Voice your opinion with our online form. Of all the smaller towns I've covered, Lebanon just might be the most attractive and pleasant. An undefinable part of Lebanon's success is the Golden Lamb, which bills itself as Ohio's Oldest Inn. Civic groups meet there.
Families gather there.
One couple has returned there on each wedding anniversary for 60 years. That's why I found a news story so disturbing. Plans call for two miles of reconstruction that would reroute traffic through town for 13 to 19 months. Council has a real problem. The city has sought to improve the road for 30 years, and the state won't help pay for the project unless the road is widened with a middle turning lane.