Local history, personal profiles, and editorials on the people, places, and things that make up the Franklin County, PA and Washington County, MD areas.
The industrial revolution changed the world, utilizing ingenious inventions created using first-class brainpower- long before computers or other advanced technologies existed. To revisit...
Yes, there is a Santa Claus. I know this because I have witnessed it, time and time again. The Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter...
If you’re reading this column from pretty much anywhere in Pennsylvania, you’re already painfully aware that we’ve gone through a number of frigid...
Mother Seton was tested by a life teeming with tragedy and loss. But each successive trial revealed a woman with increasing strength and...
We were so grateful that the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter was chosen to be helped by the Penn National Ladies Luncheon recently. We...
We were so grateful that the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter was chosen to be helped by the Penn National Ladies Luncheon recently. We...
In 1839, a newspaper reported on an escaping slave who hoped to reach freedom on a train to Boston. When that outed “fugitive”...
I do not know how on earth we are so close to Christmas. It’s like I look at the calendar and think, “Wait...
You’ve done it. You braved the frigid race paths on Thanksgiving morning and put your best steps forward, zig-zagging through hundreds of competitors...
When Rello Oller was born in Victorian-era Waynesboro, she was christened with a unique name. At first glance, her palindromic moniker (Rello is...