Jade Campos

5 days ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

Lancaster city is unlikely to receive extra payments from the developer of the Marriott hotel at Penn Square because of losses incurred by the hotel during the COVID-19 pandemic. The city and its redevelopment authority last fall agreed to conduct an audit after Penn Square Partners, the developer of the downtown hotel, said it could not pay a “participatory” rent to the city.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

Ten years ago, Manheim Community Pool was filled with bursts of laughter and the wafting scent of chlorine. It was the setting for first-time life experiences: where little kids would suit up with floaties to learn how to swim, and where teenagers made their first paychecks working as a lifeguard. The pool was the place to be on a hot day. Today, as pools across the country are opening up for the summer season, Manheim’s 67-year-old pool is a pile of overturned concrete and dirt.

1 week ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

A $580,000 cut to programs to combat homelessness in Lancaster County won’t be restored after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development denied an appeal filed by a county agency. HUD announced in January, while Joe Biden was still president, that it would not fund the county Homelessness Coalition’s local outreach and coordinated entry programs, which connect people without housing with crucial assistance like mental health treatment and shelter beds.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

El demócrata Jaime Arroyo está en camino de convertirse en el próximo alcalde de la ciudad de Lancaster después de derrotar a su oponente Janet Díaz el martes. Los partidarios de Arroyo, entre los que se encontraban miembros del comité demócrata y candidatos al Concejo Municipal, lo ovacionaron de pie durante una fiesta en Zoetropolis el martes por la noche cuando subió al escenario como el claro ganador de las primarias. A las 11:15 p.m., había obtenido más del 83% del total de los votos.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

Eight years ago, Democrat Janet Diaz emerged from her first run for Lancaster City Council with 1,920 votes — placing second among the nine candidates running in the primary election. She would go on to earn the most votes (4,600) of any council candidate in that fall’s general election, narrowly edging runner-up Izzy Smith-Wade-El, who was later elected to the Pennsylvania state House. Diaz remained a popular candidate.