(June 25, 2018) – Soccer Shots Harrisburg & York and Capital Area Soccer Association (CASA) announced this week a partnership that establishes Soccer Shots as the official two to five-year-old soccer program for the Greater Harrisburg area including Lower Paxton, Susquehanna, West Hanover, and other surrounding townships. The Spangler Preserve was acquired for $300,000 from Jim and Tim Spangler, whose family had owned the land since the 1880s.Harrisburg, Pa. The conservancy acquired the land through grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Alexander Boyd and Jane Starke Boyd Charitable Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy. The Central Pennsylvania Conservancy is a nonprofit that acquires, preserves, and protects local land and natural resources in south-central Pennsylvania.īeale said it’s about a three mile hike from Hocker Park to the Boyd Big Tree Conservation Area. You have multiple organizations, private citizens, nonprofits and of course municipalities working together.” “And it’s really a great example of community conservation. “The trail system now runs all the way here from Hocker Park to the Spangler Preserve down to the conservation area parking lot in Middle Paxton Township,” Jason Andrew Beale, the Central PA Conservancy’s executive director said. Roughly 42 acres of Spangler Preserve are in Lower Paxton Township, with the rest in Middle Paxton Township – creating a trail from Hocker Park to the Boyd Big Tree Preserve Conservation Area. Officials announced the acquisition of the neighboring Spangler Preserve. READ MORE: 20 years in the making, Harrisburg’s new U.S.
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