Palmyra News

On Black Friday, Amy Eiserman and a troupe of her family and friends spent nine hours buying nearly 300 toys to make Christmas a little merrier for hundreds of children in need in Lebanon County.

The Christmas season in Palmyra will kick off at 7 p.m. Friday when the men and the women Barbershop Quartets and Sweet Adeline quartets perform holiday favorites in the auditorium at Palmyra Area High School, 1125 Park Blvd., North Londonderry Township.

The longer-wheelbased Land Cruiser has rear-hinged "suicide" doors and a cavernous back seat.

Members of Borough Council this week tabled a motion to abolish the borough's Board of Health.

Palmyra officials expect to move ahead with design plans for a municipal building.

Brenda Pera is proof positive that you can indeed go home again. Pera, Palmyra's assistant borough manager since the start of the year, had lived for three years in the borough, where her family's roots date back generations.

Marian Sechrist has loved dolls since she was a little girl growing up in Myerstown and Lebanon.

A Palmyra teen was among seven girls from central Pennsylvania who won awards recently at the International Chinese Youth Folk Dance Competition 2009 in Los Angeles.

Palmyra Area School District students are among the top 20 percent of achievers in the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests, district officials said.

Three years ago, Wayne Carey had one of the best Christmases he can remember. But that special holiday had nothing to do with the gifts he bought for his family or the presents he himself got.

A seventh-grader at Palmyra Area Middle School hopes to attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., next year.

A passenger in a two-vehicle crash on I-78 in Union Township on Friday is in critical condition at the Lehigh Valley Medical Center.

A 19-year-old Palmyra man was charged with firing a rifle from his bedroom toward three people walking outside during a dispute with his girlfriend Monday afternoon, police said.

AUTOMATIC ALARM: City fire crews responded at 3:14 p.m. Monday to Stevens Towers, 930 Willow St.

The Palmyra Area school board is looking for someone to fill a vacancy. Director John Jeffrey resigned at the board's regular meeting last week, citing work pressures and responsibilities for his decision.

Borough Council is looking to hire a consultant to help it set goals and priorities on future projects.

Millcreek Township employees Art Wealand, left, and Donald Leibig, who is also the chairman of the township supervisors, check the snowplow that will be put to use now that winter is approaching.

Construction of road improvements at the intersection of Route 422 and Lingle Avenue is expected to begin in the spring.

The M.S. Hershey Foundation's Board of Managers has named Don Papson of Palmyra as executive director.

An accidental electrical fire destroyed the contents of a garage at 336 E. Sheridan Ave., Annville, early Saturday morning.