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Award recipients announced for 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast

Despite growing up in poverty and being raised by foster parents, Damaris Rau defied the odds and found success. ....

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This week's good things: Thanking educators, track standouts and the 7th Ward reunion and homecoming [editorial]

THE ISSUE: It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of these items are welcome developments ....

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Lancaster city nonprofits to host 7th Ward community celebration

Chester Stewart treasures his memories of life in the early 1960s as a young teenager in Lancaster city’s Seventh Ward southeast neighborhood. ....

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Lancaster's Leon 'Buddy' Glover, the late educator and 'encourager,' deserves to have a school named for him [editorial]

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Leon B. Glover Jr., School District of Lancaster’s first Black principal, who was known as Buddy, died Feb. 11, two days after having a massive stroke, at age 71. As LNP | LancasterOnline s Alex Geli reported, “Glover, whose career at SDL spanned three decades, from 1971 to 2004, was a tutor, principal, assistant superintendent and interim superintendent. He was one vote shy of becoming superintendent in 2008, when the job went to former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education and current Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology President Pedro Rivera.” A public viewing will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Heritage Ballroom at the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square; those who attend will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing. A livestream of Glover’s homegoing service can be viewed at 11 a.m. Saturday at yourjourneychurch.com. ....

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