100 years since Babe Ruth played for Lebanon
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What does baseball great Babe Ruth have to do with Lebanon, Pennsylvania?
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🔗 A surge of volunteers and political newcomers hopes to make Pennsylvania blue again
Will Keystone Democrats have a bounce-back election come November? Yahoo News makes a deep dive into the prep work.
Comics past, present, and future on display at LVC, opening reception tonight and lectures scheduled ahead
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With plans developed during a curatorial projects course last spring, Lebanon Valley College is hosting an exhibit, Comics Unstripped, in the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery through October 21.
Annville’s Candoris and Palmyra’s Philadelphia Mixing Solutions make Central Penn Business Journal’s list of top employers
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In its annual ranking of the best places to work in Pennsylvania, two Lebanon County firm made the cut—Candoris out of Annville and Philadelphia Mixing Solutions out of Palmyra. (The “Philly” firm spun out of an earlier gear company that was based in the city.)
🔗 Onward State previews this weekend’s Penn State-Kent State game at the Beav
Kickoff is tomorrow at 12:00pm noon. The game will be aired on FS1.
Horsham-based 111th Attack Wing leaves Gap for South Carolina to assist with Florence recovery
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According to a military press release, airmen from the Horsham-based 111th Attack Wing of the Pennsylvania National Guard left Fort Indiantown Gap today for McEntire Joint National Guard Base, near Columbia, South Carolina, where they will assist in Florence rescue and recovery efforts.
Cleared of all allegations: Lebanon county native Kevin C. Rhoades, former Harrisburg diocese bishop
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In a press release this morning Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo cleared Kevin C. Rhoades of all outstanding allegations regarding potential sexual abuse while in his former position as bishop of the Roman Catholic Church’s Harrisburg Diocese.
New census data shows Lebanon just slightly wealthier but more impoverished
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In new reports by the United States Census Bureau, Lebanon County’s median income and the percentage of its residents living beneath the poverty line both saw slight changes compared to 2016.
Lebanon County jeweler Ceylon Leitzel behind push to make amethyst the state gem
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Over at Penn Live, Jan Murphy has the story about Pennsylvania lawmaker Rep. Tom Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) who is pushing legislation to make amethyst the state gem.
🔗 A look at the Pennsylvania’s 18 Congressional battlefields
Great piece by Penn Live’s Charles Thompson on Pennsylvania’s congressional battlegrounds. He says the 9th (see map) will likely go Republican in tossup between former Ag Sec Dennis Wolf (D) and former Revenue Secretary Dan Meuser (R).
🔗 Quentin Riding Club pays 2016 back taxes, avoids auction block for at least a year
By paying its 2016 taxes the Quentin Riding Club avoided having to itself to repay the government, at least for another year.
Lebanon-based photographer Scott Church offering mentorship program through Patreon, planning new track for students
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Using the crowd patronage website Patreon, locally-based Scott Church has opened up his studio (and his calendar) to photographers seeking to grow their craft.
Keep busy next Thursday learning to beekeep at the Annville Free Library
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Next week Thursday September 13 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm the Annville Free Library will host an hour-long course taught by the Capital Area Beekeepers Association about the fundamentals of beekeeping.
Come out to the Historical Society next Sunday for some Lebanon beer history
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Pennsylvania historian Rich Wagner will be presenting a talk 1:30pm next Sunday at the Lebanon County Historical Society about our area’s heritage with beer.
Meet the man behind the “We Are Lebanon, Pa” videos
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Erik Soulliard has been in the film industry for a long time, but this is his first experience doing something like his Facebook video project, We Are Lebanon, Pa.