Snyder Township resident Charlie Diehl has decided to throw his hat in the ring and run for a six-year term as Snyder Township Supervisor. He will be challenging Ray Rogers for the seat that is up for election.
\n\u201cI have too many people calling me and telling me to run,\u201d said Diehl, \u201cafter what I have seen going on by attending meetings at the Township and realize that we are in trouble.\u201d
\nDiehl, a former chairman of the supervisors, was defeated in 2001 by current chairman Jim Daughenbaugh.
\nIn the eight years Diehl served as a supervisor, Snyder Township did not see a tax increase.
\n\u201cWe were paving about $30,000 per year and invested in a few new trucks and increased paving to $100,000 per year,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cWe didn\u2019t raise taxes and I am out just one year and they raise taxes.\u201d
\nDiehl also addressed the parks and recreation issue.
\nThe field for Bald Eagle Little League and Teener League has been shut down by the Department of Environmental Protection because it was built on wetlands.
\n\u201cWe still don\u2019t have that ball field settled yet,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cWe need to get that addressed.\u201d
\nAnother issue that has helped Diehl decide to run for supervisor is the way the Pyramid Healthcare project was handled.
\n\u201cThis Pyramid bit has me very concerned,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cThere should have been public meetings and public comments before that came in. It was slid in. They are there now and you have to accept them. That is all there is to it.\u201d
\nDiehl believes that Snyder Township needs to look at the future.
\n\u201cSnyder Township with the finishing of I-99 needs to get some form of land controls,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cThe boys that are supervisors right now don\u2019t have the forward thinking to plan for I-99.\u201d
\nDiehl says what is done by the supervisors is controlled by the people.
\n\u201cThe people have to decide what they want,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cYou can\u2019t say do it to my neighbor and not to me. The people of Snyder Township need to get to the meetings and tell the supervisors what they want and expect. Stand back and holler but don\u2019t go to the meetings and voice your opinion is what is happening now. If the people don\u2019t go to the meetings and voice their concerns, complaints or opinions, how is the Board of Supervisors supposed to know what the people want, and what we have in there now don\u2019t listen.\u201d
\nI am running against Mr. Rogers because he is in charge of the highways.
\n\u201cHe has turned back some roads to PENNDOT that are in terrible shape,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cThey did no ditching, no cleaning of the ditches, no berming of the roads or anything. They are going to break up something fierce. That is why I am running.\u201d
\nDiehl said over a dozen people have personally approached him to run for the position, and he has had many phone calls.
\n\u201cI have lived in Snyder Township my whole life with the exception of my hitch in the military,\u201d said Diehl. \u201cIt\u2019s been good to me. I\u2019ve had a business in Snyder Township that is still going strong; my son is running it now. The people of Snyder Township have been good to me. That is why I decided to give something back. Everybody is supposed to leave their mark when they leave this world. You are put here to do some good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Snyder Township resident Charlie Diehl has decided to throw his hat in the ring and run for a six-year term as Snyder Township Supervisor. He will be challenging Ray Rogers for the seat that is up for election. \u201cI have too many people calling me and telling me to run,\u201d said Diehl, \u201cafter what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}