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THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for neighborhoods across the county. Others are local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity that represent welcome points of light in a still-difficult time. All of this news deserves a brighter spotlight. Renaming schools is bound to be a contentious matter, and there were more than two great options available for the School District of Lancaster at last week’s school board meeting. But ...

THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for neighborhoods across the county. Others are local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity that represent welcome points of light in a still-difficult time. All of this news deserves a brighter spotlight. We have another dandy batch of “Good Things” to amplify today, and it starts with an inspirational story from a gnome-stead — err, homestead — in southeastern Lancaster C...

They include nine first-place awards and a specialty award, the Lenfest Institute Diverse Journalist Award. LNP|LancasterOnline competes in Division 1, the highest circulation-class category in the state. Other Division 1 media outlets include The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Morning Call in Allentown and Pennlive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg. The Caucus, which suspended print publication during the pandemic, competes in Division 7, which is for niche publications across all circulations. The Keystone Media Awards “reinforce excellence by individuals in the n...

THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity represent welcome points of light in a difficult time, and they deserve a brighter spotlight. Last week — even as we observed the sorrowful one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic — there were many great and optimistic developments in our yearlong battle against COVID-19. In short: The vital American Rescue Plan was passed by Congress and...

In what seemed like weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic swept from around the globe to our doorsteps. Our lives became like suspended animation as we went home and waited. We found ways to endure — through separation, loss, growth, fear, joy, frustration, change. We've shifted our expectations and perspective to accommodate new realities.  It’s been one year. More than 950 people have died in Lancaster County. Photos of crowded bars and big family dinners are like postcards from the past.   We’ve experienced the impa...