Fort Ritchie News

It's 10 a.m. Sunday and Nina Rouzer is facing a barrage of questions, like 'How far should the portable toilet be from the ice cream stand?' and 'Where are the trash bags?' Rouzer wipes a strand of hair from her sunburned face and helps coordinate setup for the final day of the fourth annual Mountaintop Heritage Days.

Bob Banzoff, representing the Maryland Society of Surveyors, dressed as Horatio Sharpe in 1760s period costume inside the Mountain Top Heritage Days museum Saturday.

During a lunch Tuesday with the Washington County Commissioners, U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Maryland, pledged to support improvements to Interstate 81 and agreed to keep an eye out for a major business or government agency that could anchor the development at the former Fort Ritchie U.S. Army base in Cascade.

The former Fort Ritchie Army garrison at Cascade, Md., is renting to its first Defense contractor.

Surveying for subdivision continues at a farm that has been eyed for development by major retailers and restaurants like Target, Martin's Food Market and Olive Garden.

Four of the nine people who have expressed interest in filling a Washington Township vacancy on the Waynesboro Area School Board were on the hot seat Tuesday night, fielding questions including one about ...

We're halfway to the September 2011 deadline for finishing moves mandated by the federal Base Realignment and Closure process that started in 2005.

PenMar Development Corp. Executive Director Rich Rook has resigned effective Jan.

If it helps to have friends in high places, Washington County's economy has one it needs in Col.

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The Washington County Board of Education voted Tuesday to approve a $1 million donation from the PenMar Development Corp.