Billion-Dollar Boost ; Stimulus Reaches Deep Into County

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Billion-Dollar Boost ; Stimulus Reaches Deep Into County

An outing to the symphony for city kids.

Solar panels glinting on a Penn Township roof.

All across Lancaster County, people are finding an astonishing number of ways to spend federal stimulus dollars.

And the list of projects goes on and on.

When a year ago today President Barack Obama signed the $787- billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, everyone expected road work and more road work.

But a new medical clinic with 24 exam rooms on North Arch Street?

A couple of Web-connected traffic cameras on the Route 30 bypass?

Research into high-tech magnets in Landisville?

Kitchen equipment in a Rohrerstown school?

A pair of wind turbines - twice the height of the 14-story Griest Building - overlooking the Susquehanna?

Who knew?

At the bill signing, Obama pledged wise investments and unprecedented transparency in his plan to kick-start the economy and invest for long-term prosperity.

A year later, how has Lancaster County made out? Did we get a fair share? Was the promise of transparency just ...

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