Palmyra News

An employee of the former Bad Boys Toys store in Palmyra was handed 12 months of probation Wednesday for drug paraphernalia offenses.

A firefighter uses a Jaws of Life hydraulic rescue tool to extricate 84-year-old Kathryn M. Mease of Lebanon from her car after a two-car crash about 7:17 a.m. Monday on Route 897 near South 14th Avenue in South Lebanon Township.

At around 10:15 p.m. on Friday night, police arrived at the scene of the accident in the first block of West Main Street.

John Plummer, co-owner of Rita's Water Ice in Cleona sent free water ice recently to students in seventh and eighth grade at Annville-Cleona Secondary School in recognition of their efforts on this year's Pennsylvania System of School Assessment testing.

Members of Palmyra Borough Council on Tuesday night heard a revised plan for a CVS pharmacy to be located at the former Friendly's Restaurant site at Route 422 and Forge Road.

Zachary Hollenbach, 17, of 238 W. Cherry St., was transported by Life Lion ambulance to Hershey Medical Center, where he was treated and released, a center spokeswoman said.

Derry Township superintendent Richard Faidley told the school board Monday night that he will miss assistant superintendent Bernie Kepler when Kepler takes a similar job next door in the Palmyra Area School Board this summer.

The Palmyra Producer Only Farmers Market is set to open this Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon, with a new twist.

A Palmyra man was arrested for an attempted robbery Saturday night just hours after he allegedly tried to hold up a wine and spirits store, police said.

A Palmyra man waits to be arraigned at Lebanon County Central booking after trying to rob a liquor store Saturday night.

The board approved a three-year contract with Bernard Kepler of North Londonderry Township.

The Palmyra Area School Board made its new leadership team official Thursday night, voting on a five-year contract with Lisa Brown for superintendent and a three-year contract with Bernie Kepler as assistant superintendent.

The Palmyra school board Thursday night moved forward with proposed policies that call for mandatory drug testing of students participating in interscholastic athletics and student drivers, as well as voluntary drug testing for middle and high school students next year.

A Grantville man was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months of probation as a result of a crash in North Londonderry Township last year.

The case of three women who had been missing about a decade and were rescued alive this week from a Cleveland home where they were being held is giving new hope to the search for a Lebanon County woman who vanished almost a year ago.

A 19-year-old Palmyra man was injured and charged with DUI following a rollover crash early Sunday morning on Laurel Grove Road, state police at Lickdale said.

James and Linda Luck have been coming to the Palmyra library for 20 years, and they think it deserves a nice new building James and Linda Luck stopped by recently to check out books, something they have been doing every couple of weeks for the past 20 years.

The Voices of Palmyra spring concert - titled "How Can We Keep from Singing?" - will feature a collection of Broadway classics and Scottish and English folk songs.

In likely the busiest borough council race in Lebanon County, eight candidates are vying for the Republican nomination for five seats in Palmyra, with four four-year seats and one two-year seat up for grabs this year.

The altercation, which began as a verbal argument in Woofer Magoo's bar at 605 Cumberland St., took place a short distance away in the first block of North Seventh Street at 2:11 a.m., police said.