Strasburg News

On June 20, 110 runners endured the rain and some mud while running over a road that was under construction during the Big Flats Community Days 5K.

Some people just don't like to leave home, even when they go away on vacation. When going to the beach, they find thousands of homes away from home to choose from for a stay.

The Strasburg Rail Road is going green and expanding its freight operation at the same time.

West Lampeter Township supervisors recently agreed to ask Willow Valley Associates to contribute to a $15,000 water study.

Going green has gone underground - and all the way to the grave. "Green" burials are designed to reduce waste and environmental impact, by foregoing metal caskets, embalming and vaults.

Lampeter-Strasburg High School students in extracurricular activities this fall will be subject to random drug testing.

The owners of the Park Place Diner, formally Zinn's Diner, want the statue of an Amish Man, Amos, returned to Denver, Lancaster County.

Cue the "Dragnet" theme. The stories you are about to read are true; the names have been deleted to protect the embarrased from the double jeopardy of having their names in the newspapers again for their odd misdeeds.

South Heidelberg Township, PA - Age: 54. Address: South Heidelberg Township. Family: Wife, Susan.

Al Karcheski discovered in February that he has diabetes. Since then, the 64-year-old retired high school teacher has had to learn how to eat fewer carbohydrates, stay on top of his blood sugar levels, increase his exercise and get his feet and eyes regularly checked .

The Lampeter-Strasburg school board last week continued its discussion on proposed random drug testing.

Puffs of gray smoke rise from the smokestack of the hulking 150-ton steam engine.

This railroad, on Route 741 East in Lancaster County is one of Lancaster County's most popular tourist attractions.

C. Chuck Mummert, an Elizabethtown Borough councilman for the past four years, handily snatched the vacant mayor's seat away from political newcomer Donald Keller in one of six Republican face-offs for mayoral slots in Lancaster County.

For Jim Martin, months of campaigning in one of the most contentious municipal elections in recent memory had come down to this.

A 2-year-old girl was tragically killed Tuesday in what investigators are calling an accident on an Amish farm in Strasburg Township.

A 2-year-old girl was killed Tuesday afternoon in a forklift accident in Strasburg, Lancaster County.

Neighbors of a proposed 88-unit development along Rockvale Road expressed concerns about the project last week during a conditional-use hearing in West Lampeter Township.

In Tuesday's primary, the voters of West Lampeter Township will make a momentous decision on whether to lift the municipality's 74-year ban on alcohol sales.

It all started with a chance meeting in an elevator in Colorado, and now the Timber Heritage Association of Eureka is another step closer to restoring the former Pacific Lumber steam locomotive No.