Gettysburg News

Gettysburg Photo walk 2013 sponsor Andy Smith stopped to snap a photo of the Union Drummer Boy, located at 13 Baltimore St., Gettysburg, during his first-ever community photowalk in 2008.

I can't get enough of Civil War history. I can't explain what my attraction is. It is what it is and what it has been is buckets of money spent on books, DVDs and some memorabilia dedicated to the 1861-65 conflict between the North and the South.

Adams County Sheriff Jim Muller gets a kiss from his wife, Beth, Tuesday after the Republican primary results were announced.

As the final votes were tallied on Tuesday night, everyone seemed to be waiting for the results of the Gettysburg council First Ward Republican race, one of the few contested elections in the borough.

State police arrested two men and a male juvenile Tuesday in connection with an armed robbery at a Bonneauville home Sunday night.

Angela Hughes of Gettysburg has been named to the President's Honor Roll at Northeastern State University for the spring 2013 semester.

Not everyone plans a getaway for Memorial Day weekend. But if you don't want to be stuck in the house with the kids for three days, a solidly-planned day trip with the family may do you some good.

In March, the Convention & Visitors Bureau agreed to pay $21,000 for 59 portable toilets after some Gettysburg Borough Council members expressed concern over the borough paying for the toilets.

The Confederate flag of the 7th Virginia Infantry Army of Northern Virginia Obverse captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863 by the 82nd New York Infantry.

More details have emerged in case of a Chambersburg Area School District teacher who was found drunk in a vehicle with a 17-year-old boy.

Daughters of Charity, a nursing order, tended to men wounded at Battle of Gettysburg.

The public is invited to the annual Memorial Day Observance, taking place at the historic Montgomery Cemetery , located at One Hartranft Ave.

In 2008, John Walsh and his family made a Father's Day weekend visit to Gettysburg, Pa., to visit the historic Civil War battlefield.

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

The authors label the book a novel, but it's a general overview of the American Civil War with the central focus of the strategy employed at this specific battle.

Lee Flinner, left, president of the Gettysburg Lions Club welcoms Robert Daniels to the Lions meeting where Daniels was the guest speaker.

A Gettysburg College professor will release a new book on the Battle of Gettysburg less than two months ahead of the 150th anniversary of the Battle.

After 30 years, the judge seat for Magisterial District 51-3-01, covering Gettysburg Borough and Straban Township, is open and four candidates have stepped up to vie for the position.

The Bigler home of businessman and philanthropist Ray S. Walker is quiet and private for most of the year.

An auction sign is placed at the Cornwall Inn, 50 Burd Coleman Road in Cornwall Monday.