Sunday News Lancaster, PA, April 13th, 2008
Associate Editor
John Fry and Rick Gray sat at the table, miles apart.
On this end, Fry, president of Franklin & Marshall College, pointed out that the school already gives much to the City of Lancaster. It pays more than $102,000 in taxes on nonexempt property it owns. It will spend $44,655 this year to maintain Buchanan Park, which is owned by the city. It pours $150,000 per year into the James Street Improvement District, which is helping to revitalize not just the city's northwest quadrant, but downtown as well.
All that's fine and dandy, said Gray, Lancaster's mayor. But the city n...
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