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Candidates blast large tax increase adopted this year Outrage over a 27 percent tax hike is taking center stage in the South Eastern School Board election next Tuesday. Three candidates will compete for two open seats in Region 2 of the school district, which covers Fawn Grove and Fawn and East Hopewell townships.
Lancaster, PA – Janet Wilson of Stewartstown, PA won a Public’s Choice Teddy Bear of the Year (TOBY) Award. Janet Wilson’s entry “Catch A Falling Star” was selected by the readers of Teddy Bear and Friends magazine as the best in the Artist Vignette - Miniature category.
I wanted to make sure that everyone knew about a great way to send FREE money to our children’s schools. The Giant grocery stores have a great program that will donate 1% of your purchases to your local school of your choice. The only catch is that you need to have a “Bonus Card” and need to register which school you would like to have your contribution to benefit.
Students urged to call, report dealers A series of talks about teenage drug and alcohol use among South Eastern School District students prompted police to take matters into their own hands. The Borough of Stewartstown is footing the bill for a 24-hour tip line that so far received two reports about area drug dealers, said Stewartstown police Chief Charles Reid. The department, along with more than 1,000 citizens in the school district, took a hard look at drug and underage drinking problems in May.
She testified before Senate, organized festival, built ‘Maize Quest’ It was a serendipitous meeting; a foggy spring night in the early 1970s, when their vehicles happened upon the same car crash on Route 24 near Stewartstown. It was 1 a.m. They were both heading home from dates with other people, and they both stopped to see if they could help the driver of the wrecked car. Gail Spory was a 5-foot-1 English teacher at Kennard-Dale High School. Paul McPherson was a fourth-generation farmer who was taken by her positive, outgoing personality; she was full of vitality.
Nearly 1,000 attend community meeting to discuss crisis South Eastern School District superintendent Thomas McShane said it all started with a call he received eight days ago from a parent whose child was reportedly afraid to come to school because of prevalent drug use at Kennard-Dale High School. The call set off a flurry of activity, including a drug and alcohol survey that was distributed to students in the ninth through 12th grades; emergency faculty meetings; a new, hard-line approach to any drug or alcohol use in the schools, and a community meeting last night in the Kennard-Dale auditorium.
Site could soon be used for camping, recreation activity The Environmental Protection Agency removed the former York County landfill in Hopewell Township from its national priorities list last week—meaning it’s no longer an environmental hazard. That will pave the way for a new use for the 306-acre area off Plank Road, and one proposal would turn it into an all-purpose field, said Bill Streett, chairman of the township’s board of trustees. While officials have a long way to go before any proposals are final, Streett said the tentative plans also include soccer and baseball fields, a walking trail and a place for local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to camp.
Stewartstown officials vote on 80-bed home next month Melissa Matthews is one of the locals. Twenty years ago, she was the redhead in a pack of teenage girls walking north on College Avenue to the community center in Stewartstown for a teen dance. Back then, her hair was big, her hips were small and her leather pants were tight. They danced to AC/DC, KISS and Judas Priest; they flirted with guys and did things their parents still don’t know about. Her life has changed a bit since then. She is 35, has a 12-year-old son and doesn’t wear leather pants. But Matthews applies memories of those days to decisions she makes now as a Stewartstown planning commissioner.
Police have recovered the body of a Pennsylvania boater who had been missing since late November, the Department of Natural Resources announced yesterday. The body of Thomas L. Davis, 52, of Stewartstown was discovered Tuesday afternoon by a passing boater near Rocky Point, Md., on the southwest side of Hart-Miller Island, Natural Resources Police spokesman Cpl. Ken Turner said.
Hopewell Township’s board of supervisors responded to several residents’ requests on septic and safety issues. The board also adopted the public sewer ordinance and intergovernmental cooperative agreement, related to Act 537, that requires all residents with septic problems to hook up to public sewer when it becomes available in their area and, if the current system is at capacity, when the new Stewartstown-Hopewell sewage treatment plant is completed in about two years.
Those who frequently visit the community forums are aware that a major facelift has been under development for Stewartstown.com. Well, the facelift is now completed, and I hope you like the results. Please do let me know your thoughts, both the good and the bad. While the cosmetic changes are pretty obvious, let me highlight a few changes that you might not notice right away:
Proximity to heat caused gas to ignite in basement A two-alarm blaze that badly damaged a Hopewell Township home this morning erupted in a pile of wood stored too close to a basement wood stove. “When you stack wood near a heat source, over time the heat will break down the wood,” said Eureka Volunteer Fire Chief Ira Walker Jr. “It’s not the wood itself that (initially) burns—the wood gives off a gas,” he said, which is what ignites first.
Pictures sent to churches, residents in Stewartstown area; minors had opened some letters Someone’s been sending graphic photos clipped from explicit sex magazines to churches, businesses and residents in Stewartstown. “There are 10 letters that we know of so far,” borough Police Chief Charles Reid said. “It’s mainly businesses, but some private citizens have received them, too ... and three churches that we know of.”
EAST HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Several East Hopewell Township residents breathed a sigh of relief last night after a local farmer’s challenge to a recent ordinance was rejected. The Zoning Hearing Board unanimously denied John Marsteller Jr.’s appeal of the township’s recent zoning amendment regulating Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations—the official term for large facilities critics call “factory farms”—and establishing time limits for approvals from the board.
More water tests in East Hopewell East Hopewell Township residents have waited months to find out if a 2,200-head hog farm will move in. Yesterday was supposed to be the day it was decided. Now they’ll have to wait another month. People again filled the Eureka Fire Hall to hear the board of supervisors meeting. It didn’t take long to start talking about hogs. |
