Author: Nancy Mace

A total of 723 bras and monetary donations to support Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance in Mercersburg were raised during the recent Bras for a Cause campaign. CVBCA provides breast health education and breast cancer support to residents of Franklin, Fulton and Cumberland counties wherever they seek treatment. Volunteers who met to count bras are from left, seated, Marj Cober and Nancy Baer. Row two: Pat Fleagle, Carol Adams and Rhonda McFarland. Cober and McFarland served as co-chairs of the campaign, held in October in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The bras collected are given to Waynesboro Community and…

WAYNESBORO – The new assistant zoning officer and planner for Washington Township is literally hitting the ground running. Twenty-year-old Keller Moore of Waynesboro said he is learning as much as he can about the township, both in the office and out in the field. “I’m doing whatever I can to help things run smoothly,” said Moore, a 2023 graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior High School. Moore has been working alongside Chad Reichard since Oct. 1. Reichard, whose last day is Nov. 22, is leaving the post to serve as state representative for the 90th district, succeeding Paul Schemel. “I’m highly…

WAYNESBORO – Described as humble, soft-spoken and an advocate for many, Clint Barkdoll was named the 2024 Roy S.F. Angle Business Person of the Year by the Greater Waynesboro Chamber of Commerce at its awards breakfast at Green Grove Gardens on Thursday, Nov. 7. Barkdoll, of Waynesboro, has been a partner in the law firm of Kulla, Barkdoll & Stewart since 2005. Sponsored by F&M Trust, the award is presented to a person “who contributed in exemplary fashion to the greater Waynesboro area and contributed to the community in similar ways as the Chamber.” A boxing glove trophy is passed…

One-hundred year-old Bill Wagaman jokingly said he’s “slowed down a little,” but you’d never know it. “They call me their ‘poster boy’ at the V.A. Center (in Martinsburg, West Virginia),” added Wagaman, who celebrated his birthday Oct. 31. An Army veteran, he was injured and held as a prisoner of war for nine months during World War II. Wagaman said he and his wife, Rosie, who will be 97 on Dec. 27, are not as spry as they used to be. “I no longer mow, but we do everything else. Rosie has the cleaning bug, and we each wash and…

WAYNESBORO – Witnessing the devastation in person caused by Hurricane Helene left an indelible mark on a local woman and a group of volunteers. “TV doesn’t do it justice,” according to Mandy Jones of Waynesboro, who was one of a number of people who took hay and other needed supplies to residents of Erwin, Tenn., (population 6,000) recently. “The main part of town – banks, library and other buildings – were at a higher elevation and not affected. The other part is a different world. “I never saw anything like it. I can’t even put into words what we experienced,”…

WAYNESBORO- The PTO of Summitview Elementary School in Waynesboro hosted a Trunk-or-Treat event for students and their families. The evening was filled with festive decorations and numerous trunks offering candy and treats, creating a fun and safe atmosphere for everyone.

WAYNESBORO – Two Waynesboro authors discussed their work during the Friends of the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library at its annual meeting Oct. 18 in Waynesboro Country Club. Bobbi Blubaugh, a retired elementary teacher who writes children’s books, explained where the idea for her first, “Too-Da-Loo Kangaroo,” was born. “My granddaughter and I said too-da-loo to her parents, and then we started thinking of all the different ways to say goodbye. It wasn’t too long after that I got the idea of rhyming synonyms for goodbye with animal names and somehow that went into animals from different continents.” Pictured throughout…

WAYNESBORO – An innovative technology is putting real time findings in students’ hands. “They’re not reading from a textbook, but actually looking at data that affects their daily lives,” according to Keith McCray, instructional technology specialist for Waynesboro Area School District. He’s referring to the benefits of the new weather station located just outside Waynesboro Area Middle School along East Second Street. The solar-powered center provides real-time mea­surements of temperature, humidity, precipitation, dew points, wind direction, wind speed and gusts, solar radiation, soil temperature and soil moisture. It also uses sonar to measure snowfall. “Lessons are being designed to give…

WAYNESBORO – Workers from G.W. Electric Co. Inc., Greencastle, are installing11 new Victorian-style street lights on both sides of Walnut Street between Second and Third Streets in Waynesboro. The lights, similar to those on Main Street and Clayton Avenue,  are part of the Borough of Waynesboro’s $217,762 revitalization effort to help connect the Boro Plaza on Walnut Street and downtown Waynesboro. Work on the first phase of the project started in August and will continue next year when sidewalks in that area of  Walnut Street are upgraded and the street rebuilt. The project was funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Community…

WAYNESBORO – The Rev. Drahus Oslik, associate pastor of Evangelical Lutheran Church, blesses Sadie, as owner Sue Mason looks on, at the Blessing of the Animals Oct. 6 at the church. At left with Mason’s other dog, Lacey, is Fran George. In the photo at right, Oslik blesses Foxy, the dog of Kim Morrow. Many people bring their pets to a church to be blessed on St. Francis’ feast day because of his love for animals as expressed in his Canticle of Creatures. NANCY MACE/FOR LOCAL.NEWS