Strasburg News

They were loud as they balanced. Hoots and giggles and shrieks and "I don't want to fall" and "I need a walking stick like that" and "He-eey look" and "youlandedrightintheMUD!," all eyes on their feet and sloping trail before them.

Pennsylvania's budget crunch is starting to affect Lancaster County's three state-owned museums, which are being forced to lay off employees and reduce hours of operation.

That's great. I'm sure someone will manage to install a shopping center and screw it all up by next summer.

After 12 years of planning and 12 months of construction, the 1.4-mile Strasburg Bypass opened Tuesday.

A new section of road is now open in Strasburg, Lancaster County. Local and state leaders lined up Tuesday morning to cut the ribbon on the new stretch of Route 896.

This being the time of year that it is, you wouldn't think wild turkeys should be pressing their luck by jaywalking in front of impatient motorists.

Theatergoers attending the Lampeter-Strasburg School District's play "12 Angry Men" - which is being staged Wednesday through Saturday at 7 each night - should not come expecting the classic film starring Henry Fonda.

State Rep. Mike Sturla's bill to require rural municipalities to pay more for state police protection is taking fire from all sides.

Kids are back in school, most hospital emergency departments are returning to normal and a pediatrician's office is no longer slammed with phone calls.

A swine flu vaccination clinic is scheduled this week at Lampeter-Strasburg School District in Lancaster County.

A fire caused $150,000 to $200,000 in damages to a Strasburg Township chicken house this morning.

School administrators and teachers are scrambling to help students make up work in the wake of widespread absences - many related to swine flu - at Lancaster County schools.

State police have identified the victim in a fatal two-vehicle crash in Paradise Township on Thursday night.

As a local who has lived in Lancaster County for 10 years, here are my top suggestions as you plan your vacations to this beautiful area.

Daniel Flaherty and Shannon McCorkle drove three hours through the rain to stand on the sidewalk of Prince Street Saturday morning.

A group of Manheim Township residents, school officials and students will likely decide by December whether to recommend a random student drug-testing program for the high school.

Lancaster County students scored higher, on average, on PSSAs in 2009 than they did the previous year, according to statistics released by the state Department of Education.

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.

Smile: You might be on Google. Users familiar with the Web giant's popular online mapping service are now able to zoom right down to street level in Lancaster County - something Google calls "Street View." It shows images of storefronts, stoops and even folks casually strolling the sidewalks or riding their scooters on rural country roads.

Everyone's eyes opened a little wider after Josh Squatrito took the mound on Aug.