NEWS
October 13, 2009
MARIE L., 99, of Hagerstown, MD, died Saturday, October 10, 2009 at the Northwest Hospital Center, Randallstown. Born November 24, 1909 in Portland, OR, the daughter of the late Frederick William and Anne Marie (Ritzmann) Zeller. Wife of the late Howard Tilden Witmyer who died June 2, 1987. Marie is survived by one son, Timothy F. Witmyer, daughter-in-law, Jannette J. Witmyer, of Pikesville, MD and one daughter, Anne M. Witmyer of Hagerstown, MD. Funeral services will be 1 P.M., Friday at the Gerald N. Minnich Funeral Home, 305 N. Potomac Street, Hagerstown.
NEWS
October 13, 2009
Marie L. Funeral services will be 1:00 P.M. Friday at the Gerald N. Minnich Funeral Home, 305 North Potomac Street, Hagerstown. Internment in St. Marks Episcopal Church Cemetery, Boonsboro, MD. Visitation 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Thursday, at the funeral home. Memorial contributions to ARC of Washington County, 820 Florida Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21740. The Gerald N. Minnich Funeral Home, Bryan K. Kenworthy P.A., 305 North Potomac Street, Hagerstown has been entrusted with the arrangements. Online condolences are accepted at www.geraldminnichfuneralhome.
NEWS
By Paul West | August 13, 2009
HAGERSTOWN - -There were two different town hall meetings in Western Maryland on Wednesday afternoon, but Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin only made it to one of them. That was his question-and-answer session in a packed Hagerstown auditorium. It included loud, red-faced rants by angry voters who wanted the Democratic lawmaker to know that they don't trust him or, for that matter, believe a word that he says. But there was another civic gathering, too, which took place just outside and got little media attention.
NEWS
February 9, 2009
WILLIAM LEE SPRANKLE, 79, of 1158 Luther Drive, Hagerstown, Maryland, died Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Washington County Hospital. William was born on August 14, 1929 in Hagerstown, Maryland. He was the son of M. Genevie Moser Sprankle of Hagerstown, MD and the late Raymond Ellsworth Sprankle. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was retired from the A & P Stores after forty years of service. He was a member of Christ's Reformed Church. He is survived by two sisters, Beverly Smith and husband, Dean of Dundalk, MD and Barbara Adams and husband, William of Middletown, MD; one brother, Larry Sprankle and wife Joann of Hagerstown, MD; ten nieces and nephews.
NEWS
February 1, 2009
Three men stabbed on Harford County road 1 Three men were stabbed yesterday morning on Mountain Road in Joppa, according to Harford County police. The unidentified men had left the Port Sports Bar and Nightclub in Fallston about 1:50 a.m. when they got into an argument with one of the eventual assailants, according to police. As the three men were traveling south on Mountain Road near Old Mountain Road North, three vehicles approached them from the rear, police say. The suspects' vehicles formed a road block, forcing the victims' car off to the side of the road, according to police.
NEWS
January 30, 2009
On January 27, 2009 in Frederick, MD. Joseph J., Jr Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Minnich Funeral Home, 415 East Wilson Boulevard, Hagerstown, MD 21740 on Saturday, January 31 for a memorial service to be held at 3:00 P.M. Memorial Masses will be held at St. Ann Hagerstown and St. Ursula, Parkville on dates to be determined. Interment at St. Paul Cemetery, Myersville, MD.
NEWS
By Joe Burris | January 17, 2009
If you're seeking the boundary between Ravens country and Steelers territory, look no farther than the floor of a ballroom in Hagerstown. The dividing line that separates fans of the two NFL teams will run down the middle of the Grand Ballroom at the Hager Hall Conference and Event Center. The owners of the expansive complex have invited fan clubs of both teams to watch tomorrow's AFC Championship showdown, and they will split the room. Purple-and-black chairs on one side, yellow-and-black on the other.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | December 14, 2008
Marianne Draper, a retired bookstore sales clerk and book collector, died of cancer Monday, on her 67th birthday, at Northwest Hospital Center. Marianne Stine was born and raised in Hagerstown. She was a 1959 graduate of South Hagerstown Senior High School and attended Hagerstown Junior College. The former longtime Ten Hills resident, who had lived in recent years on Cromarty Road in Baltimore County, had worked at Cokesbury Bookstore on Rolling Road from 1991 until 2005. "For the last three years, she worked as a caregiver for a stroke victim," said a son, Jared Draper of Odenton.
NEWS
By Andrea K. Walker | December 12, 2008
Volvo AB of Sweden said yesterday that it is cutting production and workers at its Mack Powertrain Division plant in Hagerstown to reduce costs because sales of its trucks and buses have dropped. The Hagerstown plant will reduce production of its transmissions by a third and of its engines by 25 percent, said Ilse Ghysens, a plant spokesman. The changes are effective Jan. 25. The cuts were first reported by the Herald-Mail in Hagerstown. "There is a lower demand due to the economic downturn, and we have to adjust," Ghysens said.
NEWS
By Andrea K. Walker | August 15, 2008
Volvo AB of Sweden said yesterday that it would embark on a $50 million expansion and add 50 workers to its Mack Powertrain Division plant in Hagerstown as part of a sweeping restructuring across the company. But the truck maker also announced it would lay off up to three-quarters of its 120 workers at a parts facility in Baltimore as the company moves to streamline some operations. The changes in Maryland are a small piece of a plan outlined by Volvo, which acquired Mack in 2001, that executives said would make the truck company more cost-efficient.