York Daily Record/Sunday News
See Rotary volunteers plant new trees in downtown York replacing iconic Bradford Pears
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- See Rotary volunteers plant new trees in downtown York replacing iconic Bradford Pears
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Trees returned to downtown York on Oct. 18 with 50 Rotary Club of York volunteers planting 63 trees along Market Street between Pershing and Duke Streets.
( Video/Story: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/20/rotary-club-plants-63-trees-along-yorks-market-street-after-removal/86794296007/
As a golden sunrise washed down the historic facades of West Market Street, Aaron Jacobs, past Rotary Club of York president and district governor nominee, taught the group how to properly plant the trees.
Describing how to handle the soil and the importance of keeping the trees straight while planting, Jacobs was asked how fast will they grow? “As fast as God wants them to,” Jacobs replied to laughter from the crowd, following up with that they will grow “a foot or two a year” once they acclimate to their new home.
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- Can you turn your old vinyl siding into a concrete patio? Yes! This Adams County woman did
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Janice Newcomer turned vinyl siding into a patio in an eco-friendly farmhouse renovation with help from York plastics recycler CRDC Materials.
( Video/story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/22/plastic-renovation-waste-recycled-back-into-materials-for-project/86815290007/
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- 'No Kings' protest fills the square Oct. 18 in York mirroring protests across the U.S.
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- About 2,200 people attended the 'No Kings' rally against what they characterize as authoritarian practices by the Trump administration.
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- AI robots are now sorting your recyclables at Penn Waste's facility
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- You may not think about it when tossing that empty cat food can into your curbside recycling container, but downstream there is a small army of people at Penn Waste trying to separate usable items from careless recycling. That can make their jobs dangerous, and it lowers the value of what they collect.
( Video/ Story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/09/ai-robots-are-sorting-your-recyclables-at-penn-wastes-facility/86589405007/
Penn Waste has partnered with two companies to integrate artificial intelligence into the sorting process. The new process helps increase worker safety and creates cleaner, more valuable end-products that can make the business model of extracting revenue out of trash more viable.
Penn Waste, with startup company Glacier and Cox Enterprises, hosted a tour on Oct. 8 at the Penn Waste recycling facility in Manchester Township highlighting the benefits of a recently added AI-enabled sorti...
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- 2 Dover students rode to school on a screaming fire truck as an award for fire safety art
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The Dover Township Volunteer Fire Co. partnered with the Dover Area School District for an art contest to help kids understand the danger of lithium battery fires during Fire Prevention Month. Two students and their teachers, at Weigelstown Elementary School, received a ride to school on a fire engine Oct. 6 for their winning entries.
( Video/ Story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/07/weigelstown-elementary-students-ride-to-school-on-a-fire-truck/86548026007/
Students lined up as the fire equipment arrived with wailing sirens. Winner, first-grader Juliana Shenberger, and third-grader Aneldy Matos, were helped off the large red machines while students and teachers waved in their arrivals.
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- Follow the dialogue of UPMC medical staffers calling 911 during an active shooter incident
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- An excerpt from the transcript of a 911 call during UPMC shooting follows a group taking cover in a closet and the actions they took to remain safe.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- See what's inside a glamping tent, to be featured in 8 Pennsylvania state parks glamping
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- New glamping sites in eight Parks can be reserved now for spring 2026, including Codorus, Promised Land, Hickory Run, French Creek and Laurel Hill.
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- 'More deadly than guns or opiates,' York County officials sound alarm on SIDS
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Saying SIDS claims more lives every year than opiates, gun violence and suicide, county, city and WellSpan Health officials gathered at York City hall Oct. 6 to raise awareness about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
( Video/story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/07/not-worth-an-eternity-at-the-graveside-coroner-infant-sleep-safety-sids-suid/86555621007/
York County Coroner Pam Gay opened the program sharing the moments when she arrives at a home for one of these often preventable infant deaths.
