Fort Loudon News

Pacific service: World War II veteran Jack Mellott of Fort Loudon talks about his time as a gunner the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier.

The Franklin County Library System will take a "fairly significant reduction in staff" based on state budget cuts, the system's top administrator said this week.

My friends know I have been searching for reindeer the past few years to add to the enjoyment for visitors to Christmas in the Village.

On the move: Pastor Frank Kocek, who pastors Rehobeth, Little Cove and Warfordsburg United Methodist churches, drives between the three churches on a regular basis.

A man walks away from his Fort Loudon home and has not been since since then. Jeremy Zeger, 29, told his girlfriend he had taken a large dose of prescription medicine and left his home on foot overnight, Zeger is 6'0," 190 pounds, and last seen wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and a blue flannel jacket.

Decorated vet: Charles Pete Detrich displays ribbons and medals he earned during service in the U.S. Army during WWII.

More than 300 runners and walkers entered the fourth annual Dash 4 Drew on Saturday in Greencastle.

The seeds of the American revolution were planted on the colonial frontier around Mercersburg, McConnellsburg and Fort Loudon a decade before the Sons of Liberty complained about taxation without representation in the cities to the east.

Atlas Copco Secoroc in Fort Loudon broke ground this afternoon for an expansion project expected to create at least 17 new jobs.

Editor's note: The following is the first in an ongoing series on World War II veterans in the Franklin County area Four months after the great prisoner of war escape of 1944 near Sagan, Germany, Charles Sloca found himself imprisoned in the famous German prison camp known as Stalag Luft III.

Earlier this year Valeria Schmidt assumed her duties as the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Fort Loudon and St.

Unscheduled: The pilot of a glider was forced Tuesday to make a landing in a cut corn field off Warm Spring Road, near Marion.

According to Franklin County Coroner Jeffrey Conner, Kimball Ellis Watts, 48, Chambersburg, was pronounced dead following a 3:18 p.m. Thursday crash on U.S. 30, near Fort Loudon.

VANDALISM: Between 12:30 and 8:15 a.m. Sunday, a vehicle struck a fence at 7569 Molly Pitcher Highway, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.

A group of Mercersburg area residents is asking the local fire company to postpone demolition of one of the oldest stone houses in the borough.

Three woman from Franklin County face Medicaid fraud charges in Penn Township after the state Attorney General's Office alleged they filed false time sheets accounting for more than 1,000 hours of work at the local office of United Cerebral Palsy of South Central Pa.

Love of animals: Rashaun Hanns dog Michael wears a Halloween hat she was given during the Make-a-Wish program.

Access point: James Kilpatrick believes the boys got onto the back porch roof by climbing this television antenna tower at the side of the house.

We thought the juvenile vandalism at the Chambersburg soccer complex earlier this summer was a pretty egregious piece of wrongdoing.

On Sunday, normally a day of rest, neighbors say they noticed some unrest at James Kilpatrick's home on Main Street in Fort Loudon.