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Walking toward a nearly dried up Prather Creek in Loretto, Theresa Hartley reminisces about her childhood home, which used to sit feet away from the creek on Spencer Hamilton Road.
A cement slab sits on the ground where her family’s garage once stood.
She can still remember where their dog pen was located on the property. Aside from that, there’s little proof that a home once stood there.

Christmas arrives in Lebanon on. Nov. 7 this year with a two-day downtown shopping holiday open house. Lebanon celebrates the season throughout November and December with lots of merrymaking and a million lights – moonshine, too.

Lights, action, Santa!

Sgt. Phillip Chatigny is a retired Army veteran who has been around the world, and served at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea and even on guard duty at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
But, none of that prepared him to deal with teenagers.
Chatigny, 50, now serves as the instructor for the JROTC program at Marion County High School. It’s his second career after a 24-year, 10-month, 22-day career in the U.S. Army.
Chatigny was born in California at Merced Air Force Base.