“When children die in such a manner that can be fully preventable, it’s really difficult for us to see. … It’s hard for them (the parents) and it’s hard for us. … We ask them a lot of questions about how the baby was put down, how the baby was found,” Gay said.
Coroners and doctors use this information to try to piece together what actions might have caused what is referred to as a Sudden Unexp...
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- 2 Dover students rode to school on a screaming fire truck as an award for fire safety art
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The Dover Township Volunteer Fire Co. partnered with the Dover Area School District for an art contest to help kids understand the danger of lithium battery fires during Fire Prevention Month. Two students and their teachers, at Weigelstown Elementary School, received a ride to school on a fire engine Oct. 6 for their winning entries.
( Video/story: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/07/weigelstown-elementary-students-ride-to-school-on-a-fire-truck/86548026007/
Students lined up as the fire equipment arrived with wailing sirens. Winner, first-grader Juliana Shenberger, and third-grader Aneldy Matos, were helped off the large red machines while students and teachers waved in their arrivals.
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- Wounded Lt. David Godfrey attends K-9 fundraiser days after release from hospital. Hear him speak.
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Lt. David Godfrey entered the lobby of the York Expo Center's Memorial Hall at about 12:40 p.m.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/05/david-godfrey-attends-k9-fundraiser-days-after-release-from-hospital/86535028007/
As he walked toward the main hall, leaning on a walker and accompanied by a pair of nurses, a phalanx of York County Sheriff's deputies and his family, and wearing a gray sweatshirt emblazoned with "Grumpy Old Vet" and olive shorts, he was greeted with a smattering of applause.
He entered the main hall and the applause and cheers rippled through the crowd at the fundraiser for the K-9 corps like a wave as word spread that Godfrey was in the building.
Godfrey, a 24-year veteran of the sheriff's office and founding commander of the K-9 corps, still bore signs of the wounds he suffered Sept. 17 during a lethal ambush in North Codorus Township. He was accompanying Northern York Cou...
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- Pit Bull Awareness Month looks for the best in dogs and people
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Forming stereotypes about people and animals can have devastating consequences.
The York County SPCA is hoping to educate people and win some adoptions for often overlooked dogs during Pit Bull Awareness Month in October featuring a nostalgic '90s theme.
( Video/ Story: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/02/pit-bull-awareness-month-looks-for-the-best-in-dogs-and-people-october-is-pit-bull-awareness-month-a/86461601007/
“Pit bulls aren’t even a recognized breed, but a name given to dogs that fit a common type of characteristic,” said Steven Martinez, Executive Director of the York County SPCA, during the kickoff event, “mixed-breed dogs that share similar physical traits, including American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, and mixes of those breeds. Because of this broad label, many dogs are inaccurately identified as pit bulls based on appearance alone....
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- York’s Rex Laurel fire station reopens after $2.5M restoration,148 Years of Service
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- A working sentinel of firefighting history in the United States, the Rex Laurel Fire Station at 51 S. Duke St. in York was the center of attention on Sept. 26 for a rededication and grand opening that concludes a $2.5 million restoration and renovation project.
( video/story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2025/09/29/from-horse-drawn-wagon-to-modern-firefighting-rex-laurel-lives-on/86404603007/
Built in 1877, the station was designed for horses and wagons, which were used for firefighting at the station for the next three decades. The fire company at the time donated the land and the city paid $10,000 to build the structure, according to Charles Rhoads, who began with the department in 1955 and added that remark to York Mayor Michael Helfrich’s speech during the event.
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- Take a walk around the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- See the mature flowers and vegetables at the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education on Sept. 17, 2025 as summer ends.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Watch flyover, gun salute for three York County officers killed in the line of duty
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The service began shortly after noon Thursday when Pastor Aaron Anderson took the pulpit at Living Word Community Church, trying to find the right words to say in the moment.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2025/09/25/detectives-killed-in-north-codorus-township-pennsylvania-honored-during-solemn-ceremony/86312160007/
They came hard. Anderson, the church’s lead pastor, was officiating the funeral for three police officers – Northern York County Regional detectives Cody Becker, Mark Baker and Cody Emenheiser – who were killed in an ambush just over a week ago while executing an arrest warrant in North Codorus Township.
