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Authorities believe an inmate at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown burned himself early Monday when he tried to light something in his cell, said Mark Vernarelli, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. "The inmate suffered a small welt and was treated on-site by MCTC medical personnel," Vernarelli said Monday in an e-mail. Vernarelli said the inmate possibly was trying to light a cigarette. The inmate suffered a second-degree burn to his left biceps, according to a press release from the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

ROHRERSVILLE Residents plan to fight a 124-foot cell tower proposed for a Boonsboro Volunteer Fire Co. substation near Rohrersville. Hank Livelsberger, who lives in a development about a mile from the site on Md. 67, said the tower would be visible from her home, other residences and Civil War sites and parks. "It's like somebody putting an amusement part right next to you," Livelsberger said. "I don't think tourists come all the way to Washington County to see cell towers ... They come to see a Civil War atmosphere.

Boonsboro rejects cell tower By TARA REILLY / Staff Writer BOONSBORO - Boonsboro residents won't have to worry about a cellular tower being built in town. Mayor Charles "Skip" Kauffman Jr. announced at a Boonsboro meeting Monday night that the town is no longer interested in erecting the tower near the reservoir on Boonsboro Mountain Road. "This is a done deal for the Mayor and Council," Kauffman told the crowd of about 30 people who showed up expecting to fight the tower.

laurae@herald-mail.com Members of the Washington County Board of Zoning Appeals narrowly approved the construction of a 199-foot cell phone tower after a lengthy debate at Wednesday night's meeting. Board members voted 3-2 to approve the tower, which will be built on John R. Martin's Ivy Hill Farm apple orchard at 13840 Smithsburg Pike (Md. 64). Some Ringgold area residents testified that the proposed tower would destroy the area's pastoral view. Others said they would welcome the obstruction if it will mean better cell phone service.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Jefferson County residents told the County Commission Thursday night they want changes made to the proposed ordinance on wireless communication towers. County officials said they need more time to review the suggestions and called for a work session Wednesday to discuss the proposed ordinance. Euphemia Kallas of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., said the ordinance should include a restriction to prevent tower construction on the Blue Ridge Mountain ridge line so the towers don't stick up above the mountains.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- Residents of Washington Township had nothing to say Monday about a proposal to erect another 190-foot cell tower in the township. AT&T Mobility requested a conditional use from the township to put a tower along Warf Road in Zullinger, Pa., after Verizon Wireless declined its request to put an antenna on an existing tower in the area, said consultant Randell Holmes of Harrisburg, Pa.-based Wireless Communication Consultants Inc. With no comment from the public Monday, the Washington Township Planning Commission recommended approving a conditional-use request by AT&T Mobile to put a new cell tower less than a mile from an existing cell tower.

The Friends of the National Conservation Training Center will sponsor a cell phone recycling drive through Dec. 30 at several area places including the Ram's Den and outside room 304 of the Stutzman-Slonaker building at Shepherd University; Four Seasons Books, 116 W. German St.; collection box near lobby desk at Byrd Auditorium building at NCTC for NCTC employees and trainees only; Hillside Veterinary Clinic, 191 Augustine Ave., Charles Town, W.Va.;...

wandaw@herald-mail.com Hagerstown Community College officials are negotiating with a company that wants to install a monopole cell tower on the campus. If approved, the tower would resemble a flag pole and could be 60 to 80 feet tall, college president Guy Altieri told the college's board of trustees at a meeting Tuesday. In the fall, HCC was approached by Shenandoah Mobile Co., of Edinburg, Va., about leasing space on campus for the tower, Altieri said. Unlike cell towers of the past, monopole towers are unobtrusive, he said.