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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.
My oldest daughter, Nora, recently celebrated her seventeenth birthday. The fact of that truly blows my mind. Seventeen. It’s such an interesting age...
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” I often find myself thinking about this quote from Plato. When I...
I grew up in Waynesboro. I went to Fairview Elementary and graduated with the Class of 1996 at Waynesboro Area Senior High School. ...
On Friday, March 13, 2020, an announcement came over the loudspeaker at school stating that starting the following week the Waynesboro Area School...
Sometime around 2008, I signed my mom, my mother-in-law, and myself up for knitting lessons at the Knitting Cottage in Leitersburg. Knitting has...
In these days of online shopping and restaurant and grocery delivery, it’s easy to take the benefits of living in a small town...
Snow, ice, sleet, more ice, wind, and super cold temps … . Yes, that’s what Old Man Winter dealt to our area last...
Being a mom is my favorite role. Being a mom is also my hardest role. As my girls have grown older they have...
For years, I have been a coffee drinker. It doesn’t have to be Starbucks, but it does have to be in my mug...
By Bill Kohler 2021, where do I begin? Should we begin with the elephant in the room who roared to life in 2020...
