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The Giant supermarket at Lancaster Shopping Center not only has gotten bigger.
It has gotten greener, too.

Giant flipped the switch Feb. 2 on a solar photovoltaic system there costing more than $1 million.

The rooftop system, with 1,111 solar panels, is expected to generate 373,992 kilowatt-ho...

The Giant supermarket at Lancaster Shopping Center not only has gotten bigger.

It's gotten greener, too.

Giant flipped the switch Feb. 2 on a solar photovoltaic system there costing more than $1 million.

The rooftop system, with 1,111 solar panels, is expected to generate 373,992 kilowatt h...

The Hotel Brunswick could be a moneymaker for a buyer with strong local ties, its current owner said Tuesday.

Hamid Zahedi is asking nearly $8 1/2 million for the property, more than double its $3.4 million construction cost in 1970 or the $3 million he paid for it in 2005. The New York-based inv...

Susquehanna Bancshares opened for business Tuesday with new branches and a new president, both formerly part of Tower Bancorp.

The additions follow Friday's completion of the $343 million stock-and-cash purchase of Tower and Monday's Presidents Day holiday, when bank offices were closed.

The d...

Cravings Gourmet Deli, which suffered a major fire in December, is set to reopen in late March or early April.

Construction work is now beginning on the restaurant at 109 Butler Ave., where Cravings has been for 20 years.

Following the fire, the restaurant was gutted in order to prepare for th...

PPL Electric Utilities said Tuesday it will cut its residential rates by 10.7 percent, effective March 1.

It will be the fifth consecutive reduction for PPL since its rates jumped nearly 30 percent in January 2010.

The series of cuts will have nearly erased that record increase of two years ag...

 

Thirteen years ago, somebody had some local swampland to sell.
Nothing nefarious about that, though.
The buyer, RLPS Architects, had its eyes wide open.
RLPS saw perfectly well that the 40-acre parcel at Oregon Pike and Valleybrook Drive was mostly wetlands and floodplain.
It also noticed,...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a "risk-based" inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.
The following inspection reports were completed Feb. 1-6.
A Tea Affair, 69 E. Main St., Lititz, Feb. 1. No violations.
American Legion Post 429, 300 Coc...

Continuing a steady recovery, pending home sales here last month rose 22.6 percent, a new report shows.

The upturn made January the eighth month in the previous nine to show improvement, the Lancaster County Association of Realtors said Friday.

According to LCAR, 353 homes went under contract ...

The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry is thinking younger, creatively and efficiently.

And, of course, it's still thinking locally.

Chamber officials rolled out an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda for 2012 at the organization's annual business meeting Friday.

About 650 people ga...