Frank Kessler News Today

By Liz Mullen A man found dead in the ocean at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach early Friday, November 24, morning has been identified as Ryan A. Martin…

By Liz Mullen A man found dead in the ocean at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach early Friday morning has been identified as Ryan A. Martin, a 42-year-old white male…

By Kevin Cody A dead man with wounds in his head was pulled from the ocean at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach shortly after sunrise Friday morning, November 24.

Allen basketball coach Darnell Braswell will be inducted into the Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame, and several special events are coming up.

Thirteen young men from the class of 1966 of Kiel High School were either drafted or enlisted into the military and served in Vietnam.

Developers of the former home of Rolling Hills Country Club will have another shot Wednesday at approval to build suburban homes and businesses in its place.

If you live in Manheim Township or Millersville, you may find this difficult to believe: Up to 10% of Lancaster County residents speak Pennsylvania Dutch. Many also speak English, but at home they generally speak Deitsch. This is a finding of Frank Kessler, a Pennsylvania Dutch dialect enthusiast who lives in Belgium. He has a particular interest in Lancaster County because the largest Amish settlement in the world is located here. He often visits the area. Of the estimated 40,525 Amish residen...

The letter to Gladys Jones arrived without fanfare - and probably without much hope of a reply. It had been sent by a family she’d met just once on a Danube riverboat in Vienna five years earlier.  A little boy’s shoe had threatened to muddy her skirt as he’d knelt up to get a better view, but she’d laughed it off and accepted his father’s invitation for coffee and a slice of Sachertorte (a rich Austrian chocolate cake) by way of apology. On Gladys’s return to England, she’d sent...