Black Eye

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Jerica Hewett finished her high school basketball career at Boonsboro High School. It’s been four years since Hewett was a Warrior, and she’s nearing the end of her career as a Ram. On Feb. 23, Shepherd University will celebrate Senior Night and Hewett will suit up in her No. 3 jersey for her final regular-season women’s basketball game. “It’s the most crazy thing realizing that it’s almost over,” said Hewett.

An alcohol relapse that triggered a gambling binge at a Williamsport social club last spring sent a Hagerstown man to court Monday for writing $4,277 in bad checks in 15 days. cont. from front page Washington County Circuit Judge Donald Beachley said that before he sentences Kenneth Brian Pereschuk, he wants the Red Men's Club in Williamsport to explain why Pereschuk was allowed to cash more than two dozen checks in just over two weeks time. "They took his money and then let him pour it back into the Red Men's Club," Beachley said, referring to tip jar gambling.

Indictments made in hate crime, rape MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Virginia man charged with malicious wounding and committing a hate crime outside a nightclub and an Eastern Regional Jail inmate accused of raping a man in a nearby cell were among those indicted by a Berkeley County grand jury Wednesday. The indictment against Stacey Allen Cooper, 31, of Winchester, is related to the Jan. 4 stabbing of Jacob A. Bates, 21, outside Gables Night Club in Inwood, W.Va. Bates was stabbed eight times in the face, back and wrist during the scuffle, which police say started when Cooper accused Bates of making racial remarks in the restroom.

I'll admit I'm from the old school of thought. I'm a firm believer in letting teachers teach, coaches coach, players play and parents shut up. It is so tough nowadays to get good coaches because they're buried with so many issues outside the boundaries of the game, namely dealing with parents. And that is the issue that ignited a fire in Chambersburg when the Chambersburg Area school board voted to oust veteran boys basketball coach Shawn Shreffler on Wednesday. Allegedly, Shreffler used some profanity in the locker room at times and there were some parents in the district that didn't care for that behavior.

A child's drawing depicted a girl with a piece of tape over her mouth. “Stop child abuse. Stand for her, because she doesn't know how,” the caption read. Another portrayed a boy's face with a black eye. It read, “When you abuse children, a piece of them is lost. Why!” These poignant images were displayed Saturday at the Walk to End Child Abuse in Hancock. Students from Hancock Middle-Senior High School and Warm Springs Middle School in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., illustrated the pictures as part of a poster contest for the event.

Martinsburg man charged in attack on woman MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man is accused of hitting a woman in the face with a kitchen chair multiple times in an Aug. 13 attack that left her with what appeared to be a broken nose, severe facial swelling and a black eye, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Stephan Delano Cole, 52, of 118 W. Moler Ave., was arraigned Saturday by Magistrate Joan V. Bragg on one count of unlawful wounding, according to court documents.

Celebrate all forces of labor To the editor: On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. One industry that represents the expertise and diligence of the American worker in a powerful way is the U.S. construction industry. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there are more than 9 million construction workers employed in the United States. Sometimes Labor Day is associated with labor unions, but it is actually a day to honor all U.S. workers, regardless of labor affiliation.

(Editor's note: This letter concerns the attempt by Habitat for Humanity to build a home in the town of Boonsboro) I too respect Skip Kaufman as mayor of the Town of Boonsboro and I know as a respected public servant he was pushed into a corner that was not pleasant - but the neighbors (although accused of pushing) did not put him there. His own town officials did. The neighbors had a choice - respond or stop caring about their own welfare and the welfare of others. The real reason Skip was in the corner was because his own planning board put him there.