He spoke about the grief and anger that followed the deaths of the three detectives at the hands of a young man armed with an AR-15. He spoke of trying to make sense of the act of madness that led the mourners to this day. He asked mourners to seek solace in the teachings of Jesus Chri...
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- Watch funeral procession for three Northern Regional officers killed in the line of duty
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Mourners gather to pay their respects to three fallen Northern York County Regional Police detectives who were killed in the line of duty.
The service began shortly after noon Thursday when Pastor Aaron Anderson took the pulpit at Living Word Community Church, trying to find the right words to say in the moment.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2025/09/25/detectives-killed-in-north-codorus-township-pennsylvania-honored-during-solemn-ceremony/86312160007/
They came hard. Anderson, the church’s lead pastor, was officiating the funeral for three police officers – Northern York County Regional detectives Cody Becker, Mark Baker and Cody Emenheiser – who were killed in an ambush just over a week ago while executing an arrest warrant in North Codorus Township.
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- Live: York police funeral at Living Word Church honors detectives after shooting a week earlier
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- 4:48:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A funeral service will be held Thursday, Sept. 25 for three Northern York County Regional Police detectives who were killed in the line of duty on Sept. 17,
The service will be held at noon at Living Word Community Church, 2530 Cape Horn Road, in York Township.
The Three detectives, Det. Sgt. Cody Becker, Det. Isaiah Emenheiser and Det. Mark Baker, were killed in an ambush while trying to serve an arrest warrant on Ruth, who allegedly had been stalking an ex-girlfriend at her home in North Codorus Township. The suspect in the shooting, Matthew Ruth of Penn Township, was shot and killed during the event, too.
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- Full service: Funeral honors 3 officers killed in the line of duty in York County
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- 1:23:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A funeral service was held on Thursday, Sept. 25 for three Northern York County Regional Police detectives who were killed in the line of duty on Sept. 17. The service was held at Living Word Community Church in York Township.
The three detectives, Det. Sgt. Cody Becker, Det. Isaiah Emenheiser and Det. Mark Baker, were killed in an ambush while trying to serve an arrest warrant on Ruth, who allegedly had been stalking an ex-girlfriend at her home in North Codorus Township. The suspect in the shooting, Matthew Ruth of Penn Township, was shot and killed during the event, too.
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- Procession of hearses arrive at funeral for York police detectives killed in shooting
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- 43:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A funeral service was held on Thursday, Sept. 25 for three Northern York County Regional Police detectives who were killed in the line of duty on Sept. 17,
The service at Living Word Community Church was proceeded by a procession outside.
The three detectives, Det. Sgt. Cody Becker, Det. Isaiah Emenheiser and Det. Mark Baker, were killed in an ambush while trying to serve an arrest warrant on Ruth, who allegedly had been stalking an ex-girlfriend at her home in North Codorus Township. The suspect in the shooting, Matthew Ruth of Penn Township, was shot and killed during the event, too.
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- A York County version of Longwood Gardens? It's coming to the Appell estate in York Twp.
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Louis Appell Jr. never really showed much interest in gardening, his son, Louis Appell III, recalled.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/09/24/appell-estate-in-york-township-to-be-developed-into-a-public-garden/86335339007/?tbref=hp
The broadcast/radio/pottery magnate never really expressed much interest in digging in the dirt and planting flowers or tomatoes. But over the years, the family estate, called Milbourne off Powder Mill Road in York Township, evolved from a chaotic, overgrown hillside into a manicured, English-style garden with stone fences, a pond and lush gardens.
The senior Appell died in June 2016, and the family and its foundation, the Powder Mill Foundation, began working on plans to memorialize him and "speak to his legacy," as Michael Hady, president and CEO of the foundation, put it at a groundbreaking ceremony. They came up with a plan, and on Wednesday, Sept. 24, they unveiled it - th...
