Mont Alto News

Beginning on Saturday, a non-profit museum started by a group of retired Waynesboro industry leaders will open a new exhibit highlighting the history of the area's iron industry.

Method and machine: The gallows stands in the courtyard of the Old Jail at Second and King streets in Chambersburg.

Shortly after receiving Penn State Mont Alto's 2012 Faculty Scholar commendation, math professor Stephen M. Zemyan, Ph.D. told the 152 associate and baccalaureate degree graduates that they hold their own futures in hand.

Last hanging: William Reed was put to death for the shooting death of a woman working at the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto.