 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
According to that famous philosopher Kermit the Frog, it isn't easy being green. But it can be cost-effective, at least where "green" building is concerned. The $4.7 million renovation of Central Market includes several green facets that will be exactly that. Green te......
2010-04-15 10:28:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A crane sat motionless today at the remaining part of the former Empire TV & Appliance building in the city. But traffic was moving past the site and Red Rose Transit Authority buses returned to regular schedules. Normal life — sort of — returned to the block after ......
2010-04-11 21:15:00
TOM KNAPP
The Star Barn will be gone from the Route 283 landscape within a year or two.So anyone who wants to see it at its original location should plan on visiting the Middletown area soon.Because interest in the barn has increased in the wake of its purchase by Agrarian Country — an ......
2010-04-04 19:19:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Bill Laudien feels like he received "broad community support for this idea."And that support, both from residents and his own board of supervisors, "confirms to me that this is the location that will work best for all parties involved," the Lancaster Township manager sa......
2010-03-31 23:16:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
There are three sites, each with "merits and drawbacks," Lancaster Township's manager said.So it might seem likely that "when you get this many people (together), you're not going to get everyone to agree," as one of the 100-plus Lancaster Township residents on ......
2010-03-29 00:01:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Cost overruns on four School District of Lancaster construction projects have exceeded $1.1 million, and more change orders are expected before the work is completed next year.Most of the expense is for work that should have been included in the project specifications when the contracts we......
2010-03-16 00:01:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Don Ranck said he hasn't changed his mind about Lancaster County's farm preservation program since it began three decades ago.
"I don't see any redeeming value in it," the Paradise Township farmer and chairman of township supervisors said bluntly.
"Let the marketplace work. Keep g......
2010-03-14 00:14:00
PAULA WOLF
Franklin & Marshall College announced last week that longtime benefactor Ann Boyd Barshinger has made a $4 million commitment to establish the Ann Boyd Barshinger Scholarship Fund for F&M students from central Pennsylvania. The gift significantly boosts the college's stepped-up e......
2010-03-07 09:00:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
There are 4,500 land parcels in Lancaster Township, and Bill Laudien has looked at all of them.Not in person, and not to look for a place to live.Instead, it has been to find the best place for a new -- and officials believe much-needed -- headquarters for the Lancaster Township Fir......
2010-02-18 18:28:00
Staff
Furiously Funny....................SaturdayLewis Black, who is coming to the Hershey Theatre Saturday at 8 p.m., once explained that he doesn't write jokes, he just starts talking about something that makes him so mad, he almost has a stroke before he moves on. Whether it's politic......
2010-02-07 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
Though she's the first female president of the Building Industry Association of Lancaster County, Connie King doesn't think of herself as a pioneer. "I've always kind of looked at gender as being a nonissue," she said. "I grew up with a 'girls can do anyth......
2010-02-03 22:31:00
P.J. REILLY
Eight local development projects were honored by the Lancaster County Planning Commission as recipients of the 2009 Envision Leadership Awards.The awards are given annually to foster and raise awareness of smart growth in Lancaster County.The winners' projects met smart growth i......
2010-01-25 00:02:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Manheim Township school board Thursday approved spending $1.5 million for design work on the $35.7 million intermediate school it plans to build over the next two years for students in grades five and six.The board also approved applications to the state for reimbursements for the project ......
2010-01-14 16:56:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.Ace Augustine has a new singer and is working on a new album.Ben Moser joined the band not long after its August performance at the Purple Door music festival. Now......
2010-01-08 08:03:00
GREGORY J. SCOTT, AIA
Architectural styles are rarely invented outright. Typically, they are adaptations of previous styles reconfigured and popularized by architects, designers and social change. The Beaux Arts style is no exception.The Beaux (bow) Arts style, French for "Fine Arts," represents a uni......
