A hit-and-run driver crashed a pickup truck into three front porches, another vehicle and a utility pole on three streets in Lancaster city early Thursday, officials said.

The driver then ran from the scene around 2:15 a.m., city fire bureau Capt. Jeffrey Oatman said.

The truck's engine caught fire, and police and firefighters extinguished the flames.

City police Lt. Todd Umstead did not immediately have a complete report detailing the wrecks.

The pickup truck struck a vehicle in the 400 block of Lafayette Street, he said.

It fled and struck the front porches of homes at 319 and 321 W. Mifflin St.

The truck then hit another front porch at 434 High St. and crashed into an adjacent utility pole, stopping the vehicle, Umstead said.

The truck also struck two concrete planters, Oatman said.

Metal scaffolding and a wheelbarrow flew from the truck.

The pole did not break, but the pickup truck was severely damaged, Oatman said.

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LA GRANGE PARK A proposed amendment to the village's zoning code to promote the building of front porches was denied by the Village Board Sept. 24.

The amendment would have exempted the first 200 square feet of unenclosed front porches from the village's building coverage limit of 30 percent, allowing residents to build front porches without sacrificing interior space.

The amendment was requested by McNaughton Development, Inc., the developer building eight homes in the new Heatherdale subdivision. Village staff supported the amendment, but the board voted 4-2 against it.

The four trustees who opposed the amendment argued it wasn't a change the village necessarily needed. They were also hesitant to amend the village's new zoning code, which was approved in 2011.

Village staff backed the proposed amendment because residents with front porches spend more time outside in front of their homes, which helps them come into contact with neighbors, said Emily Rodman, assistant village manager.

Rodman said that over the past five years, only four of the 12 houses that have been rebuilt in the village included front porches.

"We felt that the data indicates that people are choosing to take the building coverage they are allowed and use it for interior space rather than use it for porches," she said. "We feel if that trend continues over the long term, we may see a loss of front porches in the community and that could impact characteristics of the community."

Trustee James Kucera, one of two board members who voted for the amendment, saw it as a chance to make the village more accommodating to potential homeowners.

"We want to make sure that we keep diversity of housing, well-built housing [and create] a strong housing market, giving people the option to put a front porch on," he said.

Although the amendment was intended to encourage the building of new front porches, it would have in effect given residents with existing porches a credit of 200 square feet to build on elsewhere on their property.

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Porches are supposed to be on the front of houses, right?

The word "porch" itself comes from the Italian word "portico," which describes the walkways and entryways to buildings held up by pillars and having no walls. Porticos were frequently used in Greek and Roman architecture and were customarily at the front of a building.

But one porch, at least, attached to the home of the Howe family of Alan Lane, New Canaan, is in the back.

When the Howes bought the house 21 years ago, there was no porch at all. After a 2002 family vacation at Groton Long Point, near Mystic, the family realized the allure of the porch. Carol Howe recalled the house the family rented there.

"It had a front porch, which overlooked Fishers Island and the (Long Island) Sound and you could see cute little Mouse Island," Howe said. "That was our view and we'd sit out there every night and watch the planes going from New York to Boston."

The family had been thinking of moving for some time, but decided instead to renovate their home. As part of the renovation, which took two years, the family added on a porch -- to the back of the house.

"It's obviously not for people watching, it's for listening to the birds and reading," Howe said.

It is her favorite place to read and occasionally nap. A lot of the backyard of the 4-acre property can be seen, including the swimming pool that her 17-year-old daughter Lauren and 15-year-old son Austin use with their friends during the summer.

One might say this sounds like a deck, a feature more commonly found at the backs of houses, but it really is a porch. The floor is stone, and there is a white banister and around the porch. Simple Doric columns hold the structure up. There are two ceiling fans over the wicker furniture. Howe rests her books and two lanterns holding candles on a coffee table her husband bought on a business trip in Santa Fe, N.M.

It may be unorthodox to have a porch on the rear of the house, but Howe wouldn't have it any other way.

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HOUSTON A 49-year-old woman captured on camera stealing from porches in Kingwood was ordered to pay a $300 fine and sentenced to one year deferred adjudication.

Linda Tatosian pleaded guilty to theft. Tatosian was identified and charged on June 28; however, she did not turn herself in until the end of July.

She was identified after KHOU 11 viewers recognized her and her yellow mustang in the surveillance video from Kings Lake Estates.

A victims surveillance camera was rolling when the crime happened at his house in a gated subdivision.

The video shows Tatosian ripping open packages and trying on a pair of shoes. She then attempts to open the front door before driving away. Minutes later, she was recorded near the front door of a neighbors house where she appeared to relieve herself.

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Little Creek Bee Ranch Powdering Porches for Fall time
We ran a test in mid July, by powdering all the porches with Brood Builder powder. Rather than give them a "wet" pollen patty (which the Small Hive Beetles l...

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Most mornings and evenings you can find Terry Vanderheyden perched on the little slice of Florida that is her front porch on Ledge Avenue.

Vanderheyden left Florida four years ago, but you wouldn't know it from her porch, which sports a thatched umbrella stuffed into a pail full of seashells, bamboo wind chimes that make it sound like you're ordering pina coladas from a beachfront tiki bar every time the wind blows, and this thin stick that pokes out from the doorway that tells you if it's going to rain. More on that later.

"Porch" may even be a stretch. Vanderheyden has taken what is essentially a front stoop with a railing and stuffed two chairs with floral cushions, the umbrella, two small tables for holding drinks and solar-powered lamps. There's not much space, but a porch is what you make it.

"This is my oasis, my refuge from a long day on my feet," Vanderheyden, who works for a company that helps plan people's residential moves, explained. She has her coffee with the newspaper every morning on the porch, and a glass of wine, usually Pinot Grigio, every evening. Even when it's raining. "Not pouring, and torrential, but, yeah, I sit under the umbrella."

Vanderheyden is both an outsider and a native of New Canaan. She was born here and went to New Canaan High School. Her mother lives in the home the family built on White Oak Shade Road in 1951. Vanderheyden took off for sunny Florida with her husband in 1985. The pair opened The Monkey's Uncle, a bar two blocks from the beach in Ponte Vedra, on the northeast coast of Florida. She and her husband divorced, and Vanderheyden became a realtor. When the real estate market crashed in 2007 and 2008, Florida was one of the hardest hit states in the country.

"I lost everything and sold what I had left and came back to New Canaan, mostly because my elderly parents were still here," she said. Her father died last year, but she has lunch every weekend with her mom on the table in her front yard, near her pink flamingos.

"Gotta have pink flamingos," she said. Why? "Because they're fun!"

New Canaan has changed somewhat, but not completely, as new residents have moved in over the years, Vanderheyden said.

"I'm glad I lived there (Florida) for 25 years," she said. "It's different from New England, where people are a little more uptight, they don't talk to strangers. They don't have front porches in Ponte Vedra, but you open garage doors and sit in chairs in the driveway."

Vanderheyden said she talks to all her neighbors coming and going when she's out on her porch.

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