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- Gov. Josh Shapiro responds to 3 officers killed: 'We need to do better as a society'
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke, along with Pennsylvania State Police, at WellSpan York Hospital about three officers killed in N. Codorus Township.
( video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Northern Regional Police chief David Lash remembers 3 of his officers who died in the line of duty.
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Northern York County Regional Police Chief David speaks during a press conference at his station to detail what happened during a fatal shooting.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Moment by moment: York Co. DA details shooting that claimed 3 officers
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- 4:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- York County DA Tim Barker describes the moments around shooting that killed three Northern York County Regional Police officers and ended with the shooter dead in N. Codorus Township.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Attorney General Dave Sunday asks us to look within for drivers of violence after officer shooting
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday asks people to look within themselves for answers and was touched by turnout procession for fallen officers Northern York County Regional Police officers.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Inspired to help after Katrina, this PA church group is still providing disaster relief
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The first Sunday after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans and the surrounding region, Pastor Daniel Moore took to the pulpit at Guinston Presbyterian Church in southern York County, Pa., with the devastation he saw more than 1,100 miles away weighing on his mind.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/special-reports/2025/08/28/inspired-after-hurricane-katrina-pa-church-group-guinston-gutters-still-provides-disaster-relief/83590813007/
Moore is not a typical preacher, if such a thing exists. He has longish hair and beard and looks more like someone who spent his youth following the Grateful Dead than a deeply devout minister, a seeker who believes that the teachings of Jesus Christ can guide people to live more spiritually fulfilling lives, that the greatest service to God is service to your neighbors.
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- Hear Rep. Smucker, AG Sunday speak with officials to promote new prisoner reentry law
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- U.S. Rep. Smucker and PA Attorney General Dave Sunday speak with officials to promote new prisoner reentry law at The York County Reentry Coalition.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- York County nonprofits demand that state budget be resolved to restore funding
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As the Pennsylvania State budget impasse drags on for a third month, a lack of funding has begun to cut into programs for families served by York County nonprofits. State Rep. Carol Hill-Evans gathered with leaders of local nonprofits at her office in York on Sept. 3 to urge constituents to contact their state lawmakers to demand budget action.
( Video/Story: Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/09/03/york-pa-nonprofits-demand-state-budget-be-resolved-to-restore-funding/85960850007/
C. Kim Bracey, CEO of the YMCA, said that with the lack of funding they are “forced to make impossible decisions… delaying payments to vendors and having workforce reduction conversations (all of which is) risking critical services to children, families and working people.”
Sara Bradley, executive director of York Day Early Learning, said that the lack of about $9.3 million in funding is affecting about 900 children and their pare...
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- Corey Wolfe thanks the York restaurant community for work before his bar opens
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Corey Wolfe was looking at an uncertain delay for a state inspection of his New York Wireworks Woof Bar, so several downtown York bars offered work.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- Emmitt Till remembered in York for galvanizing Civil Rights Movement 70 years ago
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The short life of American Civil Rights Movement icon Emmett Till was remembered on Continental Square in York 70 years after his murder in Jim Crow South era Mississippi, as part of a national observance Aug. 28.
( Story/Video: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/08/28/emmett-till-remembered-for-galvanizing-american-civil-rights-movement/85868038007/
A group of about 30 people gathered for a photo recognition on a national website, a few words by Samantha Dorm followed by a moment of silence.
According to emmetttilllegacyfoundation.com, which encouraged national participation: “Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped, lynched and brutally murdered at age 14 on August 28, 1955. The acquittal of the murderers and his mother's decision to have an open casket funeral galvanized the emerging Civil Rights movement.”
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- Experience 100 years at the Strand Theatre in York during special program
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Invited guests, past board members, donors, staff and public officials gathered on the stage of the Strand to celebrate 100 years Aug. 27, 2025.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- York City Police dedicate a new pocket park outside their King Street headquarters
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A patch of grass in front of the York City Police station at 50 E. King St., often used for serious purposes, has been given a softer makeover, now welcoming children as a pocket park.
