Business & Nonprofits

Bill Hartmann is on a mission to save his business, Royal Oaks Vineyard and Winery. His plan is to grow hemp, a marijuana derivative with industrial applications, on a five-acre plot of land that adjoins the winery, sell it, and use the profits to re-open the winery.

Swatara Coffee Company is looking for the public’s support to secure a cash grant as part of the Burt Williams Memorial Veteran Small Business Award.

The Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce is soliciting nominations for two prizes that will be bestowed at the Small Business Awards Luncheon next month.

HR Weaver Building Systems of Annville has acquired Ensminger Builder of Hershey.

The City of Lebanon is looking for more products that are Lebanon, PA Made.

Waste Industries is facing criticism from local customers who say service has degraded significantly following the company’s 2018 acquisition of their accounts through Lebanon Farms Disposal.

A national New York based operator of baseball & softball training centers is expanding into Central Pennsylvania area with a location in Palmyra.

One of Lebanon’s most beloved restaurants will serve its last meals this Sunday.

A new Lebanon Transit route will connect downtown Lebanon to a cluster of warehouses in Jonestown.

97 Milk began as a totally grassroots effort when Nelson Troutman spray-painted his first bales at his Lebanon County farm.

Bon Appétit’s review of Bell & Evans new spatchcock chicken was an all-out love fest for the product, launched last year.

Giant Foods has begun collecting signatures at its Cleona store in support of a referendum that would drop the borough’s 70+ year status as a dry town.

The Payless Shoes location in the Lebanon Valley Mall remains open, but neither store management nor Payless corporate would provide any further detail on the store’s fate.

You can stop asking Dave Stein when you run into him in town now: Hidden Still isn’t going anywhere.

Although you’d think this is an easy question to answer, for the country’s largest local news company it is apparently not.