Is there a ghostly woman haunting the stairway at the old Harper’s Tavern in Annville? Or is there a man – a sailor, perhaps, with a mischievous sense of humor and a blatant disregard for current smoking laws – hanging around the bar?

“Heading North,” the debut novel of Holly M. Wendt, an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Lebanon Valley College, will be released in November.

Two Lebanon city churches – one more than 200 years old, the other over a century – have merged into a single congregation.