Jade Campos

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

Public comment about the fate of a hazardous materials response contract during a county emergency planning meeting Thursday afternoon became so heated that one committee official walked out. At issue was the status of Lancaster County’s contract with HazMat 2 Emergency Fire Rescue, which is currently scheduled to expire on June 30. Emergency responders who spoke at the Local Emergency Planning Committee meeting said they are upset by news that the county is considering.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

Officials with Lancaster County’s only dedicated hazardous materials emergency response team say county officials who contract their services are now looking for help from outside the county. Lancaster County government currently works with HazMat 2 Environmental Fire Rescue, an independent volunteer nonprofit based in East Hempfield Township, to respond to hazardous materials incidents including hydraulic fluid spills on highways and chemical leaks at industrial plants.

2 weeks ago | lancasteronline.com | Jade Campos

When Skip Schoell lived in Tenfold’s transitional housing units on East King Street, he considered himself a part of the “loyal order of stoop sitters.” The order, he said, was a group of residents who sat on the building’s front steps to judge drivers’ parking skills and passersby’s outfits. Schoell, a veteran, joked that stoop sitting has become a thing of the past as Tenfold prepares to do away with the steps in front of 105 E. King St. as a part of a yearlong reconstruction project.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.