“Beauty and the Beast”



            “Beauty and the Beast,” the Disney animated classic from 1991, holds a special place in my heart. It was the first movie I saw in its original run in theaters. The film kicked off a lifelong love of movies, and in that time I’ve seen a scant few that were on its level. But I’ve also seen many worse […]

TIF Deadline Looms




‘The Knife in the Side’ The developers of the old post office site in downtown Hershey say the project cannot move forward without the school district’s approval of a tax plan to help build a parking garage. “The knife in the side would be if there were no private/ public partnership,” Ed Fetter, a vice president with RVG Management and […]

Lost And Found

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Shandor Shows Up By Drew Weidman In November, we brought you the story of a Hershey man whose jacket was discovered on an unidentified dead man in New Mexico in May 2016. Many believed the body was that of 45-year-old Jason Shandor. But on Friday, March 17, Shandor came to The Sun’s office to say he’s alive. He told us […]

Shine a Light

Essays from our readers

By Robert Naeye I had never met a high-level state or national elected official prior to March 7. So it was a thrill for me to attend an open house that morning for State Representative Tom Mehaffie and U.S. Congressman Charlie Dent in their district office at 250 West Chocolate Avenue in Hershey. This was not a town hall meeting […]

Dance With Me



One of the reasons for the success of The Sun is that we ignore pretty much everything that happens outside our little circle of towns – Hummelstown, Hershey, Palmyra and now, Elizabethtown. After all, much of what passes for national “news” has no real impact on our lives here. (I mean, really, I might be curious about Trump’s tax returns […]

Letters to the Editor



First up, a bit of rumor control … We received some questions about the future of The Hershey Company’s headquarters located just off Sand Beach Road, including this email: Heard a rumor that Hershey Company sold Corporate Headquarters to Penn State Med Center and company would be moving those offices down to 19 East. Any truth to that? We asked […]

That’s Life

The Crayon Initiative

When my children were little, the bag took care of everything. If we forgot the bag, chaos ensued. The bag contained diapers, wipes, snacks, extra clothes, drinks, books, and little toys. And since this was long before toddlers spoke iPad and iPhone, there were also lots of keep-em-busy, hands-on activities like coloring books and crayons. Those lovely sticks of colored […]

From Where I Sit



Continuing my experiences with the fraternity system at Penn State, you will have to go back with me to the mid- 1960s when I returned to main campus to the Division of Broadcasting and helped put educational television station WPSX-TV on the air. When my fraternity learned I was back in town, they enlisted me as the active chapter adviser, […]

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