Fredericksburg News

A Lebanon man was charged with pushing his wife down steps during an argument over the weekend.

For a generation of Lebanon Valley residents, the Root Beer Barrel once located along Route 72 near Mt.

Mistakes happen--and sometimes that can be a good thing. That was the case for Steven Fisher, a Fredericksburg violist and a world-renowned scholar of the 18th-century classical composer Joseph Haydn.

Stacy Bretzius, Pine Grove, has graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degress in astronomy.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission on Thursday cancelled vehicular tours of State Game Lands 110 and 211 in Berks, Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill counties because roadways in these areas have become too soft to accommodate large volumes of traffic and rain remains in the forecast through Sunday.

Holding a folded American flag, Northern Lebanon school board member Sgt. Brian Keaton smiles at his wife, Kristin, during a ceremony at the board meeting Tuesday night.

Six people were placed in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program last week.

CRASH: Jonestown's Perseverance and Lickdale fire companies and First Aid and Safety Patrol responded to the I-78 and I-81 split for a crash with injuries at 4:02 p.m. Sunday.

Hinkelfest is a celebration of all things chicken. Since 1991, with the exception of one year, the town of Fredericksburg has celebrated its poultry-processing economic base by holding a weekend outdoor entertainment event with a main focus on eating chicken.

Paving progress is continuing on Lancaster and Chestnut streets, Jonestown officials said Tuesday night, but work on Fortna Street remains a mystery.

CRASH: Neversink Fire Co. and fire police responded to Rocherty and Colebrook roads at 12:20 p.m. Friday.

A Fredericksburg, Lebanon County, motorcyclist is in Hershey Medical Center after crashing his Harley Davidson on Sugar Road in Bethel Township Monday afternoon.

Jerry Schooley of Hershey is one lucky man. The 73-year-old pilot escaped serious injury Wednesday afternoon when his plane crashed into two trees during an emergency landing behind a home in Bethel Township.

The Swatara Township supervisors on Thursday night offered some help to a neighbor looking to quench its water woes.

Peggy Wolfe of Fredericksburg was weeding her flower bed when she looked up and saw a plane coming right for her, she literally ran for her life.

The pilot of a small plane says his engine quit while flying over Lebanon County this afternoon, forcing him to put the plane down in the backyard of a home near Fredericksburg.

A single engine, Beechcraft airplane crash landed Wednesday afternoon into a group of trees in a Bethel Township, Lebanon County woman's backyard.

A small plane crashed in Fredericksburg, Lebanon County, Wednesday afternoon, according to county officials.

The Lebanon County commissioners on Thursday arranged a $4 million line of credit, which they may need to pay bills until a state budget is passed.

Lebanon philanthropist Frank Dixon and a city business will be honored during the Central Penn Business Journal's sixth annual Business of the Year Awards gala at the Hilton Harrisburg on Nov.