York businessman Tom Wolf defeated Gov. Tom Corbett in November 2014, making Corbett the first Pennsylvania governor to lose re-election since governors became eligible for two consecutive terms. Wolf celebrated with supporters at York’s Utz Arena.
On the day Tom Wolf was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s 47th governor in January 2015, his new official Facebook page and @GovernorTomWolf Twitter account went live, gaining followers by the minute.
A tongue-in-cheek holiday column imagines a Thanksgiving dinner run by airport security rules, from 3.4-ounce gravy allowances and a bomb-sniffing cat to a body scanner on the chimney for Santa.
Pennsylvania extended the 2014-15 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program deadline from April 3 to May 1, 2015, after a long, harsh winter, giving PPL Electric Utilities customers and others more time to apply for heating grants.
Six months after launching, LititzDailyNews.com won four first-place honors in the 2015 America East Digital Media Contest, including Best Overall Digital Experience in two divisions, at a ceremony at the Hershey Lodge.
Editor & Publisher magazine named LititzDailyNews.com a finalist for Best Photojournalism in its 2015 EPPY Awards, alongside national outlets, recognizing the solo-published site’s image-rich coverage of Lititz in its first year.
Less than two months after launching, LititzDailyNews.com was accepted as an online member of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the trade organization for the state’s news media companies, in October 2014.
For the second straight year, LititzDailyNews.com won Best Overall Digital Experience in the 2016 America East Digital Media Contest, along with first places for video, multimedia and social media, bringing the solo-published site to 12 awards since fall 2014.