New Holland-based auction house Martin Auctioneers will hold its annual fall carriage auction at the Lebanon Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday this week (October 19 and 20).
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🔗 Hummelstown man charged in crash that killed Lebanon woman
A Hummelstown man was charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI for his involvement in a March 30 crash that took the life of a Lebanon woman.
Posted inPeople & Places
The long history of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s family in Lebanon County
President Dwight D. Eisenhower has always been an honorary Pennsylvanian, and those roots go much deeper than Gettysburg and Penn State.
Posted inUpcoming Events
What you’ll see on this weekend’s driving tour through Stony Valley
This weekend the Pennsylvania Game Commision will be opening up the Stony Valley Rail Trail to motor vehicles for the annual “Stony Valley Drive Thru”.
Posted inCommunity Shoutouts
Penn State College of Medicine receives $4m grant to promote healthier living in Berks and Lebanon counties
Penn State announced yesterday that the College of Medicine has been awarded a $4m grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of its REACH program, an acronym for “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.”
🔗 Lebanon church to marry 16 couples at once
Oct. 13 will forever become a special day for 32 men and women who are taking part in One Big Wedding at Calvary Chapel Lebanon at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The church will marry the 16 couples simultaneously in a ceremony called One Big Wedding, to be followed by a proper reception in the old schoolhouse’s cafeteria and gym.
Posted inNews
Pennsylvania counting down to first hard frost which will end worst West Nile outbreak in 15 years
With unseasonably warm weather and an especially wet summer, the West Nile threat in Lebanon County this summer has been both longer and more pronounced than in previous seasons.
🔗 Former staff, volunteers: Humane Society adopted out unsafe animals
When asked by reporter Daniel Walmer several times if the humane society had directed staff to not tell the public or foster volunteers about the pan leuk virus, Bojarcheck did not answer the question.
Posted inHistory
Nation’s first whiskey distillery was in Lebanon County, but today not much remains of site that Washington may have visited
Did you know that America’s first distillery was in Lebanon County? The Shenk brothers began distilling whiskey in Schaefferstown.
Posted inCommunity Shoutouts
Monument to the “Iron Men of Metz” rededicated at Fort Indiantown Gap
Twelve WWII veterans of the 95th Infantry Division returned to Fort Indiantown Gap last month to rededicate their division monument.
Posted inUpcoming Events
Head up to Dalmatia next week to learn about the Terror in the Tulpehocken
If you liked our post yesterday about the Paxton Boys, you’ll also be interested in what historian Lynn Otto is preparing for next week’s meeting of the Mahonoy and Mahantongo Historical Society in Dalmatia.
🔗 Can a former New York Giants fullback carry a Pa. coal town closer to hope?
Philly.com’s Jason Nark visits Shamokin to profile 29-year-old Henry Hynoski, a Super Bowl winner and current head coach of the Shamokin Area High School Indians.
Posted inUpcoming Events
Voter registration required by today for November 6 elections: See your ballot
Today is the last day to register to vote in Pennsylvania in order to participate in the November 6 elections.
Posted inBusiness & Nonprofits
Get your free turkey from Giant by earning 400 BonusCard points
For Thanksgiving 2018, Giant Food Stores are bringing back the much-loved free turkey promotion, which last ran in 2016.
Posted inHistory
The Paxton Boys, an early case of viral fake news witnessed from Lebanon’s Hebron Moravian Church
Little-known today, the Paxton massacre occurred in December 1763 when a mob of settlers from Dauphin County murdered 20 unarmed Susquehannock Indians in Lancaster County. A new digital resource and a diary from Lebanon shed a different perspective on an pivotal event in early American history.