Chambersburg News

Across Franklin County, residents young and old came out on Memorial Day to remember the lives lost fighting for our freedoms.

Telling it like it was: Living historian Robert Lathrop as business owner Jacob Hoke at the Survivors and Heroes ceremony at Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Memorial Day is a time to pause and remember those who have served their country.

Found: This letter, dated July 18, 1863, was from Jacob Lortz, a young man from a prominent Chambersburg family, for whom Lortz Street is named.

The annual Race Against Poverty 5k run/walk will take place on Friday, June 1 from 6 to 8:45 p.m. in Chambersburg.

They served a nation: Hundreds of flags adorn the graves of fallen war veterans at Parklawns Memorial Gardens north of Chambersburg on Saturday.

Bruckart, of Hamilton Township, is a beekeeper and president of Franklin County Beekeepers Association.

Employed: Jesse Buchman, left, of Dickinson College and Dillon Gracey of Shippensburg University both found summer employment with Bravo Fireworks in Chambersburg last summer.

State Police in Chambersburg are investigating a runaway who left her residence on Friday, May 25 between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Amber Nicole Brooks, is described as 15 years of age, white/non-hispanic, 5'3" tall, weighing 160 lbs, with long brown hair with red streaks, brown eyes, two piercings in lower lip.

Richard "Dick" Alloway of Chambersburg, Pa., won the Capt. Steve's Bait and Tackle Flounder Tournament with a 4.7 pound flounder worth $1,070. / SUBMITTED IMAGE CHINCOTEAGUE -- A Pennsylvania man's 4-pound, 7-ounce flounder won him more than $1,000 in the annual Capt.

HIT AND RUN: An unidentified driver reportedly crashed into a vehicle while it was parked about 5:50 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of South Third Street.

More than 200 people participated Friday in the 12th annual Walk the Walk in downtown Chambersburg.

A man was taken to Chambersburg Hospital after a motorcycle crash Friday afternoon near 1952 Letterkenny Road in Hamilton Township.

In a short time, Sandy Traynor has added a lot of responsibility at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center.

A new vendor will visit the Downtown Farmers Market on Sunday, and depending on attendance, could become a returning vendor, according to the city's economic development coordinator.

Rebecca Barnhart, daughter of Chris and Jodi Schellhase Barnhart, formerly of Chambersburg, this spring was inducted into the National Honor Society at Geneseo High School and chosen as an Illinois State Scholar.

The U.S. Marshals Service said it captured 24-year-old Carlos Baez-Quinonez at a home in the 100 block of Queen Street early Thursday.

Carlos Baez-Quinonez, 24, was sought out of Puerto Rico in the shooting of a man in Luqillo, Puerto Rico Early in 2012, information was provided that Baez-Quinonez may have been hiding out in PA.

After receiving a report of a white Dodge mini-van traveling west in the eastbound lanes of Route 22, Patrolman Joseph SanGiovanni located it on Route 22 west.

Chambersburg High School has a new boys basketball coach, but many are still focused on the firing of the previous coach.