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The Hagerstown Flying Boxcars will open their season at home on April 25 against the Staten Island FerryHawks, and it will be the first time that Meritus Park will host the Atlantic League’s Opening Day celebrations. After the three-game opening series, the Boxcars hit the road for three straight series, before returning to Meritus Park on...

For 31 years, Hagerstown Choral Arts has been delighting Tri-State audiences with harmonious vocal musical performances. But when its founder and artistic director Gregory P. Shook resigned in February, it left a vacancy in...

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...

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...