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Milton Hershey School: Progress, Promise and Peril



  Johnny O’Brien Johnny O’Brien left the Milton Hershey School in 1961 as a graduate … and returned in 2003 as the school’s president. His challenge was to restore the school to its former stature following a painful series of controversies. Most agree that O’Brien accomplished that during his six-year tenure, and now, as a former president, O’Brien has asked […]

Battle Lines Set for Derry Supers



moyer and brann Marc Moyer and Christine Taylor-Brann, the Republican nominees for the two open positions on the Derry Township Board of Supervisors, have formally announced that they will run a joint campaign. Earlier, the Democratic nominees, Sandy Ballard and Roger Olson, announced that they will also run a joint campaign. Combined, those decisions have established a straightforward D vs. […]

Witmer to Fill Vacancy



The Witmer for District Judge Committee has announced that Lowell Witmer has been appointed by Governor Rendell to fill the District Judge vacancy in District 12-3-05, which includes East, South and West Hanover Townships. In the May primary, Witmer won both the Republican and Democratic nominations for the position held for many years by former Hummelstown police chief Roy Bridges. […]

Sun Stat of the Week



Dauphin County Commisioners



While more than 2,400 municipalities and 465 school districts in Pennsylvania impose an earned income tax, each local unit appoints its own earned income tax collector. As expected, a threeyear study concluded that such a system is "fragmented, complex and inefficient," and recently The Sun reported on South Hanover Township’s difficulty in collecting income taxes from its collection agency, Lancaster […]

lower Dauphin Golden Jubilee

1960-2010

What Museum can be so exclusive that it is offered for only One Day? One with Christo and Jeanne-Claude? One that resembles a “Happening,” a concept originating in the late 50s-early 60s? The answer is that there are elements of both Christo and a Happening in this singular museum. Like Christo’s artworks and Happenings that go away when they are […]

Hummelstown Arts Festival

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Mini-mart replaces Uni-mart

'This will be a better store'

Bipin Parmar serves a patron at the new Hummelstown Mini-Mart on Hanover Street. Photo: Drew Weidman. Bipin Parmar knows the kind of loyalty the former Uni-Mart in Hummelstown had from its patrons. And he hopes that loyalty will return to his new store, the Hummelstown Mini- Mart, which opened two weeks ago at the location of the former Uni-Mart. "Believe […]

The Scarecrows Are coming!



This Fall Hummelstown is the place to be…unless you are a crow! Main Street in Hummelstown will again be lined with very creative scarecrows during the month of October. Local groups, organizations, businesses, families and individuals craft the scarecrows that compete for prizes in the annual Scarecrows on the Square Contest sponsored by the Hummelstown Business and Professional Association (HBPA). […]