Mike Nortrup

1 week ago | news.thesunontheweb.com | Mike Nortrup

The 2024 fiscal year results are in. At Hummelstown Borough Council’s June 12 meeting, borough manager Mark Stivers gave a financial report, which covered fiscal year 2024. Stivers explained that, in general, most revenues in the various budget accounts were higher in 2024 than anticipated, and expenses were lower. However, he also noted that many projects planned for 2024 haven’t […]

1 week ago | news.thesunontheweb.com | Mike Nortrup

The Hummelstown Baseball and Softball Association’s 14U softball team and East Hanover Baseball and Softball Association’s Sheetz, Inc. 12U softball squad both had impressive rides to East Shore Fast Pitch League championships this year. They had a combined regular-and-postseason record of 25-1. Hummelstown’s 14U softball team may be as well-remembered for its notable moniker, “Port-a-Pots,” as for the fact that […]

2 weeks ago | news.thesunontheweb.com | Mike Nortrup

Early this season, anybody looking to pick the Hershey Little League’s 10U division champion would probably have ignored any claim from Hershey Auto Center. But they would have done so at their peril. Hershey Auto was hot by regular season’s end. It then won four of five postseason games, out-slugging the Schmidt-Kramer squad 9-7 on June 7 to take the […]

3 weeks ago | news.thesunontheweb.com | Mike Nortrup

Palmyra graduate Logan Smith and LD grad Arun Gopinath were major contributors to this best year in Elizabethtown College men’s volleyball history. Smith, a junior, led the 17-11 Blue Jays in kills this season with 248 and in kills per-set with 3.06. He had his best day on Feb. 8 when Elizabethtown played two schools. Smith had 23 kills against […]

1 month ago | news.thesunontheweb.com | Mike Nortrup

At the May 8 Hummelstown Borough Council meeting, South Hanover Township resident Jake Benrud gave a presentation about the use of quiet zones around railroad atgrade intersections. There are several at-grade intersections in Hummelstown along the Norfolk Southern Railroad track. Federal law requires that train engineers sound horns to warn those crossing at grade. However, studies show that the horn […]