Pequea News

State police at Lancaster reported Saturday that they investigated a theft of services at the Frogtown Cafe, 684 Marticville Road, which happened between March 29 and June 22.

Getting local officials to appoint citizen boards for advice on how to protect the environment and wisely use natural resources is a priority in Lancaster County's new comprehensive plan.

West Lampeter Township supervisors recently agreed to ask Willow Valley Associates to contribute to a $15,000 water study.

A coroner in south-central Pennsylvania says foot and ankle bones that were first thought to be from a human are actually from a bear.

Unquestionably, the half-mile that Pequea Creek alternately rushes, then languidly meanders, through a glen of cliffs, boulders and tall, shading trees is one of Lancaster County's natural gems.

Pequea Township Supervisor Virginia Brady was concerned when she entered Columbia High School Monday night.

If you want to snap a photo of two of the largest objects ever to move across the Lancaster County landscape later this summer, don't worry, they will be creeping by at a tortoise-like 2 or 3 miles per hour.

Joe Karaback was awakened late Friday night by a loud crash. "It was an awful noise," he said.

In Tuesday's primary, the voters of West Lampeter Township will make a momentous decision on whether to lift the municipality's 74-year ban on alcohol sales.

A Lancaster County man has been convicted of killing his mother-in-law. Shannon Hess killed Barbara Fritchman in his Pequea Township home in November 2007.

Team Mamas with a Mission is hosting a community yard sale from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday in Pequea, Lancaster County.

Pequea Presbyterian Church in Gap will host a multicultural concert 2:30 p.m. May 17 to celebrate growing diversity within the Presbytery of Donegal, a body of churches that includes congregations in York, Chester and Lancaster counties.

Jurors will be selected this week to hear the case of a Willow Street man accused of killing his mother-in-law in 2007.

Michael Hauck doesn't rake leaves. He hasn't mulched in 20 years. He doesn't need insecticides to combat bugs, and he's used scant herbicides to control weeds.

Four motorcyclists were run off the road Saturday afternoon on Route 272 in two related incidents in Providence and Pequea townships, Southern Regional police said.

That big, strange critter still a mystery to residents By CINDY STAUFFER 2009-03-16 11:36:00 Lancaster New Era Maybe it's TJ, who is still on the lam.

Maybe it's TJ, who is still on the lam. But it's not the roadkill on Route 472. Theories are emerging about the mysterious creature that a mother and son spotted in Pequea Township within the past six weeks.

Nearly $90 million in federal and state funds will flow into Lancaster County this year and in 2010 for road and bridge improvements, state officials announced Monday.

Ah, the first signs of spring: the return of songbirds, the spring bulbs emerging through last year's mulch - and brush fires.

If you're planning to share some Irish cheer during the week of St. Patrick's Day, you might want to think twice before getting behind the wheel.