Littlestown News

As parents of young children, Matt and Shannon Albright have been paying close attention to the H1N1 virus.

The York-Adams Metropolitan Medical Response System has announced plans to vaccinate students for the H1N1 virus at seven school districts during the next two weeks.

Littlestown Area School District will be among the districts in Adams and York counties to receive the H1N1 vaccine in the next two weeks.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that a 5-year-old Adams County boy is Pennsylvania's first swine flu-related pediatric death.

The Department of Health today confirmed today that a five-year old Littlestown kindergarten student died Saturday of complications from swine flu.

Several local high school bands took top honors at the Cavalcade of Bands competition Saturday at South Western High School.

The Hanover Area Jaycee's annual Hanover Halloween Parade had slightly less entries than previous years, but the crowd was just as large, according to event organizers.

Charges have been filed against a former Littlestown Area School District teacher whom police say had an "inappropriate relationship" with a female student in 2006 and 2007.

Police in Adams County have charged a former Littlestown teacher with corruption of minors.

A parked 2004 Chrysler owned by Mark Weber of Hanover was struck by an unknown vehicle.

Union Township, Adams County ACCIDENT: A Littlestown motorcyclist was flown to York Hospital after an oncoming vehicle into his lane at 11:27 p.m. Wednesday, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Gettysburg.

Police in Adams County arrest a driver for allegedly crashing into a motorcyclist while drunk.

W HITE ROSES: To the Northeastern school board for waiving the $8,248 tuition fee for Katie-Lynn Baldwin so she can finish the school year at Northeastern Middle School.

Littlestown Borough last week unveiled a preliminary 2010 budget that comes in 10 percent lower than the borough's 2009 budget, and does not raise taxes for Littlestown residents.

A Hanover manufacturing facility will close on Dec. 8 when its operations merge with another area business owned by the same parent company.

Katie Shaw and James Thomas Jr., Littlestown, a daughter, Oct. 5, 2009, at Hanover Hospital.

There must be something in the water in the Keystone State. For the second year in a row, a resident of Pennsylvania has won the UltimateBet Aruba Poker Classic Main Event.

During a water break, Lisa Sallow of Owings Mills, Md., fromerly of Hanover, talks to walkers in the Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide about the Hanover Survivors of Suicide support group while holding a sign with a picture of her son, Josh, who died in 2001.

Huddled in the back corner of a church basement, an aged bookshelf full of hymnals and paperback Bibles behind them, five Littlestown women sat around a table talking excitedly about local libraries.

Preparing for Halloween wouldn't be complete with finding the pumpkin that's just right to be carved or painted to sit by the front door.