Recently added articles from Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA:
A Gallon's Not What It Used To Be ; Gas Prices Fall, Will Keep Falling, Experts Say
Oct 07, 2008; Patrick Burns ... Gas priced below $3 a gallon may be coming soon to a conveniencestore near you. Despite a furor created by predictions this summer that priceswould push well above $4 a gallon, the cost of gas and diesel fuelhas marched lower for several weeks. Motorists Monday paid $3.17 agallon ...
Family Sues Over Soldier's Suicide ; Says Va Center Failed Penn Manor Grad
Oct 07, 2008; Larry Alexander ... Donald Woodward's tormented life ended on March 3, 2006. An Iraqi war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stressdisorder, Woodward's body was found at one of his favorite hikingspots along the Enola Low-Grade Line. The anguished young man had died of a self-inflicted ...
Corrections/Clarifications
Oct 07, 2008 ... The first name of Ruta Fox, owner of Divine Diamonds and themaker of the Ah ring, was ...
Voter Sign-Up Pushes Record ; Deadline Passes
Oct 07, 2008; PJ Reilly ... It's been three years since city resident Eugene Freeman voted inan election. This year, he and his wife, Glenda, decided it was time he gotback into the electoral game. "I felt I need to now," the National Novelty Brush Co. employeesaid Monday afternoon. "The way the ...
Political Pulpitry
Oct 07, 2008 ... Last Sunday, more than 30 pastors nationwide decided to lob a fewgrenades at the wall between church and state. Their target? A 1954 amendment to the tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations like churches from engaging in politicalcampaigning. The line separating ...
Hold Palin To Higher Standards
Oct 07, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: Elizabethtown Professors McClellan and McDonald must have beenwatching an entirely different vice-presidential debate Thursdayevening than the one I watched. In their views, "she (Gov. Palin)was the winner of this" because of the way "she looks directly intothat ...
Not Entitled To Parking Spot
Oct 07, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: I do not feel badly for Apryl Sweezy as she recounted the woes ofno off-street parking near her home in Lancaster City ("F&M eventscause parking woes," Intell, Sept. 25). I grew up in a home with nooff-street parking and would never begin to express the ...
Trusts Palin's Integrity, Not Biden's
Oct 07, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: Patrick Corcoran ("Taking the low bridge to nowhere," Intell,Sept. 30) should make sure of his facts before smugly accusing Gov.Sarah Palin of lying about the bridge to nowhere. Yes, Palin was initially supportive of the bridge, but eventuallyshe killed the ...
Sign Strategy
Oct 07, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: The polls came out Oct. 1. Obama is 5 points ahead of McCain. So,I guess to help McCain out, they are out stealing yard signs. I hadtwo disappear from my yard. It's tactics like this that make ...
Candidates, Answer The Questions
Oct 07, 2008 ... TO THE EDITOR: Kudos to Jim Lehrer for asking this question at the recentpresidential debate: "What are you going to have to give up, interms of the priorities that you would bring as president of theUnited States, as a result of having to pay for the financial ...
Landisville Man's Passion Drives Auction ; 'Hidden' Restored Car Collection Sold
Oct 07, 2008; Tom Knapp ... A prominent local businessman had a treasure hidden near hisLandisville home. Columbus P. Sacco, known as Chris to his friends, had a lifelongpassion for cars. In the years after his retirement, hepainstakingly restored classic automobiles, many of which werestored in the former ...
Swimmer's Death A Mystery
Oct 07, 2008; Madelyn Pennino ... A recent Franklin & Marshall College graduate and former swimmingchampion died unexpectedly early Sunday while visiting the campus,police said. Police were called to the common area of a suite in Thomas Hallshortly before 5 a.m. Sunday and found Philip Rehders, 22,unresponsive, ...
Manheim Farm Show Opens With Coronation
Oct 07, 2008; Carla Di Fonzo ... Somehow, the three contestants in the Manheim Community FarmShow's Queen Competition managed to brave the chill Monday eveningwithout resorting to jackets. Still, their formal gowns weren't ideal clothing for thetemperature, which dipped into the 40s. It was only after Loni ...
Cause Of Death Sought For Man Involved In Crash
Oct 07, 2008; Brett Hambright ... Investigators said an autopsy will be performed this morning todetermine if a Philadelphia man was killed as a result of a head-oncrash with a tractor-trailer in East Earl Township Monday afternoonor if a medical problem just before the wreck played a role,investigators said. A ...
Value Of Mediation? No Dispute ; Mounting Tension Getting Past Emotion
Oct 07, 2008; Jeff Hawkes ... It was just an old, rented garage, a space for John and RebeccaPalmer's vintage Mercedes and not much else. But then landlord Michael Mastros bought the garage (and 39others on North Christian Street) and raised the rent $5, to $65. And then the Palmers, a team of self-employed ...
Penn Manor Leader Will Retire, Hit Road
Oct 07, 2008; Jennifer Todd ... After 24 years with the district, Penn Manor superintendentDonald Stewart has decided to take a ride in the fast lane of life. Stewart, 58, announced at Monday's school board meeting that hewill retire at the end of the school year. Two months later, Stewart plans to embark on ...
Pitts Slams Obama; Casey Slams Mccain
Oct 07, 2008; Dave Pidgeon ... A comment Sen. Barack Obama made more than a year ago hasemboldened America's enemies more than Osama bin Laden eludingcapture for seven years, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts said Monday. Republicans Pitts and Ryan Aument, Lancaster County Clerk ofCourts and an Iraq war veteran, seized on ...
Anthony "Tony" Joseph Coniglio
Oct 07, 2008 ... Anthony "Tony" Joseph Coniglio, 82, of Lititz, PA, passed away onSunday, October 5, at the home of his daughter in Mt. Joy, PA. Hewas the husband of the late Dorothy Luchak Coniglio, who died in1993. Born in Manhattan, NYC, he was the son of the late Vito andAnna DiGrigoli Coniglio ....
Jerome B. Ginter
Oct 07, 2008 ... Jerome B. Ginter, 88, of Lancaster, died Sunday, October 5, 2008.He was the husband of Annabelle Harry Ginter, with whom he wouldhave celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on October 23, 2008.He was born in Silver Spring, son of the late John S. and LizzieBard Ginter. He worked in ...
Milton E. Lamborn
Oct 07, 2008 ... Milton E. Lamborn, 71, of Lancaster, passed away peacefully onSunday, October 5, 2008 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Born September 7, 1937, in Lancaster, he was the son of the lateAmos and Matilda (Evans) Lamborn, Sr. He was married to Patricia J.(Wenger) Lamborn ...