Gettysburg News

Not everyone plans a getaway for Memorial Day weekend. But if you don't want to be stuck in the house with the kids for three days, a solidly-planned day trip with the family may do you some good.

In March, the Convention & Visitors Bureau agreed to pay $21,000 for 59 portable toilets after some Gettysburg Borough Council members expressed concern over the borough paying for the toilets.

The Confederate flag of the 7th Virginia Infantry Army of Northern Virginia Obverse captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863 by the 82nd New York Infantry.

More details have emerged in case of a Chambersburg Area School District teacher who was found drunk in a vehicle with a 17-year-old boy.

Daughters of Charity, a nursing order, tended to men wounded at Battle of Gettysburg.

The public is invited to the annual Memorial Day Observance, taking place at the historic Montgomery Cemetery , located at One Hartranft Ave.

In 2008, John Walsh and his family made a Father's Day weekend visit to Gettysburg, Pa., to visit the historic Civil War battlefield.

A reapportionment plan upheld recently by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court divides the county among two Senate districts and four House districts.

The authors label the book a novel, but it's a general overview of the American Civil War with the central focus of the strategy employed at this specific battle.

Lee Flinner, left, president of the Gettysburg Lions Club welcoms Robert Daniels to the Lions meeting where Daniels was the guest speaker.

A Gettysburg College professor will release a new book on the Battle of Gettysburg less than two months ahead of the 150th anniversary of the Battle.

After 30 years, the judge seat for Magisterial District 51-3-01, covering Gettysburg Borough and Straban Township, is open and four candidates have stepped up to vie for the position.

The Bigler home of businessman and philanthropist Ray S. Walker is quiet and private for most of the year.

An auction sign is placed at the Cornwall Inn, 50 Burd Coleman Road in Cornwall Monday.

A book of Confederate Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead's brigade records a list of casualties for the regiment for the battle of Gettysburg in a work room at the museum in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

This summer's 150th Gettysburg Anniversary National Civil War Battle Re-enactment, July 4-7, will be the highlight of events in Gettysburg.

Mike Myers, of York, sifts dirt on Thursday at the archaeological dig site at Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church near Gettysburg.

The two Republican candidates running in the upcoming primary for the 1st Ward Borough Council seat in Gettysburg are both stressing the same thing - fiscal restraint.

Has the meaning of "mother" changed over the years? No, not really - but what it means to be a mother, in terms of daily routine, has changed greatly since my ancestral cousin, Clinton Burns, profiled the working life of his mother two centuries ago.

Of all the mothers who get their wish, a small group of them get it at the price of their children being far from home or even overseas, often in harm's way.