15 more Pa. restaurants receive closure notices for defying COVID orders
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
Taste of Sicily in Palmyra is among the restaurants that received closure notices Jan. 11-17 from the Pa. Department of Agriculture. Community members and elected officials attended a protest in June in support of the restaurant which has been defying Gov. Tom Wolf s COVID mitigation orders.
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More than a dozen Pennsylvania restaurants received closure notices in the past week for not following the state’s COVID-19 mitigation orders.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced today 15 restaurants disobeyed Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic protocols. The inspections took place Jan. 11-17.
Number of Pa. residents charged in U.S. Capitol riot more than doubles in less than a week
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters break into the Capitol in Washington. Far-right media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested by the FBI for his involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)AP
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As of Wednesday, that number stood at nine.
The latest defendants include a Harrisburg woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and a Mechanicsburg man charged with assaulting Capitol Police officers.
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In partnership with the Lebanon County Library Association, LebTown is proud to introduce “Library Letters,” a series of columns about the programming, people, and possibilities offered by libraries around the county.
Today’s letter is from Amy Davis, director of the Myerstown Community Library.
Lebanon County Librarian Amy Davis has generated renewed interest in local PA Dutch dialect with the posting of her reading of the Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas Story by Chet Williamson.
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Davis, persuaded by library colleague, Suzanne Schaeffer to read the story for a special Facebook Live storytime on December 22 bashfully began her rendition of the story.
4 Pa. residents among those arrested so far over riot at U.S. Capitol PennLive.com 1/15/2021 Matt Miller, pennlive.com
As the investigation continues on a nationwide basis, four Pennsylvanians are so far facing charges tied directly to the Jan. 6 riot and ransacking at the U.S. Capitol.
That tally includes at least one midstate man, Terry Brown of Myerstown, Lebanon County. He is charged by the U.S. Capitol Police with unlawful entry of the Capitol during the rampage by a pro-Trump mob protesting the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the nation’s next president.
Brown, 69, also is charged by the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., with entering the Capitol without lawful authority or with intent to impeded governmental business or official functions and engaging in disorderly conduct and violent entry.
50 of the Most Stunning Pictures of Winter Across America Dana Meredith
Winter in Montana
Each year in Red Lodge, Montana our temperatures dip extremely quickly into subzero levels, as they were this day. Ice is always lighter than water, however there are conditions that do allow for ice to build up from the bottom of a water body. Known as anchor ice, it serves as a reminder that nature is in charge of the rules. –
Renee Lund, Red Lodge, Montana. If you re excited to look through these beautiful winter pictures, also take a look at these vintage photos of what winter used to look like.