Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

Many years ago, the words "Welcome To Hershey" were spelled out on the hill in front of Senior Hall at the Milton Hershey School. Over the years, they had become sorely unattended and finally were removed back in the early 1970's.To celebrate 100 years of the Hershey Kiss and Hershey Park, the sc...

Hershey Park opened yesterday for the summer season. The park opened 100 years ago, set up by Mr. Hershey as a picnic ground with a small lake for canoes and rowboats.The next year (1908) a small merry-go-round was added. Over the next few years, Mr. Hershey added a swimming pool, a miniature rai...

The annual Harrisburg Memorial Day Weekend Arts Festival starts Saturday May 26 and runs through Monday May 28, all day, rain or shine, along the Harrisburg riverfront.This year the festival has 3 stages:            The Kunkel Plaza Stage and Walking Bridge Stage feature singers and dancers from ...

 This home was just listed. It includes 4 bedroom and 2 full baths upstairs and four spacious rooms downstairs (Living room, formal dining room, kitchen and family room with fireplace) Off the family room is a large 3 season screen and glassed porch. This home is on about .40 acres in a close in ...

I've included a link to the Inman News blog to a post written by Glenn Roberts late yesterday.Inman BlogIn the article, he quotes Alan Yassky, a "National Association of Realtors representative to Move Inc.'s board of directors", in a speech as cautioning brokers to carefully examine where the li...

  Today is the first day of a ten show six day run for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus here in Hershey at the Giant Center.The circus is presenting the "Red Show" which is known as Bellobration in honor of Bello the Clown, the featured performer. The link to the circus has all of the...

Every day, thousands of tourists visit the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. At least, they stand out front and take photos, usually of a friend or family member standing at the fence.Many people never go 100 yards up the street to look at the tired old building that shares t...

One of the benefits of living close to the major northeast cities again is that I can drive on my schedule, see what I want to see and do what I want to do on my own schedule. I'm no longer bound by Delta or US Air schedules and fare rules.Since I had no major reason to attend any of the Saturday...

I have read many of the blog posts, plus a myriad of opinions on the RealTalk and ePro forums since Monday morning regarding the Sixty Minutes piece on Sunday. My years as a viewer go back to the Harry Reasoner, Mike Wallace and Morley Safer days and the Point Counterpoint sixty second debates wi...

Hopefully this is the last of these posts about Hershey Companies cutting 3000 jobs in the US & Canada and creating 1500 jobs in Monterey Mexico.The company announced last week that they would be closing all of their Canadian manufacturing operations by the end of 2008, which includes the already...