People & Places

As Taylor Swift’s star keeps rising, Pennsylvanians like to remind others with pride that the superstar hails from the Keystone State. But did you know, she also has a few ties right here in Lebanon County?

The Coleman Chapel in West Lebanon Township will be moved and restored at Stone Gables Estate, adding to the Abels’ collection of historical buildings and artifacts.

Katie Trainer’s art exhibition, ‘An Exploration of Life and Timelessness,’ marked her triumphant return to the art scene after a five-year hiatus due to COVID-19 and a severe shoulder injury.

Lebanon County’s Madison Copenhaver and Hope Wagner triumphed in the junior and senior categories respectively at the Pennsylvania Make It With Wool contest, while Rachel Seigel won in the adult category.

A local couple has created nearly 100 holidays … and the world has noticed.

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.

Penn State Extension Lebanon County recently welcomed Julie Weaver as its second 4-H educator.

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