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The generosity of the late Ann B. Barshinger helped to improve the lives of countless Lancaster County residents [editorial]

• Jul 28, 2024

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This week's good things: Manor Township man honored for service, teenagers volunteer and help for Pennsylvania's waterways.

• Jul 26, 2024

THE ISSUE: It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for area neighborhoods. Others are local stories of achievement, ingenuity, perseverance, com…

Racist remarks by Elizabethtown Borough Council member must be denounced — and we must decry racism in politics [editorial]

• Jul 24, 2024

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Our historic state Capitol ought to be fully accessible to all Pennsylvanians, regardless of disability [editorial]

• Jul 21, 2024

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This week's good things: Lancaster County's Olympics-bound athletes, a piano festival, "Chalk the Walk" and watchdog reporting [editorial]

• Jul 19, 2024

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Pennsylvania Legislature and governor get an incomplete grade on effort to remedy underfunding of public schools [editorial]

• Jul 17, 2024

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Campaign ads won't tell us what we need to know about election. We must educate ourselves about issues such as Project 2025. [editorial]

• Jul 14, 2024

THE ISSUE: The two leading presidential candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, “spent more than $1.9 million to air over 5,300 campaign ads across five of south-central Pennsylvania’s TV stations between Jan. 1 and May 31 this year,” according to an LNP | Lancaste…

This week's good things: Stormers' stellar fan support, longtime bus driver honored and key grants to help youths [editorial]

• Jul 12, 2024

THE ISSUE: It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for area neighborhoods. Others are local stories of achievement, ingenuity, perseverance, com…

Lancaster city residents must be prepared to vote on home rule charter — the city's fiscal future is at stake [editorial]

• Jul 10, 2024

THE ISSUE: As LNP | LancasterOnline’s Jade Campos reported Sunday, Lancaster city’s Home Rule Study Commission plans, after 14 months of public meetings and research, to have a draft of a new city charter completed by late July. A home rule charter would give Lancaster city — a third-class c…

Hiring of partisan election lawyers raises question: Whose interests are Lancaster County commissioners advancing? [editorial]

• Jul 7, 2024

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This week's good things: Planting trees, girl scout cake pans, Lancaster Senior Games

• Jul 5, 2024

THE ISSUE: It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for area neighborhoods. Others are local stories of achievement, ingenuity, perseverance, com…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, 248 years later [editorial]

• Jul 3, 2024

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