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A beer, a brainstorm and a boost for downtown Lititz.
About nine months ago, local executive Soren West was having a beer at the Bulls Head pub in the General Sutter Inn with Paul Pendyck, a partner in the inn.
The conversation turned to Pendyck's vision for the pub and inn, two valuable p...

CORRECTION: The Gypsy Moon Blues Festival is on Saturday, not Sunday, as stated below.

 

Lancaster County blues lovers will have one less reason to sing them because the Gypsy Moon Blues Festival is coming to town.

The town is East Petersburg.

And the festival on Sunday is a first-t...

The tragedy at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, in which five people were killed when the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand collapsed during a heavy gust of wind, has indirect local connections.

Tait Towers, of Lititz, built the set for Sugarland, the country band that was about to go onstage when th...

The tragedy at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, in which five people were killed when the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand collapsed during a heavy gust of wind, has indirect local connections.

Tait Towers, of Lititz, built the set for Sugarland, the country band that was about to go onstage when th...

Salsa & Art Unveiling ... Friday

This Friday's Music Friday summer concert will be a feast for both your eyes and your ears. The Latin sounds of Cuban musician Melena will fill Lancaster Square beginning at 5:30 p.m. The percussionist plays congas, timbales, bata drums and shekere, melding La...

The way Mel Weaver sees it, everyone should come to the Fourth of July Celebration in Lititz Springs Park.

"It's tradition, something you shouldn't miss," Weaver, 81, said Saturday afternoon as he sat in the park, something he's done faithfully for the past 19 years, ever since he moved to Lititz...

Sometimes, success can draw you away from the things you love.
Just ask Tom McPhillips, founder of Atomic Design in Lititz, one of the country's leading scenic production shops.
"Atomic was founded as a design company," McPhillips says. "As time went on, we started building stuff....

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BY KATHLEEN DAMINGER
Staff Writer
Menacing and imposingly familiar, the looming figure of Darth Vader "greets" visitors at the touring production of "Star Wars: In Concert," which is making a stop at the Giant Center on Tuesday.
He and two tractor-trailers full of fellow "Star Wars" personalities, a...

She sweetened his downtown digs
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If you had to create a house for Santa Claus, what would it look like?
Would it look like a ski lodge or an oversized igloo for life at the North Pole?
Rachel Garman envisioned something a little bit sweeter and a bit more magical when she was g...