06/17/11 About 115 post-secondary school graduates from James Rumsey Technical Institute heard Tina Combs recite her "baker's dozen tips for living a successful life" Friday evening. Combs, executive director of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, read off a litany of advice from her list that began with, "Don't measure success by the size of your bank account...," followed by, "Never ...
06/17/11 Hagerstown, Md. - Randolph Oduber hit a bottom of the tenth inning single into left field to lift the Hagerstown Suns to a walk off 2-1 win over the Shorebirds on Friday night at Municipal Stadium.
06/17/11 That periodic bee-like buzz Friday in downtown Hagerstown was the hum of spokes and pedals spinning feverishly and zipping past, kicking off a weekend of local bicycle racing. Three races were held Friday, starting on South Potomac Street, in the heart of the city, and wrapping along Baltimore Street, Hood Street, Summit Avenue and Washington Street, in a loop of 0.8 of a mile. A group of men ...
06/17/11 The Hickory Crawdads moved closer to a first half Northern Division title in the South Atlantic League with a 10-2 rout of the Charleston RiverDogs in front of 2,552 fans at L.P. Frans Stadium Friday night.
06/11/11 Phenoms get a jump on big-league spats Nationals phenom Bryce Harper, the kid who passed up his last two years of high school to play ball at junior college on the way to being last year's No. 1 draft pick, has gotten into his first news-event spat - and made a hero out of Dylan Bundy, the fourth overall pick of this week's draft who was taken by the Baltimore Orioles.
06/10/11 Bryce Harper is a brash hot prospect while David Ortiz is a seasoned, well established big-league star.
06/10/11 The Hagerstown Suns (37-24) plated four early runs and held on for a 6-5 win over the Delmarva Shorebirds (32-29) at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium on Friday night.
06/10/11 Breakfast, 7 to 10:30 a.m., Masonic Temple, 74 S. Second St.; benefits Boy Scout Troop 125. Breakfast, Chambersburg High School Class of 1962, 8 a.m., Greenvillage Drive-in Family Restaurant, 5440 Philadelphia Ave.; 267-0430.
06/03/11 CHAMBERSBURG -- Shalom Christian Academy students can opt for a more rigorous academic schedule this fall.
06/03/11 Greenville falls just short in its bid for a second consecutive come-from-behind victory over the Hagerstown Suns.
06/02/11 HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Chambersburg artist Brad Clever earned the Best of Show cash award of $1,000 for his oil painting "The Dressing Gown" in the 79th Annual Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition, running June 4 through Sept. 4 in Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 91 Key St.
06/02/11 The graduates were the show and the stars Thursday night as the 2-year-old Barbara Ingram School for the Arts held its first graduation ceremony. Last year's graduating class was so small only a reception was held, and the students participated at their home schools' graduation ceremonies, Principal Michael Thorsen said. The ceremony for this year's 28 graduates was held at the Bridge of Life ...
06/02/11 Hagerstown, MD - For the second straight night at Municipal Stadium, the Drive (26-28) and Hagerstown (33-21) showcased a lot of offense, and not much pitching or defense.
06/02/11 The Carroll Boggs Cumberland Country Club Pro-Am Invitational, one of the oldest annual events in the Middle-Atlantic PGA, will be held today at the Cumberland Country Club.
06/02/11 MARTINSBURG - A new motorcycle club is forming in the area that is law-enforcement based, John DeRito, president of the Defenders MC West Virginia Mountaineer chapter, said in a recent telephone interview.
05/26/11 FAYETTEVILLE -- A historic bell will be dedicated to the founders of Cathedral in the Pines during the program's season opening at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the outdoor cathedral in Caledonia State Park Fayetteville.
05/26/11 Jewelry and gift sale, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lecture Room B, Chambersburg Hospital, 112 N. Seventh St.; proceeds to Chambersburg Area Hospital Auxiliary.
05/26/11 The Washington County sheriff says he has ordered changes in jail procedures after an inmate apparently hanged himself in his cell.
05/26/11 After Woodsboro Commissioner Joel Rensberger was voted out of office in the May 14 election, some suspect the injection of party politics into the small town is to blame.
05/25/11 DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. Maryland's growing immigrant population helped stabilize the state's average household size after six decades of decline, according to census data released Thursday. Rising numbers of relatively young immigrant families largely offset the effects of Maryland's aging population on household size from 2000 to 2010, the numbers show. As people age ... | 
