The kiosk that served York when trolleys ran the streets has been reconstructed by the Kinsley Education Center. Kinsley and the city are hoping to get some community support to get copper roof replaced.
York once had a county wide electric rail mass transit system.
York's street railway is a dream of tomorrow
(greenmesh 7/2006)
Dave Rudolph, the city's electrical bureau superintendent, said 3,000 LED lights will be placed on the tree. That's 500 more than what was used last year.
The city switched to the more efficient lights to save money on its electric bill, Rudolph said. Last year, the city saved about $700.
It also used to cost the city $300 a season for replacement bulbs. The LED bulbs have a ten year lifespan
In mid-October, a thief got away with $2,700 in cash, $3,000 in checks, a Wii video-game system, and other small items during a robbery, according to Northeastern Regional Police.
The seniors are starting to relax a bit," Davis, the center's executive director, said Monday.
"It's just like robbing your grandparents, basically," Davis said
Gorden Sheriff, of Hellam Township, is awarded the Meritorious Service Award during the Veterans Day Program at the York Expo Center
Home from Iraq, Cale Adams, of York Township, is reunited with his cherished Jeep after his family, friends and Adams Jeep brought it back to a life better than it has ever known.
Voters stream into an Manchester Township polling place at 7 a.m., reflect on the election and share a moment in history.
Keeping true to his Eagle Scout designation, Brandon Putman, head groundskeeper for the Revolution, set an example for Tyler Dreisbach, working to attain the rank, by renovating Central York High School's baseball field.
A man who recently lost his job killed his family before killing himself. John David Goodman, 39, shot his wife, Julia, 39, and the couple's 2-year-old son, Langon, before killing himself at their home.
York County's single ballot question for the Nov. 4 election asks voters to approve a $400 million bond for water and sewer infrastructure improvements.
Do you favor the incurring of indebtedness by the Commonwealth of $400,000,000 for grants and loans to municipalities and public utilities for the cost of all labor, materials, necessary operational machinery and equipment, lands, property, rights and easements, plans and specifications, surveys, estimates of costs and revenues, prefeasibility studies, engineering and legal services and all other expenses necessary or incident to the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension, repair or rehabilitation of all or part of drinking water system, storm water, nonpoint source projects, nutrient credits and wastewater treatment system projects?
Four-year-old Olivia Payton Yoder rides in a float her grandfater spent 1200 hours making, bands, gospel singers and scary costumes all made up the 59th Annual 2008 York Halloween Parade presented by the YWCA of York.
Northern York County Regional police officer David Tome, was hit by awhile setting up equipment to map out Sunday's fatal crash. The officer died instantly, officials said.
Cindy McCain visits Republican volunteers working on the phone banks at the Victory Center in Springettsbury Township, York.
A tour of the York County Heritage Trust's 34th Annual Oyster Festival and Colonial Days with a sampling of the oysters.
Jan Protopapus, a middle-school teacher living in Codorus Township, excels at gurmat sangee - the art of singing and playing the hymns of the sacred Sikh scripture in the prescribed rags, or melodic modes of classical, medieval Indian music.
Several staff members from William Penn High School and members of their churches gather to help board up a house where a fire killed four members of a student's family last year.
The local chapter of the Guardian Angels patrolled the streets of York, Pa. in uniform for the first time.
About 30 residents at the Barbara J. Egan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Shrewsbur participated in the 9th annual Balloons Around the World, an event designed to highlight the act of giving and to showcase balloon art.
Canine Meadows, a new dog park at John C. Rudy County Park, is a popular place for dogs and people to socialize.
Tyler Reisinger, of Dallastown, wins the medium title for the "Guitar Hero III" competition at the York Galleria.
The Chrysler EV combines the electric-drive components of an electric vehicle with an integrated small-displacement engine and generator to produce additional electricity to power the electric-drive system when needed.
The Chrysler EV Range-extended Electric Vehicle can drive 40 miles on all-electric power, and boasts a range of 400 miles on approximately eight gallons of gasoline.
The sports car version is 100% electric 270hp 450 lbs. of torque, 0-60 in less than 5 seconds with a 150 mile range.
The video says the electric equivalent costs about 75 cents a gallon.
Dedicated website with videos
www.chryslerllc.com
John Layton Sr. asked God for the chance to see his son serving in Iraq one more time. The career Navy veteran is suffering from a terminal illness. His son, Air Force Tech. Sgt. John was given emergency leave.
Given the current economic conditions, I think we all can agree that the U.S. needs a new economic/industrial policy.
CEO's Say US Needs New Industrial Policy.... a variety of economic statistics as evidence that the U.S. industrial sector is suffering overall. He noted that manufacturing currently makes up less than 12% of the U.S. economy, compared with nearly 22% of the U.S. economy three decades ago. cnn.com/money
I call it the Moral greening of Capitalism... There is a possibility of a depression, taxpayer buyout of bad debt insulating the risk in free-market with socialism, decades of outsourcing, do nothing energy plans that promote dependence and suck the life out of the economy... consumers, who sweated to create the wealth in the first place, taken hostage, roughed up and mugged.
I get up in the morning excited about the future of the day, next week, ten years from now.
The future: a simple concept to guide principles.
Allan Dameshek is honored during the Jewish Family Services of York 20th Anniversary Gala at the Out Door Country Club in York .
He went from the shoe business into the Jew business.
That's how Allan Dameshek sums up the half-century journey that took him from managing Bara Bootery in downtown York to creating Jewish Family Services of York.
A walk down Cherry Lane, in York, asking random people their opinion of an unnamed piece of art by local artist Jeff Koons. The art in quest is currently on display at the at the Palace of Versailles in France.
Canine Meadows, a new dog park at John C. Rudy County Park, is a popular place for dogs and people to socialize. Thirteen and a half acres. Fenced play areas. Free water. Everyone plays with others their size.
Tom Smith, York County's West Nile Virus coordinator, checks traps after a Summer of area mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile Virus.
Gene Schenck, vice president of the York Fair, discusses changes for the York Fair in 2009 on the last day of the fair. Features the bands Vocal Trash, Carolina Rain and Hendrick's Racing Pigs.
I am fascinated by machines that blend methods of locomotion we are familiar with and executes them in different combinations. Larry Weirich recently flew his home built hovercraft off of the Goldsboro Marina into the Susquehanna River.
Instead of cutting though the water like a standard boat, a hovercraft floats on a cushion of air and is propelled by pushing air.
Weirich says that if a standard boat and a hovercraft have the same horsepower, the hovercraft will go faster because it doesn't have to deal with the friction of cutting through water.
Some other vehicles and their frictional properties...
( Paul Kuehnel - York Daily Record / Sunday News )
The freshman transition program at Susquehannock High School aims to alleviate some of the fear related to high school. Visit students on their first day.
( Paul Kuehnel - York Daily Record / Sunday News )
A random visit to Morgan E. Cousler Park with two Hula-Hoops. Park visitors try their hula and talk about their memories.
