Manheim Township School District announced Monday morning that its board expects to appoint longtime educator and former Solanco School District Superintendent Marty Hudacs as substitute superintendent at its meeting Thursday evening. lanc.news/4luv61f

A group of farmers in eastern Lancaster County are participating in a stream buffer project that protects the entire length of a waterway that runs through their farms. Watershed experts say it's a model of farmer-centered conservation.

The wind started picking up Monday as Connie began clearing the area around her tent. lanc.news/4lBavs3

School District of Lancaster could save $19.4 million next year as part of a plan that includes furloughing up to 109 workers, according to a resolution the school board is expected to vote on Tuesday. lancasteronline.com/news/local/s...

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

EXCLUSIVE: How I Discovered the Nazi Sympathizer Behind U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles' A+ 'Remigration Score' www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/how-i-disc...

A former Afghan special forces soldier who had worked alongside U.S. Army Special Forces since 2005 was evacuated from Afghanistan with his family in 2021 when the ​US withdrew its forces after ​a war lasting two ⁠decades, said AfghanEvac president Shawn VanDiver. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.” Must-read. apnews.com/article/trum...

What kind of government makes it harder for people to vote? Not a government based upon the will of the people, it would be treason to do so.

Mr. Bezos pitched his strategy: Reduce the newsroom’s budget by half and double the productivity of those who remained, all while protecting some core parts of The Post’s coverage, like investigative journalism.

Happy 93rd birthday to Michael Caine. The former Maurice Micklewhite adopted his stage name from the 1954 film THE CAINE MUTINY starring his screen idol Humphrey Bogart as an unstable commander of a WWII U.S. Navy minesweeper.

Two from PA are Scott Perry and Mike Kelly. Both played roles in the post-2020 "stop the steal" effort...

Octorara Area school board appoints new member to fill vacant seat lanc.news/4b366un

For a Manheim Township School District keen to move past a controversy involving its handling of an incident on an overnight lacrosse team trip, one candidate for the open superintendent’s job last spring had the right message. lanc.news/4lpqQ2U

Plans to designate hundreds of acres of farmland for development in three eastern Lancaster County municipalities are now expected to remain on hold until late this year or early 2027. lanc.news/4b5P92k

CoreWeave co-founder Brian Venturo would rather invest in a data center project in Lancaster city than in California. He maintains it has nothing to do with water resources, since the centers it plans to operate here use closed-loop cooling systems. lanc.news/4b0IYN2

The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Wednesday, March 11, 2026:

🚨BREAKING: Senate GOP leaders are looking to put the SAVE America Act debate behind them next week by scheduling it for a doomed vote — and MAGA is steaming mad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

School District of Lancaster is preparing to furlough employees for the 2026-27 school year “as leaders struggle to address a $9.6 million deficit carried over from the 2024-25 school year. lanc.news/4b53BaQ

The Lancaster Public Library is again suing its landlord, the Lancaster Parking Authority, this time related to the authority’s handling of last February’s flood that sent about 5,000 gallons of sewage and fresh water into the library’s first floor. lanc.news/4rXw8oI

At the end of October, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffer emailed nine of its partner law enforcement agencies in Lancaster and York counties to coordinate federal immigration removal operations.

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

Spotted in Lancaster, Pa.

“In Pennsylvania, the leader of a network of election deniers is now the head of election integrity in the federal Department of Homeland Security. For years, that official, Heather Honey, directed an effort to challenge the state’s 2020 results.”

Happy birthday to John McPhee -- 95 years young.

"Her bank records, which are in the files, showed that Noel received thousands of dollars in cash and Zelle payments in the months before Epstein died." Wow.

It took 6.5 years for this info to come out ... www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Sunday, March 8, 2026:

One of the first lessons a journalist learns is the importance of identifying, owning and fixing mistakes. lanc.news/46LKu36

Manor Township resident Bruce Imel and his daughter, Kaitlyn, were wrapping up a ride on a sight-seeing bus in Dubai on Feb. 28 when they heard a boom. They looked over to see a cloud of smoke. lanc.news/4rZ3pjs

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.” @jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act. We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy. New from me at @brennancenter.org:

NEW US JOBS DATA: Non-farm Payrolls: -92k Unemployment Rate: 4.4% (+0.1%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment-Population Ratio: 80.7% (-0.1%) Average Hourly Earnings: +0.4%

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Some gubernatorial CF takeaways? Stacy Garrity would need 7,000 more donors than she's had over her entire career giving $250 to match one Mike Bloomberg check to Josh Shapiro. And Shapiro dropped $84k on "presidential-level service in private aviation." www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03...

PA VOTER FRAUD PROVEN only it's a Trump supporter who voted by mail in Bucks County *and* in person in Florida (after moving) in the 2020 presidential election. Matthew Laiss had unsuccessfully argued that Trump's pardon of persons accused of fraud around presidential electors covered him too.

⛽️ Pittsburgh-area gas prices rose 17 cents yesterday with more increases likely on the way because of the Iran war. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Thursday, March 5, 2026:

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, March 3, 2026:

It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so I’m nattering again. As always the newsletter is free and almost worth it. open.substack.com/pub/lauramli...

The front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Monday, March 2, 2026:

U.S. union membership rates held fairly steady. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that comparison to prior years is more difficult because the government shutdown affected their data.

A woman who told the FBI she was victimized by Jeffrey Epstein while a young teen on Hilton Head Island in the mid-1980s has accumulated a record of criminal charges, drug dependency and domestic turmoil, an investigation by The Post and Courier reveals.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker post on the Iran attack:

Penn Square in Lancaster, Pa., around 10 a.m. Saturday.

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.