Results tagged “Tom Wolf” from York Town Square

Ronnie Meyers presents 102-year-old Daniel Wilt with a Mount Wolf Wolves baseball cap on behalf of the team at Rock Brenner Field several years ago. The ballfield is a longtime gathering spot for Mount Wolf residents. Background posts: Ten years ago, Emigsville's mighty oak fell and York's Wolf Organization builds from deep foundation.

Here's a question that opponents to merging some of York County's 72 townships and boroughs haven't answered.

If boroughs are such a good idea, why isn't there a movement to create more?

Jacobus was the last borough in York County to form. And that was in 1929... .

Robert P. Kane, former Pennsylvania attorney general, should be added to the list of political luminaries hailing from York County.

A couple of posts ago, I put forth such a list connected to York businessman Tom Wolf's interest in Pennsylvania's state treasurer's post.

I asked for additions or corrections, and Barbara Wills, former Central school director and a candidate for a state legislative seat in the early 1990s, recalled that Kane served in the Shapp administration in the 1970s... .

If Tom Wolf gains the state treasurer's appointment to replace newly elected U.S. Senator Bob Casey, he will join a line of other York countians who held lofty state and federal government positions.

I listed some of these notables in a previous post but now will add to that list. http://www.yorkblog.com/archives/2005/09/follow-the-lead.html

Jeremiah Sullivan Black served as U.S. President James Buchanan's attorney general and secretary of state. http://www.answers.com/topic/jeremiah-s-black He could not gain appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court because of a hostile Senate on the eve of the Civil War... .

I've been studying the lives of York County's captains of industries -- both past and present -- for years. Same with everyday men and women. So I pulled together some key points from all the generations for a York Sunday News column. At the same time, I pushed public service.

The writing process caused me to reflect on my own public service. Much of my discretionary time is spent alone, researching and writing. I hope it shows that public service can come in many ways -- in a crowded room or in a corner of the York County Heritage Trust.

The column follows: