By Chad Umble, LNP, Lancaster, Pa.

LancasterOnline is leaving downtown Lancaster — perhaps for good — ending the newspaper’s unbroken, 231-year history in the city where it made headlines for its support of economic development.

LNP Media Group, which publishes a daily newspaper, two weekly newspapers and a news website, will vacate its 41,000-square-foot downtown Lancaster offices by the end of October and have most of its employees work remotely until a new, smaller office is found.

The second-floor office at the corner of Queen and Orange streets is leased for around $1 million a year. Digby Solomon, interim publisher of LNP — LancasterOnline, informed employees of the decision in a Sept. 25 email describing it as a cost-saving move.

“Given how little space we use at 101 N. Queen, w

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