New Freedom News

A New Freedom man was arrested Monday for driving a lawn tractor while intoxicated and other charges brought after a drunken domestic dispute, Southern Regional Police reported.

The Rev. Sylvan Capitani holds up the elements of communion during a recent morning Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.

A New Freedom man is charged with driving his riding mower drunk on the streets of the borough and assaulting a woman.

A southern York County man was arrested Monday night after he allegedly punched a woman and drove a lawn tractor while drunk, police said.

After about 60 years of amassing his collection of mostly York County-related items, Fred Rosenmiller, pictured here, held a public auction of much of the collection on his Spring Garden Township property on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

For quite some time now, enthusiastic volunteers have been whacking back brush, clearing debris, and replacing ties and rail on the old Pennsylvania Railroad's Northern Central Division, one of the nation's most historic stretches of railroad that courses 10 miles northward from New Freedom, Pa., to Hanover Junction, Pa.

Joe Aponick, diocesan spokesman, said assignments are typically issued once a year, based on various factors, including retirements, new ordinations and priests' requests to change service locations or do different duties.

Wearing a blue day dress, complete with huge hoops and a pinner apron, she detailed a historical timeline of all the little towns extending from New Freedom to Glen Rock.

There were only a few small hiccups for the first public ride of the York No. 17 steam locomotive Sunday afternoon, according to Debi Dwyer Beshore, manager- sales and administration for Steam Into History, Inc.

In preparation for its highly anticipated maiden voyage, the York No. 17 steam locomotive was fired up Thursday for test runs on the track between New Freedom and Glen Rock.

Last year, Nathan McCloskey accepted a challenge from Southern United Methodist Church to "live a better story" and help out his community.

A man led police on a 7-mile chase on Thursday night through rural Shrewsbury and Codorus Townships, according to Southern Regional Police.

Southern Regional Police have arrested a Glen Rock man who turned himself in to police after he led them on a high-speed chase Thursday, according to a news release.

Boy Scout Troop 205 is sponsoring a community indoor yard sale, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Grace United Methodist Church, 473 Plank Road, Shrewsbury.

A Maryland woman said she stole more than $18,000 from an elderly couple that had hired her as a caretaker because she was a single mom with mouths to feed and bills to pay.

Head engineer Steve Meola leans out of the cabin window of York No. 17 to share a joke with Dave Kloke, who built the engine, on Wednesday.