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It's the most ambitious project for downtown Hagerstown in decades.

It's been more than two years since the H.W. Murphy Community Health Center at Walnut Street offered physicians' care.

SHARPSBURG — On Saturday, Mike Gamble, a seasonal interpretive ranger at Antietam National Battlefield, played and sang popular songs of the Civil War and told of the stories behind them.

Herman Suiter Parks, 93, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, at his home. The family will receive friends Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home, 327 W. King St.,…

Julie Lynn Taylor, 51, of Williamsport, Md., passed away Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, at the home of her parents in St. Thomas, Pa. Born April 25, 1966, in Hagerstown, she was the daughter of Arthur E. and Sandra "Sondie" (Kiser)…

Geneva Mae Ahalt, 89, of Hagerstown, Md., went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, at Reeders Memorial Home in Boonsboro, Md.

For the fifth year, women from all over the area got down and dirty for a good cause.

Imagine being on a boat sailing up and down the Potomac River, with vegetation along the riverbanks.

WILLIAMSPORT — It's odd to think of tractor-trailers in the jungles of South Vietnam, but convoys of 40 to 50 trucks of various types carried supplies for soldiers — where the roads were passable — said Vietnam War veteran John…

When Gary Shank was in the South Vietnamese jungle on search-and-destroy missions, he wouldn't sleep long at night.