Conestoga News

Abduction report called false By STAFF 2009-07-03 13:32:00 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era A Conestoga woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly told state troopers her ex-boyfriend had abducted her 2-year-old child.

Nathan Peeler, 16, of Jacobus, took part in the third annual Great Island Adventure Triathlon near Lock Haven on Saturday and came home a winner.

A body pulled from the Conestoga River on Monday night has been identified as a Lancaster woman who had been missing for three weeks, city police said Tuesday.

The body was found near the 400 block of South Conestoga Drive in Lancaster Township.

City police said a body pulled from the Conestoga River Monday night had been in the water for a long time, making it difficult for investigators to immediately determine whether the deceased is a male or female.

It's hard on families when one breadwinner loses a job. It's even harder when both do.

A Monday morning accident marked the third time in six years that John Diehl's home or property has been damaged as a result of crashes at Ritner Highway and Conestoga Drive in Shippensburg Township.

The first thing you notice, of course, is the performance. The tall woman with the dazzling smile, malleable face, and ability to pull off a sort of physical comedy that even she calls "a little reckless" fully commands a stage.

A Lancaster woman has been named Miss Elkdom of Pennsylvania and will compete in a national round of judging in early August.

A transportation study that listed keys to unlocking gridlocked Harrisburg Pike won a national award last year.

To the Editor: While checking the Internet to find an Independence Day parade in which our band could participate in Lancaster County, Pa., I came across the Eagle-Gazette's Web site.

Meifung Trinh is a combination of two qualities not always found in the same person.

What do athletic fields at Hempfield schools, abandoned strip mines in Northumberland County and first-of-its-kind groundwater recharge landscaping at a Lititz housing development all have in common? Compost from manure gathered in Lancaster County.

It could have continued as an old sealed-off dump, closed to public access. Instead, thousands in Lancaster city and its suburbs soon will be only minutes away from a multi-use network of trail loops that pass through woods, a wildflower meadow, a picnic area long Little Conestoga Creek, an arboretum - even a field that will slowly be allowed to ...

Since March 17, on each day when it hasn't rained hard, workers have dug enormous amounts of trash-laden dirt from an abandoned municipal dump behind the U.S. Post Office off the Harrisburg Pike in Manheim Township.

Unlike the several thousand expected there this evening, just a handful of people gathered in a wet and mist-shrouded Long's Park just after dawn today.

The two groups of Republican candidates running for Manheim Township commissioner are envisioning the future of the fast-growing suburb north of Lancaster.

Last summer, Tom Armstrong's Marietta home was ground zero. Picketers regularly walked the sidewalk in front of the hillside house with the gray siding at 704 E. Market St., protesting Armstrong's decision to house three convicted sex offenders inside.

Robert Kercher, shop foreman for Kercher Machine Works, explains how a skip hoist works to Northern Lebanon High School seniors MiKayla Mauser and David Hauck during the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce's Career Expo at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center.

There's something about Ashley Smith's driving that keeps getting her in trouble with police.