2009-12-25 06:46:00
ROXANNE McROBERTS
Architectural salvage and antiques shop browsers know interesting and unique treasures can be found while strolling open-mindedly through aisles and aisles of sometimes dusty, rough-looking items such as panel doors, shutters, stairway spindles, entire fireplace mantels, hinges, knobs and other h......
2009-12-23 16:43:00
JON FERGUSON
Patrick Kirchner has high expectations for the music he makes with Slimfit but low expectations for the Lancaster band's commercial prospects. Truth be told, the five members of Slimfit aren't expecting a major record label to come knocking at their door. And they're not planning......
2009-12-17 16:43:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When the Radio City Christmas Spectacular arrives at the Giant Center in Hershey on Monday, it will be like coming home for the more than 150 cast and crew members who make the show happen. It was in the Hershey Arena that the massive touring show came together two years ago. Tait Tower......
2009-12-10 17:39:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
It's like Vanessa Reisig always says: "Art is the gift that never loses its value." Reisig, of Annex 24 Gallery, is one of many gallery owners and managers in downtown Lancaster who are taking advantage of that fact this holiday season by enticing shoppers with exhibits designed s......
2009-12-08 23:21:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city is facing tough financial times.City Council members Tuesday night began consideration of a 2010 budget that could raise property taxes by 25 percent and cut the positions of 43 city workers.So, what better time to go shopping?In addition to weighing the annual......
2009-12-03 16:51:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The rumor is, there are snacks at Sunday School.That's the reason -- the only reason -- the six delinquent, nasty, bullying Herdman children show up.Snacks.It's their first time in church , where everyone is getting ready to put on the annual Christmas pageant.......
2009-12-03 16:24:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Most people Frank Thomas' age are slowing down. But Thomas, who is 82, is kicking into high gear.Tonight, his art gallery, New Beginnings, has its official opening in the Hager Building. "I like to be busy," says Thomas with a smile. "I keep going to keep going.&q......
2009-11-30 08:30:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
They are simply "bursting at the seams" at their current building in Akron, a Mennonite Disaster Service official says.So with "virtually no place for volunteers to come and help with projects, no place where we all can meet," the disaster-relief organization is making ......
2009-11-25 07:17:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lyndon City Line Diner, 1370 Manheim Pike, is finishing a renovation that upgraded the interior and added a new bar service area. The diner, which obtained a liquor license earlier this year, installed new booths, ceilings and added some televisions as part of the recent work.The roughly t......
2009-11-13 06:21:00
AD CRABLE
Rapho Township's approval of a $93 million beet ethanol plant in August has prompted two court appeals, including one by the plant's owner.Four business owners adjacent to the 34-acre industrially zoned plant site on the edge of Mount Joy Borough are asking a Lancaster County Court......
2009-11-12 06:11:00
TIM MEKEEL
The long-awaited revitalization of three nearly vacant buildings in the 100 block of East King Street got the state's support Tuesday.The Commonwealth Financing Authority approved a $2.15 million loan to a partnership led by local developer John Meeder.If Meeder can obtain bank ......
2009-11-03 12:37:00
JANET KELLEY
Across Lancaster City this morning, polling place workers reported "steady" turnout on election day. At the Urban League of Lancaster County, on South Duke Street, about 30 people had voted by 11 a.m. today. Those numbers just about doubled at the East Clay Street polling place inside the ......
2009-11-03 07:28:00
TIM MEKEEL
Hurt by the slumping construction industry, Stock Building Supply is closing two of its three locations here, a company spokeswoman said Monday.The company, which emerged from bankruptcy this summer, operates the former Denlinger facilities — two in Paradise and one in Kinzers....
2009-10-16 06:31:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It will probably take workers until at least late April to repin, repair or replace the ornate terra cotta atop downtown Lancaster's Griest Building, the building's owner said Wednesday.Work on the decorative stone has been ongoing since late July, after a foot-long chunk fell from......
2009-10-09 08:53:00
Gregory J. Scott, AIA
Art Deco was not only an architectural style, but also a social movement that influenced fine arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, furniture design, fashion design, lighting design, tableware, glassware, the film industry and even music during the 1920s and 1930s.The end......
