This can never happen again : York County commissioners get earful over election
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Two people complained about last month s primary election during which some local polling places ran out of ballots and urged the York County Commissioners to get to the bottom of what went wrong.
During the public comment period at Wednesday s commissioners meeting, a mayor and state constable both criticized the May 12 primary election. This needs to be investigated. This can never happen again in York County. We can t ever let this happen again in York County, said John Dentler, a state constable who was working at a Washington Township polling place on Election Day.
Mark Kimmel, longtime leader of York County Conservation District, retiring
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In 1985 when Mark Kimmel joined the York County Conservation District, he was one of only three full-time employees in the department, and there wasn t much public awareness about ecology and the protection of natural resources.
A lot has changed in 36 years.
Kimmel, who is retiring from his post as manager of the county s conservation district, will leave behind a staff that s grown to 23 people, all working in an increasingly complex field. When I started working to do farm plan mapping, you had to wait two weeks to order in the plan map from Colorado through the Soil Conservation Service back then, he said. Now, we have GIS and the plan maps are at the tip of our fingers, but it probably takes us longer with all the additional paperwork requirements we’ve added to it over the years.
York County could be getting a new gunsmith.
On Feb. 10, the York County Planning Commission approved a special-use permit for a home-based firearms sales and gunsmithing business at 211 Henry Lee Lane near the Lafayette Gun Club and Crossroads Community Church.
Andrew J. Piske and Stephanie M. Piske own the 0.4 acre property located in a neighborhood zoned R20 medium-density single-family residential and the special-use permit would allow them to use the existing single-family home with the detached garage for their business.
“I am actually not the online retailer of the firearms,” Andrew Piske said at the planning commission meeting. “I am actually a representative of the ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] who is submitting the background checks to the state police and verifying their documentation.”
Business notes: Child Development Resources will acquire control of the Historic Triangle Messmer Community Services Center; George Washington Inn and Conference Center on Merrimac Trail to become apartments; and Williamsburg Landing honored.
Under the proposal presented last month to the York County Planning Commission, at least 20,000 square feet of the building would be reserved for use by potential users, like educational, commercial/retail and or business/professional services.