Adams County News

Shelley, a 6-year-old pitbull rescue owned by Compassion Animal Hospital veterinarian Anne Parker, gets a peek over the desk from receptionist Lisa Augsburger's lap on Tuesday Dec. 3, at Compassion Animal Hospital in East Berlin.

Officials say a Midstate man was arrested at BaltimoreWashington International Airport early Friday morning for having a loaded gun in his carry-on.

Federal authorities said this loaded handgun was seized at BWI Airport on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

The Lincoln Red Line Freedom Transit bus is seen at the transit station on Carlisle Street in Gettysburg on Dec. 2. The Lincoln Red Line is a bus route that takes commuters to the Gettysburg Outlets and the Eisenhower Hotel and Conference Center and is one of the Freedom Transit routes that was eliminated because of lack of funding.

The week of Nov. 19, 2013, in Adams County truly memorialized the importance of the actions of those that have gone before us.

Abbottstown Borough Council has approved accepting and advertising a tax ordinance with no increase in residents' taxes for next year.

Adams County property owners will likely see a tax increase of 0.1865 mills if officials approve the current version of the 2014 budget.

The 4th Annual Gingerbread Celebration & Holiday Mart will be Friday and Saturday at the Gettysburg campus of Harrisburg Area Community College, 731 Old Harrisburg Road.

Adams County officials say they will re-examine the leases on several buildings, hoping to find ways to save money.

Arthur B. Fox's book about Allegheny County residents who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg has more than 60 photographs, many in color.

Charles Nussbaum, program director at Gettysburg C.A.R.E.S, talks about the kitchen facility at the resource center on 117 York Street in downtown Gettysburg.

A preserved farm in the Arentz family located off of Route 194, foreground, leads to the headquarters of Arentz Hay and Grain, in Union Township on Wednesday.

A McSherrystown woman has been charged with simple assault and other charges after she allegedly fled the scene of a crash while intoxicated and later kicked a Pennsylvania state trooper.

Spero Marinos, of Cumberland Township, locks the gate entrance to his 54-acres of property on Civil War Lane in Mount Joy Township on Wednesday.

At their recent meeting, the board of supervisors approved advertising the township's tentative balanced budget with no tax increase.

Salt Lake City artist Stanley Watts gathers with locals Friday who helped place the new statue of President Abraham Lincoln in downtown Gettysburg.

MOUNT JOY TWP. >> A theft was reported at the 7-Eleven, 1975 Baltimore Pike, at 12:16 p.m. Sunday.

Eight people helped carry the 800-pound bronze Lincoln statue to its new location outside the Adams County Library on Friday afternoon.

A working barn fire is causing heavy damage at 2425 Baltimore Pike in Mount Joy Township.

A tax increment finance committee is examining what role, if any, its members will play in funding assistance to build an active adult community near Gettysburg.