Lebanon Valley College News

At Borough Council's meeting Tuesday night, Susan Verhoek and Raymond Sheetz presented their proposal.

James M. Hall, Greencastle, who earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. He is a graduate of James Buchanan High School, Mercersburg.

With Bridgewater residents dispersed all over the country to attend college, many have been recognized as Dean's List honorees, and even more are celebrating graduations.

Honors are signified as follows: ***with highest distinction; **with high distinction; *with distinction.

MOTORCYCLE CRASH: Schaefferstown Volunteer Fire Co. responded to South Carpenter and West Main streets at 5:47 p.m. Friday.

He was 88 years old, having been born March 5, 1924 in central Pennsylvania. He was raised in Harrisburg, Pa.

Matthew Mainster reads from his book 'Giggleswick: The Amadan Map' for Kristin Heller's seventh-grade class at Annville-Cleona Middle School on Friday.

Saturday, May 26: The always impressive Annville Memorial Day weekend parade starts at 9 a.m. with a flyover of two vintage T-6 Texan airplanes.

Last spring, Mike Schroeder plucked hundreds of items from the Quittapahilla Creek to establish a museum dedicated to garbage.

Below is a list of a few local students who recently graduated from college. A Lebanon Valley College Mark P. Sweeney , of Media, earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music recording technology along with more than 430 students from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa., on May 12.

Before getting on with summer - and the rest of their lives, for that matter - Lebanon County high-school students have to collect their diplomas and flip their tassels to the other side of their mortarboards at commencement, a traditional rite of passage for young adults.

South Lebanon Elementary School music teacher Shawn Small uses sounds of musical instruments to teach his students about music.

State-owned colleges and universities confront crushing cuts in state funding. Students face higher tuition, along with hikes in interest rates for subsidized federal loans.

About 10 Annville-Cleona School District residents voiced their displeasure Thursday night about the school board's decision to remove the award-winning children's book "The Dirty Cowboy" from its elementary-school libraries.

By Arthur HochnerA A A GA ov. Tom Corbett aspires to take the public's money out of public higher education.

Dickinson College senior Cameron O'Connor, 22, works on a paper in the academic quad on the school's Carlisle campus.

Wesley T. Dellinger, a member of Lebanon Valley College's board of trustees since 1988, was unanimously elected chairman of the board during the annual spring meeting last weekend.

With the school year winding down the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29 School Board acted on activities for the summer school program and approved 15 students nominated for graduation at the conclusion of the 2011-12 schoool year in action taken at the monthly board meeting held at the Maple Avenue Campus in Norwegian Township.

With more than 4,000 family members expected to attend Saturday's Lebanon Valley College baccalaureate and commencement ceremonies, LVC has worked closely with the Annville police on a temporary traffic pattern.

It is not uncommon for artists to take inspiration from nature. Karen Rich Beall and Deborah Sigel are no exception.