Clipper Stadium event helping hundreds complete rent, utility assistance forms
Paul Ortiz is helped with his Emergency Rental Assistance Program application at the Rental & Utility Assistance Community Days event at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster on Friday, July 23,...
Lancaster plans bike lane along Lemon Street; public comment invited through Aug. 6
This rendering of Lemon Street looking eastbound across the intersection with Charlotte Street in Lancaster shows how a planned bicycle lane there would look. (Source: City of Lancaster | Kittelson...
News: Friday, July 23
Athletes march in the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony in this image from Japanese television. Headlines: • Pa. Health Dept. seeks $124 million in emergency Covid-19 contracts: The testing and contact-tracing...
A new ‘gateway’: County plan would make crisis responders broadly available for 911 mental health calls
Julie Holtry, deputy director, Lancaster County Behavioral Health & Developmental Services, speaks about planned enhancement to crisis intervention at a hearing on Thursday, July 8, 2021. (Source: co.lancaster.pa.us) [caption id="attachment_12510"...
County BHDS aims to set up mental health ‘warmline,’ limited free outpatient counseling
(Source: lancastercountybhds.org) Along with its plan to enhance its Crisis Intervention program, Lancaster County's Behavioral Health & Developmental Services Department envisions using two other state grants to expand its services....
News: Thursday, July 22
Justo Smoker (Source: East Lampeter Township Police) Headlines: • Pa. Health Dept. announces higher standards for nursing homes: The department plans to mandate a minimum of 4.1 hours of care...
LG Health, Lancaster receive state grant to make city ‘trauma informed’
Lancaster General Hospital. Inset: Mary LeVasseur. (Source: Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health) Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, in partnership with the city of Lancaster, has received a state grant for...
News: Wednesday, July 21
The former Conestoga View nursing home is now known as Lancaster Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Headlines: • Inspection finds understaffing at former Conestoga View: The nursing home averaged 2.4 hours...
By the numbers: Local Covid-19 cases tick upward
The number of Covid-19 cases in Lancaster County is low, but it's starting to increase. Two weeks ago, the county recorded 25 new cases of the virus. Last week it...
Need help applying for rental, utility assistance? Visit Clipper Stadium this Friday, Saturday
A street scene in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood. (Photo: Tim Stuhldreher) With the nationwide eviction moratorium set to expire at the end of July, the organizations behind Lancaster County's Emergency...
First Lady Wolf tours Treasures Markets
In foreground, from left, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding, Treasures Markets founder Mike Mitchell and Pa. First Lady Frances Wolf walk through Treasures Markets in Lancaster during a tour on Monday,...
News: Tuesday, July 20
(Source: Lancaster Theological Seminary) Headlines: • Pa. requested $340 million in emergency contracts in 2020: That's up from an average of 135 the previous two years. About half of the...
Volunteers needed to prepare for Back-to-School event
State Rep. Mike Sturla passes out backpacks during the 2020 Back-to-School event. (Source: pahouse.com/Sturla/) The organizers of state Rep. Mike Sturla's 2021 Back-to-School event are seeking additional volunteers to help...
Tec Centro helps clients navigate unemployment system
Client Luz Medina, left, talks with career navigator Marisol Sanchez at Tec Centro in Lancaster on Thursday, July 8, 2021. The plexiglass partition between them is a Covid-19 precaution. (Photo:...
News: Monday, July 19
The Lancaster Compost Co-Ops compost bin in Musser Park. (Source: Lancaster Compost Co-Ops) Headlines: • Scammers expected to target child tax credit: The money comes through the IRS, which will...
Report: Low wages, high rent puts housing ‘out of reach’ locally, in Pa. and nationwide
A street scene in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood. (Photo: Tim Stuhldreher) On average, renters in Lancaster County earn a third less than they need in order to afford housing at...
