Smithsburg News

Del. Andrew A. Serafini delivered 'bad news' to Smithsburg Town Council members Tuesday night, including how the economy continues to suffer and that more funding cuts from the state are coming.

Smithsburg Home Town Christmas begins Sunday with a tree lighting. Most of the events will be Saturday, Dec.

John Jacques uses a wood furnace, turns off lights when he leaves a room, and is in the process of having a geothermal heating and cooling system hooked up to his home to help reduce his energy costs.

Growing up in Washington County, Carolyn Winfrey had a lot of music in her life.

At Trinity Lutheran Church in Smithsburg's free Thanksgiving dinner for the community, some volunteers greeted guests, some helped in the kitchen, and some served food and cleared plates.

Two men were killed Saturday on Alternate U.S. 40 near Benevola Church Road, Maryland State Police in Hagerstown said.

A Smithsburg woman who filed an appeal with the state last month to halt the construction of Eastern Primary School has given up her fight.

Several churches and organizations in the Tri-State area are holding free community Thanksgiving dinners.

When it comes to her art, Bobbi Wivell, 45, believes in whimsy. As she prepared last week for the Kris Kringle Holiday Craft Show set for this weekend, the porch of the Smithsburg home she shares with husband Ken, 47, is lined with Santa Clauses, snowmen and reindeer waiting to be tagged and packed.

The Washington County Commissioners voted Tuesday to postpone a decision about hiring advanced life support technicians in order to give ambulance companies time to review the plan.

The Smithsburg girls finished second in the Class 1A team standings Saturday at the Maryland State Cross Country Championships at Hereford High School.

Editor's note: Each Monday, The Herald-Mail will highlight an infrastructure issue or other problem, and will try to find out what is being done to fix or improve the situation.

Smithsburg High School senior David Wilson crosses the finish line more than a minute ahead of the second-place finisher Saturday afternoon to win the Class 1A boys race at the Maryland State Cross Country Champonships at Hereford High School in Parkton, Md.

Funkstown water customers will see their rates go up 3.6 percent, effective Dec.

Hagerstown Mayor Robert E. Bruchey II and members of the city council on Tuesday afternoon held a brief wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial Boulevard Veterans Monument.

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.