Landisville News

It's hard to sit down and talk just about growth, and only growth, at a regular township supervisors' meeting.

If you're plotting the future growth of a place like East Hempfield Township, "how would you develop this land if you sat down with a blank piece of paper?" That's what Rob Bowman, president of Charter Homes & Neighborhoods, said to East Hempfield officials at a township supervisors' meeting this week.

Three months after rejecting an offer for the former Sylvan View dairy property along Harrisburg Pike, East Hempfield Township supervisors approved a higher bid for the prime commercial site.

It may be the first-ever appeal of its kind in East Hempfield Township. In another twist to the increasingly complicated, increasingly heated battle over the proposed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the township, neighbors are appealing the supervisors' recent approval of the church's final plan.

When he looks at growing East Hempfield Township, Scott Russell sees a need for traffic impact fees to "take the burden off existing residents and onto developers." And he's the one who can bring the experience in local municipal government to benefit township residents, East Hempfield supervisor candidate Russell said Sunday.

A century ago a stamp cost 2 cents; fashionable women didn't leave their homes without a decorated, broad-brimmed hat; and construction was just beginning on an unprecedented marvel called the Titanic.

A day after four daytime residential burglaries occurred in Manheim Township, three homes were struck in the Landisville area, police reported.

Sixty-six individuals submitted captions for last month's "Pass the Word" feature photo of a squirrel hanging from a branch and eating bird seed; Sunday News photographer Jeff Ruppenthal shot that image.

A Willow Street man who volunteered as treasurer for a church group and his child's soccer team pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $300,000 from the organizations.

Leaders and members of the Lutheran Coalition for Renewal began planning for the organization's future by adopting a constitution, including plans for a "free-standing synod" not directly related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .

Conservatives in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted during the weekend to spend a year laying a course that could lead their group to split with the denomination.

There seems to be no shortage of folks from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who are upset about several votes last month at the denomination's convention in Minneapolis.

A former Columbia High School music teacher and band director pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a sexual relationship with a student.

It is great to see that this kind of development is happening in the county. Kudos to East Hempfield supervisors ! This is exactly the kind of project that all municipalities should be championing.

It might be an understatement to say that a plan for upscale townhouses in Landisville "goes waaaay back," as an attorney for the developer said recently.

The Pottsgrove High School Marching Band placed second Saturday among seven bands in its Independence Division, with a score of 69.25, during a Cavalcade of Bands -sanctioned marching band competition at Hempfield High School in Landisville PA, northwest of Lancaster .

Saying the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has "fallen into heresy," because of actions taken at last month's churchwide assembly, the chair of Lutheran CORE said the organization intends to be a "free-standing synod" which will carry out ministries apart from the ELCA.

A doubleheader is scheduled in East Hempfield Township in early October. But this twin bill won't have anything to do with the World Series.

One of the bigger issues they "always wrestle with in a rezoning of this size," an East Hempfield Township official said, is "what do we do about traffic?" And as they study plans for a new community near Landisville, which took a step forward Wednesday night, East Hempfield officials "have a good starting point" to address the always important ...

The Associated Press More News In an Aug. 22 story in the World Briefly package about the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America changing its policy on gay clergy, The Associated Press erroneously paraphrased comments by the Rev.