Lampeter News

Are rising salaries and benefits for police and firefighters wrecking Lancaster City's budget? Or is insufficient income to blame? City residents are facing a 25 percent property tax hike and the loss of 43 city workers, primarily because of revenue reductions, according to Mayor Rick Gray.

Plenty of room in inns By GIL SMART, Associate Editor 2009-12-13 00:19:00 Sunday News Out on Route 30 in East Lampeter Township, Rodney Gleiberman is partying like it's 1999.

The campaign's over. The crusade continues. Last month, former Lancaster Mayor Charlie Smithgall lost his bid to unseat incumbent Mayor Rick Gray.

Police across the county have reported charging the following people with drunken driving: Melitza Santiago, 35, of Lancaster, Tuesday, at East End Avenue and South Franklin Street.

An old pin oak tree in the front yard of Charlotte Killian's East Lampeter Township home has found new life as a chain saw work of art.

A slow-moving horse and buggy led to the drunk driving arrest of a local Amish man.

East Lampeter Township police charged a 19-year-old Maryland man with underage drinking after a patrol officer spotted him scaling an outside wall of the Lancaster Host Resort & Conference Center, 2300 Lincoln Highway East, at 11:45 p.m. Friday.

A theft and burglary occurred Thursday in East Lampeter Township, police said. Police charged Rhonda Lee Stevenson, 43, and Heather Mae Stevenson, 25, both of Dallastown, with retail theft at Target, 2385 Covered Bridge Drive, police said.

East Lampeter Township police are investigating the theft of $10,400 worth of jewelry from a vehicle parked in the 300 block of Oak Thorne Lane.

Firefighter Ken Barton took his first steps Tuesday since falling 12 feet from a ladder truck during downtown Lancaster's Christmas tree lighting.

A Lancaster woman reported to police that over $10,000 worth of jewelry was taken from her vehicle.

Thieves target vehicles in East Lampeter By STAFF 2009-11-02 13:39:00 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era Daytime thieves targeting vehicles along the Route 30 strip stole $5,300 worth of merchandise Friday and Saturday, East Lampeter Township police reported today.

The recession has many business owners running for cover, like they've been caught outside in a rainstorm.

A man arrested for a crime he did not commit was sentenced to county prison after he pleaded guilty to another robbery.

Smithgall received only two contributions of more than $1,000. They were from Erich Burlefinger of West Lampeter Township , the general partner of the Burle Business Park, and Beverly R. Steinman of Lancaster Township , a director of Lancaster Newspapers Inc.

Budget news in West Lampeter Township went from "bad to worse" last week, according to township Manager DeeDee McGuire.

An urban legend, according to one dictionary, "is a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms." In the Lampeter-Strasburg area last week, two stories melded together and grew in the re-telling, creating "white van" myths that frightened residents.

A home of a Ronks couple was burglarized Oct. 6 while a man posing as a landscaper lured them away from the residence, East Lampeter Township police said.

A Lancaster County soldier is killed in the line of duty. Brandon Styer, 19, was a 2008 graduate of Conestoga Valley High School in East Lampeter Township.

Two people were burned in a kitchen fire in Lancaster County. The blaze started inside an apartment complex on Greenland Drive in East Lampeter Township at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.