Lititz News

A Lancaster County couple devotes their own time and money to help the community.

Highway Equipment & Supply Co., a Volvo construction equipment dealer in Pennsylvania, has acquired certain assets of the Volvo Construction Equipment & Services store locations in Lewisberry and Moosic, Pa.

Giant will enlarge the store from 39,800 square feet to 75,000 square feet by filling the neighboring spaces and by extending the front of the store.

Of course there's fireworks aplenty during this weekend's 4th of July celebrations.

The business people in Lititz have their own clock. His name is Barry. Every day, at the same time, Barry Lavender, a mustachioed dynamo, strides into their shop or deli or place of business with a cheerful greeting and their mail.

Celebrate Lancaster is back for its 11th year, returning to Binns Park on Friday with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra to kick off the Independence Day holiday week.

By Clive Young. Fans weren't the only ones shocked and dismayed by the passing of Michael Jackson on Thursday, June 25; colleagues in the recording and live sound industries were likewise saddened by the news that the pop idol had suffered cardiac arrest at age 50.

The Susquehanna Valley has some connections to Michael Jackson. Several men in the Susquehanna Valley worked with Michael Jackson, operating sound and designing sets for some of his global tours.

The future of Manheim Central Parks and Recreation Commission is uncertain after Penn Township supervisors refused Monday to sign on for another year.

Rt. 772 crash kills Ephrata woman, 37 By CARLA DI FONZO 2009-06-22 11:19:00 Lancaster New Era Police in Warwick Township have closed a large section of Route 772 in the wake of an accident Sunday night that claimed the life of an Ephrata woman.

About half an hour before she died last week, according to her minister, Hannah Faith Garman said the word "mama." "God in his grace was giving Hannah a glimpse of heaven," added the Rev.

Walker Twp., Juniata Co. - Two Lancaster County residents are facing drug charges after they were orginally stopped for a traffic violation in Juniata County.

Hannah Garman defied the doctors. The little red-haired girl from Lititz -- whose battle with cancer and a plea for Christmas cards touched people's hearts the world over -- was given only a few weeks to live late last year.

Right after Clair Brothers moved into its new but not quite finished Manheim building, a delivery truck driver pulled in.

Toting a red wagon half full of books, mother-daughter pair Alicia and Olivia DeSantis carefully combed the selection at the Friends of the Lancaster Public Library Used Book Sale this morning.

A union leader says he doesn't think a possible case of product tampering at a southern Pennsylvania chocolate plant is related to a labor dispute there.

York County legislators and home builders turned out on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg Wednesday to hear a Lancaster County Republican's proposal to enliven Pennsylvania's stunted housing market.

On the night that a new graduating class said goodbye to Warwick High School, several past graduates were putting the finishing touches on their own celebration of old school friends and their hometown of Lititz.

Manheim Township are investigating a crash involving a horse and buggy. At about 4 a.m. Monday, a car driven by a Lititz man was traveling northbound on Fruitville Pike when it rear-ended a horse and buggy.

What do athletic fields at Hempfield schools, abandoned strip mines in Northumberland County and first-of-its-kind groundwater recharge landscaping at a Lititz housing development all have in common? Compost from manure gathered in Lancaster County.