Future home of Johnson Controls? We’ll just wait and see.
Last week got pretty wild.
For months, we knew a Fortune 500 company was looking to relocate within York County to Hopewell Township using a tax incentive program that needed approval from the school board, township and commissioners.
If they didn’t get what they needed, they’d likely go to Maryland — or so we’re told.
Not knowing who it was frustrated the hell out of me. Continue reading
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Meet Jeanne Walton, a cool lacrosse mom and eighth grade science teacher who stopped by Panera to visit me Tuesday.
OK.
So it’s not a mall teeming with cockroaches or a trip to check out kinky gadgets in the adult store.
But I did end up with a column every sports mom or dad can relate to today when Jeanne Walton stopped by to see me at Panera in West Manchester Township.
The story goes a little something like this:
Kid plays sport.
Kid does really well at sport and qualifies for national tournament.
Parents rejoice — until they see the price tag.
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This is April. She’s a super cool magazine editor.
Remember that time Sarah Chain and I visited Martin Library?
As much as I love books, it’s nice outside. And what better way to solicit story ideas than hang out in the great outdoors?
(OK, not exactly — unless you a playground in Manchester Township, York County, counts.)
Newly crowned Smart Magazine Editor April Trotter and I will be hanging out at Pavilion D near the new playground at Cousler Park Aug. 23 from 9 to noon. Click here to read more. Continue reading
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This blog post should also be called, “Why I will never be a TV reporter.”
The other day, my editor instructed me to report from the York County Economic Alliance Business Expo. Continue reading
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So, when I got my iPhone a few weeks ago, I sort of made the number available to the public. Continue reading
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Originally published on the Money & More cover of the York Daily Record/Sunday News on Sunday, February 5, 2012.
***I found this story while trolling on Twitter last weekend. Some seemed shocked at the interaction that appeared on their Facebook newsfeed. I decided to pursue it as a local example of a situation that plagues business across the country.
By LAUREN BOYER
Daily Record/Sunday News
Joyce Salazar was washing bar dishes last weekend when a frustrated group mistakenly identified her as a member of the waitstaff.
That’s when the owner of La Casa De Tapas, which opened last year, said she swallowed a profanity-laced insult from a member of the party, frustrated that a table wasn’t available on that busy Saturday night. They had made a reservation, she said, earlier that day.
Salazar made some space at the bar. She offered them complimentary drinks and tapas – small Spanish, Peruvian and Mediterranean dishes – while they waited.
Nothing, she said, seemed to calm them down. Continue reading
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Originally published on Page A1 of the York Daily Record/Sunday News on Monday, July 18, 2011.
By LAUREN BOYER
Daily Record/Sunday News
They come in different flavors — civil, criminal, family.
A slightly sweaty Judge Harry Ness stops by Central Market for a sandwich. To stay active, he spends three lunch breaks a week walking four miles on the York County Rail Trail with Judge Thomas Kelly. DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - LAUREN BOYER
One of them goes by “your honor.”
But when the clock strikes noon five days a week, they clutch menus around a York city lunch table, in the name of empty stomachs and colorful conversation.
Even after 15 years, the witty banter, jokes and idea-sharing remains as hearty as their appetites.
“We have networking and comraderie that you can’t get sitting at your desk,” said attorney Kathleen Prendergast, munching on a salad in Central Market recently.
Some might consider it a luxury in an age of shrinking lunch hours.
The average lunch break is 20 to 40 minutes, according to a CareerBuilder survey that also found 32 percent of workers taking less than a half-hour for lunch. Continue reading
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