State Department of Human Services allows local personal care home to stay open, residents to remain during appeals process that could take months.
Chris Coyle
Chris Coyle writes primarily on government, the courts, and business. He retired as an attorney at the end of 2018, after concentrating for nearly four decades on civil and criminal litigation and trials. A career highlight was successfully defending a retired Pennsylvania state trooper who was accused, 40 years after the fact, of falsifying evidence in a 1970s murder case.
LebTown is his first foray into reporting, motivated by the decline of the once-great, locally-owned print newspaper he grew up with and read daily. Chris lives in the city of Lebanon. He holds degrees from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (and misses Pittsburgh every day). He and his wife have two grown sons and a few grandkids. He enjoys all kinds of music, tinkering with electronic stuff, and lifting weights to avoid becoming a shriveled old guy.
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American House Personal Care home has license revoked; residents’ fate uncertain
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has revoked the operating license of the American House personal care home at 25 S. 9th St. in downtown Lebanon, effective Aug. 2.
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Health & Human Services secretary visits city’s Union Community Health Center
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra paid a visit Wednesday, July 31, to the federally funded Union Community Care Health Center on Lebanon’s largely Hispanic north side.
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Our Lady of the Cross Catholic School eyes expansion
Three years after opening, enrollment has more than tripled at the county’s only Catholic school.
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Legislators tout state grant to redevelop former Bethlehem Steel site in Lebanon
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Financing Authority has allocated $2.3 million for the redevelopment of a 30,000 square foot building at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lebanon, according to state Senator Chris Gebhard and state Representative John Schlegel.
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Personnel appointments, ordinance tweak at City Council’s July meeting
Lebanon City Council needed fewer than 30 minutes to dispose of a short agenda at its July 22 monthly meeting.
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Antique car and tractor show kicks off 2024 Lebanon Area Fair
The 2024 Lebanon Area Fair began with a unique display of automotive and agricultural machinery at the Special Olympics Car and Tractor Show on Saturday morning.
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Local legislators oppose bill changing state’s definition of ‘marriage’
Although opposed by Lebanon County’s three members, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill that could change the state’s legal definition of “marriage,” in effect recognizing same sex marriages.
Posted inCrime & Safety
Child pornography trial for retired city businessman postponed to September
The trial of retired city businessman Ricky Lynn “Rick” Troutman, charged with creating and distributing child pornography, has been postponed from July to September.
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Supreme Court limits Jan. 6 obstruction charge against fired North Cornwall cop
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that former North Cornwall Township police officer Joseph Fischer, who joined the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may not have to stand trial on a criminal charge of obstructing an official proceeding, which carries a potential 20 year jail sentence.
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New Allen Theater owner brings along bookstore, and optimism on film & books
After two years at 701 Cumberland St. in downtown Lebanon, Michael Cantor has moved Salamander Books and Music to Annville, but that’s not all.
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City Council OKs sale of alcohol at Lebanon Community Theater productions
Lebanon City Council gave its blessing to the Lebanon Community Theater’s plans to sell alcoholic beverages on a one-year trial basis at performances in its city-owned theater at Stoever’s Dam Park.
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Suspect in Wednesday night assault at Downtown Lounge flees from police
Lebanon City Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a 27-year-old Lebanon man, Ricardo Berrios-Hernandez, over his role in an assault at the Downtown Lounge on Wednesday evening, June 12.
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The city isn’t paying to house “junkies and homeless” at former Days Inn
Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello refutes claims that the city pays for residents to stay at the Inn at Lebanon, clarifying that the Community Action Partnership occasionally uses the hotel as an emergency shelter.
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Lebanon City Council briefed on upcoming recreational projects
Several recreational areas in the City of Lebanon are slated for expansions and sprucing up in 2024 and 2025, and two new projects are about to get underway, a city administrator told City Council on May 23.
