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September 26, 2007
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Police chief hiring process moves forward
By PAT FRIDGEN Echo Pilot
Best case scenario, Greencastle will have a new police chief by mid-November. Worst case, in four to five months, said Mayor Robert Eberly. The Greencastle Borough Council met in a special session Sept. 19 to review the status of the police department and lay strategy for hiring the replacement. More...
G-ASD teachers to receive 19 percent raise over five years
By PAT FRIDGEN Echo Pilot

On a 6-2 vote, the Greencastle- Antrim Board of School Directors approved a five-year contract for the G-A Education Association on Sept. 20. The agreement runs from Sept. 1, 2007 through Aug. 31, 2012. The previous contract expired Aug. 31. More...

Bear brings new life to tree
By PAT FRIDGEN Echo Pilot

A friendly bear is greeting motorists at West Weaver and Worleytown Roads these days. And if people look closely enough, they will see an eagle behind it as well. Marvin Brindle and his wife Grace had a big old maple tree in the side yard that needed to go. More...

 News
•Three charged in drug bust
A one-month investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police Vice/Narcotics Unit assigned to the Chambersburg Barracks resulted in the arrest of three area people on Sept. 18. Elisa Thomas, 29, Greencastle, Joseph Burns, 37, Hagerstown, and Donna Wharton, 46, Waynesboro, were arrested following a d... More...
•Area defense projects get committee OK
•Alliance goes to Washington to search of communications equipment
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 Inside Our Community
•G-A Homemakers meeting well attended
The Greencastle-Antrim Homemakers' first fall meeting was held Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. in the form of a covered dish picnic at Antrim Township Community Park, with 25 in attendance. Hilda Eshleman welcomed those in attendance and introduced three of the five new members in attendance, thos... More...
•Police reports
•Cour t report
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 Point of View
•Put in the sidewalks
Editorial
The Greencastle Borough Council has been agonizing for months on whether to enforce its sidewalk ordinance. The issue is not that complicated. Twenty years ago the city leaders decided that whenever a street was repaved or reconstructed, corresponding property owners had to install, repair or rep... More...
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 Sports Weekly
•Scoreboard
Last week in Greencastle-Antrim HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY FOOTBALL Northern York, G-A 7 HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY SOCCER G-A 4, Boiling Springs 1 G-A 18, Harrisburg 0 G-A 2, Shippensburg 2 HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY VOLLEYBALL G-A 3, James Buchanan 0 (25-6, 25-14, More...
•Julia Stein places a pass for the Blue Devils.
•Evon Wiestling works the ball for G-A.
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 Faith/Values
•FAITH RAISERS
Missions rally MERCERSBURG - A Missions Rally will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30 with missionaries Mike and Debbie Hampton at the First Pentecostal Assembly of God, 20 N. Park Ave. The Hamptons have been appointed to serve as Assemblies of God missionaries in the Netherlands Antilles, a ... More...
•Seeds From The Sower
•CHURCH SERVICES
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 Letters
•Thank you, Chief Mozurkevich
The year was 2005; autumn was at hand. Borough Council would soon choose a new chief of police, after many weeks of careful deliberation. Another council meeting had come to order. During the public comment period, a concerned Greencastle resident urged council members to hire a "working chief of... More...
•Area responds to need for blood
•Fun Fair during OHW a great experience
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 Inside Our Schools
•Reunions
Members of the Greencastle High School Class of 1953 recently held a reunion. From left, are: first row - Wilford Plasterer, Nellie (Buchanan) McIntosh, Janet (Heffner) Stoops, Connie (Barr) Tracey, Marley (Elliott) Walck, Pearl (Keller) Stockslager, Vesta (Wilson) Statler, Kathleen (Kline) Witmer;... More...
•GHS Class of 1953 celebrates
•Stottlemyer, Frankenfield selected for senior honor
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 Obituaries
•Marshall E. "Ed" Bricker
Marshall Edgar "Ed" Bricker, 80, of 149 East Leitersburg St., Greencastle, died unexpectedly at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007 in the Waynesboro Hospital following a brief illness. Born Sept. 13, 1927 in Lemasters, he was the son of the late Lloyd C. and Ethel Ellen (Tenley) Bricker. More...
•Robert E. Angle
•Leonard Spitz
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 Farm & Garden
•Time to do lawn repairs
COMING EVENTS Sept. 29 - 10 a.m., Pavers Workshop - Horticultureal Garden Center, Franklin County Cooperative Extension, Call 263-9226. Oct. 2 through Nov. 13 - 7 to 9:30 p.m., Principles of Landscape Design Classes, Franklin County Master Gardners, Franklin County Human Services Building, Ca... More...
•Farmers are eligible for low-interest loans
•Penn State offers tips for farmers in search of hay
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 Say Cheese
•Full Story
Jamie Reynolds, a lifetime survivor, walks with her husband, Will Reynolds, and son, Wesley Reynolds, (above) while below 5-year-old Jade Cisney walks in front of her mother. More...
•The annual American Heart Associaiton Heart Walk held in Greencastle Sunday raised $118,000.
•The Greencastle High School Class of 1941 gathered recently at Tayamentasachta to dedicate a second memorial tree.
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