Bill Ame News Today

Lebanon County voters elected its three incumbent commissioners to four-year terms in Tuesday’s general election.

ROCHESTER — Every married couple has probably heard the age-old question of “how did you guys meet?” But how many of those responses have paled in comparison to the story of Rochester’s Bill and Virginia “Ginny” Ames?

The Phillips-Bering joint ticket spent more than three times what the Kuhn campaign did for the period Jan. 1 to May 5 – and both campaigns on their own spent more than double the combined expenditures of all other campaigns for county commissioner.

The WellSpan executive will serve out the remainder of the late Bill Ames term.

The North Lebanon Township Board of Supervisors gave contingent approval to house wild animals at a new business at the Lebanon Valley Mall.

Currently the speed limit on Route 419 from the center of Cornwall to the curve at the cemetery is 25 mph, then changes to 40 miles per hour.

A 39-year-old Lebanon resident was part of a duo that was manufacturing and selling 28 "ghost guns" in the area, according to officials.

Officials now accepting applications to fill the vacant commissioner seat left by Bill Ames, who died of COVID-19 complications on Dec. 28.