With approximately 28,000 ballots cast, turnout for this year’s primary election was up compared to last year, but down compared to the last presidential primary.
LebTown Staff
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 inCrime & Safety
Blotter: Assaults, DUI’s, theft, PFA violation, firearm possession
A roundup of the most recent blotters from local police departments.
Posted inReal Estate
Lebanon County real estate transfers (May 16 to May 31)
Here are the latest real estate transfers recorded in Lebanon County.
🔗 Remembering the one and only Mike Ebersole, former WQIC, WLBR radio announcer (Paywall)
Longtime radio great Mike Ebersole passed away last week, but leaves behind many friends and loyal listeners.
🔗 Butterfly tours canceled at Fort Indiantown Gap
The annual regal fritillary butterfly tours at Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County have been canceled for 2020.
🔗 9 displaced after fire in Lebanon
Emergency crews were dispatched at 6 p.m. Sunday to a residence on the first block of North 5th Street.
Posted inEducation
LVC announces adjusted fall 2020 academic schedule
Lebanon Valley College has released more details on its return to campus for the fall 2020 semester.
🔗 ‘Open your doors already’: Palmyra restaurant vows to stay open, tells other business owners to do the same
In front of a crowd of Pennsylvanians standing outside his Palmyra restaurant, Mike Mangano declared on Friday that Taste of Sicily will be staying open — despite its license being suspended for violating the terms of the state’s reopening process.
🔗 Palmyra Area High School looking into racist social media posts (Paywall)
Palmyra Area School District is investigating social media posts that show a photo of what appears to be a white Palmyra high school student with the n-word labeled over it.
Posted inBusiness & Nonprofits
Met-Ed to make helicopter inspections of transmission lines this month
Through June, Met-Ed will be conducting helicopter inspections in Lebanon and other central Pennsylvania counties.
🔗 Annville-Cleona Community Pool will not open this summer
We’ve updated our earlier article about the status of Lebanon County swimming pools this summer in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
🔗 Mail-in, provisional ballots cause some disconnect in Lebanon County
Election judges in some precincts of Lebanon County declined to give provisional ballots to voters who had already received ballots in the mail, contrary to what is supposed to happen according to state election law.
🔗 Sweep The Streets 13th annual hoops event in jeopardy due to COVID-19 (Paywall)
Co-founder and organizer George Rodriguez said Wednesday that the 13th annual Sweep The Streets 5-on-5 playground basketball event, slated for the first weekend of August every year since its inception, will be forced to move to September or not be played at all, depending on how quickly Pennsylvania returns to ‘normal’ under Gov. Tom Wolf’s color-coded reopening plan.
