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Thunder Mountain junior third baseman Noah Chambers puts a tag on Juneau-Douglas senior base runner Ben Coutu during Wednesday's game at Adair Kennedy Field. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School baseball teams played long into the night under the Adair Kennedy stadium lights on Wednesday, with the Crimson Bears earning a 14-5 win over the Falcons.   “We came out ready to play,” Juneau-Douglas head coach Chad Bentz said. “We came out where we left off against Petersburg, then we died ...

After nearly two decades of debate, Lancaster County appears to be on the cusp of replacing its aging prison facility, undertaking a public works project that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The county's Prison Board is scheduled to discuss land acquisition for a new facility at today’s board of commissioners meeting, according to an agenda posted online Tuesday. The three county commissioners declined to provide more details or did not respond, but the county has been sending signals the past year that it was trying to secure land for a new prison. At last October'...

The Lancaster County Commissioners are hoping an undeveloped plot of land along the Conestoga River in Lancaster Township will be the location of a new county prison. The land, currently owned by Clyde and Shirley Kreider, is a 75-acre farm surrounded on three sides by a horseshoe bend in the Conestoga, west of Lancaster County Central Park and east of Route 222. The county has agreed to pay the Kreider family $3 million for the property, but the proposed deal allows the county to back out if the land cannot be zoned for use as a prison, and completion of a new facility could be several years...

THE ISSUE The Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center may close earlier than its previously announced closing date, LNP | LancasterOnline’s Carter Walker reported last week, though there doesn’t seem to be any clarity on when exactly it will close. “When plans for the community vaccination center at Park City Center were being finalized in February, Dr. Michael Ripchinski, the chief clinical officer for Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, said the plan was to run the facility through the end of June,” Walker reported. LG Health spokesman John Lines said the Lanca...