LebTown spoke to franchise owner BJ Patel by phone today. Inspections are done, staff is almost all hired, and the location is expected to open sometime next week. We’ve updated our original story.

Randal Kleiser – George Lucas’ college roommate, the director of Grease, and originally a Lebanon County native. Kleiser also attended the 1995 opening of the Allen Theatre. Learn more about Kleiser and other ties between the Lucas universe and Lebanon County in this 2019 article.

Terry Brown, a 69-year-old retired public safety code enforcement officer, is one of just 14 people arrested inside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, and the only one from Pennsylvania.

Businesses and residents near a planned 412,000-square-foot Walmart warehouse have mixed opinions on the development, as locals consider promises of employment and economic growth alongside concerns over potential traffic issues and the project’s environmental and visual impact.

The sale should be complete by summer 2021. Watch for LebTown’s coverage of this news later this week.

Goodwill Keystone Area received a $10 million unrestricted gift as part of the $4.1 billion donation spree by MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

On Friday night, a loyal customer and friend offered to pay for the salaries of 18 employees at Babe’s Grill House for three weeks after the state moved to shut down indoor dining again citing the recent statewide surge in Covid cases.

Pennsylvania officials are confident they have resolved a contentious issue with the Dean Foods estate, which sent letters to dairy farmers and milk haulers demanding they repay money they received for their milk prior to the company’s bankruptcy in November 2019.

Palmyra man Bill Behring was able to return an engagement ring to its rightful owner after it was left in a bagel shop in New York.

It’s now been 30 years since fire engulfed downtown Lebanon’s Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) campus, killing 20-year-old city firefighter Timothy Stine.

The cause of the fire is currently unknown.

The clinic is in the lower parking lot of the Lebanon County Fire Training Center at 833 Metro Drive, which will be open until Wednesday, Oct. 28.

State environmental regulators are hitting Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline project with its sixth violation in Lebanon County since mid-August.

A 60-year-old man is dead after his van crashed into a building in Lebanon, police say. The crash happened at 11:21 a.m. Tuesday. Police said the driver was traveling on North 8th Street and failed to stop at a stop sign for an unknown reason.