Big Pool News

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.

It didn't take long Friday for the grounds of the Plumb Grove mansion in Clear Spring to be transformed into a scene from the Old West.

A Clear Spring resident who wished to remain anonymous won the $100,000 grand prize drawing at Saturday's Bonanza Extravaganza, according to an event official.

For 10 of her 14 years, Briana Rohrer of Big Pool has been twirling a baton. That talent earned her a chance to compete in the National Baton Twirling Association World Championships in April in Ghent, Belgium.

Traffic is backed up in the eastbound lane of Interstate 70 near Big Pool while authorities remove a tractor-trailer that caught fire early Friday morning, the Maryland State Police said.

The Washington County Museum Ramble is set for Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, and will feature 20 museums and sites throughout Washington County.

Maryland State Police troopers used a 'rolling roadblock' on Parkhead Road Tuesday night to stop a vehicle after they received a tip about a wanted subject, according to a state police news release.

A proposal that would shift 130 students from Clear Spring schools to Hancock was the source of a long and sometimes heated debate Tuesday night when the Washington County Commissioners held a meeting at the Leonard P. Snyder Memorial Library.