( Story/Video: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/09/03/york-pa-police-dedicate-a-new-pocket-park-outside-king-street-hq/85958540007/
“For years, our community has used this very spot as a court-ordered meeting spot for custody exchanges and a safe place to meet to exchange goods … loving parents have told their children to meet here to be picked up after school. … Most notably victims and well-meaning witnesses have come right here with their little ones at their side while they report and recount their worst days,” York City Police Commissioner Michael Muldrow said in describing the historic purpose of the former patch of grass to the left of department headquarters.
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- Rob Evans retrospective exhibit: 5 decades of making York County home began with Roundtop
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Nurtured by eastern York County's scenic beauty, Rob Evans brought his perspective of life in York County to the world over his 50-year art career. He continues today documenting the same timeless hills, sky and water that originally inspired him.
( Story/Video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/09/09/rob-evans-exhibit-spans-50-years-rooted-in-york-county-pa/86039324007/
Two concurrent exhibits – one at York College Art Galleries exploring his development as an artist before 2000 – can be viewed now. The other, at Creative York downtown highlighting more than two dozen landscapes of York County and the Susquehanna River Valley, opens Oct. 2.
This is Evans' first hometown exhibit in decades that offers a large body of his work.
Evans’ adult visual perspective might have been very different had the boy whose early years began in a Washington, D.C. suburb not visited his grandparents' lofty st...
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- New owner of Citizens Bank building shares vision for turning space into hotel/restaurant
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The former Citizens Bank building on Continental Square could soon undergo a major facelift, transforming into a hotel and restaurant.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/money/business/2025/08/19/new-owner-plans-to-reshape-former-citizens-bank-in-york-pa-into-hotel/85712126007/
The project is expected to take several years to come to fruition and cost millions in restoration. In early August, Investment Real Estate Group of Companies founder and CEO John Gilliland purchased the building with his wife, Denise. He gave a tour of the former bank and shared his vision for the future hotel and restaurant.
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- Perry, McCormick, Smucker respond to Trump's desire to eliminate mail-in, machine ballots
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Lawmakers Scott Perry, Dave McCormick and Lloyd Smucker responded to a Trump mail-in voting question after a tour at BAE Systems near York, Pa.
( Video Paul Kuehnel )
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- McCormick, Perry and Smucker rally behind AI expansion in PA: 'Next Industrial Revolution'
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Republican U.S. Reps. Scott Perry and Lloyd Smucker, and Sen. Dave McCormick have data centers, the extensive power needed to drive them, and the future of artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania in focus as they hope to expand the technology here rapidly and win a war with the world to harness it first.
( Video, Story: Paul Kuehnel )
Against the backdrop of hulking war machines created by BAE Systems near York, a group of Republican lawmakers toured the facility Aug. 19 and offered the media a press gaggle at the conclusion of their tour in a huge three-sided building that is part of the manufacturing facility.
After brief presentations by each lawmaker about how the plant’s manufacturing of vehicles fits into the future U.S. military, they opened the floor to questions by reporters. One journalist asked them to comment about how they see the relationship between the rush to build AI data centers and the public concern about the massive amount ...
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- 'I couldn't breathe': York drag artist says they were choked after anti-queer taunting
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Two days after an encounter that began as verbal anti-LGBTQ taunting in the beer garden at Gift Horse Brewing Co. and ended in alleged violence outside the York County courthouse, three members of York's queer community were shaken and still processing the incident - but also buoyed by the support they've received from the community.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/08/24/york-pa-drag-artist-alleges-they-were-choked-after-anti-queer-exchange/85806663007/?tbref=hp
Vayne Disharoon, 31, of York, a veteran local drag performer, described the Aug. 22 incident that they said resulted in them being choked unconscious by a man near the alley just south of the county judicial center on George Street.
