In July 2016, Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary and Graduate School added chaplaincy studies and preaching and teaching concentrations to its doctor of ministry program, starting that fall.
A halftime shootout at a December 2014 Warwick boys basketball game, plus a week of bandana and T-shirt sales, raised more than $5,000 for the family of a Warwick graduate with special needs who was being treated for bone cancer.
Lines of costumed kids stretched from porch to pavement on Front Street in Lititz on Halloween trick-or-treat night in October 2015, where neighbors dressed as Ghostbusters and Buzz Lightyear and one couple carved 72 pumpkins.
In September 2016 the Pennsylvania Game Commission offered a free Hunter-Trapper Education course at the Middle Creek visitor center, as data showed the number of women seeking hunting licenses had grown 44 percent since 2009-10.
A Lititz Christian School senior who scored her 1,000th career point in 2014-15 was selected for the 39th annual Pennsylvania vs. Maryland All-Star Basketball Weekend at Harrisburg Christian School in March 2015.
A “Bring Something, Buy Something” benefit auction on Middle Creek Road in September 2016 raised money for a new two-room schoolhouse for Hidden Gems, a special needs school serving Mennonite and Amish children.
Hundreds turned out at the Penn Township building in August 2016 for the Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department’s National Night Out, with food, emergency vehicles, prize bikes and a family four-pack of Hersheypark tickets.
Three generations of runners, a custom-built racing wheelchair and a 69-year-old with more than 1,000 races behind him made the 37th Pretzel Twist 5-Mile Run and Walk in Lititz a family affair in September 2014.
In August 2015, the Lititz Borough Police Department’s Endless Summer event, the local National Night Out, drew an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 people to Lititz Springs Pool for free swimming, food and a chance to meet first responders.
A November 2015 geomagnetic storm brought the aurora borealis to skies as far south as central Pennsylvania, where a Clinton County photographer captured green hues on the horizon.
In December 2014, the documentary “Find Me,” which follows three American couples adopting children from China, premiered at Penn Cinema in Lititz, featuring local parents Merle and Kim Zimmerman.
The Moravian Trombone Choir led the annual Carol Sing on Church Square in Lititz in December 2015, followed by refreshments by the fire and a showing of the church’s Moravian Putz.