Leola News

Sex crimes seem to be rising at an alarming rate in Rural Lancaster County. What is going on? We have teachers with students, we have Sick castration candidates against children, I think it's time to make people think twice before committing these ignorant lewd acts.

So last weekend the Pennsylvania birding community was excited to learn that Scott Weidensaul had banded an Allen's Hummingbird --normally found in California--in a Lancaster County backyard.

Scott Weidensaul, a nationally known birdwatcher and author, was in the question-and-answer portion of his talk to the Lancaster County Bird Club Friday night when a woman shot up her hand.

Randy and Anita Trythall have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Churches and individuals across the country have heard the Leola couple's plea to help them end child sex slavery in Zambia.

The Ephrata Diner, 3687 Rothsville Road, marked its grand re-opening last week after extensive renovations by its new owners, Maria and Chris Politsopoulos.

A Quarryville man stole $13,646 from COBYS while he served as the social services agency's administrative director, police said today.

A theft from a vehicle on Wednesday in Leola resulted in a loss of about $1,000 worth of items, East Lampeter Township police said.

If you think he's amish he isn't............................ He's actually from Lancaster City...... I guessed that he wasn't amish, I'm just being funny.

A Leola family was playing cards early Sunday morning when suddenly the kitchen cabinet doors flew open.

William Schatz came to the Lancaster Public Library on Monday, as he does about four nights a week, to make revisions on his book about the chemical basis for human emotions.

Preventing the havoc wrought when freezing rain collects on roads, power lines, and aircrafts could be only a few nanometers away.

Anna Harsh, who marks her 100th birthday today, says there is no secret to the long life she has lived.

Inspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in superhydrophobic coatings, team reports in Langmuir PITTSBURGH-Preventing the havoc wrought when freezing rain collects on roads, power lines, and aircrafts could be only a few nanometers away.

Children at Bright Side Opportunities Center's afterschool program have been tied in knots lately, and that's not a bad thing.

Sales of swing sets have their seasonal ups and downs - up in the spring and summer, down in the fall and winter.

I've always been a supporter of the law enforecement around New Holland, but there are certainly areas where they are lax.

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.

SPC Tim Wimer Jr., 21, was all smiles Saturday as he ate cake amid red, white and blue balloons.

After working 41 years in manufactured housing, Don Wood needed something to do after he retired on June 2. He thought he would drive a school bus for his good friend, Dave Eschbach.

Two cases of indecent exposure have been reported in the Susquehanna Valley. Brandon Rutherford, 18, was seen Wednesday morning with his pants down in a cornfield along East Main Street in Leola, Lancaster County, police said.