“The Boss”



            “The Boss” is a movie that features a montage of a girl being dumped on an orphanage, Melissa McCarthy break-dancing, an extended mouth-spreader gag, awkward flirting and dating, that gag you’ve seen in the trailers where McCarthy gets launched into a wall by a sofa bed, a crude term for a female fan of Benedict Cumberbatch, a Girl Scout […]

Derry Stops Cell Tower



in Palmyra The long-running debate about the proposed Lingle Avenue cell tower, which was denied before being approved, may finally be over as the Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas denied the necessary relief for the project. Judge Samuel Kline sided with Derry Township, which appealed the deemed approval of the project, and denied Shenandoah Mobile the relief it would […]

‘Just Relax’



Coffee with Graphite It’s not necessarily his love for coffee, rather a love for people and art that finds Igaddiel Montijo, Iggy as he is known, at various cafes and coffee shops on a nightly basis. “Sundays I spend in Timeless Café in Lebanon, Mondays at Café Panache in Lebanon, most Tuesdays through Friday at 3J’s Coffee Shop in Palmyra, […]

Mearkle On Patrol?



Drugs in Vehicle A recent arrest of a Hummelstown woman raises the question: Is Lisa Mearkle still on patrol? Mearkle resigned as a Hummelstown cop in January, two months after being acquitted in the killing of David Kassick. On Friday, April 1, Timlin Anderson, 21, was arrested in the borough for possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession […]

Takedown On Areba

Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested

A Reading man, wanted out of York County on a bank robbery charge, was arrested along with his brother on Areba Avenue in Hershey on Friday, April 8. The arrest was captured on video by Sun reader Kimberly Clark and can be seen at the top of this page. On Friday, shortly after 3 p.m., Derry Township Police began pursuing […]

Gone



The Stover Turkey Farm is no more. The family farm once covered a large chunk of the area between Middletown Road and the Swatara Creek, but last month, the last of the Stover farm properties, including Stover’s landmark farmhouse, was sold for $2.4 million. That’s a lot of turkeys. Seriously. How many turkeys would you have to breed, feed, shelter, […]

Letters to the Editor



The article titled “Heroin in the home” published in last week’s Sun wrote “For example, kids diagnosed with ADD or ADHD can be groomed into a pharmaceutical state of mind at a young age when they are prescribed drugs like Adderall.” This statement is incorrect. The best evidence to date suggests that medication treatment in childhood neither contributes to nor […]

That’s Life



The good news: Since THON started more than 40 years ago, the number of people participating in the nation’s oldest and longest dance marathon has risen steadily every year. The bad news: ditto. Sadly, it’s true; the wild success of the Penn State IFC/ Panhellenic Dance Marathon has come at a surprising cost. As the number of pediatric cancer patients, […]

From Where I Sit



Like many of you, I’ve been following the current presidential primary campaigns with great interest. Last week’s column on the havoc Teddy Roosevelt created in the election of 1912 is a cautionary tale. A good bit of the coverage — good and bad — has been on CNN (Cable News Network). I happened to be watching the other night when […]

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