Boonsboro High School

A few years ago, as the Boonsboro High School football team was getting ready to play its home opener, its scoreboard went on the fritz and one had to be borrowed from the nearby Boonsboro Area Athletic Association, said Karen Seabright, former secretary of the Boonsboro Athletic Boosters. Another time in recent years, the scoreboard's sound system was out for the homecoming game, so the name of the homecoming queen couldn't be announced, Seabright said. This season, Warrior Stadium events have a different kind of scoreboard theatrics - the good kind.

Boonsboro High School will celebrate homecoming this weekend. Representing the student body on the homecoming court are Trish Hawkins, Emily Lum, Whitney Durr, Amber Smith, Tori Poffenberger, Britton Beard, Josh Haden, Caleb Jardeleza, J.R. Lowery and J.T. Rice. The annual powder puff game will be Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The homecoming football game against Hedgesville (W.Va.) High School is slated to kick off at 7 p.m. Friday. A pancake breakfast will be Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. in the school cafeteria.

Boonsboro High School Band Boosters will be collecting any used musical instruments at a booth at the Boonsboro Green Fest on Saturday, May 7.  The instruments will be used for the band's program. The Green Fest will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Shafer Park in Boonsboro. The Boosters will accept all donations of wind, brass, percussion or string instruments.

A Washington County student will be honored as a Maryland finalist April 13 at the CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Free Library for her entry into the Letters About Literature contest. Boonsboro High School student Elizabeth Longerbeam will be honored for her letter to author April Myers for her book “To Forgive a Stranger.” The Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher Award, honoring a Maryland teacher who works to promote reading by employing creative teaching methods, will also be presented during the awards ceremony.

The governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Maryland's “sister state” - visited Boonsboro High School Thursday to thank the students for their donations to earthquake relief and formalize a “sister school” agreement with a high school in his prefecture. “Kanagawa has nine high schools that have sister-school relations with schools of Maryland,” Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa said at a ceremony in the auditorium. “Today, Boonsboro High School and Shichirigahama Senior High School formally establish a sister-school relationship, too. I wish that we will also conduct many exchange activities and nurture friendship for a long time to come.” Boonsboro High School Principal Peggy Pugh and Shichirigahama Senior High School Principal Koichi Yoshida then signed an “Educational Exchange Relationship” agreement to explore the possibility of cooperating in joint educational projects and seeking to expand and develop their relationship.

A group of students from Boonsboro High School will travel to Annapolis in February to fight for the state title in a competition that tests students on their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. On Wednesday, Boonsboro topped three other student teams from the 6th Congressional District during a competition at Hagerstown Community College called We The People: The Citizen and The Constitution. In addition to Boonsboro, teams were fielded by South Hagerstown and St. Maria Goretti high schools, and Gerstell Academy in Carroll County.

Boonsboro High School was named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School, one of six schools in the state to win the honor for 2013, officials announced Thursday. Schools are recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education after meeting a specific set of criteria. “This is a true community effort. We wouldn't have been considered if it wasn't,” said Peggy Pugh, Boonsboro High's principal. Pugh said that for Boonsboro High School to be considered for the award, it had to be among the top 15 percent of high schools in Maryland.

James Fisher and Edith Weedon, who lived through the Civil Rights movement and have been lifetime members of what they said is the only predominantly African-American Church in South County, spent time Thursday in the Boonsboro High School library for a luncheon celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and discussing opportunities for students to get more involved in the community. “This shows progress being made,” said Mount Moriah Baptist Church member Edith Weedon of Pleasant Valley.

Boonsboro High School's track-and-field complex will be renamed Scott Field in honor of longtime coach Dwight Scott. The Washington County Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the naming during Tuesday's board meeting at the central office off Commonwealth Avenue. Scott could not be reached for comment Tuesday. A physical education teacher and coach, Scott worked for the school system from 1959 to 1996. During his career, he coached track and field, football and cross country.

Ayako Shiga, Washington County Teacher of the Year and member of the Boonsboro High School faculty, spoke to the Rotary Club of Long Meadows on April 22. Shiga, who teaches Japanese, is a native of Tokyo. During her speech she explained that as a high school student she competed and qualified for a spot in the Rotary Youth Exchange student program. The Rotary program brought her to the United States and she enjoyed the experience to the degree that she decided to make the U.S. her new home.