Disharoon and friends Brady Pappas, 28, of Wrightsville and Tragedy Stackhouse, 28, of York said they were having drinks in the beer garden Friday evening when a group of five, two men and three women, seated near th...
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- 2 York County 911 dispatchers help to save lives: 'Calls are very scary sometimes'
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Two York County 911 call takers recently helped to save the lives of two individuals, and one of them had to instruct a spouse on how to perform "reverse" cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is an uncommon procedure.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/30/york-county-911-call-taker-gave-instructions-to-back-cpr/85320186007/
In June, Marissa Shoemaker, who communicates with callers while dispatchers send first responders to the scene, received an emergency call from a wife whose partner had collapsed in a tight space in a bathroom. The public safety telecommunicator advised the woman to try to move her husband onto his back or away from the area so she could perform CPR.
"I can't do this; I can't get him to move," the woman kept saying. Shoemaker tried to reassure the woman, telling her that she was doing a good job and that help was on the way, while continuing to give instructions: "We need to move him...
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- York County cat rescues are overwhelmed with stray felines. They blame the SPCA's policies
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2021, Heavenly Paws, a cat rescue operated by Ann Behrendt out of her home in rural southern York County, took in about 500 cats.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/24/cat-rescues-say-york-county-pa-spca-policies-led-to-surge-in-strays/85258928007/
Heavenly Paws, a nonprofit that has been around for 25 years or so, doesn’t have a physical shelter and relies on volunteers to take in the cats, fostering them until they can be adopted. Behrendt relies on donations to pay for cat food, litter and sometimes astronomically high veterinarian bills.
At the time, 2021 was considered a bumper year for her. In 2022, the number jumped to 700. Then, the next year, intake rose to 918.
Last year, Heavenly Paws took in 1,231 cats.
Her experience is similar to those of other, smaller cat rescue operations. All are seeing huge jumps in the number of cats they’ve taken in.
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- Life as a Christian store has opened in downtown York
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Life as a Christian, a Christian goods store, is the newest addition to downtown York’s market district.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/16/life-as-a-christian-is-a-christian-goods-store-in-downtown-york-pa/84537688007/
For Larisse Reinoso and her late mother Ruth Claudio, starting Life as a Christian, was a calling from God to share their faith with the community.
Growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, Reinoso was raised in a Christian household and would occasionally attend Sunday church services with her mother, and also while on trips to visit family Puerto Rico. Five years ago, Reinoso said she gave herself to the Lord, and was baptized alongside her whole family.
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- Dave Kern, 89, of Dallastown is going to the National Senior Games to compete in tennis
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Dave Kern and Jim Lubas warmed up on the end court under one of the two bubbles at the Wisehaven Tennis Center shortly after 7:30 on a recent Tuesday morning, leisurely knocking the ball back and forth, not expending much effort.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full Story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/17/dallastown-pa-tennis-player-dave-kern-89-going-to-national-senior-games/85204997007/
Kern shuffled along the baseline. The balls he couldn’t get to, he watched bounce to the net behind him. He was wearing a white tennis shirt and shorts, New Balance tennis shoes and black compression sleeves on both knees and his right arm. “They help me stay together,” he joked. He’s had both knees replaced, three stents inserted in his cardiac vessels and new lenses placed in his eyes, restoring his 20-20 vision prior to developing cataracts. “Soon,” he said, “I’ll be the bionic man.”
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- York countians consistently voting 50 years inducted into Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Almost 300 York countians were inducted into the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame on July 15, 2025 at York College of Pennsylvania during an Honoring our Legacy Program. Each of the voters has never missed a November Election Day in at least half a century.
( Video, Story: Paul Kuehnel Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/07/15/the-pennsylvania-voter-hall-of-fame-honored-almost-300-york-co-voters/85212125007/
“There must have been elections over the past 50 years that it was inconvenient and difficult because of illness or work or family commitments or any number of things to get to the poll s… everyone here has surmounted those challenges,” Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Al Schmidt said during his keynote address.
