THE ISSUE: âLancaster County commissioners are hoping an undeveloped plot of land along the Conestoga River in Lancaster Township will be the location of a new county prison,â Carter Walker reported in the May 6 LNP | LancasterOnline. âParts of Lancaster Countyâs current prison at 625 E. King St. date to the decade before the Civil War, with the most recent portions built in the 1990s. Building a new prison has been discussed by a succession of county leaders for nearly 20 years, and there is broad agreement among elected and appointed county officials about the need for a new one.â
Lancaster County has needed a new, modern prison for decades. So last weekâs development must be welcome and gratifying for everyone who has worked to raise awareness of the deficiencies at Lancaster County Prison.
COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Opening In Dauphin County
(Lykens, PA) About 250 doses of the Pfizer vaccine is going to be available at a clinic in Dauphin County. The clinic will be held this Saturday at The Valley Lighthouse at 105 Main Street in Lykens. Anyone 16 and older will be able to receive a first dose of the vaccine. You can schedule an appointment by calling the Northern Dauphin Human Services Center. South Middletown Township To Receive Grant To Purchase Carlisle Airport
(South Middletown Township, PA) South Middletown Township is going to get some help from the state to purchase the privately-owned Carlisle Airport. The Wolf administration announced yesterday that PennDOT is rewarding the township a three-million-dollar grant. Governor Wolf says the funding is a part of a ten-million-dollar investment in a dozen airports across the state.
A sprinkler system at a Lancaster Township apartment complex may have saved lives and property on Wednesday morning, according to a report by WGAL.
Firefighters were called to an apartment complex on Dickens Drive at around 7:15 a.m. for a fire that started in a microwave in an upstairs unit and spread to the cabinets above, according to the report.
The fire was extinguished by the apartmentâs sprinkler system before fire crews arrived, WGAL said.
A resident set off the fire alarm and got other residents out of the building safely, according go the report. No injuries. No loss of life. No injuries to firefighters, and it was a very minor incident that without the sprinklers would have become a very major incident, Lancaster Township Fire Chief Steven Roy told WGAL.
The Lancaster Township nursing home facility long known as Conestoga View, site of the sixth-highest number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing facilities in the state, has a new owner.
A spokesperson for Lakewood, New Jersey-based Imperial Healthcare Group, LLC, confirmed Tuesday the company has bought the nursing home and will keep the facilityâs administration in place, but declined to provide any further details.
The purchase price was $29.8 million, according to property records filed last week.
The 446-bed nursing home also appears to have a new name. A person answering the phone at the nursing home facility Tuesday said the site had recently changed its name to Lancaster Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The Conestoga View website was down on Tuesday.
Updated: 12:49 PM EDT May 12, 2021 Investigators say a sprinkler system may have saved lives and property in Lancaster County.Crews were called around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday to Dickens Drive in Lancaster Township for a fire that started in a microwave and spread to the cabinets above.The apartment resident set off the fire alarm and got other residents out of the building.The sprinkler system put out the fire before crews arrived. No injuries. No loss of life. No injuries to firefighters, and it was a very minor incident that without the sprinklers would have become a very major incident, Lancaster Township Fire Chief Steven Roy said.Fire damage was limited to the upstairs apartment where it started. There was water damage to units below.