Mountville News

Seven-year-old Sam Cox kneels on a blanket, opens a book and starts to read. The sentences come slowly at first, and then more confidently.

A screaming woman climbed out the second-floor window of her Manor Township home last week in escaping from her boyfriend who was threatening to kill her, police said.

Crews plan to close a bridge on Monday that carries Smoketown Road over a tributary to the Codorus Creek in Manheim Township, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The Lancaster Public Library held it's 56th annual Book Sale this week. The books are donated by the public and then sold for as cheap as 25-cents. The fundraiser helps the Lancaster Library and its two branches in Mountville and Leola.

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.

Public libraries across Pennsylvania are in jeopardy. Proposed state budget cuts could force many branches to cut hours, staff and services.

Cue the "Dragnet" theme. The stories you are about to read are true; the names have been deleted to protect the embarrased from the double jeopardy of having their names in the newspapers again for their odd misdeeds.

When most people think of spring, they think of flowers and trees blooming and grass growing.

Forgiveness comes in many forms. Fifteen years ago, Holly Payne was hit by a drunk driver, and it changed the course of her life forever.

At a recent visit to the Lebanon VA Medical Center, I was confronted by veterans, staff and volunteers who march every year in Memorial Day parades.

Contestants compete for cash inside sealed briefcases in this game show. Reaper 8:00PM - 9:00PM The second season concludes with Sam attempting to trap the Devil into playing a game to win back his soul.

Edward Kefauver just finished brushing his teeth in the morning and his fiancee and her kids were getting ready to go downstairs, when a white Toyota Corolla crashed into his Spring Garden Township home.

Campground neighbor Lance Eckman of Mountville, right, helps Wayne Hershey of Columbia hang patriotic lights at his camp site at Otter Creek Campground on Friday.

It didn't take long for Manor Township Police to identify the robbery suspect. Now all they have to do is find him.

It looks like Lancaster County will have at least five new mayors in January, and possibly as many as eight.

C. Chuck Mummert, an Elizabethtown Borough councilman for the past four years, handily snatched the vacant mayor's seat away from political newcomer Donald Keller in one of six Republican face-offs for mayoral slots in Lancaster County.

Roger Rudolph of Mountville was recording in his basement music studio about 6 p.m. Wednesday when he heard "the loudest noise I've ever heard in my life." He ran upstairs and out the back door.

For drivers with a short memory, the recent spike in gas prices could be troubling.

Local personal-care home providers said the state's recent mandated increase in the personal-needs allowance for personal-care home residents who receive Supplemental Security Income was long overdue.

Will Lancaster Township be patrolled by a new police force next year? The township, which has been protected by Lancaster City police since 1970, has contacted Manor Township to see if Manor might be interested in providing it with police services.