Bryan Cutler will not seek reelection for Pennsylvania’s 100th House District
COMMUNITIES ARE CLEANING UP DEBRIS AND POWER IS SLOWLY BEING RESTORED. AFTER ALL OF THOSE STRONG WINDS BLEW THROUGH THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ON FRIDAY AND SOMEONE GOT TO HAVE A PRETTY GOOD LAUGH AFTER SEEING A RUNAWAY INFLATABLE ORNAMENT. BECAUSE OF YESTERDAY’S WIND. WE’LL TELL YOU THAT STORY HERE IN JUST A BIT, AND WE’RE LOOKING LIVE OVER THE CITY OF YORK THIS MORNING FROM OUR SKYCAM, AS IT’S A MUCH BRIGHTER DAY WITH A LOT LESS WIND. AS YOU START YOUR SATURDAY. GOOD MORNING SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, IT IS 831 ON THIS SATURDAY MORNING. THE DATE IS DECEMBER 20TH. WE ARE IN THE HOME STRETCH OF CHRISTMAS ONLY JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AWAY. FOLKS. I’M JACOB HUNZIKER ALONGSIDE METEOROLOGIST MARY ELLEN PENN WITH A CHECK OF THE STORM TEAM FORECAST. TIS THE SEASON. YESTERDAY IT DID NOT REALLY FEEL LIKE WINTER CHRISTMAS FEEL. IT WAS JUST WINDY. IT WAS NASTY YESTERDAY. THOSE WINDS WERE SOMETHING ELSE, PRODUCING ALL KINDS OF DAMAGE. A LOT OF POWER OUTAGES. LOOK AT THESE WIND DAMAGE REPORTS. THOSE CIRCLES IN MOST LOCATIONS REPRESENT WIND DAMAGE HERE, AT LEAST IN THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, AND THEY EXTEND OVER TOWARDS PHILADELPHIA AND THEN ON UP TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST, WHERE WE HAD SOME PRETTY STRONG, IMPRESSIVE WIND GUSTS. HIGHEST WINDS YESTERDAY REPORTED 67 MILE PER HOUR WIND GUSTS IN HARRISBURG. LAST TIME WE HAD OVER 60 MILE PER HOUR WIND GUSTS WAS NOVEMBER 5TH. IT WAS 62 LANCASTER, GUSTING OVER 60MPH. CLOSE TO 60 IN CARLISLE. AND YOU CAN SEE YORK WAS AT 52MPH THIS WEEKEND. IT IS GOING TO BE MUCH CALMER. WE’RE LOOKING AT WINDS TODAY. RIGHT NOW AT ABOUT 3 TO 9MPH, THEY MAY INCREASE 5 TO 15MPH. BUT EVEN THIS LITTLE BREEZE DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON HOW IT FEELS OUTSIDE. SO WE HAVE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 2819 IN LEWISTOWN, A LITTLE BIT WARMER THERE AT 27 IN GETTYSBURG. BUT IT DOES FEEL LIKE 17 IN HARRISBURG, 14 IN LEBANON, 16 IN YORK. SO CERTAINLY WANT TO DRESS FOR THOSE NUMBERS. HIGH PRESSURE IS GOING TO BRING US A NICE LOOKING DAY TODAY, A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES CLIMBING INTO THE UPPER 30S WITH A NICE SOUTHERLY BREEZE. WE’LL TALK ABOUT A FRONT THAT COMES THROUGH OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. WHAT IT WILL DO FOR OUR TEMPERATURES THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND AND THE WINDS IN MY FULL FORECAST. ALL RIGHT, MARY ELLEN, THANK YOU. AND AS SHE JUST TALKED ABOUT, WE TURN NOW TO THAT HEAVY WIND THAT WE HAD ALL DAY ON FRIDAY. SOME PEOPLE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY WAKING UP THIS MORNING TO DAMAGE THAT WAS CAUSED BY THOSE STRONG WINDS FROM DOWNED WIRES AND INTERCOURSE, LANCASTER COUNTY TO A DOWNED TRAFFIC LIGHT IN MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, YORK COUNTY, AND DOWNED TREES IN SEVERAL PLACES LIKE THIS ONE THAT YOU SEE HERE ON WILLOW STREET IN LANCASTER COUNTY. REALLY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, YOU HAD A LOT OF WIND, AND THERE WAS PROBABLY SOME DAMAGE TOO. AND FOR SOME, POWER IS JUST BEING RESTORED AFTER THE WIND KNOCKED OUT FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE MORE THAN 17,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. DAUPHIN AND LANCASTER COUNTIES HAVE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTAGES, WITH MORE THAN 800 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER IN DAUPHIN AND MORE THAN 3300 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. FROM KERMIT CUSTOMERS, THERE’S MORE THAN 13,000 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER AT THIS HOUR. THE COUNTIES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTAGES ARE LEBANON AND YORK. BOTH COUNTIES HAVE NEARLY 1000 PEOPLE STILL IN THE DARK. WE WANT TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT OF THAT DAMAGE THAT WE TOUCHED ON HERE JUST A MOMENT AGO. