Strasburg News

Underground power line blows in city By STAFF 2009-12-22 15:57:00 Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era An explosion in an underground power line blew off a manhole cover and cut power in parts of Lancaster City this afternoon.

Most of us take trains for granted, considering them a nuisance, in fact, because of their deafening noise and disruption of traffic.

Municipal contracts with the Humane League of Lancaster County are down nearly 50 percent for 2010.

The Choo Choo Barn is like no other model train layout you've ever seen. Started from humble beginnings as a $12.50 Lionel Scout toy train circling a Christmas tree in George Groff's home, it now covers 1700 square feet, complete with 22 miniature trains zipping around the Lancaster County countryside and featuring such settings as a baseball game, ...

Wally Repsch has a dream. He also has a dilemma. How can he reach the boys he wants to help? Repsch is a proponent - with a capital P - of Cub Scouting for boys ages 7 to 10.

Four Lancaster County men have been charged in a $400,000 tax-evasion scheme that allegedly was carried out through aliases, offshore bank accounts and bogus paper transactions, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced Tuesday.

As we approach the 68th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, dozens gathered to honor two local veterans.

A rifle was found on the side of a Strasburg Township road Friday afternoon. Pennsylvania State Police are looking for the owner of a .30-.30 Marlin rifle that was found in a black plastic case on the ground at Route 896 and Paradise Lane at 2:30 p.m. Police said the rifle has camouflage on the stock and a Bushnell scope mounted on it.

Two schools are on a two-hour delay Thursday morning due to power outages - Spring Grove in York County and Lampeter-Strasburg in Lancaster County.

Four wagons that are more than a century old - two of which were made at the historic Gruber Wagon Works - were sold at auction Monday for $350 each.

Encroaching winter weather took a break Sunday, providing visitors to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania a warm and sunny autumn day.

One of the Susquehanna Valley's most popular tourist destinations is feeling the crunch from state budget cuts.

They were loud as they balanced. Hoots and giggles and shrieks and "I don't want to fall" and "I need a walking stick like that" and "He-eey look" and "youlandedrightintheMUD!," all eyes on their feet and sloping trail before them.

Pennsylvania's budget crunch is starting to affect Lancaster County's three state-owned museums, which are being forced to lay off employees and reduce hours of operation.

That's great. I'm sure someone will manage to install a shopping center and screw it all up by next summer.

After 12 years of planning and 12 months of construction, the 1.4-mile Strasburg Bypass opened Tuesday.

A new section of road is now open in Strasburg, Lancaster County. Local and state leaders lined up Tuesday morning to cut the ribbon on the new stretch of Route 896.

This being the time of year that it is, you wouldn't think wild turkeys should be pressing their luck by jaywalking in front of impatient motorists.

Theatergoers attending the Lampeter-Strasburg School District's play "12 Angry Men" - which is being staged Wednesday through Saturday at 7 each night - should not come expecting the classic film starring Henry Fonda.

State Rep. Mike Sturla's bill to require rural municipalities to pay more for state police protection is taking fire from all sides.