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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...

At approximately 9 a.m. Sunday, the Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center hit a new milestone in the fight to defeat COVID-19: 100,000 vaccines in arms. The moment was marked with a lei around the neck of Keith Branch at the site of the former Bon-Ton store at Park City Center and an announcement over the public address system. “I was just looking for royalty checks or a new car or something,” the 56-year-old Lancaster County resident said tongue-in-cheek. Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center Co-Director Judy Brendle said cheers, applause and a few tears followed th...

THE ISSUE In the Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline “Watchdog” column, reporter Carter Walker wrote about a Lancaster County constable’s private business, started at the beginning of the pandemic, which “has won most, if not all, of the lucrative no-bid contracts to provide security to facilities related to COVID-19, paid for with public funds.” Lancaster County’s 55 constables — elected officials who often serve low-level warrants and transport prisoners for the district courts — are paid per job, Walker reported. And we can appreciate the initiative of Mich...

BLAINE SHAHAN | Staff Photographer Tables have been set up to check in at the mass vaccination site inside the former Bon Ton store at Park City Monday, March 1, 2021. These tables are south side of the former department store near the entrance that faces Harrisburg Pike. BLAINE SHAHAN | Staff Photographer The mass vaccination clinic will undertake a ‘pilot week’ The vaccination center will have a “pilot week” next week, according to Dr. Michael Ripchinski, chief clinical officer of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. Vaccinations will start slowly, he said. Anticipati...

As Lancaster County gears up to launch a COVID-19 mass vaccination site next week and anticipates an increased number of vaccines in the coming weeks under a strengthened state allocation