When visiting Lancasterâs mass vaccination site in March, Gov. Tom Wolf praised the public-private collaboration, saying it was a âreally good example of what local folks can doâ to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the capacity to administer up to 6,000 doses a day â at a time when the public was clamoring for limited vaccine â the site had a wait list of 50,000 in short order.
What it didnât have was a toll-free phone number for patients to call.
And the mass vaccination site â located at the former Bon-Ton department store in Park City Center â still doesnât have a toll-free phone number.
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Despite new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some people in Lancaster County are hesitant to ditch the mask.
Those who spoke with LNP | LancasterOnline said they were waiting to see what happened with the pandemic before going mask-free.
âPeople who have gotten the vaccine have gotten COVID again, so I donât think thatâs very good judgment based off of that,â Ethan Mordaunt, a history student at Millersville University, said while walking out of Target at The Shoppes at Belmont.
âIf COVID goes away (I would stop wearing a mask), but it never will.â
The CDC advises that no vaccine is 100% effective and some postvaccine cases are to be expected.
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.
After nearly two decades of debate, Lancaster County appears to be on the cusp of replacing its aging prison facility, undertaking a public works project that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The county s Prison Board is scheduled to discuss land acquisition for a new facility at todayâs board of commissioners meeting, according to an agenda posted online Tuesday.
The three county commissioners declined to provide more details or did not respond, but the county has been sending signals the past year that it was trying to secure land for a new prison.
At last October s Prison Board meeting, Commissioner Josh Parsons announced that the board had met in executive session earlier that day to discuss âreal estate matters, without offering more details. At the board meeting last August, Parsons said the pandemic had delayed the prison project.