North Lebanon hears end-of-year reports

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The North Lebanon Township Board of Supervisors heard year-end reports from the fire companies and the Lebanon County Regional Police Department at its monthly meeting Monday.

Police Chief Tim Knight reviewed a presentation with the department’s stats for December and all of 2025.

Over last year, the first year since the department arose from a merger between the departments of North Cornwall and North Lebanon Townships, the LCRPD received 15,862 calls to service, including:

• 564 accidents
• 3,906 traffic citations
• 482 parking tickets
• 310 non-traffic citations
• 2,016 traffic warnings
• 1,321 crimes investigated
• 512 arrests (misdemeanors and felonies)

In comparing overtime between 2024 and 2025, Knight said that the overtime between North Lebanon and North Cornwall departments in 2024 totaled 828.5. In comparison, the LCRPD accrued 644.75 hours of overtime in 2025.

During the last quarter of the year, the LCRPD had 246.5 hours of overtime, compared to 191 between the two departments in the last quarter of 2024. This is explained by a department-wide training in October, Knight said, which involved all officers.

Throughout the year, North Cornwall was responsible for 43% of calls to service, North Lebanon 48%, and West Lebanon Township (which is also served by the LCRPD) 9%. Knight said the call distribution was around what the force had expected going into 2025. Average response time, he said, is just under four minutes.

Knight also said that, throughout 2025, Sgt. Herberg conducted 41 level-1 inspections and 30 level-3 inspections for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. The program oversees the stopping and inspection of commercial vehicles to reduce frequency of accidents. Throughout 2025, Herberg found 228 violations and issued 62 citations, which led to 26 out-of-service orders.

Supervisors also heard from Chief Brian Vragovich of Glenn Lebanon Fire Company with reports for December and 2025 as a whole. Throughout the year, there were 737 calls, divided as follows:

• 139 fires
• 170 rescue and EMS
• 1 over pressure
• 72 hazmat
• 51 calls for service
• 146 good intent
• 156 false alarms
• 1 weather or disaster
• 1 special incident

Vragovich said personnel hours totaled 1,683.39, call hours totaled 740.53, and personnel training hours totaled 1,431.56. He said they received mutual aid 15 times, automatic aid 222 times, gave mutual aid 835 times, and gave automatic aid 292 times.

North Lebanon Township saw apparatus dispatched 308 times in 2025, he said, making it the second-busiest municipality in Lebanon County.

In other news, supervisors:

• Unanimously approved mobile home park license renewals for the six parks that submitted paperwork. The township is still awaiting a renewal application from one park.
• Unanimously approved a time extension for NS (799) Kimmerlings Road.
• Unanimously approved minutes and payroll, and heard reports.
• Unanimously authorized the township’s application for county liquid fuels, though township manager Lori Books noted it has been denied the last two years as the county says it is focusing its funds on bridge repairs.

North Lebanon Township meets the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. These meetings are open to the public and do not require prior registration.