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  • Year in Review – #10

    In early June, Lancaster City Council pulled $198,000 in funding to See Lancaster, a nonprofit group that promotes downtown business revitalization and economic development in the county.

    See Lancaster receives most of its funding from the city’s hospitality tax revenue, which is generated from the 2-cents-per-dollar tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants in the city.

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  • Year in Review – #9

    Retired Lancaster police officer Ray Knight was just trying to help at a wreck scene on Lynwood Circle when he was shot in the face on June 27.

    As Knight approached the car, the occupants ran in the opposite direction, and one of those occupants shot Knight, Sheriff Johnny Cauthen said.

    Knight was the second person shot in that area that night; he had no idea the occupants of the wrecked car were somehow connected to a shooting.

    “He was going to render aid – doing what he was trained to do and was brutally shot,” Cauthen said.

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  • BB gun spree shatters windows

    As Lancaster County residents were spreading holiday cheer last week, someone else was busy spraying BB pellets at vehicles and homes.

    According to Lancaster Police Department reports, there were at least 16 separate incidents of property being damaged between Dec. 23 and Sunday by what appears to be a BB gun.

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  • Municipal officials talk about 2009 plans

    Lancaster Mayor Joe Shaw said the most important project the city will tackle in 2009 is the expansion of the solid waste transfer station.

    In July, County Council and Lancaster City Council agreed to share use of the transfer station, with the city assuming control of the county’s solid waste deposited there.

    The station at 1309 Lynwood Drive is a temporary holding site where trash is transferred after it’s picked up curbside.

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  • Christmas Basket tops $15,000, sets record

    Although it started late this year, the Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket Fund has set a record in the amount of money it collected to help Lancaster County families this year.

    Elaine Adkins, executive director of HOPE, which is in charge of the charity drive this year, said the Christmas Basket has surpassed the total collected during the same time in 2001.

    During that year’s drive, donations topped $15,000.

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  • O’Brien saying goodbye to City Council

    Danny O’Brien is looking to the future.

    Sitting in his Lancaster home and petting his 8-year-old miniature schnauzer, Arnie, the outgoing Lancaster City Council member is busy planning what to do with himself after Jan. 7.

    That’s when O’Brien, 53, steps down from his District 6 seat after 12 years and his successor, Sara Eddins, is sworn in.

    He expects there will be plenty to keep him and his wife of 30 years, Kathy, busy.

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  • Location found for new Pleasant Valley fire station

    INDIAN LAND – The chairman of the Pleasant Valley Fire Commission is looking forward to work getting under way for a new station.

    The Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department has found a place to build a new station, across from the southern entrance of the Fox Ridge subdivision on Possum Hollow Road.

    Two acres have been donated to the fire department, and County Council advanced $200,000 to buy the other acre of property at a recent meeting.

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  • $500,000 grant to improve Brooklyn

    Jenny Hartley

    jhartley@thelancasternews.com

    There could be a village renaissance in store for the Brooklyn neighborhood.

    Lancaster County just received word that it has received a $500,000 Village Renaissance grant through the Community Development Block Grant program.

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  • Leathernecks bring Santa to spread cheer and gifts to hospital patients

    Edward Reid rose from his slump and smiled big when Santa Claus entered his room at Springs Memorial Hospital on Saturday.

    He was one of many patients whose day became a little brighter when the white-bearded man in the red suit visited the hospital.

    Santa came with the Lancaster Leathernecks, the local detachment of the U.S. Marine Cops League. The group went room to room spreading Christmas cheer and handing out gifts to patients.

    “It feel good,” Reid said about the visit. “They’re real nice.”

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  • Seized pickup to help drug officers ment

    A vehicle seized during a drug arrest will soon help Lancaster police crack down on crime.

    The vehicle, a 1996 Toyota 4x4 pickup, was seized by the Lancaster Police Department during a drug bust a few years ago, but will soon become the department’s latest tool in the fight against drugs. 

    It will join the department’s drug enforcement group, and will probably be used for surveillance. 

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