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Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the countyâs past that are noteworthy, newsworthy or just strange.
In the summer of 1996, J.P. McCaskey High School was about to undergo a $19.2-million renovation, which meant there was a tremendous amount of furniture, hardware and miscellaneous stuff to be removed and replaced.
Nearly 70 years later, the mystery of what exactly it was that they saw remains unresolved.
The Lancaster New Era noted that the three boys, Gordon James, Bill Ford and Tom Groff, all about 14 years old at the time, saw what they believed to be a flying saucer âwhirring overheadâ near the Neffsville Ground Observation Post at around 4 a.m. on Aug. 20, 1952. The post was one of many civilian air-spotter posts set up as part of Civil Defense initiatives in the 1950s and crewed by volunteers.Â
At first, the boys only saw a single light in the sky. Then, a second light slid underneath the first, before going out a few minutes later.
Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the county’s past that are noteworthy, newsworthy
Ruth Freitag, librarian to the stars, dies at 96
Ruth Freitag with Isaac Asimov in August 1980. Freitag, a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public, died on Oct. 3, 2020 at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va. She was 96. Library of Congress via The New York Times.
by Katharine Q. Seelye
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote in their introduction to Comet (1985) that one of the most pleasant experiences in writing this book was meeting her. Numerous other science writers acknowledged their debts to her in forewords to their books.
Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the county’s past that are noteworthy, newsworthy