The Pennsylvania town where the air smells like chocolate, with street lamps shaped like...
Milton Hershey broke ground for his chocolate factory in Derry Church, Pennsylvania, in 1903. This rural area held just 700 residents when the first shovel hit dirt. The factory transformed everything. Smokestacks rose where farm fields once stretched. Production lines started churning out chocolate bars in 1905. The...
Dauphin County Parks and Rec employee killed while on duty memorialized at Fort Hunter
Dauphin County, PA — A Dauphin County Parks and Rec employee will soon be permanently memorialized at Fort Hunter after he was hit and killed on the job in December 2024. Gary Frampton was cleaning up trash and debris along North Front Street when he was struck and killed around 8 o’clock in the morning, two days...
2 years after Broad Street Market fire, the charred building still stands empty
Two years after a devastating fire, the Broad Street Market’s brick building remains boarded up and surrounded by a chain-link fence. The City of Harrisburg has released limited new information as plans to rehabilitate the building heavily damaged in the early morning fire on July 10, 2023, are slowly in motion.
Luke Bryan’s Hershey concert closing roads, delays possible
HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – Country music star Luke Bryan will take the stage at Hersheypark Stadium on Saturday evening. The concert is expected to draw thousands of people to the area, which may cause traffic delays for locals and concertgoers. The Derry Township Police Department says due to the concert, multiple area...
Dauphin County town considers criminalizing fun, banning games on public streets and sidewalks
Highspire’s Borough Council this week announced an ordinance that would prohibit all people, including children, from playing any kind of games on public streets, alleys or sidewalks. Ordinance 660 of 2025, which will be voted on by the borough’s council during its August meeting, cites a “serious safety problem”...
Game Commission Board Reschedules Meeting to Allow Public Comment on Sunday Hunting Bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. (EYT) – The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners has postponed its meeting, which had been scheduled for July 11 and 12, and will meet instead on Monday, July 28. The postponement will allow more time for gathering public comment following the recent passage of House Bill 1431,...
New jewelry store debuts in Harrisburg in Strawberry Square storefront
A new jewelry retailer has opened a storefront in downtown Harrisburg. Recently, Tower Jewelers debuted in the Shops on 3rd at Strawberry Square, near the 3rd Street entrance to the large office, retail and residential complex, according to owner Harristown Enterprises. “We are thrilled to bring another small...
Dauphin County school opens student-run ice cream shop
HERSHEY, Pa. — On Thursday, a Dauphin County school opened an entirely student-run ice cream shop for the summer. The Milton Hershey School's Spartan Ice Cream Center opened on July 10 for its 29th summer, serving scoops to the entire county. The shop gives students the opportunity to get...
Camp Hill Man Tries To Disarm Officer During Welfare Check, Police Say
The 45-year-old man was acting erratically and yelling at a home on the 300 block of Regent Street when officers responded to a welfare call at 3:54 p.m. on Monday, March 10, according to the Camp Hill Police Department. Police attempted to de-escalate the situation, but the man continued his...
Pa. State Police arrest 3 people after multiple guns seized by State Police
YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Three people were arrested by Pennsylvania State Police in York County on Tuesday, July 8 after troopers seized drugs and guns from an apartment in Fairview Township. Rasheed Alvarez, 18, of New Cumberland, Nyrea Holton, 19, of Harrisburg, and Keith Wilson, 18, of Mechanicsburg were...
