Bendersville News

Hamilton Township switched to state police coverage in 2006 after the police department it shared with Abbottstown Borough disbanded.

Pennsylvania municipalities without full-time police forces would have to pay for the state troopers who patrol their streets under a bill that a state House committee narrowly passed Wednesday.

Three men accused of a committing a spree of burglaries through November and December appeared last week in Adams County court.

A 15-year-old Bendersville boy was flown to Hershey Medical Center with injuries Sunday evening after the bicycle he was riding was struck by a vehicle along state Route 34 in Biglerville.

Joe Dunkin, of Bendersville, adds the tabs collected by the children at Gettysburg s Growing Place to the ones a group of bikers collected in their effort to support the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey.

Blossoms decorate apple trees along Main Street near Bendersville. According to fruit growers in Adams County, the apple industry itself also is blooming locally and has been helped along, believe it or not, by recent gas-price spikes.

Police said a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by Richard F. Delaware, 71, of Dillsburg, was turning onto Main Street from South B Street.

Frank Dosch looks at his camper, destroyed by a fire Thursday afternoon on Bear Mountain in Menallen Township.

A Bendersville man is facing charges of robbery and conspiracy after he allegedly tricked a man into thinking he was going to smoke marijuana, but instead robbed him.

The first in a series of town-hall meetings being held by state Rep. Will Tallman, R-Reading Township, will take place Thursday at the Penn Township Municipal Building, 20 Wayne Ave.

Republican state Rep. Will Tallman has scheduled a series of open houses for his district and satellite offices in the 193rd District, which covers parts of York and Adams counties.

Several joint municipal comprehensive plans are in the works in Adams County and, according to planners, it's a long process with great benefits.

A fire company that's been around since 1928 and has been recognized by Gov. Ed Rendell for heroism has been cut from Bendersville Borough because municipal officials say they don't trust it.

Aspers Fire Company will no longer be responding to emergencies in Butler Township.

12:49 p.m. Suspicious circumstances reported at a business in the first block of Carlisle Street checked out OK.

In the winter, the frenetic pace of summer and fall on a family-owned fruit farm winds down.

A cross marks the spot where Dustin Gulbranson was killed Saturday night while walking along Harrisburg Street north of East Berlin.

State police are continuing to investigate the theft of a pickup truck that occurred this week in Menallen Township.

It's not that officials weren't listening when Lisa Conklin pleaded with them for an increased donation to the Adams County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 2009.

State police are seeking information on a burglary that occurred Tuesday in Bendersville Borough, and a reward has been offered.