Carbon Dioxide

Explosives could mean expulsion for teens By RICHARD F. BELISLE Staff Writer, Waynesboro GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Two Greencastle/Antrim High School students are facing expulsion from school for bringing a homemade explosive device to school, Principal Jack Appleby said Wednesday. One of the boys made the device to sell to the other, officials said. The students, both 14 and in ninth grade, will be referred to Franklin County juvenile authorities on charges of possession of a weapon on school property for disposition, said Greencastle Police Chief Terry Sanders.

Appreciation for our Earth - that's the purpose of Earth Day, according to Melodie Anderson-Smith, director of Renfrew Institute for Cultural and Environmental Studies in Waynesboro, Pa. "We don't think about (our) impact on the world," she says. Anderson-Smith sat down with the Pulse team to share a little about Earth day. Earth day is also a day to bring awareness to environmental effects. Anderson-Smith explained that global warming is when carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere and causes the Earth's climate to warm.

charlestown@herald-mail.com CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - In this bust, police didn't have to go searching. The operator came to them. Police said they found 12 garbage bags stuffed with suspected marijuana at a home in the Shannondale area of Jefferson County on Sunday afternoon after a woman decided to "come clean" about growing the drug. "We don't get this often," said Detective Victor Lupis of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The woman, who is not being identified, has not been arrested, Lupis said.

Time is running out for area residents to cash in on an Eastern Panhandle lawmaker’s large tree contest. The deadline to nominate a maple tree as being the region’s largest is June 30, according to Del. John Overington, R-Berkeley, who is offering a $500 cash prize for the winning entry. The winner also will receive a copy of the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. “Trees have special meaning for me, and I am glad this contest is becoming an annual event,” Overington said in a news release about the contest.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- Idling behind a line of politicians and Johnson Controls officials, a tractor-trailer carrying a huge $2 million refrigeration unit waited Thursday afternoon for the ribbon-cutting ceremony marking completion of the CV Avenue reconstruction. The red ribbon cut, the truck eased its way onto Pa. 16, lumbering westward for the natural gas fields of Wyoming. Had the crumbling avenue not been rebuilt and widened, the turn would have probably been impossible. The $425,000 project was paid for with $300,000 in federal funds and $125,000 from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Bank, said U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa.

Editor's note: Each week, The Herald-Mail invites readers to answer poll questions on its Web site, www.herald-mail.com . Readers also may submit comments about the poll question when voting. Each Sunday, a sampling of edited reader comments will run in The Herald-Mail. Last week's poll question was: Do you think the heat wave is related to global warming? Ah, the pleasure of a narrow world view. Up here in Alaska, we've scarcely had a summer - the weather has been abnormally cold, rainy and cloudy.

HAGERSTOWN --Second-grader Julian Ford said he felt patriotic as he grabbed a shovel and helped plant a tree Wednesday during the City of Hagerstown's annual Arbor Day celebration at Hamilton Run Trail. "It feels pretty good," he said. "It's helping our country. I think trees absorb something like carbon dioxide so we can breathe. " Julian joined about 100 other people, including many of his classmates from Potomac Heights Elementary School, to attend the Arbor Day festivities.

Woman in critical condition after fire By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Writer Smoke from a fire sent a Sherbrooke Drive woman to the hospital and killed two pet cats Tuesday morning, fire officials said. Edna Ruth Hoover, 66, was listed in critical condition at Washington County Hospital Tuesday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman. According to the state fire marshal's office, firefighters found Hoover at about 10:45 a.m. lying on the floor of a rear family room of the home.

gregs@herald-mail.com Lawyers for a woman charged in the death of her newborn son last September told a Washington County Circuit judge Tuesday their client will be examined by a psychiatrist. But Washington County public defenders Carl Creeden and John Chillas told Judge W. Kennedy Boone they did not plan to file a plea of not criminally responsible - Maryland's version of an insanity plea. Patricia Ann Stotelmyer, 26, of 28 Wakefield Road in Hagerstown, was charged Sept.

By STEVEN T. DENNIS Staff Writer, Waynesboro GREENCASTLE, Pa. - The Greencastle Borough Council approved the 1997 budget Tuesday night despite concerns about the $151,000 deficit. While the budget doesn't increase taxes, if the borough spent all that was budgeted, more than one third of town reserves would be eaten up. Council Member Harry Myers said real estate tax assessments have risen only 14.5 percent since 1988, but spending has jumped 38 percent in just three years.