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EAHS Senior Ryan Minnich Is Semifinalist for Esteemed Scholarship

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Ryan Minnich The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has selected Elizabethtown Area High School student Ryan Minnich as one of 565 outstanding high school seniors with financial need as semifinalists for the Cooke College Scholarship Program, which provides recipients with up to $40,000 annually for four years to enable them to attend some of the top […]

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E-Town Library Opens Business Center to Help Entrepreneurs

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For many years, the Elizabethtown Public Library has served as a resource for individuals seeking work and those striving to achieve their dreams. Now, entrepreneurs and business people can take their next steps in success at the library by using the new Business Center on the second floor. The Business Center houses a collection of […]

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High School Marching Band’s Majorette Gets Early Start — In Middle School

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The Elizabethtown Area High School marching band is made up of over 100 high schoolers. But one younger member snuck into the lineup this year as the majorette. Emma Schneider, currently a seventh grader at Elizabethtown Area Middle School, has twirled for the group the last two years. The majorette for the marching band accompanies […]

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Train Display Nets More Than $11K for Elizabethtown Library

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The Train Guys — the group of local model railroad aficionados who set up the annual holiday train display in Elizabethtown Public Library — recently presented library officials with an $11,750 check from donations during the display in December. Last month, a record of more than 4,600 people visited the display, billed as the largest […]

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DeMolay Honors Students for Their Scholastic Excellence

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Borrowing on an idea that has been an extremely successful tradition for DeMolay Chapters that meet in the Philadelphia area, Abraham C. Treichler Lodge No. 682 Free and Accepted Masons, sponsored the seventh annual Honor Roll Challenge Night as a reward to those members of Elizabethtown DeMolay who finished the 2018 school year with a […]

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Townships Continue to Plan for Replacement of Mill Road Bridge

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Mount Joy Township Manager Justin Evans said he expects to have a recommendation for how to proceed for the replacement of the Aberdeen Mill Road Bridge by the next meeting of supervisors on Monday, Feb. 18. One thing that could delay that is if efforts to get the state to provide funding for the bridge […]

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Study Finds Combined Police-Fire Station Feasible

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An architect told the Elizabethtown Borough Council that his feasibility study showed that the current fire station on North Mount Joy Street could be expanded into a combined police and fire station by adding a second story. Scott Loercher of Buchart Horn Architects said the fire station is in an excellent location and about 12,000 […]

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Program Aims to Help People Out of Poverty

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A program designed to help people work their way out of poverty and into stable financial condition is starting up for another year and is looking for both people in poverty and people who want to help. The Atlas Initiative involves weekly meetings where people discuss the problems they are encountering and work to find […]

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Talks in Progress to Rework Susquehanna Regional Police Intermunicipal Agreement

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Negotiations are “off and running” in the reworking of the Susquehanna Regional Police Department merger agreement between Marietta Borough, Conoy Township and East Donegal Township, Councilman Robert Shambaugh said at the monthly meeting of Marietta Borough Council. The algorithm to decide what the three municipalities pay for police coverage is based on population, number of incidents […]

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In 3-2 Vote, Conoy Twp. OKs Dog Adoption Center

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By a 3-2 vote, Conoy Township supervisors voted to approve plans for a dog adoption center after their solicitor told them it would be very difficult for him to defend a denial in court. Supervisors John L. Shearer, Kevin S. McKain and Chairman Stephen L. Mohr voted to approve the plan for Almost Home Dog […]

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