Landisville News

Where are the flags? By 2009-06-17 14:52:00 Lancaster New Era Editor, New Era: Craig Kauffman, past commander of American Legion District 10, has relatives buried in a cemetery in the Landisville area.

There are all kinds of crooks and con men. But a growing number of thieves seem to specialize in targeting senior citizens by promising to help them make more money on their life savings, prosecutors say.

John Amatoa TMs virtual online magazinea OK, Ita TMs a blog! TOPICS ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of Holocaust Museum guard Stephen T. Johns , President of Gabon Omar Bongo and restauranteur Norman Brinker .

Shirley M. Grubb, 83, entered into rest on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at Landis Homes in Lititz.

Military officials are investigating the death of a Marine from Pennsylvania. Lance Corporal Robert D. Ulmer of Landisville, served in the Anbar Province of Iraq.

The Department of Defense has confirmed that a marine from Lancaster County has died.

"Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements." Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

A drug deal gone awry was the cause of a shooting that left a man dead in the parking lot of Farnum Towers two weeks ago, city police said.

Police say a man found dead in the parking lot of a Lancaster apartment building last month was shot to death during a violent struggle with a man he had robbed during a drug deal.

A throng of shoppers reportedly hunting for bargain-price flip-flops jammed the Old Navy store at Red Rose Commons, 1700 Fruitville Pike, Saturday, and had to be dispersed by police and firefighters.

Depression-era Republicans campaigned for a chicken in every pot. Penn State Master Gardeners and ice cream giant Haagen-Dazs would settle for a blooming plant in every flower box.

Whether the times are good or bad, boom or bust, or somewhere in between, one issue always seems most important to East Hempfield Township voters.

A mother of a toddler has enough to worry about: bumps and bruises, sneezes and sniffles, baby gates and cupboard locks.

Fifty readers, plus 24 of Diane Anderson's students at Landisville Middle School, submitted captions for last month's "Pass the Word" photo of a pelican on a pier.

"Let's pray," 5-year-old Eliannah Boll said, forcefully and with conviction, as she stood on her tiptoes on a stool in front of nearly 12,000 people at Long's Park on Thursday night.

BIDDING, JACK A., 86, of Landisville. Visitation from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 85 Brandt Blvd., Landisville, followed by funeral at 10:30. Private burial.

If you own property in the Penn Manor School District, your tax bill is not going up.

More efficient for the present, more promising for the future. That's why a Trenton, N.J.-based seamless gutter supplier is spending $1.2 million to open a branch in Lancaster County.

A long-time Landisville industrial firm is taking a long-term approach toward expansion.

It was a case "all about greed," prosecutors said. Allen Perry, of Landisville, was charged in 2002 with cheating more than 70 senior citizens out of more than $2.5 million in savings.