York Springs News

TERRORISTIC THREATS: Michael Shawn Keefer, 33, Chambersburg, was arrested for terroristic threats, simple assault and criminal mischief after an incident at 8:55 a.m. Sunday along Mickey Inn Road, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

The Golden-Goulden-Gulden family will host its 83rd reunion June 28 at the York Springs Lions Club, 406 Main St.

A two-car crash Thursday morning on West Old York Road in Dickinson Township, Cumberland County, sent both drivers to Carlisle Regional Medical Center.

Ryan Warner, 18, of York Springs, recently received a partial scholarship from the Gettysburg Barnstormers to study aeronautics at the Florida Institute of Technology.

W HITE ROSES: To Deb Stock, York YWCA CEO, for being elected board president of the group's national organization, YWCA USA.

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare has not renewed the license for a York Springs nursing home for alleged violations that include rodent feces, expired medications and not evacuating all residents during a fire drill.

An Upper Macungie Township crash on Interstate 78 East at 2:46 this morning sent a 12-year-old boy to Lehigh Valley Hospital with serious injuries, police say.

The inaugural Appalachian Mountain Dirt Late Model Speedweek Series, organized by Bedford Speedway promoter J.R. Keifer, kicked into gear Saturday night at Hagerstown Speedway and followed up Sunday for race two at Selinsgrove.

York County Drug Task Force officers arrested two suspects this past week on drug trafficking charges and, from those arrests, seized $22,400 in marijuana, $1,300 in cash and two cars, according to a news release.

With the write-in votes from last week's primary election finally tallied, controversial York Springs mayoral candidate Bryan Gaura is officially off the ballot.

State Rep. Will Tallman, R-Reading Township, talks to a group of area residents Friday at the Hanover Railside Restaurant, where Tallman held the fourth of five John Q. Citizen breakfasts, at which he informs randomly selected invitees of the issues going on in Harrisburg.

Between 10 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. April 29, someone stole the pocketbook of Cynthia Reinecker, 49, of York Springs from her 2000 Honda Accord in the 1500 block of Gun Club Road, Huntington Township.

The best-tasting rural water in Pennsylvania might soon be named the best in the nation.

Bermudian Springs administrators want to hear what the district's taxpayers have to say.

Summer tutoring sessions for students at Bermudian Springs will be taking a giant step forward with the establishment of an "Elementary Summer Literacy Camp." With a slogan of "Surfin' Through Summer - One Book at a Time!" the program will be offered at no cost to parents of students in Grades 1 through 3 who have participated in the Title 1 ...

Adams County's commissioners approved 11 local projects for Community Development Block Grants this week and also plan to seek stimulus money for one of those projects.

Jackson resigns from city post Matt Jackson, who has been on leave as York's economic development director for three weeks, has resigned, effective April 17.

A transit center has been planned for this site on Carlisle Street in Gettysburg, and $1 million in economic stimulus money has been allocated for part of its construction.

York Springs has had a vacant seat on its borough council since former councilman Gary Nichols resigned in December.

A Wednesday night fire in Huntington Township that caused a home's roof and floors to collapse and sent one firefighter to the hospital was one of the worst York Springs Assistant Fire Chief Bob Herman said he has ever seen.