Years ago, farmers looked to the moon before they did anything else. They believed that in the dark of the moon (i.e. waning), they could cut rail fences so they would stay straighter, set fence posts to resist rot, and castrate and dehorn animals for less bleeding. On the flip side, when the moon was...

After Gwenn Leatherman and her daughter ran in the Frederick Half Marathon a couple of years ago, she wondered if a similar event could be held in Hagerstown. Not long after the Frederick race, she attended the closing retreat for Leadership Washington County, a program that...

I’m not very zen. I’m more an emotional flood than a steady current. And I’m not Buddist. To prove this point I’m going to tell you that one of the statements I live by is Teddy Rosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick.” But the other, the one that...

Hagerstown leaves people spoiled for choice when it comes to delicious restaurants. One local pearl is The Crab 99, a Cajun-inspired seafood restaurant on Railway Lane. The highly rated restaurant is...

Becky Jefferies started out right here in Washington County, growing up on the southeast side of Hagerstown and attending Boonsboro High School.  “I loved my humble upbringings, but desperately wanted to get out and experience new things and learn about the world,” Jefferies says. Now, Jefferies has...

When Eloisa Banes was in seventh grade and living in Chewsville, her physical education teacher asked her to represent the school in a county track meet. It would be her first official race. “I guess she saw that I was pretty good,” says Banes. She was...