Mount Joy News

A crew from Bob's Collision Repair Center Inc. prepares to pull a sports-utility vehicle back onto the road following a Friday afternoon accident on Route 97 near Penn Gates Farm in Mount Joy Township.

The Attorney General's Health Care Section reached a $33,525 consumer-protection agreement with a Lancaster County assisted-living facility with a Lebanon County campus for failing to properly refund security deposits paid by residents.

Donegal voters reject proposal for new high school for second time By TOM MURSE 2009-11-04 01:43:00 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era Voters in the Donegal School District on Tuesday night rejected a $47.9 million plan to build a new high school, dealing the school project its second ballot defeat in less than a year.

Firefighters from area departments responded to a fire in a grain bin at a Mount Joy grain processing plant this morning.

After a months-long, often heated campaign for two open Mount Joy Township supervisor seats, two challengers successfully ousted Mount Joy's chairman supervisor, perhaps providing a mandate against the township's taxpayer-funded preservation programs along the way.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that the Attorney General's Health Care Section has reached a $33,525 consumer protection agreement with a Lancaster County assisted living facility accused of failing to properly refund security deposits paid by residents.

Sitting in the kitchen of his Mount Joy home Monday night, Ed Ingrassia looked the boy in the eye and said what was on the minds of everyone in the room.

A new Grove TM500E-2 truck crane was the ideal solution to help with an upgrade at the Swatara Township water treatment facility because of the crane's 102 ft boom that allowed the unit to be positioned 75 feet from the point of lift.

Mount Joy Township officials on Friday issued a written response to a group of residents who, they say, have mischaracterized the township's proposed comprehensive park program, and, in the midst of a race for two open township supervisor seats, have unfairly politicized the issue.

State prosecutors have reached a settlement with a Lancaster County assisted living facility accused of failing to properly refund security deposits paid by residents.

The new-and-reduced Donegal School District referendum comes with little rancor or fluff.

Mount Joy's downtown and its railroad station are tied together geographically and commercially, and improvements to one must go with improvements to the other.

Terry Haag of Hershey is a huge Halloween fan. From the elaborately carved pumpkins on her front porch to the inflatable black cat popping out of a cauldron on her lawn, she jokes that she "decorates for Halloween the way some people do for Christmas." With all but half a dozen municipalities offering trick or treat on Oct.

Paul Metzger IV is 6 years old and in the first grade. His buddy poked him with a pencil at Donegal Springs Elementary School two weeks ago, his parents said.

The public is invited to contribute suggestions for potential improvements to Mount Joy's train station and downtown at a community workshop on Oct.

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

Tulle veil tucked delicately into place, pristine white gown worn to perfection, Erica Bare carefully maneuvers her wedding train, slides her feet into blue polka-dot plastic boots and jumps into a creek.

Mount Joy Township supervisors approved a tentative budget this week that will require no tax increase for residents.

When Jeff Herman thought about celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife and friends, he did not realize that he was going to do it by riding a mechanical bull.

A Pennsylvania man dislocated his thumb to slip out of a handcuff Sunday night and ran from police custody after his arrest on a first-degree robbery charge, township police said.