Each Monday, our digital team takes a look at last week’s top stories on LancasterOnline.
We look at news, sports, business, life, culture and local history.
Here are the most-read stories between Monday, July 15, and Sunday, July 21.
1. Massive fire hits Tollbooth Antiques mall in Columbia, smoke seen for miles [updates, photos, video]
Crews were battling a massive fire in Columbia on Thursday night, with the Tollbooth Antiques warehouse and complex at Chestnut and North Second streets engulfed by flames.
Smoke from the fire was visible from as far away as Hellam in York County and Manheim Township, witnesses said.
“The closer you got, all you saw was black smoke and flames,” Tammy Lyle of Columbia said. She could see it from her home on South Fourth Street. Her sister, Terri Lyle, of East York, saw black smoke from over the river.
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2. Lancaster native gets new heart decades after he ‘completely ignored’ warning signs as 1980s Broadway star
Over Thanksgiving weekend 2017, Lancaster County native Bob Hoshour was outside of his vacation home in the Catskill Mountains of New York. With winter approaching, Hoshour thought it might be a good idea to move his four Adirondack chairs indoors. He proceeded to pick up and carry each chair inside one by one.
The physical exertion made him nauseous.
“Like the stomach flu,” Hoshour recalled.
The illness lasted through the weekend, which is what prompted Hoshour, then 60, to drive back to his full-time residence in New York City and then visit his family doctor.
3. 3 dead after crash on PA Turnpike in Penn Township [update]
Three people died after a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Penn Township early Saturday morning.
Emergency crews responded to the turnpike at mile marker 268.8 eastbound just before 4:30 a.m. for a report of a two-vehicle crash, according to Cpl. Richard Levan, spokesperson for Pennsylvania State Police Troop T.
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4. Yang's Restaurant reopens in Manheim Township after 2023 closure
Closed since January 2023, Yang’s Restaurant is reopening this week under new owners.
The Manheim Township restaurant at 1232 Lititz Pike, which first opened at the spot in 1985, is now owned by Nai Bin Lin and Fioni Li, cousins of previous owners Rui “Rita” Yu and Jie Jiang.
CHAD UMBLE | Staff Writer5. Dog dies in Lancaster city after heat exposure; District Attorney warns of criminal penalties
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office is warning residents that leaving dogs in the heat for too long is a chargeable offense after a dog died in Lancaster city.
According to the DA’s office, a group of children Monday, July 15, found a dog in an alley on the northern edge of the city suffering from extreme heat exposure. The kids took it to their father, who took it to Pet Emergency Treatment and Specialties on Queen Street, where it was euthanized the next day.
