Renewal of tax incentive fueled conservation

Natural Lands Trust announces preservation of 134 acres in region at end of 2012 A high point of the “fiscal cliff” deal? The renewal of a tax incentive for private landowners—especially working family farmers and ranchers—who preserve their land with a voluntary conservation agreement, preservation officials said. That incentive, which had expired at the end of 2011, led to the preservation...

Drunk driver who injured trooper sent to state prison

A Glen Mills woman was sentenced to 14 to 28 months in jail for crash on U.S. 1 By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A drunk driver slammed into the side of Trooper Chad Burgwald’s police cruiser on U.S. 1 on Dec. 29. A drunk-driver struck the driver’s side of Trooper Chad Burgwald’s state patrol cruiser as he was parked in the middle of the U.S. 1 median to monitor traffic...