Funkstown News

Friday marked the 146th anniversary of the Battle of Funkstown. Union forces attacked the Confederate's rear guard during its retreat from the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War.

Antietam Moose #2435 is moving into a former Hagerstown restaurant, which will be the group's third home in less than three years.

And on the eighth day, the cat was back on solid ground. On Monday, Garrett Tharp of the Doctor Tree trimming business retrieved a cat stuck in a tree near Hagerstown Community College, according to the Humane Society of Washington County.

A lovable little kitten caught the attention of NBC25 cameras at the Funkstown Animal Clinic on Friday.

Share + Jul 3, 2009 2:14 pm US/Eastern FUNKSTOWN, Md. Grab a burger or a crab cake, and while you're at it, get your pet spayed or neutered.

About 1,300 Washington County residents are without power after a storm that produced hail and heavy rainfall passed through the area Friday afternoon.

Six jets flared from a clearing high into the sky above a cornfield. They whined full throttle into the sky, gaining as much altitude as possible for 30 seconds.

Cory Shank has not missed a day of school in 13 years, and is the only Washington County Public Schools graduate in the class of 2009 able to claim a perfect attendance record.

Paulette Sirbaugh's daughter graduated from high school about eight years ago, but the Funkstown resident is trying to keep up with a 5-year-old again.

Hagerstown Community College had its seventh annual Honors Convocation on May 14 in its Athletic, Recreation, and Community Center.

Since the inception of the Maryland Medbank program in 2000, Audrey Miller has watched the numbers of discount prescription drug recipients rise and fall with the economy.

A handful of people gathered Saturday near the Hager House to learn a little about the 18th century - including bonnet-making techniques and practices in personal hygiene.

Loretta Thornhill said she thought she was going to be a lawyer. But she never ended up in the courtroom.

Playing off the politics and wit of Saturday's White House Correspondents Association get-together, Washington County's Democrats dabbled in humor at their annual dinner on Monday.

Hershey Park is open for business. "I like all the roller coasters, I absolutely love Fahrenheit," said Chelsey Garman, Sunbury.

Jaime Mason's grandmother likes to tell people that as a child, Mason would line up her stuffed animals and dolls on the front porch and teach them their ABCs and 1,2,3's. Now, 31, Mason is teaching a more lively class - pre-algebra at Clear Spring Middle School.

A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for a home invasion during which a gun was pointed at a toddler's head.

Usually the first thing that happens at the annual appreciation dinner for The Salvation Army is the recognition of some special people for their work with the mainstay charity operation in Washington County.

A man convicted in a home invasion in Funkstown during which a gun was pointed at a toddler's head has been sentenced.

For 18 years as the boss at Clean Earth of Maryland Inc.'s recycling operation near Funkstown Nancy Reeder had never had to lay off a worker.