Daniel Klotz

Lancaster County, PA and the Cultural Creatives

Month: December, 2009

John McClure’s bid for Congress – Thoughts?

So John McClure is running for U.S. Congress. He’s going up against Lois Herr for the Democratic nomination to run against Joe Pitts in November. (Or should those Facebook links be Lois Herr, Lois Herr, and/or Joe Pitts?) The race is in the 16th Congressional District, most of which is here in Lancaster County, PA. [...]

Lancaster’s Most Wanted, Dec. 16

Here is the Lancaster City Police Department’s “Top 10 Warrant List of Persons” for the week of December 13, a list of the criminals with the most outstanding warrants in Lancaster, PA. This List is Causing Tension I didn’t expect these weekly re-posts of a list available on the city’s website to be as polarizing [...]

1.2 Million PA Trees Lopped Down for Christmas

A fresh report from the Pennsylvania State Data Center reports that in 2007, the most recent year for which data is available, 1.2 million Christmas trees were harvested within the state. The counties that contributed the most trees to the harvest? Carbon, Lycoming, Schuylkill, and our neighbor, York. The upside? Since nearly all harvested Christmas [...]

The Christmas Trees of Lancaster – Photo Roundup

We put our Christmas trees near our front windows because they’re too beautiful and joyful not to share. In that same spirit, we all seem to be enjoying sharing photos online of the Christmas trees in our homes, storefronts, and squares. I’ve rounded up a fun sampling shared by fellow Lancaster residents. [nggallery id=2]

Lancaster Designers Gather for Good

On Saturday, for the third year in a row, the ever-awesome Go Design Unit rallied a bunch of graphic designers, stuck them in their office with web developer Adam Chlan and copy writers Chet Williamson and me, and put us to work making cutting-edge marketing materials for deserving nonprofits. Though I’ve only participated twice now, [...]