Keedysville News

Boonsboro Mayor Charles F. 'Skip' Kauffman Jr. says that a plan to put Boonsboro High School last on a countywide list of 15 new school buildings or school modernization projects is 'unacceptable.' The Washington County Board of Education recently approved a plan that has the first major improvement to a Boonsboro school set for 2022, when ...

Julie Stinar once worked with some of the top names in fashion: Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Tracy Reese.

Creativity is the theme of this year's summer reading program for children ages 10 and younger at the Washington County Free Library, as well as other branches.

Julie Stinar once worked with some of the top names in fashion: Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Tracy Reese.

About 170 Washington County properties are expected to go on the auction block Tuesday during a tax collector's real estate sale.

Even Katie Wennick's mother, Laura, wasn't allowed to read the short story that won a $30,000 scholarship from romance writer Nora Roberts' foundation.

An electrical fire early Thursday at a Keedysville home caused an estimated $10,000 in damage, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said in a news release.

Boonsboro Police Chief Jeff Hewett was still getting used to his new surroundings when he took time to gaze across the town-owned King farm property toward Shafer Park, where a giant Ferris wheel could be seen above the treetops.

Inn BoonsBoro's Eve and Roarke room is named for characters created by writer Nora Roberts, a.k.a. J.D. Robb.

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.

Boonsboro is near the Appalachian Trail. For more things to do and places to stay in Washington County, Md., visit www.marylandmemories.org. Nora Roberts' Inn BoonsBoro: The inn has six rooms and two suites.

Officials once again are proposing moving students from Boonsboro Elementary to Rockland Woods - an idea that was defeated in 2008 after months of pressure from the community that fought to keep students in a local school.

Washington County's proposed water and sewer rate increases only amount to a few extra dollars a month, but for seniors and others on fixed incomes, even a small increase can be a burden, some area residents said.

Julie Kline remembers the years when her brother, Michael Andrew Kline, organized the Sharpsburg Fishing Rodeo.

There are religious reasons. In Christian tradition, a lamb is symbolic of the risen Christ and is often the centerpiece of the Easter meal.

A change in Pell Grant funding pending in the Senate could ease the tuition burden for all college students, but for those in community colleges the dollars will make even more of a difference.

Sarah Hull said she had no idea when she graduated from Shepherd College with a degree in psychology that she would become a librarian.

Special to The Herald-Mail The fragrance of homemade soap conjures up images of bathing amid rich, steaming lather infused with delicious aromas of lavender, patchouli, white pine or jasmine.

A Hagerstown woman who was the victim of a hit-and-run by an allegedly drunk driver has been awarded $3.1 million by a jury in Washington County Circuit Court.

A copy of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man rests on the bedside table in the Inn BoonsBoro's Nick and Nora room, decorated in a style that would make those characters "very comfortable." 300 million Books that ...