Exit 85 on Interstate 81 North has reopened after being shut down early Saturday morning due to a fatal crash in Lebanon County.
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🔗 Abandoned Rapho Township hotel is up for tax sale [Lancaster Watchdog]
An abandoned Hampton Inn at Route 72 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Rapho Township is up for tax sale in an online auction that closes Sept. 16 even as a potential buyer has plans before the township that could revitalize the building.
🔗 Pa. Game Commission planning to expand gamelands in northern Lancaster County
At their July 12 meeting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s board of commissioners announced that “Natural Lands Trust” – now called just Natural Lands – has offered to purchase for the Game Commission 139.44 acres straddling the Lancaster-Lebanon county line to add to the agency’s Game Lands system.
🔗 Union Canal Tunnel offers narrated tours by boat
If you’re looking to combine fun and education this summer, why not consider floating into history with a narrated tour of the Union Canal Tunnel aboard a motorized canal-style boat?
🔗 Lebanon Area Fair milk auction winner donates winnings to bereaved farm families
After winning the Lebanon Fair youth dairy show, Landen Copenhaver donated his winnings to two local families who have recently lost loved ones.
🔗 Tractor-trailer hauling liquid chocolate syrup overturns, causing road closure in Lebanon County
A tractor trailer hauling chocolate syrup overturned in Lebanon County early this morning, causing a road closure. The crash occurred at 2:55 a.m. on July 24 in the 1800 block of South Forge Road (Route 117) near the roundabout in South Londonderry Township, according to Lebanon County 911 Dispatch.
🔗 Lebanon County woman dies in crash
A Lebanon County woman is dead after police said the SUV she was driving hit a tree. 36-year-old Amanda Thome, of Annville, Lebanon County, was driving on East Governor Road (U.S. 322) in Derry Township, Dauphin County early Friday morning.
🔗 Senators introduce bill to revamp Pennsylvania’s dairy premium
Pennsylvania senators have introduced a long-awaited bill to allow the state to directly collect and distribute a dairy premium.
🔗 Lebanon County family’s farm severely damaged in overnight storm
Wednesday night’s storms caused widespread damage to a local family farm in Lebanon County, ripping barns to their foundations and flipping equipment.
🔗 Local police chief reflects back to when tornado hit Lebanon County community, destroyed home
Derry Township Police Chief Garth Warner and his wife Michelle are two of the survivors of the 2004 F3 tornado that hit Campbelltown.
🔗 U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, from stage right, describes Trump shooting
U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, seated with other Republican officials just off the stage of the rally where former President Donald J. Trump was shot in Butler Saturday night, said at first he wasn’t quite sure was going on as shots started to ring out around him.
🔗 Lebanon armed robbery suspect who led police on chase, crash in 2023 pleads guilty
A 32-year-old Lebanon man who stole a car at gunpoint and led Lebanon City Police officers on a lengthy chase that hurt at least one other individual has pleaded guilty to all charges before he was scheduled to go to trial in August.
🔗 Lebanon County Career and Technology Center student medals in national baking competition
Life is pretty sweet for Ava Stutzman, an 18-year-old from South Lebanon Township, whose award-winning bakes have been nationally recognized.
🔗 Fire crews spring into action after plane catches fire at Lebanon County airport
Volunteer fire crews were dispatched to Deck Airport early Thursday morning after a small aircraft caught fire on the runway.
🔗 Driver in 2021 fatal garbage truck crash found guilty of involuntary manslaughter
After a two-day trial before Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas Judge Donna Long Brightbill, a 30-year-old Ephrata man was found guilty of his role in a fatal garbage truck crash near the Lebanon County VA Medical Center in 2021.