Conestoga News

This being the time of year that it is, you wouldn't think wild turkeys should be pressing their luck by jaywalking in front of impatient motorists.

Many Lancastrians yearn for Christmases past, when Santa made his annual arrival by climbing a ladder to get into the Watt & Shand department store on Penn Square.

A man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt entered the Sunoco/A-Plus store, 520 Centerville Road, at about 2:08 a.m. Saturday and took an unknown amount of cash and cigarettes, East Hempfield Township police said.

Tony Allen thinks things are running pretty smoothly in Lancaster Township. "I don't see any real issues," Allen, chairman of the board of supervisors, on which he's served 18 years, said Wednesday.

Ricardo Valdespino Jr., 33, of Ephrata, and Jason R. Wanner, 32, of Bowmansville, were charged with multiple counts of felony retail theft and theft by deception in connection with thefts Oct.

Lancaster County Commissioners are expected to vote today on an agreement that would pave the way for the Conestoga Greenway Trail.

Services will be held in Lancaster Friday and Saturday for Brandon Styer, the 19-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan last week.

Tom retired from the city police department Thursday after getting a final pat on the head from his fellow officers.

Vandals have struck the Lancaster Rec Judo Club - again - but this time their destruction is inside the club's building.

Is a mass downsizing underway in Pennsylvania kennels? Nearly 400 breeding dogs from Pennsylvania's largest commercial kennels are scheduled be shipped west to be auctioned in Ohio next week, in a move that animal welfare activists say is likely the result of tougher standards under the new state dog law.

That is so neat Gil!!! Great find! As I clicked on it, I wondered if I missed something about the proposed Trolley system and I had a chuckle to myself.

The county waste authority will open three miles of public trails built atop an old dump in East Hempfield Township on Friday.

Lancaster County officials today will submit a $91.5 million grant application that promises to increase traffic flow on Harrisburg Pike, reknit long-severed streets, improve walking and bicycling and ensure the economic vitality of the corridor into the future.

CONESTOGA TWP., Pa. -- Two massive steam generators are still in Maryland, waiting for the OK from crews to begin their three-week journey to Three Mile Island.

Manor Township Police in Lancaster County are charging a man for camping out on Shad Island on the Susquehanna River.

Despite rising unemployment in Lancaster County, there are still jobs to be found these days, say local labor experts.

Eric Laubach and Steve Bergstrom both thought there was something fishy about the "sunfish" Eric's 5-year-old son, Jake, hauled out of the Conestoga River Sunday evening.

Manor Township police said a Derry Twp. man was killed Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle crash in Lancaster County.

OK, here's what's happening on the local music scene. Word has is that Willie Marble - that blues singer-guitarist who looks an awful lot like Music for Everyone co-founder John Gerdy - is about ready to release The Willie Marble Xperience's new CD, "Conestoga Sessions." "It was recorded over the course of three nights last July in our barn," Gerdy ...

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Lancaster County and three former county commissioners by Gary Heinke, the county's former human services director.