2009-10-08 16:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Let's hope the sun shines brightly during ArtWalk weekend, Oct. 17 and 18. But if the rain clouds do come, several pieces of art will be sitting pretty and ready to be put to work. Five artists have each taken a 60-gallon rain barrel and created works of art out of them. The piece......
2009-09-30 07:31:00
CHAD UMBLE
If These Dresses Could Talk, a bridal and wedding consignment shop, opened last week at 52 S. Market St. in Elizabethtown.The roughly 500-square-foot shop sells wedding gowns, veils, bridesmaid's dresses and other wedding accessories. It also carries prom and homecoming dresses.......
2009-09-26 00:12:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A project that would turn a vacant shoe factory into affordable housing cleared one of its last hurdles Monday. Construction could begin for the Park Avenue Apartments later this year, said Tom Eisemann, of nonprofit developer Community Basics. "This was pretty much our final approval,"......
2009-09-22 08:30:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
It might be an understatement to say that a plan for upscale townhouses in Landisville "goes waaaay back," as an attorney for the developer said recently.But that plan by Tobacco Road Associates took a step toward the starting blocks last week, receiving a time extension from Eas......
2009-09-15 07:12:00
TIM MEKEEL
Rock industry mainstays Tait Towers, Mojo Barriers and Stageco often find themselves working in the same stadiums.Soon they'll find themselves working in the same warehouse and office building too.Executives from the three firms are developing a $4 million venture in Manheim Bor......
2009-09-05 09:33:00
TIM MEKEEL
From a financial perspective, this real estate deal is hard to figure.But it's being called a transaction that's more about people than numbers.Lancaster General Health sold Maple Farm Nursing Center this week to Garden Spot Village for $1.67 million, courthouse records show......
2009-08-19 08:03:00
TIM MEKEEL
Maybe the local housing market isn't going gangbusters like it was a few years ago.But compared to the rest of the nation, it's still doing pretty darn well.So says the Web site BusinessWeek, which concludes that Lancaster County has the 18th strongest housing market in the ......
2009-08-18 10:06:00
AD CRABLE
You don't fool lightly with the steeple of one of the most historic churches in Lancaster County.But the overseers of Lititz Moravian Church have grown weary of having the 89-foot wooden steeple painted every six years or so.And once, in 1956, painters burning off old paint acci......
2009-08-12 09:03:00
CHAD UMBLE
MacHeads, a computer store specializing in Apple products, opened Aug. 1 at 651 Harrisburg Ave. The store, which relocated from 245 Centerville Road, now occupies a roughly 1,600-square-foot spot at College Row, the retail strip at Franklin & Marshall College.The store sells Apple'......
2009-08-08 08:37:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Close to two weeks after a chunk of Lancaster's tallest office building fell to earth, work crews are diving into repairs on the Griest Building.Earlier this week — as many people have been doing since a 6-inch-thick, nearly-foot-long building chunk fell to the ground July 27 &md......
2009-08-07 00:30:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Like many businesses competing in the uncertain marketplace today, Armstrong World Industries prides itself on the creativity of its employees. But unlike most, Armstrong gives that creativity a chance to shine outside the parameters of industry. "Visions Employee Artwork Exhibitio......
2009-08-01 08:36:00
CINDY STAUFFER
It was only a matter of time.Someone is selling on eBay a chunk of the Griest Building that plummeted to the sidewalk Monday.You, too, can bid on the 3-inch, nondescript hunk of terra cotta that the seller is saying fell from the skyscraper in the city's Penn Square."......
2009-07-29 10:12:00
TOM MURSE
Everyone in the Griest Building has a theory.What caused a hefty chunk of terra cotta to break loose from the 84-year-old skyscraper and hurtle nearly 200 feet to the ground?Gravity.Ba dum bum."Maybe it's all the jack-hammering going on down on the street,&quo......
