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28 YORK DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1997 Mayor pledges not to raise property taxes The council OKd fixing a fire house bell, but said it would not be used to sound curfew. Councilman Ray Crenshaw urged the York City School Board to do its part to keep school taxes Weve cut 50 positions in the last three years." Crenshaw, Robertson and tioned the wisdom of spending, the money at this time. Thats a lot of money," Kelley CfHME Guns, rare coins stolen Burglars stole $50,000 worth of rare coins and collectors guns from a Fairview Township home between Friday and Monday, police reported. neighbor checking the house found damage to the rear sliding-glass doors and cut telephone and television cables. The losses included gold and silver coins, ounces of silver, rare postage stamps, at least three handguns and many Hummel figurines.

Anyone with information can call Fairview Township Police at 901-5267. said. Is this something that could wait? Public Services Director Mike' Sweet said the administration was concerned that the price to rebuild the tower would increase over time, and since the money was budgeted, it ought to be done now. Kelley voted to approve the expenditure. Robertson said reports that the bell would be part of a plan to use fire station bells to sound curfew were incorrect.

We discussed that as a possible option, Robertson said. But with only five fire halls, its not1 practical. Very few people would be able to hear it. in check. We get the brunt of the comments about taxes, Crenshaw said.

But its the school district. Could the (city) administration with perhaps a member of the council meet with the school board to try to alleviate some of the burden on our people? School board member Cameron Texter, attending the meeting as videographer for YCAT, defended the school board. I get concerned when you say we raise taxes all the time, Texter said. The state froze our Rinding To use a cliche, were between a rock and a hard place. Texter agreed to work for additional discussions about the assessment's impact on school taxes.

Following action Tuesday by the council, It appears the bell from the Rex Laurel Fire Hall at South Duke and East King streets will toll again. The council approved a $67,500 contract with Stewart and March Inc. to build a new bell tower. The new structure will replace an old tower that was removed eight months ago because officials feared it wasnt structurally sound. Councilman Tom Kelley ques ber, I am prepared to tell you this now.

Robertson is the third jnay oral candidate to make such a promise. Republican Anne Berry has been campaigning on a pledge to make the assessment revenue neutral. We will adjust the millage rate so as to negate any potential tax increase caused by the reassessment, Berry said in an interview a week ago. Last week, Libertarian candidate Jason Fritchlee also pledged not to raise taxes. By MIKE MENDER Daily Record skiff A month after the York City Council pledged to hold the line on city property taxes in the wake of the countywide property reassessment.

Mayor Charlie Robertson did the same. Robertson made a rare appearance at a council meeting Tuesday to make the pledge. I will prepare a balanced 1998 budget without a property tax increase, Robertson said. Although we will not submit a budget to council until Novem Residents crowd meeting to hear about quarry The man who wants to drain it and fill it with debris did not show up. By LORI BADDERS Daily Record correspondent They crowded shoulder to shoulder into the Peach Bottom Township building Tuesday, but the man everyone came to hear never showed.

More than 50 people filled the small municipal meeting room in the hope of questioning William Hasenei Sr. of Recycling Brokers of Tomorrow Inc. about his companys plans for Funkhouser Quarry. At previous meetings, Hasenei has said he wants to drain the quarry and fill it with construction materials left over from his energy pellet-making business. He also said he would bring his attorney and engineers to the township board of supervisors meeting Tuesday night, but no Talks Continued from IB increases and 1 percent raises each year.

The agreement is identical to the state fact finders report accepted earlier this year. The contract will allow a starting teacher to make $28,242, while a teacher with a masters degree plus 30 credits will make $57,505. At one point, people on both sides of the bargaining table speculated that a strike was a possibility. Eastern Teachers will be paid a bonus of $500 in the first year if at least 55 percent of the students score above average on the state assessment tests. That was the highlight from this three-year contract.

Additional bonuses will be awarded in the last two contract years if both sides agree. Both union members and the board approved the contract earlier this summer. The total amount of both the salary increase and the bonus, if earned, will be about 3.5 percent in the Rob One man escaped out a window of the Dallastown apartment and called for help. Continued from IB Groves house that night. He said he had left and walked three blocks to a Turkey Hill store to buy something to drink.

Torres arrived while he was out, he said. Upon his return, Clubb testified, he walked in, was grabbed by the arms and slammed against TIMETABLE These are the expiration dates ot York County school district teacher contracts June 30, 1997: Central York. Eastern York Northeastern West Shore, York Vo-Tech and West York Area Aug. 31, 1997: York City June 30, 1998: Red Lion Area South Eastern and Northern June 30, 1999: Southern York and Hanover Public Aug. 31, 1999: South Western June 30, 2000: Spring Grove Area.

