South-Mountain News

Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, issued 15 warnings for traffic code violations during a traffic check Tuesday near the South Mountain Restoration Center.

Who knew trail running could be so... profound? A bunch of us got together at noon last Friday for a run, led by Budd , over some amazingly sloppy trails on nearby South Mountain.

What does flipping off a television station's analog broadcast signal sound like? "It makes a big noise, a thunk as it goes off the air.

PPL reports as of 9:30 a.m. there are still around 60 homes without power in Lehigh County as a result of the morning thunderstorm.

Snake handler: James E. Chestney, Carlisle, keeps a live rattlesnake in a tube after tagging it Wednesday at Michaux State Forest.

Magdalen Alicea loved living on the South Side, but she currently lives in an Allentown rental.

Meghan McGraw 9 of Bath, Pa., looks at the moon through a telescope at the LVAAS Observatory.

As the sun set and the sky darkened, we climbed inside the 16-foot-diameter Brooks observatory near the top of South Mountain and waited for the clouds -- the bane of star-watchers everywhere -- to clear.

Cold air brought with it a trace of snow to Franklin County late Tuesday night, which is not all that uncommon for this area, according to the National Weather Service station out of State College.

EMMAUS ORAL HISTORY DVD Produced by The Media People for the Emmaus Historical Society Features memories and history from 59 residents DVD goes on sale in April Individual videos offered for $25 to participants, their families and others 90-minute DVD featuring all participants offered for $30 Sales made at the society office, 563 Chestnut St.

Cooke Township, Pa. - Cumberland County historian David Smith says historic places and events rarely stand alone; they often interconnect.

Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss is visiting Washington to draw attention to the condition of the nation's Civil War battlefields.

In a move that surprised South Annville Township officials last night, township resident Bud Katzmann introduced an idea for a three-megawatt solar farm to be located on his property.

Local folks may disagree in their assessments over what constitutes a dangerous intersection, and many base their arguments on second-hand anecdotes and their own emotional responses to a given junction of ...

A pileup of 35 cars and five tractor-trailers on a snowy Maryland highway killed two people Monday and seriously injured at least a dozen, state police said.

Maryland State Police said two people died in a snowy highway pileup involving 35 cars and five tractor-trailers. More than a dozen people were taken to Waynesboro Hospital just over the border in Pennsylvania.

A stone wall stands alone on the South Mountain against a backdrop of bushes and scrub in Cooke Township.

Although every baby who enters the world is special, babies born on New Year's Day get extra attention -- some have their photographs in newspapers and some get gifts from the hospital and area businesses.

HARASSMENT: Citations were issued to Kayla Barnes and Charles Rice III, both of Waynesboro, following an altercation at 2:20 p.m., Dec.

No year should pass without a look back at the people, places and events that provided the good, the bad and the bitter of 2008 in Franklin County.