Blue Ridge Summit News

The Franklin County Library System will take a "fairly significant reduction in staff" based on state budget cuts, the system's top administrator said this week.

Marching bands, gymnasts, Boy and Girl Scouts troops, fire departments, and the Shriners who drive those tiny cars had a busy day Saturday in Franklin County.

Firefighters work on the roof of Mitch Kauffmans house Thursday afternoon at 3338 Day Hollow Road in Guilford Township.

It has been a year since the community of Blue Ridge Summit dedicated a garden in Amanda Bowders' honor.

Douglas M. Parks, Blue Ridge Summit, on Oct. 18 was called as second counselor in the York Stake presidency in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Voter turnout in Franklin County, Pa., during Tuesday's municipal election was about 20 percent in early election returns.

Single mom Juanita Lynch, a dietary aide at the Homewood retirement center at Crumland Farms, works three jobs to support her four kids.

Waynesboro author Athena Varounis and Deborah Heinecker, former children's librarian at Blue Ridge Summit Library, on Aug.

On the wall: Ben Barrows, 13, of St. Thomas recently returned from a trip to China in which he helped harvest peaches and took in some sites: Ben Barrows is still on a high, despite being home for a month now.

It's a library that serves patrons in four counties in two states, where talking, meeting and greeting is allowed, where children have fun and the admonition to 'shush' rarely, if ever, is heard.

Often called the forgotten battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Monterey Pass once only had a rusty marker at Pa.

It does not take much imagination to sense how a Confederate Civil War soldier felt the night of July 4, 1863, as he marched through Monterey Pass.

The annual Mountaintop Heritage Days at Blue Ridge Summit will be June 26-27. Activities and lectures will be held at Fort Ritchie's Lakeside Gazebo Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28.

A woman whose vehicle struck two telephone poles in Pennsylvania on Tuesday was charged with driving under the influence in Maryland.