Clear Spring News

CLEAR SPRING, Md., Friday, Nov. 6 -- Police are looking for a driver who ran away from a crash on U.S. 40 near St.

When 5-year-old Reagan Carbaugh combed his family's 400-acre farm in Clear Spring for a prize-winning woolly bear caterpillar to submit to the The Hagers-Town Town and Country Almanack's annual contest, his sister, Val, helped with the search.

I considered the "no-technology" challenge and realized if I wanted to do the challenge completely, I would have to cut out everything I used that served me for some purpose.

Kenny and Barbara Clopper can only imagine what life was like along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the 1800s.

A long-delayed plan to hire advanced life support technicians to support Washington County's volunteer rescue companies hit another setback Tuesday when the Washington County Commissioners could not agree to give final approval for the new hires.

These are the following listings for Washington County trick-or-treating: Thursday, Oct.

Michael J. Varhola was in town Sunday, offering up some creepy tales fitting for the Halloween season.

County and state officials joined about 50 area seniors Tuesday at a ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new site for meals and activities for senior citizens at the Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Dept.

A man who was charged with four counts of attempted murder in a September 2007 fire at 39 S. Martin St.

A Washington County man has admitted to starting a fire at a Clear Spring home in 2007 as four people lay asleep inside, including two children.

Displays of old badges, faded newspapers and a slideshow of old photographs set the memories flowing as a group of about 70 old-timers from the Washington County Sheriff's Department and Detention Center gathered for a reunion Saturday night at the Elks Lodge on Robinwood Drive.

Washington County Technical High senior Kenise Lewis wants to be a pediatrician.

Joe Currie's voice cracked with every word he spoke. His 13-year-old voice, still between childhood and adulthood, strengthened and matured when his mother, Kathy, asked him to name his favorite Bible passage.

The Clear Spring Junior Varsity volleyball team celebrates after winning against Smithsburg, Thursday during the "Dig Pink" breast cancer fundraiser at Smithsburg.

The Clear Spring mayor and two members of the Town Council will run unopposed in the Nov.

Clear Spring's Alec Long basically made a guarantee to his goalie Tuesday night against Catoctin.

Allegheny Power crews are working to repair an underground line responsible for a power outage that forced the early closing of Clear Spring Middle and Clear Spring High schools today.

The man who pretended to hold his pregnant fiancee hostage in a Hancock hotel during a standoff with police in August 2008 pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to making an arson threat and possession of marijuana for that incident.

A South Carolina man who forced a nearly two-day shutdown of U.S. 522 while holding police at bay pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening arson at the western Maryland motel where he and his pregnant girlfriend holed up after a drug-fueled burglary spree.

A man faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that resulted out of a three-day stand-off with police at a Hancock hotel.