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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lancaster County retirement community soon under new ownership
MOUNT JOY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Mechanicsburg-based retirement organization announced plans to transfer ownership of its retirement community situated in Lancaster County. The Cumberland County-based Messiah Lifeways just announced that it plans on transferring ownership of its Mount Joy Country Homes community to the Lancaster-based Pleasant View Communities. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now According to Messiah Lifeways, the final transfer of ownership and timing are subject to regulatory approvals. Messiah Lifeways says that residents of Mount Joy Country Homes have increasingly chosen to access healthcare and other supportive services closer to home rather than relocate to the Messiah Village campus in Mechanicsburg. In response, the Messiah Lifeways Executive Team and Board of Directors explored long-term solutions to better meet the needs of this community, which is why they are looking to transfer ownership of the community to Pleasant View Communities. 'At Pleasant View, we are excited about the opportunity to expand our mission and welcome the Mount Joy community into our family,' Jonathan Hollinger, President & CEO of Pleasant View Communities said. 'Many Mount Joy Country Homes residents have already engaged with our services, and we look forward to deepening those relationships and offering even more resources close to home.' 'This partnership strengthens both our missions,' Karl Brummer, President & CEO of Messiah Lifeways added. 'We believe Pleasant View will be a trusted steward of the Mount Joy community, helping the community thrive long into the future.' Pleasant View Communities, which is located just 10 miles from the Mount Joy Country Homes campus, provides Personal Care, Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation, and Memory Support, inaddition to an array of amenities. abc27 news will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Harrisburg reveals redesign options for dangerous Division Street; ‘they're good,' but one big problem
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Nobody had to sell Mayor Wanda Williams (D) on the idea that Division Street in uptown Harrisburg is dangerous. 'Last year, I was present when they were doing 55 miles an hour' — along the 25-mile-per-hour street, Williams said — 'and they hit a young person from Camp Curtin school.' Williams spoke before a Thursday night to reveal — and begin gathering community input about — engineer renderings of four possible street redesign plans, which include different variations of new bicycle and/or walking lanes, a raised center median roundabouts and raised crosswalks, those last two similar to measures that have helped reduce injuries along 2nd Street, which converted in 2022 from a one-way to a two-way street. 'So it will take similar ideas to what has been done there and try to bring them to Division Street,' city engineer Joel Seiders said. 'They're good,' said Corky Goldstein, looking over the plans. Goldstein has lived for 53 years along Division Street at the south end of Italian Lake. Not one is perfect, he said, but 'I think that they have to take a little bit from each one and put something else together.' Jonathan Dunkleberger, leader of the HBG Bike Crew—there with his bike and helmet, along with the dozens of other cyclists—liked some of what he saw. 'We're always in favor of bike lanes, particularly when they're protected by some kind of physical barrier,' Dunkleberger said. He liked this one best: 'That plan there involves a mixed-use path with a barrier,' Dunkleberger said. 'That's probably the most preferred of the four plans that I see here.' All four were designed by Wayne Martin, a Mechanicsburg-based engineer who previously worked for the city and now works for Wallace Montgomery, a traffic engineering firm. This plan includes a raised median: This one includes bike-only lanes but separated from travel lanes without a physical barrier, plus a redesigned, raised intersection at 3rd Street: This plan has back-in angled parking instead of parallel parking: The problem with all of the plans, according to Goldstein? 'It's going to be at least, at the minimum, three or four years, if that, before they can do this,' Goldstein said and Seiders confirmed: a few more months to gather input, two years for preliminary engineering — during which time the city will also have to look for funding for the project, which is doesn't have — and then another two years for final design and construction. 'We've got to do something now, before summer starts, or someone's going to get killed,' Goldstein said. 'There's been a lot of public comment of what can be done in the interim, and we're definitely looking into all those scenarios to see what we can actually implement,' Seiders said. Earlier this year, one of the world's best known city planners, Jeff Speck — author of the books Walkable City and Walkable City Rules and co-author of Suburban Nation, which began changing mentalities more than a quarter-century ago about redesigning cities around pedestrians rather than cars — said drivers treat crosswalk-less Division Street like a highway because it feels like one, including its 46-foot width, when travel lanes for cars, he said, only need to be 10 feet across. Because few cars park in the parking spots, drivers often use what are officially parking lanes to — for example — zoom around cars making left turns, meaning essentially the street is more than twice as wide as it should be, Speck said. About as wide, in fact, as a four-lane highway should be. Speck said most of Division Street's problems can be solved quickly, inexpensively, and effectively with essentially just paint — something like this abc27 sketch based on what Speck described to us: Speck favors frugal and effective street redesigns because cities can use scarce resources to fix more streets. (After abc27 News began reporting about the Division Street problems, viewers began emailing and asking: What about Front Street along the river? Meanwhile, a plan to fix State Street remains idled more than three years after is was 'paused.') 'And again, it's just paint,' Speck said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
York sewer customers to see first rate increase in eight years
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — Sewer customers in York will see their first rate increase in eight years, Pennsylvania American Water announced Thursday. The Mechanicsburg-based company says the average monthly residential wastewater bill for York wastewater customers will increase by about $36. For the past three years, rates were frozen following Pennsylvania American Water's acquisition of the City of York's wastewater system. Prior to that, the last rate increase was in 2017, Pennsylvania American Water says. 'This adjustment will align the rates of York wastewater customers with those paid by our other customers across the commonwealth,' said Christina Chard, senior director of rates and regulatory support for Pennsylvania American Water. 'We also want to remind customers that if they're experiencing financial difficulties, assistance is available through our H2O Help to Others Program.' Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Apple TV devices The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved the new rates last July and they will take effect May 27. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
