EDITORIAL: Too many races are already over
York Dispatch Editorial Board
Not the primary election, the municipal election. The November election.
Barring write-in campaigns, many of the races in last week s primary decided who will hold offices around York County.
There s only one mayoral race in the county that s still contested thanks, Red Lion! Even in York City, incumbent Mayor Michael Helfrich won t have an opponent on the ballot no Republicans ran in the primary, and no other Democrats did, either.
In races for borough councils, township boards of supervisors, constables, tax collectors, judges of elections, school district directors and more, only voters in one party had an opportunity to cast a vote for someone to fill the posts.
Recount sought in district judge race
A petition filed in York County Court of Common Pleas on Monday is seeking a recount in the District 19-1-01 race for district justice.
Tom Harteis, a City of York employee and part-time paralegal, won by one vote on the Democratic ticket against longtime incumbent Linda Williams, according to unofficial results.
Williams won on the Republican ticket, making it a contested race for the general election.
Three Democratic voters are seeking the recount of the results of the primary. They believe Williams s loss by one vote falls within the 0.5 percent threshold for a recount, the petition states.
Prison for felon who fired gun at crowded York block party, shot woman
York Dispatch
A felon has been sentenced to state prison for shooting a woman and endangering about 150 other people when he fired a handgun during a York City block party.
York City Police said Khalic Buddha Cross went on the lam afterward. He was captured less than a month later in Suffolk, Virginia, by members of the U.S. Marshals Service.
At the time of the capture, York Mayor Michael Helfrich called Cross York s most wanted fugitive, and police had warned the public he should be considered armed and dangerous.