Author: Staff Reports

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of State today announced that its professional licensing waivers issued under the COVID-19 disaster declaration will begin expiring in phases starting May 23. All waivers will expire by June 30. The legislature ended the COVID-19 disaster declaration in June 2021, while extending some license waivers. Without a disaster declaration, the governor and the department cannot further extend the waivers. Legislative action is necessary to extend any active waiver. Under Act 14 of 2022, all waived and suspended regulations initiated because of the COVID-19 disaster emergency would expire June 30, 2022, unless terminated earlier. Licensed professionals and…

CHAMBERSBURG – The Franklin County Commissioners have proclaimed May 15-21, 2022 to be Emergency Medical Services Week in Franklin County and are encouraging all residents to recognize the vital role the emergency medical services (EMS) network plays in safeguarding Franklin County communities. The EMS system has evolved over time and today consists of first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, emergency medical dispatchers, firefighters, police officers, educators, administrators, pre-hospital nurses, emergency nurses, emergency physicians, trained members of the public, and other out-of-hospital medical care providers. These individuals – whether career or volunteer – undergo thousands of hours of specialized training and…

CHAMBERSBURG—The Franklin County Area Agency on Aging will offer a talk by guest speaker Peggy Ann Bradnick. As a teenager, Bradnick was kidnapped near her home in Shade Gap and the ensuing weeklong search made national headlines as the largest manhunt in Pennsylvania history at that time. Bradnick will tell her story Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m. at the Chambersburg Senior Center, 600 Norland Ave. For more information, call 717-263-2153.

WAYNE HEIGHTS—The Washington Township Board of Supervisors will meet tonight, Moday, May 16, to discuss the following agenda items: Swearing in of fire police; conditional use hearing/Lloyd; opening of bids; building update/ The board will meet at 7 p.m. in the township building on Welty Road.

BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT–The public is invited to the grand opening of The Institute’s Civil War era garden on Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. at the garden site near the Monterey Pass Battlefield Museum. The event will feature a brief program with remarks, garden activity for children, self-guided garden tours, and light refreshments. Admission is free. Created in partnership with the Friends of the Battle of Monterey Pass, the garden was based on extensive research and was planted by The Institute’s garden director and volunteers. It will be an educational tool for area school children and for visitors to Monterey…

CHAMBERSBURG—Road construction will begin this week in Chambersburg. New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co., Inc. will work on the following streets: 1. Brookview Avenue (West King Street to High Street), West King Street (Grandview Avenue to Brookview Avenue) 2. Hamilton Avenue (North Franklin Street to Municipal Boundary) 3. Harrison Drive (Grandview Avenue to Municipal Boundary) 4. Heintzelman Avenue (Grandview Avenue to Municipal Boundary) The work on Brookview Avenue, Hamilton Avenue and Harrison Avenue will involve Full Depth Reclamation, which recycles the existing asphalt to establish a base that is overlaid with an asphalt wearing course. Work on Heintzelman Avenue will…

SHIPPENSBURG — The Shippensburg University softball team opened the scoring and never trailed against Bloomsburg Thursday in an NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional Tournament win over the Huskies, 10-3, at Robb Field. Shippensburg (32-18) had junior Hannah Marsteller (Fredericksburg, Va./Riverbend), the back-to-back PSAC East Athlete of the Year, and sophomore Taylor Myers (Fayetteville/Chambersburg Area), finish the day perfect at bat, combining to go 7-for-7 and reaching base 10 times. It helped the Raiders exact some revenge against Bloomsburg (28-19), who eliminated the Raiders from the conference tournament last week. Marsteller went 4-for-4, including a double, four RBIs and a walk,…

HARRISBURG – Col. Robert Evanchick, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, has announced that 103 cadets have graduated from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy—12 of them will be assigned to Franklin County. The class was the 163rd to graduate from the academy in Hershey since it opened in 1960. “Being a trooper is a difficult undertaking,” Evanchick said. “It is sometimes only self-rewarding, many times perilous, and at all times demanding. It is not a job; it is a way of life.” The new troopers who will report to Troop H-Chambersburg on May 23 are: Nicole A. Gripp, Shannon D. Jones, Benjamen L.…

See a movie. The Waynesboro Theatre, 75 W. Main St., is showing “LUCA” (PG; 1:41), Saturday, May 14, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; “Belfast” (PG-13; 1:38), 7 p.m. All movies are $6, except where noted. Tickets include popcorn. Fountain soda & candy sold separately. For tickets, visit WaynesboroTheatre.org. Go under the sea. WASD and Downtown StoryWalk will present “Summer Literacy Under the Sea” Saturday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Alexander Hamilton Library, second floor community room. The event will include games, sand art, underwater robot, therapy dog, StoryWalk and more. Shop for a deal. The Waynesboro…

HAGERSTOWN, MD — When a police cruiser crashed into a home at 417 N. Jonathan St. on a wet day in 2018, the accident exposed a piece of long-forgotten history in the historically Black neighborhood. Hidden underneath layers of vinyl siding were hand-hewn timbers at least 200 years old revealing a log cabin. What had started as a demolition of the condemned building turned into a preservation of the home and an excavation that uncovered pieces of the past. “Exploring Jonathan Street: History, Art, Imagination” is inspired by the fascinating discovery of that log cabin at 417 N. Jonathan Street. This exhibition…