- November 2, 2026
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Lancaster County News
Retired conservation officer Derek Pritts introduced himself to a group of Warwick High School students and told them they were about to make history.
“We’re going to put some blight-tolerant American chestnut trees in the ground,” Pritts told the students as they ate lunch on a hill above Speedwell Forge Lake. “This will be the first planting in Pennsylvania.”
Lancaster County voters frequently approach Election Day with a mix of excitement and uncertainty — excitement to vote in the races they care about, and uncertainty about unfamiliar candidates and issues they might encounter on their ballot.
Investigators found no sign of harmful gases after Elizabethtown Area School District officials cleared Bear Creek Elementary on Monday following a report of an ‘unusual odor resembling natural gas.’
The Lancaster County elections office received 37,048 mail ballots by Monday morning, county officials said, about 3,500 less than the number received the day before the 2022 midterm election.
Steam engines could lead passenger trains between Manheim Borough and Lititz during the Lititz Fire & Ice Festival, Fourth of July celebrations and other major events if Strasburg Rail Road successfully acquires the rail line for use by its freight division.
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