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: Ghosts of Antietam- The Photographic Legacy of Mathew Brady

During America’s infancy, war was both an inevitable and too-common occurrence. The Revolutionary War was required to win independence, the War of 1812...

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SNIFF NOTES: A Best Friend Like Max

They’re best friends. Have been since the day they met so many years ago. They go everywhere together and have so much fun....

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LOCAL HISTORY: Street Names Provide Links to the Past

In every town, citizens routinely travel local streets, or mention them in everyday conversations. But they often don’t consider the cultural and geographic...

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SNIFF NOTES: Dog Walk

I do not know how we are halfway through October, but somehow it happened. Time just gets away from me anymore. I have...

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FOOT NOTES: Training for Man Fest

At first I thought Man Fest was a joke, but my buddy and fellow runner Matt Sharp was determined to create a tournament...

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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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