Smithsburg News

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will not meet with a Washington County woman who opposes the construction of Eastern Primary School on the east end of Hagerstown.

A crisis team will be at Conococheague Elementary and Boonsboro Middle schools today to help students and teachers at each school cope with the death of one of their own.

Smithsburg residents starting new construction projects in town will get an exemption on the excise tax, according to Town Manager Betsy Martin.

A group of Smithsburg residents is working to promote the town and its businesses as part of a new town commission, said Donnie Souders Jr., vice president of the Smithsburg Town Council.

The City of Hagerstown is increasing water rates for its customers, including the towns of Williamsport, Funkstown and Smithsburg, to cover general inflation, operating costs and several major projects for the water system, Hagerstown Finance Director Al Martin said.

Forged prescription charges against a Smithsburg woman were dismissed Thursday morning in Washington County Circuit Court.

Williamsport, Funkstown and Smithsburg water customers will likely see water rate increases within the next few months.

Police nab the suspect who they say allegedly robbed a Super 8 Motel in Greene Township.

Ask someone who has had breast cancer to tell you their story and it often will start in the same place - a doctor's office.

Washington County's two major political parties are working together to educate people about public service.

A Washington County contingent hoped to bring back what Middletown's Alex Hoffman did for a second time - a Maryland individual state golf championship.

Retiree Glen Tarner was working part time, making deliveries for a paint company in April when he suffered a seizure or a stroke, crashed into a tree and was injured badly.

Share + Oct 18, 2009 9:33 am US/Eastern HAGERSTOWN, Md. Nineteen-year-old Elet Hall isn't a traceur -- a practitioner of the alternative urban sport of running, jumping and climbing over manmade structures -- because he wants fame or intense action.

Do you favor the agreeably sharp taste of a Macintosh, a Stayman Winesap, a Granny Smith? Or are you the kind of eater that goes for sweetness, one who is drawn to Gala, Red Delicious, or the honeyed juice of the hot shot Honeycrisp? Eaters in either camp, as well as those "fence hoppers" who snack on both sides of the spectrum, have plenty to pick ...

Patrol cars ushered a procession of more than 200 motorcycles along a 57-mile course Saturday in remembrance of slain Smithsburg Police Officer Christopher Shane Nicholson.

The Maryland Blue Knights will hold the second annual Officer Christopher Shane Nicholson Memorial Law Ride on Saturday.

Months of uncertainty ended Tuesday when the Hagerstown City Council rejected two loan applications for a proposed restaurant and classic-car showroom.

For the month of September, volunteers from Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services responded to more than 70 calls and attended several local events, according to James Ulrich, deputy chief of SEMS.

The trial of a man accused of shooting another man in the chest near Smithsburg in January ended in a mistrial Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court after a juror belatedly revealed she was familiar with the defendant's family.

The man who was shot in the chest during a Smithsburg robbery disguised as a drug deal testified Monday that after he was shot, he thought he was going to die.