This holiday season, avoid the Hershey Kiss tip controversy entirely by choosing a better substitute: Wilbur Buds.
LebTown Staff
Posted inPeople & Places
Penny Marshall’s ‘A League of Their Own’ featured Lebanon’s Jaynne Bittner, who made history in nation’s first national female sports league
Actor and director Penny Marshall’s ‘A League of Their Own’ told the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which Lebanon woman Jaynne Bitnner participated in from 1948 to 1954.
Posted inBusiness & Nonprofits
Lebanon County misses out in second phase of medical marijuana dispensary permitting process
Lebanon County did not receive any new permits for medical marijuana dispensaries in phase II of the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s dispensary permitting process.
Posted inNews
Annville man fatally shot while fleeing state police in East Hanover Township
Annville man Mitchell James Hammer, 27, died today at the Hershey Medical Center after being transported there following being shot while fleeing state police outside Grantville.
Posted inNews
Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello and state officials hold press conference on Keystone Main Street designation
City of Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello along with other state and local officials spoke this afternoon at a press conference in the Lebanon County Municipal Building to discuss Lebanon’s recent designation as a Keystone Main Street.
🔗 Its name is a mystery, but opera fudge is a must-have Christmas treat from Lebanon
Historian Bill Warner examines how opera fudge has been around for more than a century but, incredibly, it has never strayed far beyond Lebanon County’s borders.
🔗 Cedar Crest grad DJ Cole named Division III National Player of the Year
Messiah College’s DJ Cole was named Division III National Player of the Year, the United States Soccer Coaches announced last Thursday in Kansas City, MO.
Posted inNews
City of Lebanon enters Keystone Main Street Program, a five year opportunity for prioritized revitalization funding
The City of Lebanon is officially the commonwealth’s latest participant in the Keystone Main Street (KMS) program.
Posted inNews
PA Public Utility Commission files formal complaint against Sunoco regarding corrosion of 87-year-old Mariner East 1 pipeline which runs through Lebanon County
A new complaint by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission indicates statewide concern with the corrosion control program being used on Mariner East 1.
Posted inHistory
How a Christmastime brawl in Myerstown ended up catching the attention of a few Pennsylvanian Founding Fathers
Constructing what would become the Union Canal required a massive labor effort in Myerstown, which would lead to a historic Christmas-time riot between the local Pennsylvania Germans and migrant Scots and Irishmen.
Posted inNews
Local Republican committee treasurer Matt Shirk announces bid for county commissioner on tenuous and unproven claims of nepotism by Bill Ames, who responded in a press conference
Matt Shirk, current treasurer for the Lebanon County Republican Committee, announced his candidacy for one of the three Lebanon County Commissioner seats that will be contested next fall.
🔗 Exclusive interview with Ashley Moyer-Gleich on her career as an NBA ref
Ashley Moyer-Gleich on being an official for the NBA: “I’m addicted to this new career. I hope this is my career for the next 25 years.”
Posted inCrime & Safety
The latest food safety violations in Lebanon County
Here are the most recent food safety violations in Lebanon County, as documented by Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture.
Posted inNews
Penn State and Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 among regional victims in national bomb threat hoax
Penn State and Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 were among the Pennsylvania institutions to face bomb threats today, according to reports by Onward State and the Lebanon Daily News.
Posted inCommunity Shoutouts
Today: Pick up Narcan for free at the Lebanon County Health Center
Flush with $10 million in funding from the Bloomberg Foundation, the Commonwealth is acting to drastically expand access to naloxone by making it available today, for free, at nearly 80 locations across the Commonwealth.
