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BOYS BASKETBALL Heritage 54, Calvary 40 CALVARY CHRISTIAN (0-1, 0-1) Morris 1 0-0 2, Willison 1 1-2 3, Harden 7 2-2 16, Humbertson 4 2-3 10, Peters 2 0-2 5, Knotts 2 0-2 4. Totals 17 5-12 40 HERITAGE ACADEMY (2-0, 1-0) Shank 4 1-11 9, Thurber 1 2-4 5, S. Barthalow 5 4-8 14, Stamper 4 4-8 12, Butts 3 5-6 11, Sword 1 0-0 2, T. Barthalow 0 1-1 1. Totals 18 17-38 54. Calvary6 5 12 17 - 40 Heritage5 14 16 19- 54 3-point goals - Calvary 1 (Peters)

Grace United Methodist Church, 712 Church St., Hagerstown, today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Rider Fellowship Hall, there will be craft tables with centerpieces, lots of fall and Christmas items, goodie tables with apple dumplings, homemade candies and homemade apple butter, along with sandwiches and homemade soups. Grace Bible Church, 2327 Hoffman Road, Greencastle, Pa., is hosting a ladies fall retreat today from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Speakers will be Samantha Jeffcoat, an evangelist's wife from Glen Burnie, Md., and Holly Aikens, principal of Emmanuel Christian School in Hagerstown and wife of the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Temple.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Washington Township, Pa., officials and representatives of Carlino Development Group of Wyomissing, Pa., are scheduled to talk today about what one resident recently called "our own, very personal 187-acre Superfund site. " Pat O'Connor was referring to the Thornhill Development in planning stages on a former apple orchard on Old Forge Road. Pesticides applied to the apples over several decades have left arsenic and lead in the soil, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Spokesman John Repetz said.

Week of Feb. 25, 1957 Rothwell Mason, a former resident of Hagerstown, now of New York, was recognized by local friends as a contestant on the Tic Tac Dough program, seen over a Washington TV station at noon. The program originates from New York. Mason is a graduate of the 1945 class of Hagerstown High School. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gratton Mason, 11 Glenside Avenue. A new book just available at the Washington County Free Library, "Other People's Children" by Anna Judge Veters Levy, has received the praise of Evan Crossley, magistrate of the juvenile court.

By SAMANTHA KRULEWITZ Staff Writer CEARFOSS - Sarah and Suzanne Kelly are hoping for a taste of victory in Ag Expo competition today. The creative sister team will compete as members of the Huyetts 4-H Club in the home crafts and fashion review events at the annual Ag Expo at the Agricultural Education Center on Md. 65, Sharpsburg Pike. The week-long Ag Expo features competitions and agricultural displays in home arts and livestock plus various activities like tractor pulls, bull riding and the crowning of an Ag Expo queen tonight.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Since she was 11, Kayla France of Bunker Hill, W.Va., has been acting in everything from school plays to community theater. Now 14 and about to start her first year Musselman High School in Inwood, W.Va., Kayla has come a long way from small parts in elementary school plays. In her first show for the Old Opera House Theater Company, Kayla landed the lead role of Snow White in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. " The show is one of two youth productions produced by the Old Opera House (see story below)

martinsburg@herald-mail.com MARLOWE, W.VA. - More than 50 years ago in a small West Virginia town called Marlowe, there lived a boy named Cecil Foltz. Like most boys of that era, Cecil had a fondness for apples. Lulled by an orchard next to his school, Cecil one day stole an apple from a tree. Promptly caught, he was ushered into the principal's office. Rather than face the administrator's wrath, Cecil, 12 or 13 years old, hopped out the principal's office window - a second-floor window - and slid down a flagpole.

charlestown@herald-mail.com CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - A Southern gentleman and "self-made man" were terms used Sunday to describe former Jefferson County Commissioner George R. Crim, who died over the weekend. The 96-year-old Crim, who died Saturday at Shenandoah Health Village Center in Charles Town, worked through challenges in the Great Depression and was one of the largest apple growers in the county, friends and relatives said. Crim had an eighth-grade education, which was not unusual at that time, said his son, Richard Crim of Martinsburg, W.Va.

After owning one of those celebrated Apple iPhones for a couple of weeks, here is my review of the hottest technological gadget of the year: 1. It is really, really cool. 2. I am really, really not cool. My suggestion is that if you wish to have your uncoolness pointed out in a good strong light, get an iPhone. Not only do I not really need most of the iPhone's features, the more depressing matter is that I can't even figure out what a lot of these features do. You've seen the signs at the amusement park rides: "Must be this tall to enter.