After more than a quarter century of service, York Township Supervisor Chuck Tellas resigned in January due to health challenges, leaving behind a record of infrastructure improvements, cemetery restoration and long-range planning to maintain the town’s agricultural character amid development pressure.
“It’s not the way he wanted to end his political career—He didn’t consider himself a politician—his service career, really,” York Township Trustee John Hargrove said.
Tellas served nine years as supervisor and 18 years as a trustee and planning commissioner. In his resignation letter he called those roles a “privilege.”…