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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.
When I was a child, I celebrated holidays like most other families. At Christmas, I opened presents under the tree. At Easter, I...
This trip, we stopped into Paul’s Country Market located 6374 Nunnery Road, just outside of Waynesboro. They say you shouldn’t visit a grocery...
Prom. Just the sound of that word brings back a flood of memories: the “vital” decision of whether to go with a date...
We finally got a chance to stop in and try Avocado Cafe in Chambersburg. They are located at 1048 Lincoln Way East (behind...
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...
