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1 week ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
This article was funded by LebTown donors as part of our Civic Impact Reporting Project. The April 14 meeting of the North Annville Township supervisors was heated. At issue was a proposal to levy a 1-mill real estate tax for a fire apparatus replacement plan for the North Annville Fire Company. The two vocal sides were the firefighters, who consist of the recently merged Bellegrove and Union Water Works fire companies, and the residents they serve.
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1 week ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
An ongoing wildlife restoration and grasslands rehabilitation project is beginning to take root on nearly 225 acres in Swatara and Memorial Lake state parks in Lebanon County. The work is being conducted under the Pennsylvania Priority Grasslands Project in cooperation with several state agencies.
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1 week ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
Several federal officials toured a Lebanon County dairy farm on Monday, Apr. 14 to learn about the challenges facing farmers and their operations during a roundtable discussion with area ag leaders.
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1 week ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
The Sentry Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery is a symbol of remembrance. On Saturday, April 12, about 100 people came to remember veterans who fought to preserve the Union during a rededication ceremony at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Fredericksburg of the nearly 141-year-old Union sentry monument. Last fall, the sentinel was removed to undergo much-needed restoration over what was expected to be a period of six months.
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2 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
U.S. Representative Dan Meuser (R-PA9) held a telephone town hall with over 12,000 constituents on Wednesday, April 9. The session began about 35 minutes after its scheduled 6:30 p.m. start because Meuser, who represents Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Wyoming counties, said he was on the House floor for a vote.
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2 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
This article was funded by LebTown donors as part of our Civic Impact Reporting Project. The owner of a Myerstown-based nursing home company has recently sold two of its facilities and plans to use the income to renovate and reopen a senior residential community it already owns in North Annville Township. Steven J. Reiter, president and CEO of StoneRidge Retirement Living, made that announcement to the North Annville planning commission members at their April 7 meeting.
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2 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
A Lebanon Valley College professor has completed a study of prison recidivism that has revealed some interesting results about crime and punishment in Belize. Dr. Terrence A. Alladin, associate professor of criminal justice at LVC, conducted a prison recidivism study in Belize over the 2024-25 academic year through a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award.
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2 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
This article was funded by LebTown donors as part of our Civic Impact Reporting Project. An Altoona-based developer has entered into an agreement with Lebanon County Commissioners to potentially purchase 17 acres of county-owned land in South Lebanon Township. The plan to purchase the acreage was approved by a 2-1 vote at the April 3 commission meeting. Jo Ellen Litz was the lone no vote, citing the sale of a portion of wetland on the property as the reason for her decision to oppose the proposal.
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2 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
Bell & Evans officials presented two recommended traffic improvement options for Blue Mountain and Chestnut Hill roads to the Bethel Township Planning Commission at a special information-gathering meeting on Friday, April 4. In addition to those two proposals, the company would like to construct a cul-de-sac on Chestnut Hill Road to limit non-business and non-residential traffic from using that roadway.
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3 weeks ago | 
lebtown.com | James Mentzer
The nearly 141-year-old Civil War Sentry Monument has returned home to Cedar Hill Cemetery in Fredericksburg. Disassembled in October for restoration by Lebanon-based E&E Fabrication Inc., the monument, first erected in 1884, was re-installed in about four hours on a warm and cloudless day in March.
