• County Health Advisory to discuss measles plan: Wednesday the Lancaster County Health Advisory Council will have a meeting to discuss measles. The meeting is labeled “Emergency Response Plan to measles.” Earlier this month Lancaster has had one cause of measles at Ephrata WellSpan Hospital. The council is made up of 11 members including five health systems across the county, mental health field and a school district. (Source: ABC 27)
• Pennsylvania distributes over $947 million in Midstate infrastructure: PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll announced the state will invest $947.3 million in 124 infrastructure projects across the southcentral Pennsylvania region. The organization explained the investments in transportation will connect Pennsylvanians to greater opportunity. PennDOT aims to rehabilitate 121 miles of highways and work on 16 bridges. The organization expects to invest over $402 million in 2025 to go along with over $544 million in projects continuing from 2024. The invest total $947 million will span across the county Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties. (Source: ABC 27)
• Lancaster City Council postpones meeting: The regular Tuesday city council meetings was postposed for a week due to technical difficulties with the regular live stream provided for people who cannot attend. Council President Amanda Bakay said the meeting recording, streamed to the city’s YouTube channel (CityofLancasterPAGov), was not picking up audio to broadcast to listeners at home. The council agreed to delay the meeting until the problem is fixed and the next meeting will take place Tuesday, April 29. The agenda will stay the same. (Source: LNP)
• Lancaster deemed as worst in nation for air quality: The annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association displays that the wildfire smoke from Canada and the western U.S. that blanketed the region in June 2023 nearly doubled the average number of days with unhealthy air alerts in Lancaster County over a three-year period. Overall, the report reveals that residents keep breathing some of the unhealthiest air in the country, with the Lancaster metro area ranking 22nd worst in the country, which is 8 spots higher on the worst list since last year’s survey – and 2nd worst in the Mid-Atlantic region for measures of daily particle pollution from 2021 to 2023. This years finding are worse than two years ago, when an analysis of 2019-2021 data ranked the Lancaster area as the 24th worst measure of air pollution. (Source: LNP)
• Nation/world: Law firms ask federal judges to block executive orders (Source: AP News) RFK Jr’s potential autism registry raises concerns (Source: MSNBC) World’s coral reefs hit by bleaching event (Source: NBC News) Vance says US will exit if unless Ukraine and Russia accept proposals (Source: BBC News)
