Author: Zack Taylor

HAGERSTOWN – Dr. R. Adams Cowley, a pioneer of emergency medicine as a military surgeon and founder of the University of Maryland’s Shock Trauma Unit, promoted the idea of a “golden hour” for saving victims of life-threatening injuries. If treatment can begin within that time, the odds of survival exponentially increase. Professional flight clinicians like Rob Snider and Reuben Layton bear this universal truth in mind every time they take off from the Hagerstown Regional Airport as part of LifeNet 8-1, the emergency air medical provider serving Maryland, South Central Pennsylvania and West Virginia. A subsidiary of Air Methods, LifeNet…

HAGERSTOWN – Washington County Commissioners have approved what is expected to be a final adjustment for the Washington County Public Schools’ 2024 fiscal year budget, leaving the system a $6.9 million surplus at the year’s end. Testifying before the commissioners, the school system’s Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Proulx said the district had unexpected extra expenses for completion of the Boyd J. Michael Technical High School and creation of the new diesel technology program building. After the presentation, County Administrator Michelle A. Gordon asked how much of that figure represented salary savings.  School system Director of Finance Eric Sisler said that…