Stewartstown News

Engine No. 2 at the Stewartstown Railroad, circa 1920. With 24 days left for the Stewartstown Railroad Company to pay a significant debt or potentially lose its stations and engine house in a sheriff's sale, the York County Commissioners are looking for ways to help.

It is about time! For the first time in weeks, there is a race to report about from York County.

Christmas and trains just seem to go together, for some reason. "Polar Express" was a Christmas book and movie.

It's that time, with calendars about to expire, we're bombarded by lists: The biggest, the best, the most important, the things not to be missed or forgotten.

Rutter's Farm Stores opened its newest store, in Stewartstown, Pa., on Christmas Eve.

State police arrested three Stewartstown residents -- one of them for allegedly poaching deer -- after getting a tip about a blue Jeep spotlighting near Maple Lawn Road in Fawn Township.

Wren Bitten, a director and the secretary of the Stewartstown Railroad Company, stands in the back of the station, before an old speeder in need of repair.

Rutter's Farm Stores opened what it said is its largest and most environmentally-friendly store Christmas Eve at 14 W. Pennsylvania Ave.

The trial for a former Springettsbury Township Police officer charged with driving drunk on duty remains on hold, because the state trooper who filed the charge against him is still deployed overseas.

Donald Dowling and his girlfriend Brittany Johnston were among those who braved the snowstorm to do some Christmas shopping at the Galleria on Saturday before it closed early at 5 p.m. More snowstorm photos.

After a day of heavy snowfall comes the good news. The National Weather Service has downgraded its prediction on how much snow will fall tonight, and snowfall should stop altogether by 7 a.m. Sunday.

A historic railroad company in York County is looking to the Bucks County Historical Society to forgive a $350,000 debt it owed to a Doylestown native who was its benefactor.

Dozens of tiny tots turned out to take a limo ride with santa, all for a charitable cause.

A York County jury on Wednesday acquitted a New Freedom woman who was accused of torching the building housing her fitness club for money and revenge.

A masked man, armed with a gun, has robbed a cash delivery van at a supermarket in west Belfast.

Tax rates in Stewartstown are expected to remain the same in 2010. The borough council recently gave tentative approval to a proposed general fund budget of $1.16 million, an increase of about $120,000 over the current budget but based in part on a millage rate of 2.85 mills, the same millage charged this year.

Pennsylvania's right-to-know law allows anyone to assess response time by requesting those records.

Rutter's is one of only three convenience store chains in the United States that recently received an "Eco-Superhero" award.

Police in York County are on the lookout for the man who robbed a Stewartstown business at gunpoint.

1 p.m. Criminal mischief was reported in the 100 block of Updyke Road, Mount Joy Township, where a vehicle was driven through a field, causing damage.