2009-07-28 00:06:00
TOM MURSE and CINDY STAUFFER
Mike Pangle was just standing there, smoking a cigarette at lunchtime under the awning at My Place Pizza near Penn Square.He heard glass shattering.He felt something rain down on him."I heard a crash, and then there was a shower of dust," the 62-year-old East King S......
2009-07-27 00:00:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2009-07-24 10:02:00
TIM MEKEEL
A key to the success of Garden Spot Village has been listening to potential residents.When they wanted larger apartments, the New Holland retirement community built them.When they wanted more amenities, it provided them.And now that some want an urban setting, not a suburban ......
2009-07-19 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
A proposal to turn a vacant city factory building into affordable housing is moving forward, thanks in part to an influx of funds from the federal stimulus package. About a quarter of the cost of the $5.1 million project to convert the former Davidson Shoe Corp. at 255 Park Ave. into Park Avenu......
2009-07-17 02:29:00
KATHY DAMINGER
SATURDAY: Quit wastin' away in Margaritaville! Whether you're a Parrot Head, music lover or just a person who enjoys a summer party, you might want to check out "Summer in Paradise 2009," Saturday night on the Pa. Renaissance Faire grounds. Music? It's on tap with The CalypsoNu...
2009-07-16 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County Commissioners on Wednesday voted to preserve four farms, totaling about 360 acres.The county's Agricultural Preserve Board had recommended the commissioners buy perpetual conservation easements on the farms.The preserved farms are:• ......
2009-07-15 10:03:00
P.J. REILLY
At last summer's crime summit, law-enforcement officials from across Lancaster County said they wanted a central booking facility for processing and holding suspected lawbreakers.Such a facility would allow local and state police to drop off at a single central location defendants they......
2009-06-26 10:40:00
TIM MEKEEL
Home improvement rip-offs have been one of the most common types of fraud in Pennsylvania for years. Starting Wednesday, state officials hope that will no longer be the case. That's when the state Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act goes into effect, putting new, tough requirements on......
2009-06-26 00:36:00
JEFF HAWKES
I think public money should support upscale housing in redevelopment projects like the Lancaster Press Building, and I wrote about that issue last week.Jeremy Raff, a reader in Leola, sees it as a handout to the rich and says I'm wrong."I simply fail to see why this should happen," ......
2009-06-24 10:19:00
E. MARTIN HULSE
Not sure if you heard, but a convention center opened the other day. There might have been something in the news. You may have seen it in person, if you actually brave the mean streets of Lancaster City. It's the building that's taller than downtown's former grande dame, the Griest Bu......
2009-06-19 01:26:00
JEFF HAWKES
Developers say the century-old Lancaster Press building, a vacant, six-story, industrial-age structure at North Prince and Lemon, has promise.Since 2006, they've been hoping to remake the former cigar factory into a posh residential building with retail space and 47 condos going for up......
2009-06-07 00:06:00
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
The timbers supporting the upper deck of the outdoor dining pavilion at the Heritage Hotel converge like wheel spokes on a living tree growing through the project. The timbers extend past the handmade mortise and tenon joints that hold the structure together to point at the tree. At the other e......
2009-06-06 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
The developer of a new local Web site boasts that it's the place to get the real facts about the housing market here in Lancaster County.The Building Industry Association of Lancaster County (BIA) Monday launched Lanca......
2009-05-30 01:00:00
JOAN KERN
Russel "Rusty" W. Dicks goes to Guatemala to build houses for lots of reasons — but not to hone his building skills. "The reason I work with numbers is because I have 10 thumbs," said Dicks, a Lititz resident and an associate with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans....
2009-05-30 00:48:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
After breaking ground about 10 months ago, contractors at the new Lancaster city YMCA are reaching the final stages.Slated to open in September, the "green" building will offer members state-of-the-art facilities while conserving natural resources.Friday afternoon, members......
