Bird’s-Eye View

Stopped by Cross Keys in downtown Lancaster to say hello to the proprietor, Jerry. And let me alert you caffeine-heads to something here I like to call a little slice of heaven. A 16 oz. medium roast coffee made from Indonesian beans and a succulent cinnamon-apple muffin cost less than $3, and you’ll be hard […]

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The Year: 2005
The issue: Two attorneys want to plop a bizarre-looking casino into downtown Lancaster, what could have been former Mayor Charlie Smithgall’s final fingerprint on the city he loves so much.
Remember how this could have appeared along North Queen Street?

Ah, the good old days of 2005. A seminal year for your coffee-lovin’ journalist of […]

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Not exactly an original idea, but at least state Sen. Lloyd Smucker didn’t simply take the oath of office Tuesday and then depart for celebratory lunches and dinners. Smucker introduced his first piece of legislation. From the news release:
The first piece of legislation to be introduced by state Senator Lloyd Smucker will seek to upgrade […]

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Like his Republican comrade from Warwick Township, state Sen.-elect Lloyd Smucker of West Lampeter Township received a highly coveted assignment to serve on the state Senate Appropriations Committee, Smucker confirmed this afternoon.
With the inclusion of state Sen. Mike Brubaker of Warwick Township, that makes two Lancaster countians serving on the committee that acts as the […]

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The 13th state Senatorial District is kind of like a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich with the rural townships the PB and Lancaster city the jelly (on a personal note, all you grape jelly fans can go home; Bird’s-Eye View only endorses the use of strawberry jam). The condiments when slathered between two slices of bread are delicious, […]

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