Article: Slots In City? Don't Bet On It ; Stubborn Rumor About Hotel-Convention Center Is Denied No Application

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It's the rumor that won't go away:

Didja hear they're going to put slot machines in the new convention center and hotel downtown?

For seven years at least it's been whispered, asserted and published. A letter to the editor in both of Lancaster's daily newspapers last week brought it up again: "Now that state regulators have given the go-ahead to Valley Forge to install 500 slot machines," asked the writer, "can the Lancaster County Convention Center be far behind?"

Local officials were unequivocal in their response: The convention center and adjacent hotel will host gatherings large and small. Visitors from all over.

But it won't host one-armed bandits.

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