Stories in the May 2, 2013, issue of The Elizabethtown Advocate include:

• A woman was killed in a house fire despite attempts by her boyfriend, the boyfriend’s co-workers and various passers-by who tried to rescue her, police said. The fire broke out the morning of Tuesday, April 30, at 365 Hershey Road in Mount Joy Township. Police responded shortly after 8 a.m. and found the home fill of smoke and fire. The body of Judy Risser, 47, was found in the house after the fire was extinguished by firefighters from Elizabethtown, Rheems, Mount Joy and Middletown.
• When Northwest Lancaster County Regional Police Chief Mark Mayberry was hired as a West Donegal Township police officer in 1990, the Elizabethtown area was a much different place. There were only two traffic lights in Elizabethtown – and at 11 p.m., they would go to blinking red and yellow lights, telling drivers in one direction to stop and the other direction to use caution.
• Work that has disrupted traffic on Market Street and nearby streets in downtown Elizabethtown is being done to replace natural gas mains with modern, safer mains, a utility executive said. Other construction work on North Hanover Street is part of an unrelated sewer line replacement that the borough of Elizabethtown is doing, a borough official said.

Stories in the April 18, 2013, issue of The Elizabethtown Advocate include:

• Two local men completed the Boston Marathon before bombs went off near the finish line, killing three spectators and injuring more than 100. Kurt DeGoede, 43, an associate professor of engineering and physics at Elizabethtown College, finished with a time of 2 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds, according to the website of the Boston Athletic Association, which organizes the annual race. Timothy Abbey, 45, of Elizabethtown, finished with a time of 3 hours, 40 minues and 42 seconds.
• Conoy Township Solicitor Matthew J. Creme Jr. said he cannot represent the township in its negotiations with American Cell Tower because his partner Michael S. Grab represents the tower company in other matters.
• Mount Joy Township supervisors decided that they are done discussing the possibility of extending public water to the entirety of the Cloverleaf Station residential development, where some homeowners have reported problems with their wells and others want to keep wells and are opposed to public water. Supervisor Gerald F. Becker said the township should notify residents that supervisors are no longer discussing the matter, but will reconsider if 75 percent of the people affected want public water. Supervisors voted to have a Sept. 1 deadline for that so the township can plan to repave streets in that development next year.