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Downtown Development by Mike Schwartz
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We recently received this email from a reader: Why can’t Elizabethtown get and keep merchants in its downtown area? Visitors to our town remark about all the empty storefronts. Further when new businesses do open they seem to leave in less than a year. Why are there no takers at Sycamore Square? Why is there no bakery, gift shops, or clothing stores in town? In order to buy anything you have to go to Harrisburg or Lancaster. Mt. Joy has shops; Lititz has shops: why not E-town. Does anyone have the answer on how to attract and keep new retail businesses?
Borough Councilman Jeff McCloud Responds: The downtown area is something that Borough Council is keenly aware of and…
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Events
- 3 September: Vin Fischer, guitar/vocal (7:30 pm)
- 11 September: Sky Like June - music at Conewago Coffeehouse (7:30 pm)
- 12 September: Michael Gepfer, artist at Cygnet Gallery (3:00 pm)
- 24 September: Matt Tarka, guitar (7:30 pm)
- 10 October: Diana Robinson, photography (3:00 pm)
- 14 November: Kathy Michels, watercolor (3:00 pm)
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Councilman's Corner
From Chronicling Elizabethtown The Elizabethtown American Legion Post No. 329 donated nearly $5,000 to the Elizabethtown Police Department to buy a "speed trailer." The trailer contains radar and a sign that posts a car's speed as it drives past the trailer. Police Chief Jack Mentzer said officers won't use the trailer for enforcement but rather to inform and educate ...[more]
Elizabethtown College Writers House kicks off inaugural season Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Taslima Nasrin highlight of September events by Mike Schwartz
From Elizabethtown College Events Web Site: A panel discussion, poetry and essay readings, and a roundtable discussion are planned as a kickoff, next month, to Elizabethtown College’s Writers House inaugural season. Featured is a lecture by the College’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Taslima Nasrin at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. The lecture, held in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, ...[more]
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Do Not Mess with a Barista ...Or you will not get your bagel! Look at what happened to an English professor from Manhattan, a self-proclaimed stickler for the English language. She went into an Upper West Side Starbucks and asked for a multigrain bagel, but--and here's where things get interesting--she "refused to say 'without butter or cheese.'" This important omission led to a ...[more]
by Mike Schwartz
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by Mike Schwartz
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by Mike Schwartz
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