Plans for world-class facility approved
Published November 7, 2009, 7:41 AM EST
by TOM MURSE
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Ten months ago, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center shelved plans for a new children's hospital because of the tanking economy.It was unable to get bond financing for the project amid a credit freeze at the time.Being forced to hold off, it turns out, will pay off....
Published November 6, 2009, 10:50 AM EST
by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
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Published November 6, 2009, 12:03 AM EST
by BRIAN WALLACE
LANCASTER, Pa. -
Correction Oct. 6, 2009 — School District of Lancaster will provide swine flu vaccines from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at McCaskey East High School to SDL students and pupils who attend private schools within the district. Private school stu......
Published November 6, 2009, 12:03 AM EST
by CINDY STAUFFER
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Children are back in school, hospital emergency departments are returning to normal and worried patients are no longer inundating pediatricians with worried telephone calls.The swine flu seems to be on the wane in parts of Lancaster County."This wave has peaked, let's say it that wa......
Vaccine distribution will begin Monday among youngest students during school hours
Published November 5, 2009, 8:12 AM EST
by BRIAN WALLACE
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Manheim Township School District plans to begin administering the first of 6,200 doses of swine flu vaccine to its students next week.But unlike the two other local school districts that have received vaccines, Manheim Township will give students H1N1 shots and nasal sprays during the scho......
Cook it light
Published November 4, 2009, 12:01 AM EST
by JEANNE JONES
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA
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Legumes include all beans and peas, including peanuts. When you combine any legume with any grain, you have a complete and usable plant protein — gluten-free. Good examples of this are combining rice and beans, gluten-free pasta and beans and peanut butter on gluten-free bread. This is a di......
Consent forms must be submitted
Published November 3, 2009, 10:17 AM EST
by BRIAN WALLACE
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Lampeter-Strasburg School District plans to administer up to 500 H1N1 vaccines to its students Thursday night.District nurses will give free swine flu shots to students from 5 to 7 p.m. at L-S High School Performing Arts Center.The only pupils eligible to receive a shot are those wh......
Published November 3, 2009, 7:53 AM EST
by SUSAN JURGELSKI
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
As soon as 36-year-old Nicole Shaffer was diagnosed with cancer in one breast, she chose her treatment without batting an eye.The Lititz mother of three immediately opted for a double, or bilateral, mastectomy followed by breast reconstruction.For Shaffer, a nurse practitioner who c......
Teen of the Week
Published October 31, 2009, 10:06 AM EST
by DIANE BITTING
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
Leanne M. Lefever is the student behind the sound for "The Morning Show" on WCVH, the closed-circuit television broadcast at Conestoga Valley High School.Every weekday, around 7:20 a.m., the senior positions herself at a console in the school's TV studio.She controls t......
Published October 31, 2009, 5:51 AM EST
by BRIAN WALLACE
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -
School administrators and teachers are scrambling to help students make up work in the wake of widespread absences — many related to swine flu — at Lancaster County schools.Schools are actively encouraging parents to take schoolwork home for their sick children and promoting on......
