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Rob HartzellRob Hartzell

Rob writes about money in northern Lancaster County: new businesses and closings downtown, farm and manufacturing employers, property assessments, and the household-finance questions readers send in. He likes stories that explain one number well, such as a millage rate, a sale price or a payroll count. He drinks his coffee black and will tell you which Lititz bakery opens earliest.

If You Build It, They Will Strum: Clair Opens Rock Lititz Studio

The Rock Lititz campus in Lititz, Pennsylvania

In September 2014, Clair Global and Tait Towers opened the Rock Lititz Studio, a purpose-built rehearsal hall for touring productions that rises above Lancaster County farmland.

Categories Business

Pro Tennis Tourney Underway at Hempfield Rec: Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge

A tennis court

Professional women’s tennis returned to Landisville in August 2022 as the Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge opened qualifying play at the Hempfield Recreation Center.

Categories Things To Do

Warwick Girls Win Elizabethtown Tip-Off Tournament in Overtime

A basketball hoop in a high school gymnasium

The Warwick High School girls’ varsity basketball team opened the 2014-15 season by winning the Elizabethtown Tip-Off Tournament with a 48-47 overtime victory over Susquehannock.

Categories Warwick Schools

Open for Business: U.S. Women’s Open Players Shop Local in Lancaster

A flag on a golf course putting green

When the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open came to Lancaster Country Club, local businesses felt the impact right away, from a jeweler’s pop-up shop in the players’ tent to golfers browsing area stores.

Categories Business

Lititz Chocolate Walk Tickets Go On Sale for Kiwanis Fundraiser

Chocolate confections on display

Tickets for the 14th annual Lititz Chocolate Walk went on sale July 1, 2015, for the October Kiwanis fundraiser that sends guests through downtown shops to sample confections from chefs and chocolatiers.

Categories Things To Do

Lancaster County’s 2027 Reassessment: What Lititz-Area Homeowners Should Know

The Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

New property values from Lancaster County’s countywide reassessment take effect Jan. 1, 2027, for county and municipal taxes and July 1, 2027, for school taxes. What changes, what doesn’t, and what to watch.

Categories Finance

How the Lititz Weis Became an Early Adopter of Online Grocery Pickup

Grocery aisles inside a supermarket

In August 2015, Weis Markets added online ordering with in-store pickup at its South Broad Street store in Lititz, years before curbside grocery pickup became routine. Here is how it worked, and how grocery pickup has changed.

Categories Business

Pennsylvania’s $60 Million Small Business Loan Program of March 2020, Explained

The Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg

A week after ordering non-essential businesses closed, Gov. Tom Wolf announced a $60 million working capital loan program for Pennsylvania small businesses. What it offered, how it worked and what it taught owners.

Categories Finance

When Penn Cinema in Lititz Went Dark for the Pandemic

Interior of a movie theater auditorium

On March 17, 2020, Lititz-based Penn Cinema closed its flagship theater under Pennsylvania’s statewide shutdown order. A look back at the closure and how the Lititz movie house came back.

Categories Business

The Lititz Hoagie Shop Owner Who Bought a Second Bruno’s

A hoagie sandwich cut open showing meats and vegetables

Jessica Butzer bought Bruno’s of Lititz in March 2020, days before the pandemic shutdown, kept it running on takeout and trays, added a food truck, then bought a second Bruno’s in Lancaster.

Categories Business, People & Profiles

Cargill’s $440 Million ADM Chocolate Deal, and What It Meant for Lititz

Downtown Lititz, Pennsylvania

In August 2015, Cargill completed its purchase of ADM’s global chocolate business for $440 million. Weeks later it announced the closing of the Wilbur Chocolate plant in Lititz. A look at the deal and its local fallout.

Categories Business, Finance

Wilbur Chocolate Factory Equipment Went to Auction After the Plant Closed

Historic brick buildings in downtown Lititz

Months after production ended at the Wilbur Chocolate plant in 2016, more than 1,000 lots of chocolate lines, tools and furniture from the North Broad Street factory went up for online auction.

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