{"id":37975,"date":"2026-08-05T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=37975"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:06:02","slug":"burry-steps-down-as-county-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/burry-steps-down-as-county-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Burry steps down as county attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mark-burry-1.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37760\" style=\"width:218px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mark-burry-1.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mark-burry-1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time since the late 1990&#8217;s, Adams County has a new county attorney.  Clayton Lengerich has officially taken over that job from his mentor Mark Burry.  Burry chose to step down after 29 years to help mentor young attorneys and to take on other legal duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WZBD&#8217;s Ed Thurman spoke with Burry about the decision&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/702_1523.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burry was honored following Tuesday&#8217;s County Commissioners meeting with a luncheon and retirement reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the late 1990&#8217;s, Adams County has a new county attorney. Clayton Lengerich has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Burry steps down as county attorney...","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-37975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37978,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions\/37978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}