2009-05-23 00:39:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Now that bids have been awarded for the first four projects in School District of Lancaster's proposed $198 million school upgrade program, officials are considering what buildings to work on next.So far, the "to-do list" for Phase II looks a lot different than what was recom......
2009-05-14 00:06:00
JEFF HAWKES
Susanne Mundok sharpened a No. 2 pencil, blew a shaving from the tip and returned to a 4-foot canvas leaning against a table in the spare bedroom of her home in a leafy neighborhood west of Lancaster.She picked up a framed photo of her grandmother from the 1940s and studied it. Then, with ......
2009-05-11 11:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
After four years of planning the project and getting most necessary approvals for it, a developer has killed plans to build 347 homes in West Lampeter Township. Keystone Custom Homes of Willow Street wanted to build Astonshire on 65 acres on the north side of Millport Road, east of Lancaster......
2009-05-01 19:41:00
ELLEN BORZA, 15
The hard economic times have touched virtually all Americans, including teenagers. Often, America's adolescents are stuck asking parents for money or spending hours behind a counter making minimum wage. Especially during the school year, getting a good job and maintaining satisfactory grades ......
2009-04-30 11:10:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Walk around the city of Lancaster, and he's everywhere. No one person did more to change the landscape of Lancaster. There are Southern Market, the Hager Building, the Lancaster Trust Company, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster, the Watt & Shand facade, the St. James Parish ......
2009-04-30 05:00:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
The best seat in Peg and Jeff Kay's house isn't actually in their house. It's the swing on their new front porch. The Kays, who live in Manheim Township, added a spacious front porch to their 19-year-old home earlier this spring. "It's a wonderful way to enjoy the......
2009-04-20 00:53:00
MADELYN PENNINO
The persistent subject of conversation during Manheim Township High School's open house Sunday was its new gymnasium.People gravitated to the gym, called "the arena," to view its indoor track, full-size basketball court, electronic scoreboards and concession stand.The ......
2009-04-09 11:03:00
ALEJANDRO RIOS
Central Pennsylvania's diverse music scene will be on full display next week when the LAUNCH Music Conference presents four days of instructional seminars and live entertainment in downtown Lancaster. Several national acts will share stages with local favorites at venues like the Chamele......
2009-04-09 05:00:00
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
There are a lot of gray areas when it comes to going green. Installing solar panels and harnessing wind power may be ideal but not always realistic. Many green-living wannabes run into a daunting obstacle: money. "For the average person, (going completely green) is just not fe......
2009-03-27 00:11:00
ROXANNE McROBERTS
In most households, spending is considered and reconsidered on a purchase-by-purchase basis, especially now with the questionable economy. While the gut feeling would be that building and home improvement projects might be shelved for the time being, it turns out many folks are opting to put any ......
2009-03-26 05:00:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
7 p.m. Friday, March 27: Lampeter-Strasburg High School bands The Rodans, Radio Flyer, Oil, The State and The Klondike Kings 7 p.m. Saturday,......
2009-03-24 10:04:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Mel Ruth was a 110-pound Navy enlistee reject when he discovered a passion that would sculpt his entire life — even his community. When the Navy said Ruth had to weigh in at 115 pounds, he started pumping iron. "It was like sculpting my body," says Ruth, who grew up in L......
2009-03-24 00:26:00
PATRICK BURNS
The sour economy has stalled many local construction projects, but not the $110 million expansion of Brethren Village Retirement Community.The 112-year-old retirement community today will unveil Covenant Crossing, which features new residential options and adds to existing amenities....
2009-03-21 02:00:00
JOAN KERN
Manheim Brethren in Christ Church is a growing congregation with an over-sized heart for its community. It's well-known for its Warehouse 54, a program for teens that draws crowds. To accommodate growth, the congregation has undertaken a $10 million expansion project for a sanctuary/au......
2009-03-20 00:34:00
PATRICK BURNS
The 2009 Spring Home Show opening today at Franklin & Marshall College is unlike any other in the event's 34-year history.Sponsored by Building Industry Association of Lancaster County, this year's show focuses on how to improve your home during this economic downturn and still......
