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Over the objections of local historians, the owners of a 1774 farmhouse filed for a demolition permit Monday. "Finally the time has run out. We will be moving forward with it as quickly as possible," said Merle Elliott, president of the Hagerstown/Washington County Industrial Foundation Inc., known as CHIEF. CHIEF owns the two-story limestone house built by Johan Ludwig Kemmerer. The house is on a half-acre in the Airport Business Park. Members of the Washington County Historical Society and the Middleburg/Mason-Dixon Line Area Historical Society had mounted a campaign to save the house.

julieg@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Hagerstown's firefighters union might reschedule a "Bonanza Extravaganza" fund-raiser at Fairgrounds Park because they don't want to compete with another charitable fund-raiser at the Fairgrounds the same weekend, a fire official said Monday. "For us to uproot them is wrong. We're in it for the same reason," said Rick Conrad, special projects coordinator for the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1605. The firefighters union got the go-ahead Sept.

alician@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - The Washington County Community Action Council Inc. took time out to honor its volunteers with a Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on Friday. More than 40 volunteers met with Community Action Council staff at First Christian Church on Potomac Avenue for a meal provided by Always Catering and the lively entertainment of the barbershop quartet Just for Fun. Debbie Harris, CAC community support coordinator, said the agency has more than 130 volunteers who work in capacities from assisting with office jobs to serving on the board of directors.

Parker-Clapsaddle Jennifer L. Parker and James M. Clapsaddle wish to announce their engagement. Miss Parker is the daughter of Debbie Benner of Gerrardstown, W.Va., and Robert Parker Sr. of Martinsburg, W.Va. She is a 1996 graduate of Martinsburg High School and attends Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va. She is employed by Citicorp in Hagerstown. Mr. Clapsaddle is the son of Gerald and Shirley Clapsaddle of Waynesboro, Pa. He is a 1998 graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior High School and attends Hagerstown Community College.

Quartucci-Summers Dawn Kristina Summers and David William Quartucci were married Saturday, June 9, 2007, at Penn State Emmanuel Chapel in Mont Alto, Pa. The bride is the daughter of Daniel Summers and Diana Summers of Chambersburg, Pa. The bridegroom is the son of Jim Quartucci and Connie Quartucci of Hagerstown. The bride is a 1992 graduate of Waynesboro High School and a 1998 graduate of Hagerstown Community College. She is employed at Citicorp of Hagerstown as an associate in the billing dispute resolve unit.

Eccard-Philp Wayne and Susan Eccard of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and formerly of Hagerstown, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lisa Nicole Eccard, to Nicholas Gordon Philp, son of Gerald and Dale Philp of Hagerstown. Ms. Eccard is a 1999 graduate of North Hagerstown High School and received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Mary Washington College in 2003. She is employed with the Mental Health Center of Western Maryland. She is pursuing a master's degree in counseling education at McDaniel College.

Elliott owes us more than 'no comment' To the editor: I have just finished reading the article entitled "Kammerer House proposal rejected. " After all that has been said and done to save the Kammerer House, in the end Citicorp has sold out to CHIEF. I have been following the story in our local paper and on the Internet. I personally have no stake in the house. I am not a descendent of Ludwig Kammerer. However, my roots in Hagerstown and the surrounding area go back five generations to the 1700s when my ancestors settled in Maugansville and Cearfoss from Pennsylvania.

Woman tossed out of car; $40 in ATM cash stolen A man threw a Citicorp employee out of a car early this morning after taking the $40 she got out of an ATM at Citicorp, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department. The woman was escorted by the man to the ATM at Citicorp north of Hagerstown around 3:10 this morning, police said. After she removed the money from the ATM he threw her out of a 1964 Chevy Nova with unknown Pennsylvania tags near Airview Road and Reynolds Road, police said.

The name of the state's top elected official was wrong in a Washington County citizens' guide to government. Gov. Martin O'Malley was listed in the pamphlet as "Martin O'Malloy. " "Several thousand" copies of the guide were printed, but not with taxpayers' money, Washington County Election Director Dorothy Kaetzel said Friday. The Washington County Board of Elections gathered information for the guides, and Citicorp paid for them to be printed. Kaetzel wasn't sure of the exact cost; she said it was less than $1,000 - possibly about $300 or $400.