Five months into the job, Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace was starting to have regrets.
She was woken up in the early hours of a Wednesday morning by a phone call: City Hall was on fire. Sorace rushed to the North Duke Street building to find what she said she recognized immediately as the scorched aftermath of an intentionally set fire.
Police eventually would charge a man who had gotten angry at a City Council meeting the night before, after his father’s properties came under scrutiny by city inspectors…