Serving Franklin, PA and Washington, MD Counties
Serving Franklin County, PA and Washington County, MD

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Local history, personal profiles, and editorials on the people, places, and things that make up the Franklin County, PA and Washington County, MD areas.

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LOCAL HISTORY: Waynesboro’s Main Street Architecture

Architecture is created and sustained by successive eras of people. Each generation leaves behindunique brick-and-mortar buildings where citizens slept, worked, worshiped, and played....

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SNIFF NOTES: Animal Confidence

I talk a lot in these columns about lessons we can learn from animals and in the almost 22 years I’ve been with...

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LOCAL HISTORY: Bell Family Pottery

Pottery is of one of humanity’s first inventions, and surviving pieces are evidence of our earliest civilizations. The oldest known samples were found...

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LOCAL HISTORY: Bell Family Pottery

Pottery is of one of humanity’s first inventions, and surviving pieces are evidence of our earliest civilizations. The oldest known samples were found...

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SNIFF NOTES: Hugging

Have you ever thought of the benefits of hugging? There have apparently been studies on how much hugs can help people. When people...

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FOOT NOTES: I beg of you, Tigst Assefa, please be a legit hero

A World Record went down at the Berlin Marathon on Sunday, when Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa crossed the finish line in 2:11:53, making her...

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Homage To a Hero

My childhood idol was Brooks Robinson. He was a professional baseball player- a third baseman who played his entire career for the Baltimore...

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LOCAL HISTORY: Evolution of an Overlook- The Story of High Rock

Eons before humans explored the Appalachians, powerful geologic forces sculpted that storied mountain chain. Massive collisions between ancient continents caused rocks to be...

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LOCAL HISTORY: Evolution of an Overlook- The Story of High Rock

Eons before humans explored the Appalachians, powerful geologic forces sculpted that storied mountain chain. Massive collisions between ancient continents caused rocks to be...

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SNIFF NOTES: How Could Anyone Love Her

She came from a house where life wasn’t all that great. Sure, there was food – sometimes. There was water – when she...

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