Solanco NOVEMBER 19, 2025
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 11,250 HOMES
VOL LXII • NO 31
Taking Thanksgiving Orders Now... Matthew Palmeri (left) and his grandfather Al Strausner will set up a model railroad layout at West Willow United Methodist Church as one stop on the 2025 train tour.
Rick Christopher (left), Chubb Harnish (center), and Robert Brody are looking forward to the New Danville Railroad taking part in this year’s model railroad tour.
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Al Strausner and his grandson Matthew Palmeri, along with model train enthusiast Justin Trout, to hold the seventh model railroad display to raise funds
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LCSA Seeks To Put Graduates to Work BY JEFF FALK
Preparing local students to be valuable employees in an ever-changing work climate is not a job for one individual, one group or even one institution. It takes an alliance. It takes a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) alliance. It takes Lancaster County STEM Alliance (LCSA). See LCSA pg 4
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