Adams County

Maryland State Police in Westminster are offering a reward of up to $250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who stole or destroyed dozens of mailboxes early Sunday in Carroll and Frederick counties, and in Adams County, Pa.Police said the vandals drove through between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. in a pickup truck.Much of the damage in Carroll County occurred in and around Taneytown, Harney and Mayberry, and along Route 97 between Westminster and Littlestown, Pa. Damage in Frederick County occurred along Bullfrog, Bargis, Bollinger School and Fish Hatchery roads.

FiresPleasant Valley: Firefighters responded at 8: 33 a.m. Saturday to a controlled burning on Old Taneytown Road. Units were out one hour.Harney: Firefighters assisted Adams County, Pa., responding at 12: 55 a.m. Saturday to a barn fire on Route 15 near Route 134. Units were out 33 minutes.

FiresHarney: Firefighters responded at 5: 01 p.m. Thursday to a building fire in the 900 block of Frederick Pike, Adams County, Pa. Units were out 14 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters responded at 3: 56 p.m. Thursday to a lockout detail in the 100 block of Grand Drive. Units were out 19 minutes.Pub Date: 3/15/99

Firefighters and medical crews were dispatched from Carroll, Frederick, Washington and Baltimore counties yesterday to relieve weary Pennsylvania volunteers battling a 100-acre mountain blaze in Adams County, about five miles northeast of Emmitsburg, authorities said.Pennsylvania fire officials said 250 firefighters and about 50 civilians worked throughout Sunday night to contain the flames spread by extremely dry conditions and light winds."We just had to get help from Maryland to relieve our personnel," a spokeswoman for Adams County said.

Pennsylvania authorities have charged a 52-year-old resident of France in the wounding of a Virginia re-enactor Friday during the 135th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.Authorities in Adams County filed charges of simple assault and reckless endangerment against Christian Evo, of Muret, France, after an investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police.Clinton Wakefield Epps, 22, of Charlottesville, was shot in the neck with a Civil War-era revolver or replica while playing the part of a Confederate infantryman with the 7th Virginia Regiment.

FireUnion Bridge: Firefighters responded at 9: 40 a.m. Saturday to a house fire in the 11400 block of Renner Road. Units were out 30 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters assisted Adams County, Pa., at 7: 15 p.m. Friday, responding to a fire alarm at Littlestown High School. Units were out 25 minutes.Pub Date: 1/13/98

Metzler's Garden Center and Christmas Shop will have a grand opening celebration from 8: 30 a.m. to 7: 30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday in its newly renovated quarters in Winfield.The family-owned and operated garden center includes 10,000 square feet of greenhouses, a full-service florist and a 3,000-square-foot Christmas shop.The Metzler family, John and Dotty and children Hans Metzler and Katrina Bellofatto, have owned a center in Howard County for the past 30 years. The center is on the site of the former Rolling Hills Farm and Garden Center at 935 W. Liberty Road.

Clinton Wakefield Epps is racing through the woods, sunshine piercing through the dusk, smoky and unreal, heart thumping, hair flying, imagining himself a Confederate infantryman in pursuit of Yankee cavalry.He is rushing forward, out into the clearing -- and there, he's trapped by Union re-enactors. Then it happens: a sudden blow against his neck, paralysis. He is falling, raising his left hand, feeling blood flowing from his neck and struggling to his knees and whispering "Medic."A man pretending to be a Union soldier calls out: "Bang, you're dead."

FiresNew Windsor: Firefighters responded at 1: 17 p.m. Sunday to a woods fire in the 3400 block of Uniontown Road. Units were out 32 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters responded at 12: 13 a.m. Saturday to a shed fire in the 400 block of S. Queen St., Adams County, Pa. Units were out 15 minutes.New Windsor: Firefighters from New Windsor, Union Bridge and Westminster responded at 5: 28 p.m. Friday to a combine fire in the 100 block of Ruth Shriver Road. Units were out one hour.Harney: Firefighters responded at 5: 08 p.m. Friday to a chimney fire in the first block of Fruitwood Trail in Adams County, Pa. Units were out 22 minutes.