2009-03-19 04:58:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
6:30 p.m. Friday: Music for Everyone benefit; open mic 6 p.m. Saturday: Cartoon Guild art jam; open mic 5 p.m. Sunday: Arise this Day ......
2009-03-14 00:35:00
JOAN KERN
In 1909, President William Howard Taft was inaugurated as the 27th president during a 10-inch snowstorm; the Pirates beat the Tigers, 4 games to 3, in the sixth World Series; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed; and a cornerstone was laid at the first home in Te...
2009-03-07 01:15:00
JOAN KERN
The Rev. Steve W. Taylor began his faith journey on a church bus in Indiana when he was 10 years old. Today he is shepherding Manheim Township's 125-member Celebrate Life Christian Church through its plans for a new $2 million church in Kissel Hill Commons, north of Landis Valley. &......
2009-03-01 00:14:00
JON RUTTER
She was the kind of kid who combed her neighborhood for returnable Coke bottles. The kind who munched on organic carrots. Who eventually grew disenchanted with the materialism and isolation of the suburban lifestyle. So when Janet H. Pelletier learned about Concord Ecovillage a year a......
2009-02-27 01:02:00
PATRICK BURNS
Armstrong World Industries said Thursday it will cut more jobs in the wake of a $25.5 million fourth-quarter loss that was fueled in part by a 17 percent decline in sales.Michael D. Lockhart, Armstrong chairman and chief executive, said in a conference call Thursday that the ailing economy......
2009-02-23 10:12:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Whether it takes cartwheels or 75-pound snakes, mentors like Heidi Wert are willing to go the distance to reach kids. Her face framed by blonde dreadlocks, a limber Wert trades cartwheels and kicks with students in the gym of Ross Elementary, located in the heart of Lancaster City. &quo......
2009-02-19 07:04:00
New Era Staff
Building Character 342 N. Queen St., warehouse C, Lancaster; www.buildingcharacter.biz
8 p.m. Friday: The Main Street Mystics 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27: Emily Long and friends 7:30 p.m. Saturday,......
2009-02-18 00:31:00
DAVE PIDGEON
People may not be dancing in the streets nor banks overflowing with money, but optimism is running high across Lancaster County about the newly minted federal economic stimulus package.From construction companies to car dealerships to municipal governments, the talk is about the stimulus b......
2009-02-17 17:55:00
JENNIFER TODD
Correction — A conceptual drawing of the Central Market and Heritage Center Museum quadrant of Penn Square published with the article below, posted on LancasterOnline on Feb. 10, was created by Thomas Comitta Associates....
2009-02-08 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
With the housing market in the doldrums, many homebuilders nationwide are offering incentives to attract buyers. Local contractors are no exception. Keystone Custom Homes' "Live Free for a Year" billboards have been a common sight in Lancaster County, but the builder's in......
2009-01-30 00:41:00
JEFF HAWKES
The first thing to be said is Jim Miller served on the Government Study Commission and worked hard in the failed effort to have the county adopt a home-rule charter. Miller's ardent advocacy would not have gone unnoticed by county commissioners Scott Martin and Dennis Stuckey, who sought the ......
2009-01-29 08:19:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI
A. Tamasin Sterner wants to provide a blueprint for reducing city-dwellers' carbon footprints. Sometimes those footprints run deep. Through her Lancaster business, Pure Energy, dedicated to helping people discover ways to reduce energy use, Sterner fields calls from concerned consu......
2009-01-22 11:36:00
By JANE HOLAHAN
Anyone who visits downtown Lancaster can see it. New galleries are popping up; First Fridays turn into a mob scene; artists are exploring all kinds of subjects. Clearly, Lancaster's art scene is thriving. But what about those working artists who don't have their own galleri......
2009-01-15 10:00:00
CHAD UMBLE
"It is bright, it's airy it's new, it's clean," Charlie Douts, the county administrator, said while taking a reporter on a tour of county government's new headquarters. Last week, commissioners left the offices of their predecessors and moved from the Lancaster County ......