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- More than bricks and mortar: Habitat for Humanity at end of Chestnut Street fire revival
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It’s been 17 years since a massive fire tore through the 700 block of Chestnut Street in York. By late Summer, the final four houses will complete a row of 14 ones.
( Video, story Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/community/2025/06/30/habitat-build-closes-chapter-on-devastating-2009-chestnut-street-fire-volunteers-housing-york-pa/84379186007/
York Habitat for Humanity broke ground June 25 on Phase 3 of the project.
The 700 block of Chestnut Street was the scene of a 2009 fire that destroyed 16 century-old row homes.
Rebuilding of the block didn’t start until 2018, when Habitat stepped in to begin the first phase of homes.
The pandemic slowed down the completion of Phase 2.
The front yards of the earlier phases of the project have matured reflecting the personalities of their new owners with some preferring a simple look with one tree and landscape stone while in another front...
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- Will the York State Fair move back to September? Here's the latest on the debate in 2025
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It's the question that arises every year as the York State Fair opens in July: Will the fair move back to September?
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/03/york-state-fair-2025-will-it-move-from-july-to-september/84437202007/
Last summer, York State Fair CEO Patrick Ball discussed how the York County Agricultural Society is exploring the future of the event with an initiative called the York State Fair 2030. At the time, he said every option is on the table, including moving the fair back to September.
The nonprofit organization continues to look at the timing of the fair, Ball said during a recent interview.
"At this point, in my opinion, and I think the opinion of the board, we don't have enough data to make a decision," Ball said in a recent interview.
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- Amish tourism is a big business and the sect has a complicated relationship with it
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Tom and Ellis Hansen were visiting their daughter, who is studying equine management at Delaware State University, when they decided to take a short side trip to Lancaster County.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2025/06/26/the-amish-have-a-complicated-relationship-with-the-tourism-industry/83728757007/
The couple is from Herefordshire, a rural county in the west of England, and while they were in the United States, they wanted to do some sightseeing. One of the places they wanted to see was Amish country.
“We were kind of interested in the Amish and their way of life,” Ellis said.
They admired the simplicity of the Amish culture, “the importance of self-sufficiency,” Ellis said. “We try to live a much simpler life, but not as simple as the Amish. We like the idea of a small, tight-knit community, relying on each other.”
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- Gov. Josh Shapiro: PA can't 'backfill' billions cut from Medicaid, SNAP by 'Big Beautiful Bill'
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- During a press conference celebrating streamlining the process of licensing doctors and nurses from out of state to work in Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro was asked about the effects of the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" that was recently signed into law.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/07/billions-in-cuts-to-medicaid-and-snap-affects-outlined-by-shapiro/84494686007/
During the press conference at WellSpan Health’s Jersey College School of Nursing in York, a reporter asked the governor what he thought the long-term effects of the bill would be for Pennsylvanians.
Shapiro began by outlining the numbers of people who will be affected. Over time, 310,000 Pennsylvanians would lose Medicaid and 140,000 would lose SNAP food assistance.
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- 'Gave it everything I had': Dover Twp. girl sets world record for 24-hour bike ride
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Scarlet Zeigler was about 250 miles into the bike ride when she started to feel it.
( Video edited Paul Kuehnel with content from Scarlet Zeigler) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2025/07/07/dover-twp-pa-girl-16-sets-world-record-for-24-hour-bike-ride/84450113007/
It felt like an out-of-body experience. She felt woozy. She would stop periodically, lean against a tree beside the trail, and take her shoes off. Her feet were burning. Her neck was seized up. During the night – riding alone on a dark trail in the middle of nowhere – she kept craning her neck, looking behind her as she rode, checking to see whether someone was following her. “I get paranoid,” she said.
Scarlet Zeigler stops for refueling during record ride at mile 88 in Meyersdale.
Now that the sun was up, she stopped doing that and soon she couldn’t turn her head. “My legs felt good,” she said. “My knees felt good. My hips felt good. I just couldn’t ...
