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Paving on Pa. 16 in the Waynesboro area is wrapping up, borough officials said. Borough Engineer Kevin Grubbs said Highway Materials was doing patching this week for five spots in the borough that didn't pass Pennsylvania Department of Transportation inspections. The road was repaved in 2010. Paving crews started their patch work at the intersection with Tritle Avenue early in the week, Grubbs said. Their last effort in the borough was to grind a seam near Virginia Avenue, he said.

Earth movers are lined up Wednesday near Waynesboro (Pa.) Area Senior High School. Excavation work is continuing behind the former driving range at the school as crews prepare a foundation for the school's new wing, School Board President Larry Glenn said Wednesday. Workers have drilled test geothermal wells but not the ones that will ultimately be put into use, he said.

SHARPSBURG - Cars parked on Chapline Street between Sharpsburg Pike and Snyders Landing Road need to be moved by noon Monday so crews can pave the road, Mayor George Kesler said Friday. The work could carry into Tuesday, he said.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- Crews from the Borough of Waynesboro made repairs to Northside Pool on Wednesday. Patches on the pool's bottom lifted during the opening weekend of the municipal pool in Franklin County. The pool will be closed for repairs this weekend.

karenh@herald-mail.com Several hundred Hurricane Katrina evacuees will find lodging at a military training site near Morgantown in Preston County, W.Va., according to a state emergency management officer. "We have somewhere around 600 evacuees we are bringing here," said Clay Carney, operations officer for the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Refugees began arriving from the New Orleans area about 11 p.m. Saturday, Carney said.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Tayamentasachta, the Greencastle-Antrim School District's environmental educational farm, is in line for another round of improvements by state-paid work crews. Charles White, director of the center on Leitersburg Road, applied for the grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The money will come through the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps, a job-training program for young adults. PCC crews, by doing hands-on projects, learn skills they can use to find jobs.

Sections of U.S. 40 through downtown Hagerstown will be closed for three days starting Wednesday as state crews mill and repave rough patches of road, a city official said. The sections are: Franklin Street at Cannon Avenue. Franklin Street at Mulberry Street. Franklin Street near the post office. Washington Street near Summit Avenue. Washington Street near Mulberry Street. Burhans Boulevard at the intersections of Franklin and Washington streets.

STATE LINE, Pa. - A fire early this morning caused extensive damage to a massage parlor in State Line, Fire Chief Kevin Barnes said. Barnes, of Rescue Hose Co. in Greencastle, Pa., said flames were showing from the front of RSVP Health Spa-Massage at 15302 Molly Pitcher Highway when crews arrived. Firefighters got the call at 5:16 a.m., and crews were at the scene for about three hours, Barnes said. No one was in the building at the time. Barnes said no more information is available.

Md. 550 (Sabillasville Road) in Thurmont remains closed between U.S. 15 and Eylers Valley Flint Road more than two weeks after a mudslide. Geoff McCammon, who works for the Maryland State Highway Administration in Frederick County, said Tuesday that it is difficult to determine when the road will be reopened. “Our crews are working diligently to stabilize the slope,” McCammon said. “We want to fix this and maintain the safety for anybody who drives on (the road).” The slope, which is about 850 feet high, is still very loose, McCammon said.

CASCADE - A man was injured Monday when he reportedly fell 15 to 20 feet off the rock face at the High Rock overlook, emergency responders said. By the time rescue crews arrived, the man was back up on top of the rock, said James Ulrich, assistant chief of Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services. The man was taken to Washington County Hospital with moderate injuries, Ulrich said. "They weren't critical, but they weren't minor," Ulrich said of the man's injuries. Emergency officials did not release the man's name.