Hershey News

Middletown High School South competed along side a dozen middle and high schools from multiple states in the Music in the Parks Festival and returned victorious.

Senate Republican leaders plan to introduce legislation soon to put new hires for state government and school district jobs under a defined contribution pension plan similar to 401 plans in the private sector.

Looking for a summer escape that is nearby?A Shank Park A is located in Derry Township and offers a variety of fun and free family activities.A Are you eager to explore 90 acres in family friendly Derry Township?A Shank Park A has hiking, sports fields, playgrounds, pavilions, and barbecue grills all ready for your family use.A Avid sports devotees ... (more)

A few months ago, I wrote a column charging America to keep music as a vital part of our lives .

What do you think of when you think of chocolate? Decadence? Dieting? An industry rife with exploitation and labour abuses? Toronto director Michael Allcock offers a peek at the various sides of chocolate in the new documentary Semisweet: Life In Chocolate , airing on TVO on June 6. The film tells four stories of Ron Obadia and Nadine Artemis, two ... (more)

Richard "Dick" Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and television miniseries "Band of Brothers," died last week in central Pennsylvania.

What's fowl is fair to area chicken enthusiasts Parke and Betsy Adams. The animal-loving couple treated Hershey-area seniors to a lesson on their fine feathered friends at a recent AARP meeting.

The fourth known example of the 1842 Seated Liberty, Small Date, Small Letters half dollar has been identified.

When Carol Johnson was a girl, she loved to don her cowgirl outfit, strap on her holster and pretend to be a sheriff.

The Pennsylvania high school basketball championships are leaving Penn State and returning to Hershey for the next four years, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted Thursday.

Community members will soon get the opportunity to test their driving skills. Traditions of Hershey,100 N. Larkspur Drive, Campbelltown, will hold a two-day American Association of Retired Persons Safe Driver Initial Course on June 11 and June 13 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. each day.

Members of the Yorktown High School Concert Band participated in theA Music in the Parks Festival in Hershey, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, where they earned the highest possible rating of "superior." As part of the festival, the band, which isA made up of 82 student musicians in grades 9 through 11,A was judged by a panel of college music ... (more)

The opening day of the weekly farmers market in Hershey. The market is open every Thursday from 3-6 p.m. next to the Cocoa Beanery.

Penn State University has named Stephen S. Dunham as its new vice president and general counsel .

The Derry Township Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a request from The Hershey Co.

Grafton High School band and chorus students recently took home three first place trophies from the Music in the Parks festival in Hershey Penn.

Elephants disembark from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train near the intersection of Park Boulevard and Park Avenue in Hershey and fall in line on a rainy Monday afternoon.

A car driven by Sterling Weidman, 85, of 8100 Lancaster Ave., Bethel Township, Berks County, pulled out from his home's driveway and struck the driver's side of a pick-up truck driven by Brian Stauffer, 41, of Bethel, that was traveling south at 3:30 p.m. Friday, state police at Hamburg said.

Fire crews in Dauphin County battle a blaze in a two story residential duplex in Hershey .

Prosecutors in western Pennsylvania say state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin will be charged in a campaign corruption case tied to the alleged misuse of her taxpayer-funded staff for campaigning.