Recognizing her 50-plus years of service to a nature preserve and local Girl Scouts, a scenic overlook has been named for a late Richmond woman. Hayes Arboretum, at 801 Elks Road, organized a dedication of the Pat Mayer Scenic Overlook on Aug. 17. A parking area is near the overlook for motorists taking the auto […]
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Republicans choose 3 town council members
Hagerstown Republicans chose two new Town Council members and reelected one. Seventy-nine participants in an Aug. 13 convention chose Allan Bullock, Chris Blaase and Dillon Pitcher to serve on the council. Bullock, the present council president, will start a second term as Blaase and Pitcher take office for the first time on Jan. 1, 2025. […]
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Schools lift extra security precautions
Several Wayne County schools tightened security for about 90 minutes Monday morning after a reported domestic situation raised safety concerns. Richmond Police Department received an anonymous call at 8:27 a.m. Monday from an individual claiming to have taken his wife hostage and to be en route to a local community school with a bomb, according […]
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Hagerstown will enforce electric easements
Having experienced more power outages than usual in the past month and delays in restoring power, some residents are asking Hagerstown Town Council for help. More than a dozen residents, most from the Graceland Heights area, met with council on Aug. 5. Town officials put the blame for outages mostly on trees and limbs falling […]
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Hagerstown used-car lot will move to owners’ residence
Rummel’s Auto Sales will soon move from Main Street Hagerstown to the owners’ Indiana 1 homesite. Wayne County’s Board of Zoning Appeals approved Aug. 8 a variance of use for the property at 11070 N. Ind. 1 northwest of Economy. The variance permits a used-car lot with no more than 10 vehicles to operate on […]
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Football regular season kicks off Aug. 23
1A Cambridge City Lincoln — 2023 record 1-7, head coach Jeremy Bane in first year Coach Bane will have a larger roster than a year ago, which will give him more options. Bane expects to have between 21 and 25 players in uniform. That is a big increase from the 15 players they ended last […]
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Nettle Creek asks all to apply for lunch program
With nearly half of all students already qualifying for free or reduced lunches, Nettle Creek school officials are encouraging families to apply for the program to help qualify for funding that would assist the whole district. Some grant funding for schools requires that at least half of all students in a school district meet income […]
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5 seeking 3 seats in Hagerstown
Hagerstown now has five candidates for three at-large town council seats, and town voters will decide Aug. 13 who will represent them. Leslie Rogers filed to run for Hagerstown’s council before the Aug. 1 deadline. She faces Chris W. Blaase, Allan Bullock, Bradley Robert Clark and Dillon Pitcher. No one filed for other parties. For […]
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When Jubilee Days almost wasn’t
Jubilation and gratitude seemed to be the general reaction to Jubilee Days 2024, the festival that almost didn’t happen. “I’m glad they could pull it together,” said attendee Debbie Bell after the Jubilee Days parade on Saturday morning, Aug. 3. Bell referred to the hurried work of a crew that took over festival planning when […]
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HHS baseball alums plan Jubilee Days game
At least one group of Hagerstown High School alumni has swung with the Jubilee Days date change and will be present on Saturday. HHS classes often hold reunions during Jubilee Days, which had been scheduled on the third weekend of August for decades. This year, new organizers moved the date forward to Aug. 2-3 so […]