Arendtsville News

Abbottstown borough officials have approved joining with two other municipalities' in a contract for waste hauling in 2010.

Because of a budget shortfall of about $243,000, the Arendtsville branch of the Adams County Library System will be closing by the end of the year.

Chad Stroup's truck was found one and a half miles down Birch Run Road. Chad Stroup State troopers found the body of a Columbia man Wednesday afternoon in Menallen Township, Adams County, near Michaux State Forest, according to state police.

Emergency officials from four counties have been scouring the mountains near the border between Adams and Cumberland counties in a search of a 26-year-old who went missing on Tuesday.

The Arendtsville branch of the Adams County Library System might close by the end of the year because of a budget shortfall of roughly $243,000. Adams County Library System director Rob Lescher said the state cut funding to the library system by 20 percent, leading the system's overall revenue to drop by 12 percent.

Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Carl G. Roe said 44 of the 60 licensed elk hunters were successful during the 2009 elk season.

The York/Adams Metropolitan Medical Response System has updated the list of school districts that will receive the H1N1 vaccine.

Voter turnout at the polls in Adams County Tuesday was just below expected, according to county Commissioner Glen Snyder.

The single challenger running for election to Upper Adams School District's school board wants to see more cost-saving efforts in the district.

Jacqueline and Dave McCartney's Biglerville home was destroyed in a fire Friday night, which the couple and their dog barely escaped.

The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire won't open today because of rain -- the first time in its 29-year history that the gates haven't opened as scheduled.

The 45th annual Apple Harvest Festival wrapped up in Arendtsville today. Apples in every form from apple pie, apple sausage, apple butter and more, all filled the South Mountain Fairgrounds.

Johnny Appleseed would be proud. For more than four decades, the National Apple Harvest Festival near the town of Arendtsville, Adams County, swells beyond capacity for two weekends in October at the South Mountain Fairgrounds .

The countywide property-value reassessment in Adams County is on schedule, county commissioners said Wednesday.

7:22 p.m. An assault involving a juvenile and an adult female was reported in the 900 block of Goldenville Road, Butler Township.

The Adams County Fire Marshal's office is to investigate a Sunday night fire in upper Adams County that destroyed a greenhouse and threatened to damage a nearby home.

Good year: Tawnya Tracy of Tracys Orchard near Waynesboro shows off some of this years harvest.

On Sept. 12, Cumberland Woodland Owners' Association will sponsor a free workshop on timber stand improvement at the Penn Forestry woodlands near Arendtsville.

Amanda Hollabaugh, Brad Hollabaugh and Ali Black box peaches to sell at the Hollabaugh Brother s Fruit Farm during the farm s annual Peach Festival outside Biglerville.

Amanda Hollabaugh, Brad Hollabaugh and Ali Black box peaches to sell at the Hollabaugh Brother s Fruit Farm during the farm s annual Peach Festival outside Biglerville.