Dover Area Dallastown Area, York Suburban, Lincoln Intermediate Unit June 30, 2001: Northern (The district reached an early bird agreement Though the current contract expires June 30. 1998, a new one picks up and runs through the 2001 date Source school districts first year. York Vo-Tech Committee members approved a three-year contract for the 67 members of the Vo-Tech Association. The union also approved the same contract in July. The contract includes raises of 4.25 percent in each year of the agreement.

Union officials say the pact leaves teachers benefits intact. the door. His arms were taped behind him and he, too, was dragged face down to the same bedroom. Hearing the window fall behind the escaping Gembe. the assailants left the apartment.

When silence fell over her apartment, Grove called police to discover 911 dispatchers were on the line with Gembe. York Township Police Detective Terry L. Meyers testified that Groves apartment on North School Place had been tom apart by the intruders and littered by clumps of crumpled duct tape removed by the victims. Grove and six of her friends, Meyers said, were nervous, upset and near panic when he walked in about 11 p.m. No latent fingerprints w'ere found in an attempt to link the intruders to the crime, Meyers said.

Trial starting for 1993 murder 'A man of many aliases, William Cooper, faces trial in West Virginia for the gruesome 1993 murder of a former Airville farmer. Cooper allegedly beat and strangled 36-year-old Timothy A Good. Cooper had convinced his new friend to sell the family dairy farm so they could build a commune in an isolated mountain area. It never came to pass. While Goods body decayed in the basement of their home in West Virginia, Cooper and his girlfriend, Arlene Elizabeth Whitehurst, allegedly lived upstairs for a year.

They left in the fall of 1994. About three months later, a burglar found Goods body. He called police and left without taking anything. Whitehurst remains at large, said W.D. Lemon, the Wetzel County prosecutor.

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120 Hokes Mill Rd. 530 Vander Ave. York, PA rj 1 one came In his absence, township officials reported on the latest information they have learned from discussions with the state Department of Environmental Protection and, the York County Conservation District. Before DEP would grant permission for the company to drain the quarry, Recycling Brokers must conduct a geological study, which usually takes two years to complete, township chairman S. David Stewart said.

The company faces a $10,000 per day fine if it begins pumping water out of the quarry without state approval, he said. DEP tests have found the quarry water far too acidic to release into any stream, township codes officer Michelle Soder said. DEP officials told her that Ha-seneis idea to put lime into the water to lower the acid level is too simple, she said. The company would have to go through the proper procedures to change the level. A no-contest plea does not admit guilt but acknowledges that a judge or jury is likely to convict.

Adams, formerly of Stewarts-towm and Monkton, was directed by Common Pleas Judge John S. Kennedy to begin serving his sentence Sept. 15, two days before his 25th birthday. The plea agreement reached between the district attorneys office and J. David MacVeigh, assistant public defender, gives Adams the mandated minimum prison term for homicide by vehicle while intoxicated.

Adams also pleaded no contest to homicide by vehicle, driving while intoxicated, involuntary pennState York Felton man pleads no contest By DEAN WISE Daily Record staff A southern York County man will go to state prison for three to six years for causing the death of a Shrewsbury resident while driving drunk. Donald Lee Adams of Felton pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges arising from a May 6 crash in Hopewell Township. The accident killed Edward Rittershofer, 66, of Shrewsbury. Large BOSTON FERN $1395 8-INCH GARDEN MUMS 3 FOR $10 PASSION VINE 5 95 FLOWERING KALE AND CABBAGE AVAILABLE Locally grown in 8 of our own greenhouses 3465 Deminger Road (Road To Rocky Ridge) Open Daily Sam 7 30 Saturday Sunday Sam 5pm 755-5629 The county Conservation District sent Recycling Brokers a letter stating that the company has violated the law by moving earth at the quarry without its approval, Stewart said. The letter was a warning and advised the company to submit an erosion control plan or face a fine, he said.

It is still unclear who owns the quarry, but officials believe a man named Kelly Smith has been paying property taxes on behalf a Baltimore investment group comprised of Smith and two doctors, township officials said. Ownership is important because any permits issued by the township would be given to the owner, not the company leasing the property, Malone said. Hasenei has said Recycling Brokers is leasing the property from Slate Ridge Limited Partnership. Residents asked what they can do to fight the company. Officials agreed that writing DEP and their state legislators could be helpful.

in fetal wreck manslaughter, reckless driving and driving without a license and on the wrong side of the road. Fines imposed by Kennedy for the DUI and the three traffic summaries total $590, to be paid during Adams period of parole. State Trooper Douglas D. Miller investigated the accident along Route 851 near the intersection of Zeigler Road. He reported that Adams blood-alcohol level was 0.143 grams percent.

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