Hancock News

The Washington County Commission on Aging offers noon lunches to anyone age 60 or older at seven locations.

The Charles County commissioners announced their new committee assignments Nov. 7. Charles County commissioners' President F. Wayne Cooper will serve on the Charles County Scholarship Fund, the Lower Potomac River Tributary Team, Civista Board of Trustees, Maryland Association of Counties Legislative Committee and MACo's Past President Recognition ...

Washington County is moving ahead with a plan to more fairly tax municipal residents.

Prayer shawls, lap robes and hats being crocheted in Lonaconing are warming the legs, shoulders, heads, hearts and souls of people in need of encouragement, especially cancer patients.

Flint's Chance, the Toll House, the Good Samaritan House and the Taney House are all part of the Hancock Historical Society's Holiday Homes Tour this month.

Tire-grabbing ruts and unofficial swimming holes along the C&O Canal towpath, made possible by heavy rains, will soon be as historical as the famous canal itself when a resurfacing project clears the pedestrian pathway next year.

More frequent buses, more direct routes and the eventual addition of service to Hancock, Sharpsburg and Boonsboro/Keedysville are among the transit system changes a consulting company has decided to recommend to the Washington County Commissioners, consultant Michael Felschow said Wednesday.

Kenny and Barbara Clopper can only imagine what life was like along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the 1800s.

Meets second and fourth Tuesday of each month at noon. Call Zella Hargett at 301-432-8534. Cavetown - Christ Reformed United Church of Christ, 22514 Cavetown Church Road Meets first Tuesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Call Ruth Rubeck at 301-739-5746. Downsville - Williamsport Red Men Lodge 84, 16129 Lappans Road, Williamsport Meets first Tuesday ...

Two teenagers have been captured at a home in Big Pool, Maryland after escaping from a juvenile detention facility in a stolen car, according to Maryland State Police troopers.

Clarence Franklin Meyers was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life sentences - one for each girl who died in a Hancock fire he set in February.

Ramos, Cool attend conference Robert Ramos and Joyce Cool recently attended the Financial Planning Association's annual conference in Anaheim, Calif.

The 'Help Is Here Express' bus tour will make two stops in Washington County on Friday.

County and state officials joined about 50 area seniors Tuesday at a ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new site for meals and activities for senior citizens at the Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Dept.

A man who faces assault and burglary charges after a shotgun was fired inside a home Sept.

Sideling Hill Mountain, with an elevation of 2,301 feet, gives a great scenic view from the top looking into some of the westward purple mountain ridges toward Cumberland, Maryland.

Hancock town officials, who are uspet with how Washington County government officials conduct inspections on building projects in town, decided Wednesday night to pursue setting up another inspection program for the town.

Hancock Middle-Senior High School will host a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov.

Hagerstown Medical Laboratory Inc. will open its newest patient service center Monday in the south end of the Hancock Antique Mall at 266 N. Pennsylvania Ave.

Two young children who were missing from Michigan were found after a deputy checked out a suspicious vehicle parked in a Hancock gas station.