Green Fest, Boonsboro's signature event, takes place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Shafer Park. The free festival features 160 vendors and five guest speakers with presentations on organic gardening (10:30 a.m.), backyard birding (11:30 a.m.), green building (1 p.m.), ecotourism (2 p.m.) and stink bugs (3 p.m.).  Musical entertainment will be offered throughout the day, and there will be an opportunity to recycle almost anything.  Sponsored by the all-volunteer Boonsboro Green Fest Committee, the festival is underwritten by 63 sponsoring partners and is an official event of the Town of Boonsboro.

The band played, many of the students wore Boonsboro Warrior blue and white, and dignitaries, including the state superintendent of schools, praised the young people for their academic, athletic, and extracurricular accomplishments. Maryland State Schools Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery visited Boonsboro High School on Thursday morning to applaud its students and staff for the school being recognized as a Maryland Blue Ribbon School. Boonsboro High was one of six Maryland schools, and one of two high schools, to receive the 2013 designation in December.

Boonsboro High School student council will host a community yard sale in the back parking lot of the high school Saturday, May 11, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.    To reserve a space, call Karri Ernst at 301-766-8022. Rentals cost $10 for the first spot, and $5 for any additional space. Ruritan yard sale District 12 Ruritan in Fairplay will host a community indoor/outdoor yard sale Saturday, May 11, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Outside vendors are welcome.  To reserve a space, call 301-582-3460.

Hannah Violet, a senior at Boonsboro High School, has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with the state-level Certificate of Excellence from the 2013 Prudential Spirit of the Community Awards program, which signifies that she was among the top 10 percent of all applicants from Maryland in this year's program.  Her volunteer activities stood out as an impressive example of what young people can do to improve their communities. Presented annually by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the awards honor young people across America for outstanding community service activities.

Edwin Recher "Ed" Itnyre, 85, of Boonsboro, Md., passed from this life Friday, April 26, 2013, at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md. Born Jan. 25, 1928, in Boonsboro, he was the son of the late Earl R. and Margaret E. (Recher) Itnyre. Ed graduated from Boonsboro High School and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the former Strayer College in Washington, D.C. Later, he earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from George Washington University, where additionally, he completed a year of graduate study in International Economics.

Genevieve “Genny” Wagner had many passions - her family, the church, music and swimming. Her days were filled with volunteering at St. Ann Catholic Church, water aerobics at the Hagerstown YMCA and attending practices with the many community bands in which she played. “That keeps you young, staying active,” said youngest son Gerard Wagner of Clear Spring. “She loved to be independent,” son Randall Wagner said. In the summer, she was a regular at Hagerstown Municipal Band concerts and could be found poolside at North Gate Pool, within walking distance of her Lindsay Lane townhouse.

Rae E. Schoenberg of Boonsboro has accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is a freshman at Towson University. She graduated from Boonsboro High School in 2012. She is the daughter of Lori Schoenberg and the granddaughter of David and Gloria Smith of Boonsboro.   BALTIMORE - Ryan P. Barrett of Hagerstown was named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Loyola University Maryland. He is a senior in the Sellinger School of Business and will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in business management.

Ayako Shiga, the Japanese language teacher at Boonsboro High School, was named Washington County Public Schools' 2013-14 Teacher of the Year on Wednesday night. “I truly feel honored to accept this award on behalf of all the teachers - hard-working, wonderful teachers of Washington County Public Schools. Thank you very much,” Shiga told the crowd of about 170 people at the Fountain Head Country Club. Shiga, 35, of Chambersburg, Pa., was one of five finalists for the award, which is sponsored by the Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Sandra Faye "Sandy" Jamison, 70, of Sharpsburg, Md., passed away peacefully Monday, April 15, 2013, at home with her family by her side. Born Nov. 4, 1942, in Antietam, Md., she was the daughter of the late Gilbert Ray Crampton Sr. and Hattie Anna Elizabeth Gray Crampton. She was a 1960 graduate of Boonsboro High School in Boonsboro, Md., and attended nursing school in Baltimore. She was a cook at Sharpsburg Elementary School. In her early years, she belonged to Antietam Church of God and also had previously belonged to Burnside First Church of God. She most recently attended Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg.