2022-02-24 E-Edition

If it Bleeds, it Leads


Here in the news gathering business there’s an old adage about the type of news people want to read. “If it bleeds, it leads.” Sure, blood, guts, tragedy, crime and corruption is compelling, but does the media give priority to those types of stories over “good news?” The short answer is, yes. But is it really our fault? It’s easy […]

Letters to the Editor

Please cancel my subscription to The Sun. I have enjoyed reading it for many years! Since moving to Elizabethtown and getting older, it seems, that I have lost interest in the goings on in Hershey and Hummelstown. I hope you will have many new subscribers. I will send a donation to a children’s hospital in lieu of the cost of […]

From Where I Sit


As regular readers of this column know, I am a military history buff. I’m proud to note my resume includes being one of the founders of both the Hershey Civil War Roundtable and the Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable. Among the other museums and memorials I support is the American Battlefield Trust, whose sole purpose is to save significant […]

Notes From The Mayor


Those were some crazy winds, right? I can’t recall any time in recent memory when we had two days (Thursday and Saturday) of high sustained winds with very strong gusts. Much of the borough lost power for a time on Thursday. I hope you had minimal or no damage. The borough lost two of our gateway signs, which will have […]

Castaway Critter of the Week

View From Dove Hill


Aunt Irene is nearly 90 and still driving. She’s a widow and a mother of three and recently moved into an assisted living facility, The Woods at Cedar Run in Camp Hill. She was a wonderful friend to my mom, driving her around to appointments, helping her with errands and taking her to lunch. Gary and I met Irene and […]

Fun in the Sun

Pole Stuck

Emergency crews responded to this single-vehicle crash on Jonestown Road, west of Bow Creek Road in East Hanover Township, around 6:45 a.m. Feb. 19. According to police, the crash occurred when this Saturn Ion driven by Erica A. Via, 35, of Grantville, was traveling east on Bow Creek Road, came off the roadway and struck a utility pole, snapping it […]

Crash in Campbelltown

Traffic was tied up in both directions of Route 322 following this two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Horseshoe Pike and South Forge Road in South Londonderry Township around 8:45 a.m. Feb. 17. Both vehicles were towed from the scene and no serious injuries were reported. Photo: Campbelltown Fire.