Dan Robrish

Justin Risser   It doesn’t happen often, but it can be done: A write-in candidate has unseated an incumbent in Conoy Township. Justin Risser, 36, a dairy farmer, got 438 write-in votes in the general election to unseat Supervisor John L. Shearer. It wasn’t a partisan issue; Risser and Shearer are both Republicans. Risser could […]

Mount Joy Township supervisors have voted for a budget that includes a property tax increase of slightly over 22%, with most of the new tax going to fire protection. The total tax approved by supervisors at their meeting on Monday, Nov. 18, is going from 2.24 mills ($224 for every $100,000 in assessed value) to […]

Conoy Township supervisors acknowledged that apparent victory of a write-in candidate over an incumbent township supervisor by voting to send him to supervisor training at township expense. Unofficial results posted by the county show Meadow Vista Dairy operator Justin Risser with 438 write-in votes over incumbent John L. Shearer, who had 263 votes. Shearer was […]

West Donegal Township supervisors voted 4-1 to advertise a proposed 12.5% property tax rate increase, with the dissenting vote coming from a supervisor who said he would not support a tax increase and the addition of one person to the public works crew. The increase is from 1.6 mills to 1.8 mills, or from $160 […]

The Elizabethtown Borough Council voted unanimously to adopt a proposed budget for 2020 and advertise a maximum tax rate for 2020 of 4.8 mills. The vote taken at the council workshop on Thursday, Nov. 7, sets an upper limit for 2020 taxes. After the maximum tax rate is advertised, the borough can decide later to […]

Republicans maintained their position as the region’s dominant political party as they defeated Democratic challengers in many local races. Republican Randall L. Miller got more than 63% of the vote to defeat Democrat Dan Stephenson in the race for magisterial district judge, one of the biggest local races. Miller and Stephenson, who are both lawyers, […]