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Police Reports Greencastle Borough Police recently released the following incident reports (Information on any of the cases should be called to police at 597-9506.): A car parked in the driveway at 146 Baumgardner Drive was entered between 7 p.m. Feb. 6 and 7 a.m. Feb. 7. Doug Stumbaugh reported that t... More ... Borough hires fulltime officer By PAT FRDIGEN Echo Pilot With a quorum present at a special meeting Monday, the Greencastle Borough Council hired another fulltime police officer. Preston Strayer was promoted from parttime to fulltime status. He has been an officer in Greencastle for over two years. More ... Court Reports The following cases were recently docketed before Magisterial District Judge Duane Cunningham: Darren David Brickford, 23, 5996 Flower Drive, was arrested on multiple charges following a single-vehicle crash Feb. 2 at 12251 Ridge Road. Witnesses told Pennsylvania State Police that at 6 a.m... More ... Deed Transfers The following deed transfers in Antrim Township have recently been recorded in the Franklin County Register and Recorder's office: GREENCASTLE Goodier Builders at Greencastle to Christopher, Leah Harclerode, Lot 2, $160,000. More ... Township accepting grant applications Antrim Township will be accepting applications for the 2008 Antrim Township Facilities Grant Program through 4:30 p.m. March 14. Any nonprofit park or recreational organization that is open to the general public in the Greencastle Antrim community serving citizens of Antrim Township may apply for ... More ... Chamber sets breakfast The Greencastle-Antrim Chamber of Commerce will host a breakfast Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Antrim House Restaurant. The event will be sponsored by Merrill Lynch, which will be represented by Jay Brechbiel. The guest speakers will be Alex Bacay and Laura Miller, both of Leadership Franklin County. More ... Next Week In Greencastle- Antrim Feb. 25 through March 2 Monday, Feb. 25 Rotary, noon, Antrim House VFW Auxiliary, 7 p.m., post home Antrim Township Municipal Authority, 7 p.m., township building G-A Women's Club, 7:30 p.m., member's home Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m. More ... Relay for Life holds kickoff Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. This was the theme of the 2008 American Cancer Society's Greencastle Relay for Life Kickoff held Jan. 14 at the First United Methodist Church. Over 35 of the expected 70 teams picked up their team packets and were introduced to the 2008 Committee, co-chaired by Pa... More ... Business prospect needs lots of water from Antrim By PAT FRIDGEN Echo Pilot A manufacturing company would like to settle in Antrim Township, but needs 500,000 gallons of water daily, and 1,000,000 gallons a day by 2012. It wants the township to provide the water, rather than drill its own. The Board of Supervisors learned of the prospect at its Feb. 12 meeting. More ... Supervisors to air tapes in response to press coverage By PAT FRIDGEN Echo Pilot At the beginning of the Feb. 12 Antrim Township Board of Supervisors meeting, chairman Curtis Myers announced he was tape-recording the session. Township secretary Renee Perrin said she was doing the same. Areporter indicated she was also taping the meeting. More ... Minstrel show to take stage GREENCASTLE - The Rescue Hose Company Fire Department will present its 73rd annual HOBO MINSTRELS entitled "HOW TO HAVE A MINSTREL." The first Rescue Hose Company Volunteer Minstrel began in 1929 and remains all volunteer in 2008. More ... G-AHS to host large indoor show The 20th annual Greencastle- Antrim Indoor Competition will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in the G-AHS gymnasium. Sponsored by the Greencastle- Antrim Band Boosters, the rules and judges will be from the Keystone Indoor Drill Association. More ...
100 Years Ago February 20, 1908 Despite the very disagreeable weather, a large audience attended the Anti-Saloon League meeting held in the Presbyterian Church. The league's aim is to have the legislature let each county in the state determine by vote whether that county shall permit the sale ... More ...
The shop in the corner By SHARON BAUMBAUGH This time it really could be the "shop 'around' the corner" if you were walking north on South Carlisle Street or west on East Baltimore Street and turned the corner on Center Square to 17 S. Carlisle St. This shop around those two corners, now an antique business, was the long-time location of a ... More ... COMMUNITY CALENDAR Veterans assistance CHAMBERSBURG - Free help and advice will be available for veterans and their families in Franklin County from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Team PA CareerLink office, 600 Norland Ave. Jim Krobath, operations specialist from the Governor's Veterans Outreach and Ass... More ... Rotarians to serve spaghetti dinner The Greencastle Rotary Club will host an all-you-caneat spaghetti dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. March 1 as a fundraiser for the Lilian S. Besore Library as one of Rotary's projects in support of its community. The Rotarians will be serving spaghetti dinners at the high school cafeteria. More ... Meeting to feature show/tell STATE LINE, Pa. - The Middleburg/Mason-Dixon Line Historical Society invites the public at attend its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 in the State Line Ruritan Building at the community park. The program will be Show and Tell "Around the World. More ... Greencastle-Antrim Women's Fellowship to meet Feb. 26 The Greencastle-Antrim Women's Fellowship will meet from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church Memorial Fellowship Hall, 130 N. Washington St. The speaker will be Jane Birt on services provided by the Waynesboro Area Human Services Council. More ... Coseytown Homemakers to meet The Coseytown Homemakers will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Antrim House Restaurant. Lynn Baldino will provide the "Pig in a Poke." More ... G-A Senior Women's group sets meetings The Greencastle-Antrim Senior Women's Club has set a slate of meetings through spring. The group will meet for lunch at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at Casey's Restaurant. Gloria Stahl will speak about her trip to Honduras. On March 13 the club will meet at 1 p.m. at a member's home. More ...
Rotary Club president Julie Statler recently welcomed Scott Slick and Larry Yoder as their newest members of the Greencastle club. Yoder is employed at the Antrim House Restaurant. He and his wife Shannon have three children, Nataska, Katrina and Justina. Slick works at Susquehanna Bank in Greencast... More ...
Tim and Tammy Cromer of Fort Littleton have announced the engagement of their daughter, Emily Cromer, to Christopher Buhrman, son of Fred and Sandy Buhrman of Greencastle. The bride-to-be is a 2004 graduate of Forbes Road and a 2006 graduate of Penn State Mont Alto. She is employed by Berkeley Co... More ... Zahos-Stouffer Mr. and Mrs. Tony Stouffer of Chambersburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacia Dee Stouffer, to Demetrios Ioannis Zahos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ioannis Zahos of Chambersburg. The bride-to-be is a 2001 graduate of Greencastle- Antrim High School and a 2005 Shippensburg University gradua... More ... Mr. 'B' to celebrate birthday CHAMBERSBURG - Richard Besecker is now a resident of the Shook Home in Chambersburg. Mr. "B" will celebrate a birthday March 8. Cards may be sent to: Richard Besecker - Shook Home Nursing Unit - Room 107 55 S. Second St. More ... Fund Raisers Pancake breakfast The First United Methodist Church, 45 N. Washington St., will host an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast from 6:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in the Family Life Center. Proceeds from the morning meal will benefit the annual Relay for Life held in Greencastle to support cancer... More ... |
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