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Casino fight in Gettysburg flares up

Battle lines are being drawn again in Gettysburg.

It's economic development vs. historic preservation as philanthropist and former Conrail CEO David LeVan again tries to win a license for a casino on the outskirts of town.

A casino proposal four years ago was unsuccessful, in part because of heavy community opposition....

With pro-casino and no-casino camps disputing the most basic claims of the other, an undercurrent of division snakes through this historic area, which depends on more than a million visitors a year to its Civil War battlefield but which also has seen unemployment more than double in the last five years....
Read entire article at Central PA News