FireHarney: Firefighters from Harney responded at 6: 12 p.m. Wednesday to a house fire in the 1800 block of Barlow-Two Taverns Road in Adams County, Pa. Units were out 16 minutes.Pub Date: 8/15/97

During the depression of the 1930s, the Chesapeake Bay thrived largely because people let it alone. They quit punishing the bay with overharvesting, and industrial pollution and construction diminished. The result was a maritime environmental bonanza. After the end of World War II, watermen were reporting record strikes of oysters, crabs and rockfish. A roundtable of "experts," including this writer, mulled this scenario at a "Chesapeake Futures" conference held by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels.

Annapolis woman, in Pa., jumps, dies An Annapolis woman killed herself at Gettysburg National Military Park by jumping off a 76-foot-tall observation tower, authorities said yesterday. Quebec high school students on a field trip to the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania found the body of Mary L. Pastirik, 47, about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, said Officer Tim Biggins of the Cumberland Township Police Department. The department is investigating the death and declined to provide further details about Pastirik.

During the 2004-2005 season, 4,932 white-tailed deer were killed in Carroll County, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Of these, 2,014 had antlers and 2,918 were antlerless. Washington County led the state with 10,149 deer taken by hunters, and Frederick County was in second place with 7,492, the department reported. The numbers for other Maryland counties adjacent to Carroll are: Baltimore County, 5,663; and Howard County, 2,858. In Adams County, Pa., 4,741 deer were killed in the 2002 season, and in York County, Pa., 11,564 deer were killed in 2002, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

The Adams County National Bank and the Adams County Arts Council collaborate to ring in the New Year in downtown Gettysburg. The fourth annual celebration will have a fireworks display set off from the Race Horse Alley Parking Garage roof, plus music and refreshments. The Christ Lutheran Church on Chambersburg Street plays host to the Herb Sell Jazz Quartet at 7:30 p.m., Magician John Woulfe at 8:45 p.m. and Folk and Friends, featuring the Folkermer family, at 10 p.m. There will be children's activities at the church from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and a prayer service at 11 p.m. Lincoln Square will be the party spot as local DJs spin hits, and Fire Chief Larry Weikert gives a presentation on the steps of the Gettysburg Hotel.

While your attempt at making your home resemble a page from Better Homes and Gardens may have failed, the chance to see perfectly holiday-decorated houses has not passed. On Sunday, seven houses, both historic and modern, in Liberty Township in Adams County, Pa., are opening their doors for the Holiday Home Tour. Decorated homes include the Pecher Farm, a renovated 1800 stone farmhouse; Windborne Farm House and Barns, a working sheep farm; as well as a reproduction New England saltbox, a converted post and beam barn, a Revolutionary-period log house and a passive-solar home built in the 1980s.

A Baltimore man with a history of domestic violence is accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping his ex-girlfriend before he suffered serious injuries falling off a speeding Jeep Cherokee as she escaped along a south-central Pennsylvania road. Charges had not been filed against the ex-boyfriend, Sean Pettaway, 30, of the 2300 block of Pentland Ave. in Northeast Baltimore, police said. He was in serious condition yesterday afternoon at York Hospital. The woman was being interviewed by police, authorities said.

Fire Taneytown: Firefighters from Taneytown and Harney responded at 4: 25 p.m. Sunday to a house fire in the first block of Teeter Road, Adams County, Pa. Units were out two hours.

FiresPleasant Valley: Firefighters responded at 8: 33 a.m. Saturday to a controlled burning on Old Taneytown Road. Units were out one hour.Harney: Firefighters assisted Adams County, Pa., responding at 12: 55 a.m. Saturday to a barn fire on Route 15 near Route 134. Units were out 33 minutes.

Maryland State Police in Westminster are offering a reward of up to $250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who stole or destroyed dozens of mailboxes early Sunday in Carroll and Frederick counties, and in Adams County, Pa.Police said the vandals drove through between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. in a pickup truck.Much of the damage in Carroll County occurred in and around Taneytown, Harney and Mayberry, and along Route 97 between Westminster and Littlestown, Pa. Damage in Frederick County occurred along Bullfrog, Bargis, Bollinger School and Fish Hatchery roads.

FiresHarney: Firefighters responded at 5: 01 p.m. Thursday to a building fire in the 900 block of Frederick Pike, Adams County, Pa. Units were out 14 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters responded at 3: 56 p.m. Thursday to a lockout detail in the 100 block of Grand Drive. Units were out 19 minutes.Pub Date: 3/15/99