When: New Holland Borough Council meeting, May 4.
What happened: Council recognized Clete Stone for 47 years of employment with the borough from May 1974 to May 2021. He will retire Friday, May 7, as supervisor of the New Holland Water Department, a position held for 25 years.
Honors: In recognition of Stoneâs service, council is dedicating the new Groff Park water well under construction at Railroad Avenue and Conestoga Street in Stoneâs honor. The plaque on the well building will identify it as The Cletus H. Stone Jr. Building. Council members praised Stoneâs work ethic and leadership.
New well: Jeff Bologa of Becker Engineering LLC, Lancaster, showed an artistâs rendition of the new well building. Bologa said it is the fifth well to be built in the borough and will likely be in operation by November. The other wells are located as follows: Well No. 1 and Well No. 2 â Hoover Avenue, built in the 1950s; Well No. 3 â Custer Avenue, built in 1996; Well
Three years after a diagnosis of stage 4 melanoma, New Holland police officer Wendell Metzler succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was 52.
Metzler worked for over 27 years as a police officer, serving Ephrata for 7-and-a-half years, and New Holland for the latter 20 years. Throughout that time, Metzler also worked part-time for the West Earl police department.Â
Metzler was perhaps best known for his friendship with Ryan Forbes, a former felon with whom he grew a long-standing friendship. His experience with Forbes inspired him to write a book called Unchained. A February 2020 LNP | LancasterOnline story chronicled Metzler and Forbes unlikely bond.
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Saying goodbye is even harder when the officerâs career is cut short by a health condition.
After nearly 28 years in law enforcement, Officer Wendell Metzler retired from the New Holland Police Department on March 23. Itâs sooner than he would have liked, a circumstance forced by his 2018 diagnosis of stage 4 melanoma, which had progressed to a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2020.
âI was forced to officially retire at 20 years of service instead of my anticipated 25 years due to declining health,â Metzler says.
New Holland police Chief Bill Leighty says itâs difficult to see Metzler, 52, leave the force.
âItâs always a loss when a member of our police family leaves, but especially in Wendellâs case whose career was cut short by disease,â Leighty says.