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. A CAR DAMAGED IN LANCASTER TOWNSHIP BY FALLING BRANCHES. IT CAME DOWN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON SOUTHWEST AND AVENUE AND FOURTH STREET IN LANCASTER TOWNSHIP. FORTUNATELY, NO ONE WAS HURT, BUT A NEIGHBOR RECOUNTED THE MOMENT THAT HE SAW THAT TREE COME DOWN. WHEN I WOKE UP TO THE SOUND OF THE FIRE ENGINES, I IT WAS SO WINDY, I THOUGHT, OH WOW, WE’RE GOING TO LOSE SOME SLATES FROM THE ROOF. THAT WILL BE A HASSLE. LITTLE DID I KNOW, AND THE WIND SNAPPED A TREE IN HALF AT PENN PARK IN YORK YESTERDAY. YOU CAN SEE THE TOP OF THAT TREE JUST LYING ON THE GROUND THERE. ONE OF OUR CREWS STOPPED BY AND SAID THAT BRANCHES AND OTHER DEBRIS WERE SCATTERED ALL AROUND THE AREA, AND THEY SAID, EXCUSE ME. THEY SPOKE WITH A NEIGHBOR ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED WHEN I CAME OUT FRONT TO LOOK AT THE AWNING AND MAKE SURE THAT WASN’T DAMAGED, THAT’S ALL. THE TREE WAS GONE. I SAID THAT WAS SOME SERIOUS GUST OF WIND. I YEAH, I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. AND IN YORK COUNTY, THE HIGH WINDS LEFT AT LEAST ONE RESIDENT WITH A SHOCKING SURPRISE AS SHE DROVE HOME YESTERDAY. NEWS EIGHT’S TAYLOR HESS WENT TO MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP TO HEAR ABOUT THE WOMAN’S WILD RIDE. THE WIND IS SO BAD TODAY THAT EVERYTHING IS BLOWING. AND, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE WERE SEEING BRANCHES DOWN AND TREES DOWN. AND I PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT AS ROBIN GILBERT DROVE HOME FROM HER NAIL APPOINTMENT THIS AFTERNOON, SHE GOT A SHINY RED SURPRISE. ALL OF A SUDDEN I SEE THIS GIGANTIC RED ORNAMENT COMING AT ME. I SNAPPED A FEW PICTURES WHILE MY PHONE WAS IN THE HOLDER, AND THEN I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD. AND THEN AS IT GOT ABOUT 20FT AWAY FROM ME, IT VEERED OFF TO ITS LEFT OF MY RIGHT INTO SOMEBODY’S YARD AGAINST A FENCE, A MASSIVE INFLATABLE ORNAMENT ROLLING TOWARDS HER CAR. I DRIVE A TOYOTA RAV4 AND IT WAS AS BIG AS MY CAR. THANKFULLY, IT WASN’T A SCARY SURPRISE, BUT RATHER A PRETTY FUNNY ONE. I WASN’T AFRAID I WAS LAUGHING TOO HARD. I JUST I COULDN’T STOP LAUGHING. SO YEAH, IT WAS A NICE END OF THE DAY EXPERIENCE I’LL NEVER FORGET, THAT’S FOR SURE. YEAH, I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. I THINK THAT’S ONE I WOULD PROBABLY NEVER FORGET EITHER. AND FOR THE VERY LATEST FORECAST AND ANY POWER OUTAGES OR TRAFFIC DISRUPTIONS IN OUR AREA, MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE WGAL APP. WELL, THIS MORNING A LANCASTER COUNTY MAN IS IN CUSTODY AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED HIS SIX MONTH OLD DAUGHTER DURING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE IN YORK LAST MONTH. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THIS IS A STORY WE FIRST TALKED ABOUT AS THAT STORY UNFOLDED. YORK POLICE SAY THE OFFICERS IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, ARRESTED 31 YEAR OLD PEDRO VEGA RIVERA YESTERDAY MORNING. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, ALEXIS VEGA RIVERA AND THE BABY TO DUNCANSVILLE IN BLAIR COUNTY. POLICE SAY THEY FOUND MOORE’S CAR PARKED IN A WOODED AREA, AND VEGA RIVERA HAD LEFT MOORE AND THE BABY IN THE CAR BEFORE RUNNING AWAY. VEGA RIVERA IS FACING MULTIPLE CHARGES, INCLUDING STRANGULATION, MAKING TERRORISTIC THREATS AND SIMPLE ASSAULT. A LANCASTER COUNTY MAN FOUND GUILTY OF SLASHING ANOTHER MAN’S THROAT WILL SPEND UP TO 45 YEARS IN PRISON. THE JUDGE HANDED DOWN THE SENTENCE TO SEIN HILL OF MANOR TOWNSHIP FOR THE ATTACK IN JULY OF 2020. FOR THE LANCASTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS THAT FOOTAGE FROM LANCASTER SAFETY COALITION CAMERAS AND SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE TAKEN INSIDE A BAR SHOW HILL WALKING BEHIND THE VICTIM WHILE HOLDING A WEAPON IN HIS HAND. THE DA’S OFFICE SAYS. THE VIDEO GOES ON TO SHOW HILL SLASHING THE VICTIM ACROSS THE NECK. THE VICTIM SURVIVED THE ATTACK. POLICE, MEANWHILE, SAY THAT AN ANONYMOUS TIPSTER TOLD THEM HILL ARGUED WITH THE VICTIM AFTER THE TWO BUMPED INTO ONE ANOTHER INSIDE THE BAR, AND HILL LATER BRAGGED ABOUT SLASHING THE VICTIM’S NECK, SAYING HE, QUOTE, DIDN’T SEE IT COMING. END QUOTE. A MAN WHO PLED GUILTY TO BUYING AND SELLING HUMAN BODY PARTS IS EXPECTED TO BE SENTENCED ON FEDERAL CHARGES ON MONDAY. JEREMY PAULEY WAS SENTENCED ON STATE CHARGES LAST YEAR IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY FOR ABUSE OF A CORPSE. HE ENTERED A PLEA DEAL IN THAT CASE. MEANWHILE, POLICE ARRESTED PAULEY IN 2023 AFTER FINDING BUCKETS OF HUMAN REMAINS INSIDE HIS FORMER HOME IN ENOLA. A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT PAULEY WAS PART OF A NATIONWIDE NETWORK OF OF PEOPLE BUYING HUMAN REMAINS THAT WERE STOLEN FROM HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. WE TURN NOW TO AN UPDATE FROM LANCASTER POLICE AFTER THIS INCIDENT ON THURSDAY, WHERE AN E-BIKE RIDER WAS RUN OVER BY A TRUCK DOWNTOWN. YOU CAN SEE IT JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN THERE THIS MORNING. POLICE SAY THE CYCLIST IS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND THE INVESTIGATION IS ACTIVE. AND RIGHT NOW THEY DO NOT HAVE AN IDEA OF WHO EXACTLY WAS AT FAULT IN THAT ACCIDENT. DASH CAM VIDEO FROM A GOOD DISPOSAL TRUCK CAPTURED THE INCIDENT AROUND 1030 THURSDAY MORNING AT LIME AND ORANGE STREETS. RIGHT NOW, A NEW TRAFFIC PATTERN IS BEING ROLLED OUT AT A LANCASTER CITY INTERSECTION. OFFICIALS SAY THE LIGHT AT RACE AVENUE AND BUCHANAN AVENUE, WHICH IS ON THE BORDER OF MANHEIM TOWNSHIP AND LANCASTER TOWNSHIP, IS OLD AND OUTDATED. BUT THEY SAY THAT THEY’RE NOT GOING TO REPLACE IT BECAUSE THE CURRENT CONDITIONS AT THAT INTERSECTION DON’T JUSTIFY A LIGHT. SO IN THE MEANTIME, FOUR WAY STOP SIGNS ARE IN PLACE AND WE ARE TOLD YOU CAN EXPECT A PERMANENT TRANSITION AWAY FROM THE LIGHT BY APRIL OF 2026. WILL THE ROADS WILL BE BUSY THIS MORNING AS TRAVELERS HEAD OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS, WITH CHRISTMAS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, THE TURNPIKE COMMISSION EXPECTS MORE THAN 7 MILLION VEHICLES TO TRAVEL THE TOLL ROAD BETWEEN TODAY AND JANUARY 1ST. THE NEXT DAY FOR PEAK TRAVEL IS ON TUESDAY, JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. IN ORDER TO KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING, ALL CONSTRUCTION AND ROAD WORK IS ON HOLD UNTIL THE NEW YEAR. AND JUST A PIECE OF ADVICE MAKE SURE YOU’RE LETTING OFF THE GAS JUST A SMIDGE OUT THERE ON THE ROADWAYS, BECAUSE MORE STATE POLICE WILL BE WATCHING FOR SPEEDING, DISTRACTED DRIVING, AGGRESSIVE DRIVING, AND IMPAIRED DRIVING. TODAY, A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE GETTING READY TO SUPPORT FAMILIES IN NEED FOR THE HOLIDAYS IN COLUMBIA, LANCASTER COUNTY, THE COLUMBIA LIONS CLUB AND SUN SNAPPERS WILL PUT TOGETHER MORE THAN 600 FOOD BOXES STARTING AT 10:00. THE BOXES WILL BE DELIVERED TO REGISTERED FAMILIES TOMORROW, AND BUILDING BRIDGES FOR BRIANNA WILL ALSO BE WRAPPING PRESENTS FOR OVER 400 CHILDREN. VOLUNTEERS WILL WRAP GIFTS AT CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN DALLASTOWN, YORK COUNTY, STARTING AT ONE THIS AFTERNOON, AND GIFTS WILL BE DELIVERED TOMORROW AND THE 13TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DRIVE AT THE FARM SHOW COMPLEX IS TODAY. 1500 CHILDREN ARE REGISTERED TO ENJOY ACTIVITIES WITH THEIR FAMILY AND GET TOYS BECAUSE, OF COURSE HAVE
Bryan Cutler will not seek reelection for Pennsylvania’s 100th House District
Updated: 4:09 PM EST Dec 22, 2025
Republican state Rep. Bryan Cutler, who previously served as the Pennsylvania House Speaker, has announced that he will not seek reelection for Pennsylvania’s 100th House District, which covers Lancaster County.Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.Cutler sent the following letter to local GOP leaders:”Dear Mr. Chairman and Fellow Committee Members,”It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve and give back to the community that has given so much to me. After much prayer and discussions with my family I have decided to not seek endorsement or reelection for the Representative of the 100th House District. I have been blessed to represent our friends and neighbors and to work on a host of issues important to our area. Working on all the local issues and legislative issues such as protecting our Constitutional rights, healthcare access and affordability, disability employment opportunities, and mental health treatment access has been truly impactful for our residents.”While much work remains to be done, I am confident that the best days for our Commonwealth are ahead of us. I look forward to handing off the opportunity to govern to the next generation of leaders and representatives for the future.”Thank you for the 20 years of support.”Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you,”Bryan”
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. —
Republican state Rep. Bryan Cutler, who previously served as the Pennsylvania House Speaker, has announced that he will not seek reelection for Pennsylvania’s 100th House District, which covers Lancaster County.
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.
Cutler sent the following letter to local GOP leaders:
“Dear Mr. Chairman and Fellow Committee Members,
“It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve and give back to the community that has given so much to me. After much prayer and discussions with my family I have decided to not seek endorsement or reelection for the Representative of the 100th House District. I have been blessed to represent our friends and neighbors and to work on a host of issues important to our area. Working on all the local issues and legislative issues such as protecting our Constitutional rights, healthcare access and affordability, disability employment opportunities, and mental health treatment access has been truly impactful for our residents.
“While much work remains to be done, I am confident that the best days for our Commonwealth are ahead of us. I look forward to handing off the opportunity to govern to the next generation of leaders and representatives for the future.
“Thank you for the 20 years of support.
“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you,
“Bryan”