Franklin County News

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced today that it recovered in Maryland the missing nuclear gauge a Franklin County company lost in West Virginia on May 3. The device has not been tampered with or damaged.

In fact, unless a candidate puts together a write-in campaign, the board could be a member short come December.

In the only magisterial district judge race this primary election, incumbent T.R. Williams is being challenged by local businesswoman Ginger Rowe.

They will do one lane of the work, then shift traffic to the new half of the deck to repair the other lane, according to Alan High, construction manager for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in Franklin County.

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

The Lancaster Barnstormers baseball team dedicated their home opener Thursday night to Lieutenant Andre Kelley, the city firefighter who continues to recover from serious burns he suffered during a fatal fire.

They will trust a man who presented facts in the best possible light for his client this year to put on a black robe and be fair and wise to everyone next year.

CRASH: David A. Bottorff, 45, East Waterford, was driving north on Path Valley Road when he struck a utility pole that had fallen onto the road at 2:38 a.m. Tuesday, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and West Virginia state officials are searching for a missing portable gauge containing sealed sources of radioactive material that was lost in West Virginia on May 3, and are asking anyone with information on the missing gauge to report it to DEP.

Technology isn't new to Elizabethtown farmer Jim Hershey. He's invested thousands of dollars in on-board computers for his planter and combine, automatic row shutoffs for his planter and, just recently, a new self-propelled sprayer.

It was purchased at the Giant supermarket in the Center Point Place Shopping Center, 720 West Street Rd., in Warminster.

An absentee ballot application must be completed, signed by the elector, and received by the Franklin County Voter Registration Office no later than 5 p.m. May 14.

It will be an unseasonably cool start to the week, with a highs in the 50s Monday and 60s Tuesday.

In action: Students Aniyah Jones, left, and Desirae Buttermore learn to connect cubes and build items based on drawings in teacher Ryan St.

Delano Edwardo Perel, 471 Nelson St., is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday in Franklin County Central Court on charges of criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault and simple assault.

ACCIDENT INVOLVING DAMAGE: A vehicle was struck while it was parked at 539 Cumberland Ave.

Students from Chambersburg Area and Greencastle-Antrim school districts participated in a mock trial during a Law Day observance on May 3. About 120 eighth-grade students from Chambersburg and Greencastle attended the event in the main courtroom of the Franklin County Courthouse.

A 48-year-old Orrstown woman is facing 20 charges after she failed to make required payments on the personal care home she operates.

Despite pleadings from the victims' families for a trial, a Waynesboro man facing the death penalty was spared his life Friday after he pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and accepted a plea agreement.

CRASH: Robert J. Hill, 59, Berlin, N.J., was driving on Centerville Road when he attempted to turn left and pulled in front of traffic at 5:58 a.m. Wednesday, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle.