Maugansville News

The U.S. Postal Service is considering moving Western Maryland mail processing from Frederick, Md., to Baltimore as a summertime cost-saving experiment.

Although damage was limited to $700 in a fire late Thursday morning, the Johnson family was displaced from its 13828 Frazier Road home, according to Maryland fire marshals.

About 120 students who were among 200 who moved from Paramount Elementary School to Maugansville Elementary School in 2008 could go back to Paramount as soon as 2011, according to one proposal being considered by a redistricting committee.

That's the feeling of a group of area residents who have started to raise vegetables for growing numbers of people who need help putting food on the table.

A number of broken car windows, possibly shot out with a BB or pellet gun, have been reported in Frederick in the past few days.

After a disappointing false start to getting a bilingual Vacation Bible school off the ground last year, the congregants at Iglesia Bautista Hispana de Hagerstown and Virginia Avenue Baptist Church succeeded this year.

On Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14, there is an opportunity for families to spend time together learning about Hagerstown's aviation history.

Patrick Thomas and Lauren Smith graduated from North Hagerstown High School and Towson University together - and less than five weeks from today, they plan to be married.

The Washington County Commissioners approved the county's proposed budget for next fiscal year Tuesday with last-minute amendments to reduce borrowing, set aside more funding for a senior center and spend $1 million on incentives for commercial development.

Forty-eight students in the Certified Nursing Assistant/Geriatric Nursing Assistant program at Hagerstown Community College graduated on May 6 in HCC's Classroom Building.

A Washington County elementary school will soon be transformed into a huge community carnival.

Archie van Norden's brother lost his Gulf Coast home during Hurricane Katrina, making it hard for the Maugansville Elementary School principal to resist a chance to help restore some New Orleans schools.

A month before Memorial Day, labor leaders gathered Tuesday to remember workers who died on the job.

Fire and rescue companies that operate two stations should get double the county funding of companies with only one station, Washington County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association President Glenn Fishack told the Washington County Commissioners Tuesday.

The rock 'n' roll spirit was in high gear Wednesday night at Hager Hall Conference & Event Center as hundreds of Bret Michaels fans descended on the Dual Highway complex to see the heavy-metal singer.

Without more money, the Community Free Clinic in Hagerstown might stop seeing new patients, its executive director said Wednesday.

There were no speeches, no testimonials. There wasn't even a slide show of past events during Monday night's Valentine dinner sponsored by the American Cancer Society of Washington County.

A duplex on Charles Street in Hagerstown was damaged in a Saturday morning fire that apparently was started by a portable heater, fire officials said.

Phil Ridenour said there is a picture of his grandfather, William Brewer, standing next to a 1928 Model A truck - a vehicle he and other early volunteers turned into a first firetruck for the Maugansville ...

Elementary school gymnasiums might seem like an unlikely venue for Washington County's new adult pick-up sports programs, but don't be fooled - these are no ordinary elementary school gyms.