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- America 250 Liberty Bell is unveiled at Camp Security Revolutionary War POW site
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler gives remarks during the unveiling of the Semiquincentennial Bell at Camp Security Park.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of this country, America 250PA is erecting replicas of the Liberty Bell in every county in the state, 67 in all.
( Video Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/10/liberty-bell-marks-camp-securitys-place-in-american-history/84520078007/
The first bell was installed at the Dennis Farm in Susquehanna County in northeastern Pennsylvania. The 153-acre farm has been owned by the same African-American family since 1793, one of the untold stories of the American experiment. The second was placed at the Hawley Silk Mill in Wayne County, a factory that dates to 1880 and spearheaded the Industrial Revolution and provided employment for those who immigrated to the United States in search of opportunity.
When it came to find a ...
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- Franchesca’s is bringing bold NYC-style pizza to the Franklin Street Social this month
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Franchesca’s is the newest addition to the Franklin Street Social food hall.
The new stand is chic, elegant and has a touch of whimsy, conveyed through its branding and timeless aesthetic.
( Video: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/03/new-york-style-pizzeria-to-open-in-franklin-street-social-this-month/84450614007/
Like any project run by Franklin Street Social partners Ethan Greer and Jordan Illyes, you can expect it to look great, and at Franchesca's the pizza and décor are no exception.
Located in the Former 4 E's Latin Cuisine, the FSS team wanted to fill a pizzeria in its place − one that complimented the food hall's whimsy and diverse taste. In just six weeks, the team went from not knowing how to even make a New York Style pizza to developing a dough, curating an inventive menu and designing a space that reflects a classic city pizza shop.
"I'm a believer in learning by e...
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- Bali case highlights the link between cruelty to animals and violence against humans: DA
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On Tuesday, Aston Aguilera, a 39-year-old Dover Township man, was sentenced to two to four years in state prison for beating his dog, a 5-year-old pit bull terrier named Bali, to death with a baseball bat and then enlisting his daughter in cleaning up the crime scene and disposing of Bali's carcass in a ditch along a remote country road.
( Video: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/07/03/animal-abuse-case-highlights-link-to-domestic-violence-child-abuse/84459835007/
The case attracted a lot of attention, as egregious instances of animal abuse do. Activists and Aguilera's 19-year-old daughter, who had reported the crime to police and later testified at a preliminary hearing against her father, called for justice for Bali. Law enforcement officials said her actions demonstrated courage.
But, according to York County District Attorney Tim Barker, the case not only illustrates people's connection to their pets and the...
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- Bold flavors and packed portions: Poblano Tex-Mex Grill is making an impression in York
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Lyshaell Rios started cooking when she was 15 years old at her Lancaster County home.
( Video by Paul Kuehnel ) Full story: https://www.ydr.com/story/life/food/2025/07/02/poblano-tex-mex-grill-celebrates-1-year-anniversary-this-month-in-york-pa/84433492007/
She grew up in a family who cooked up traditional Amish and Mennonite cuisine made of simple, hearty meals like pot pies, casseroles, crockpot meals and baked oatmeal. They’re homey, comforting and hold a special place in Rios’ heart, but having the chance to cook in diverse kitchens expanded her palette and fascination with bold flavors.
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- Hand-lettered signs replace deteriorating red plastic letters at Lincoln Highway landmark
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The eastern gateway to York City received some final polish over the weekend as local artisans replaced the partially missing red plastic welcome sign at the Lincoln Highway Turkey Hill with hand-painted lettering.
( Video/Story: Paul Kuehnel ) Full story https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/06/30/lincoln-highway-landmark-receives-a-new-welcome-to-york-city-sign/84396454007/
About a year ago, Corey Wolfe noticed the state of the signage. It had been vandalized with graffiti and one of the red plastic letters that stands away from the wall on pins had fallen off. Over the years, the wall had suffered damage and two decades of wear and tear.
