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"Families for Great Hershey Schools" Announces Campaign: Cronin, Grab, Hagan, Morelli on school board ticket

(March 17, 2009 - Hershey) - A political action committee has been formed in support of four candidates for Derry Township School Director. "Families for Great Hershey Schools is supporting incumbents Donna Cronin and John Grab, and newcomers Mary Beth Hagan and Chris Morelli," announced Mark Winter, -chairman of the committee. "We believe this team can bring a new level of thinking and community involvement to the oversight and decision-making of the school board."

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2007 results of your survey responses:

1. How did you first learn about PreserveHershey.org?

Response Percent

Someone told me or emailed me

36.8%

Read in Hershey Chronicle

2.6%

Search Engine

5.3%

Referral/Link from another site

7.9%

Read in Harrisburg Patriot News

15.8%

Other (please specify)

31.6%

Opinion about Hershey Foods job cuts

2. Do you believe that Hershey Foods should cut 1,500 or more jobs?

Response Percent

No, absolutely not

73.7%

Probably no

10.5%

undecided

2.6%

Probably yes

5.3%

Yes, certainly

Don't know enough

7.9%

Do not care

3. Where are you located?

Response Percent

Hershey or Derry Township

75%

Other area, not Hershey

25%

Future Actions

4. Should the community take action to change the decision of Hershey Foods to cut jobs and move major industry away from Hershey?

Response Percent

Yes

70.3%

2.7%

Suggestions or comments

27%

5. What actions from this list are acceptable or encouraged?

Response Percent

Public peaceful demostrations to show concern

78.4%

Boycott products

54.1%

Write letters to local papers

78.4%

Organize yard sign campaign

70.3%

Talk to leadership in Hershey Foods

78.4%

Other (please specify)

21.6%

Watch for regular updates on results.

2007 News click here

Hershey open to combination; Cadbury eyed

Workers OK plan to slash Hershey jobs

Hershey selling out?

Hershey going south, Patriot-News, March 6, 2007

Hershey residents plan rally, By: Jeff Werner, 03/01/2007

Uncertainty hangs over Chocolate, By Jeff Werner, 02/22/2007

2006 News click here

2005 News can be found at:

The 04/14/2005 issue of the Hershey Chronicle has another article that lends support to this referendum.

Land tax use plan - preserving open space - 04/07/2005,Hershey Chronicle

"The referendum, which was introduced by Derry Township Supervisors Board chairman Tom Brogan and unanimously approved by the board, proposes to increase the earned income tax by .1 percent for township residents. The money to be raised during the referendum's 10 -year period would be used to make purchases of as-yet-unidentified open space land throughout Derry."

2004 News

Higher taxes to preserve land - 08/26/2004, Hershey Chronicle

Proposed development denied - 08/12/2004, Hershey Chronicle

Patriot News of 6/29/04 on Page E1 mentions that the Supervisors have until July 31 to decide on cluster housing (like the Chronicle reported). But the article also states: "The developer, Red Tail Ridge Partners, won rezoning of the land from agriculture to residential..." A reliable source indicates that Jeff Kaiser confirmed that the zoning change has not been approved, nor the comprehensive plan nor the clustering.

Derry Township Gives Yard Signs Temporary Reprieve - WGAL, Thursday, April 08, 2004

"Township backs off" - Harrisburg Patriot-News, Thursday, April 08, 2004

"Petty Dispute" editorial - Harrisburg Patriot-News, Monday, April 05, 2004

"Residents told to remove protest signs" - Harrisburg Patriot-News, Friday, April 02, 2004

Yard Signs Sprout Against Rezoning - Patriot News, March 23, 2004

"Group forms to preserve open space" - March 11, 2004, Hershey Chronicle

"Group Created to Save Open Land" - March 11, 2004, An article on the establishment of the Derry Township Land Trust.

"Derry Twp. Development Plan Opposed" - March 4, 2004, a report on the March 2, 2004 Planning Commission meeting at which the Commission unanimously recommended that the Nye/Hart rezoning proposal be rejected. The article includes statements made at the hearing by several members of our group.