If you go to Giant Center, leave early
If you go to Giant Center tonight to watch Cedar Crest’s boys’ basketball game at 6:30 p.m., don’t plan to arrive at 6:25 and expect to see the start of the game. Buying a ticket won’t be a big...
View ArticleWho will win this big game today?
We’re not going to keep you in suspense. Cedar Crest will win its first District 3 boys basketball championship this afternoon at Giant Center. Why? Because Cedar Crest has a better team than York....
View ArticleLebanon County hoops teams met lofty goals
Before this high school basketball season started, the bar was set high for several of Lebanon County’s boys’ teams. As a group, they met almost every target. After reaching the Lancaster-Lebanon...
View ArticleOh man, these juries
Some days in court are humorous, some days are frustrating and many days are confusing. Watch enough jury trials and you learn this lesson: Never assume anything, which, of course, is a pretty good...
View ArticleConrad Weiser star Orr commits to LVC
Division III college basketball is largely a guards’ game because good big guys often get gobbled up by the Division I and II teams. That’s not to say that good bigs don’t find their way onto Division...
View ArticleConservatives still don’t get it on race
Driving back and forth to York yesterday afternoon, I listened to four different talk-radio shows, all with conservative hosts (of course). All old white guys (of course). And all were blasting NBA...
View ArticleBe careful with your electric supplier
Back in October, I received a letter from North American Power, an electric supplier, inviting me to sign on at a fixed rate of 7.99 cents per kilowatt hour, 18 cents less than Met-Ed was offering. So...
View ArticleOn politics and sports
Oh, these local Republicans. They pretty much mimic the national Republicans in so many ways, who continue to have a civil war between the old guard and the Tea Partiers. First, a look at the 101st...
View ArticleCorbett’s new hurdle: Geography
As if Tom Corbett didn’t have enough problems in his bid for a second term, now he has one for which there is no solution: Geography. Three of the four Democratic candidates for governor in last week’s...
View ArticleLVC’s Agnew headed to Europe
After a monster junior season, Lebanon Valley College point guard Kevin Agnew will start his senior year a little early by participating in a 10-day trip to Belgium to play against professional teams...
View ArticleLVC football won’t see the lights this year
Although Lebanon Valley College drew one of its largest non-homecoming-game crowds to Arnold Field for a non-league football game against Montclair State last season, there are no night games on the...
View ArticleThis might make you laugh
Is Tom Corbett the Ruben Amaro Jr. of governors? Or is Amaro the Corbett of Major League Baseball general managers? Regardless, it’s hard to imagine either one still being in the same job a year from...
View ArticleTone-deaf conservatives missing boat on soccer
Once again, conservatives are tripping over themselves on a social issue. This time, it’s the World Cup in general and the U.S. men’s soccer team specifically. You would think conservative commentators...
View ArticleFalcons serve notice
Yes, it’s the middle of July, four weeks before the start of fall sports practice for high school teams. And we’re gonna talk a little hoops. That’s because, here in Lebanon County, we do hoops pretty...
View ArticlePhillies, Falcons and Cedars oh my
Cliff Lee takes the mound for the first time in more than two months tonight, the first of two auditions for Lee prior to the July 31 trade deadline. Lee, of course, is one of several Phillies...
View ArticleOur collective ADD and its repercussions
We live in an age of 140 characters, so many of us now find it hard to concentrate for more than, say, five minutes on any given subject. As a result of this collective attention deficit disorder, the...
View ArticleLisa Arnold’s gone. So now what happens?
After years of complaints about the way she ran the Lebanon County Prothonotary/Clerk of Courts office, Lisa Arnold pleaded guilty to a summary charge Thursday. Except, she didn’t. Her attorney, Sean...
View ArticleTrautman signs with German team
Former Lebanon High and Lebanon Valley College basketball player Anthony Trautman signed a contract last week with a German team and will play his first game there soon. Trautman’s team is located in...
View ArticleWhy Wolf will win by 20 points
With the three gubernatorial debates now in the rear-view mirror, nothing has changed. We are gonna have a blowout, ladies and gentlemen, on Nov. 4. After the polls close at 8 p.m., it will take...
View ArticleAnthony’s excellent adventure
When he left Lebanon July 30 to head to Spain for a basketball tryout camp, Anthony Trautman had no guarantees. The Lebanon High and Lebanon Valley College graduate was told scouts from European teams...
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