Fayetteville News

The following area students at Millersville University of Pennsylvania were named to the dean's list, having received a grade point average between 3.5 and 4.0 for the for the spring 2009 semester: Fayetteville: Justine Wetzel.

If Chambersburg Post 46 goes on to win the Franklin County American Legion baseball title, it will point to Thursday's improbable comeback as a key reason why.

Traffic woes: Womex Excavating, Inc., is starting work on the sewer lines along U.S. 30, just west of Chambersburg in Hamilton Township.

The second major economic stimulus highway project in Franklin County should begin within weeks.

It will be called the PA Hero Walk, an event that organizers hope will raise $250,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Evening show: The Colts of Dubuque, Iowa perform without their instruments during the Drum Corp show at Trojan Stadium on Friday.

A military convoy that is headed to California is being met by large crowds along the way.

A tanker truck carrying 5,000 gallons of liquid asphalt overturned, causing some of the asphalt to spill out onto Richmond Road.

The following reports were taken from information supplied by area law enforcement agencies Saturday: Chambersburg CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Chambersburg Police Department reports that someone threw a rock through a front door window at the Eisenhower Drive home of Alan Ray Stinson, no age given, at 3:30 a.m. Saturday.

Five Franklin County American Legion baseball players have passed the first test on the all-star trail.

Drumming, says Tiny Richardson, is a gift from God, and being part of a drum circle gives her an opportunity to share that gift.

A look at history: Art Rebuck of St. Thomas checks out a U.S. Army Jeep that rolled into Norlo Park in Guilford Township with the 1919 cross country convoy.

A half-million dollar grant will help put home ownership within reach for 21 families.

Franklin County Art Alliance presented awards in excess of $1,000 at the opening reception of its 38th Annual Exhibition May 31 in Calvary United Methodist Church, 150 Norlo Drive.

Pint-sized Picassos: Sidewalk chalk costs next to nothing, fosters a childs creativity and washes away with the next rainstorm.

The Chambersburg Maroons bunched three of their four hits in the second inning, including a grand slam by Josh Davis, to hand Mechanicsburg a 4-2 defeat in a West Shore Twilight Baseball League game Sunday afternoon at Henninger Field.

Several local students made the honor roll at The Mercersburg Academy for the 2009 spring term.

What started as a press conference by John Putch Saturday to promote his newest independent film, "Route 30," turned into an announcement that the film will be the first of a trilogy about life along the famed Lincoln Highway.

Reasners in military: Dorothy Reasner, Fayetteville, had a photo collage made of her eight brothers in military uniform.

Jennifer Wetzel, Fayetteville, a May magna cum laude honors graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, won second place in the photography category during IUP's fifth Indiana Video, Animation and Multimedia Production Awards.