2009-01-09 10:57:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A former bank drive-through would be replaced by a two-story retail and commercial office building in downtown Lancaster under a real estate developer's plans. John Meeder, of Meeder Development Corp., is asking for city approval to demolish the former drive-through building, at 19-21 E.......
2009-01-06 00:25:00
CIVIA KATZ
A four-day workweek was introduced Monday in Penn Township to increase energy savings in 2009, and four office employees will maintain the schedule on a trial basis.Supervisor Ron Krause said Monday, "Today was the first day. From what I gather all the workers like it. I'm sure th......
2009-01-05 00:33:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Stroll the 19th-century aisles of Columbia Market House, and it's amazing what's offered: fresh fruits and vegetables, ice cream, flowers and Columbia's signature sandwich made with ham, cheese and pickles, The Shifter.When Columbia Market House reopened in 2005, elected offici......
2008-12-07 00:14:00
KRISTY BULLER
This time of year, Lancaster's Penn Square glistens with holiday charm. Garland hugs every lamppost, festively adorned with lights and red bows, and at the center of it all stands the shimmering tree, a familiar reminder of downtown holiday tradition. Only steps away from the square awaits ......
2008-11-16 00:19:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
It's actually been a pretty good year for Larry Wisdom's company, Keystone Custom Homes, which built and sold about as many homes in 2008 — 300 — as it did in 2007. And if you think the status quo is nothing to get excited about, you haven't paid much attention to the na......
2008-11-16 00:04:00
PAULA WOLF
In the residential building industry, it's typical for contractors to respond to customer demands, whether it's a desire for first-floor bedrooms or more walk-in closets. But when it comes to the fast-emerging focus on green building, the roles appear to be somewhat reversed — at ......
2008-11-03 12:30:00
TIM MEKEEL
A competitor of Miller Building Systems has acquired the company for an undisclosed price. Mobile/Modular Express president Ken Zuromski and majority owner Corckran Investments completed the purchase Friday. The new owners are operating the former Miller plants in Leola and Elkhart, Ind......
2008-10-26 00:10:00
SALLY MELCHER JARVIS
There's a ghost city alive in Lancaster as you read this newspaper. It's a city where you can park next to The Hamilton Club for 25 cents an hour; where smoking is "Melo" and where you can you sip your Coca-Cola at a drug store. These ghost signs of Lancaster are sti......
2008-10-08 01:10:00
TOM KNAPP
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 ......
2008-09-26 02:07:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Building Character owners Tony Nies and Marty Hulse knew their architectural salvage shop was cool. But they didn't know it was this cool."When Marty and I opened the store, we just wanted to be the first and only architectural store," Nies said. "We never even ......
2008-09-22 00:24:00
MICHAEL YODER
The largest hospice center in Pennsylvania will become even larger in a few weeks when the doors of a new building are opened to the terminally ill and their families.People of all ages turned out Sunday afternoon to get a peek at Hospice of Lancaster County's second facility, a $17.3 ......
2008-09-19 13:30:00
TIM MEKEEL
Miller Building Systems is closing its doors at its Leola plant and Elkhart, Ind., headquarters, according to news reports. The actions will idle about 175 people here at the 64 Hess Road facility and about 125 in Elkhart, the news stories said. Two officials at the Elkhart office &mdas......
2008-09-17 11:18:00
AD CRABLE
An instantaneous hot water heater. Super insulation. Solar heat. Energy Star appliances. Capturing rainwater. Will they really save me money? How much do they cost? Have any problems popped up with this new technology? Lancaster County residents will have an opportunity to pose these qu......
2008-08-15 02:28:00
TOM KNAPP
First Friday, a 10-year-old tradition in Lancaster that combines art, food and music with evening shopping opportunities, has company.Third Friday isn't new — it had its genesis with a group of Queen Street merchants back in March — but now, after several months of success,......
