Dog Park

Council reviews police promotion guidelines WAYNESBORO, Pa. - The Waynesboro Borough Council last week reviewed the requirements for a police officer to move into a supervisory role within the Waynesboro Police Department. The council changed the regulations so that a person must have been with the department for seven years as a full-time employee before he or she can be promoted to sergeant. It maintained the three-year requirement for corporal, despite Mayor Richard Starliper pushing for five years.

Plans for dog park moving forward WAYNESBORO, Pa. — Installation bids for fencing at a dog park planned at Northside Park in Waynesboro are being sought as an early stage in the dog park's development. The Waynesboro Borough Council decided Wednesday it'll seek bids for 5-foot, chain-link fencing for the half-acre park near Northside Pool. "It's all laid out," Councilman Wayne Driscoll said. "The rec board is behind it. " Private donations are being sought to develop the dog park.

Dog park needs more thought To the editor: I'm writing this because of yet another half-done Hagerstown enterprise: A dog park at Hager Park. I'm writing this because the proposed site is less than two-thirds of an acre! I'm writing this because a well-known television personality who works with dogs for a living says he's been bitten more times by Chihuahuas than all the other breeds put together. He calls them the Devil Dog. On which side of the fence are you going to put them, the timid or the bold ?

HAGERSTOWN - Hagerstown officials are asking the state to provide $407,700 in Program Open Space money for a number of projects, including parking improvements at Mansion House at City Park at an estimated cost of $135,000. The Hagerstown City Council on Tuesday approved an application to ask the state for the money, which would be used in Fiscal Year 2009. Program Open Space awards money to municipalities to help pay for park improvements. The city's list includes the following 10 items in order of priority: · $31,500 to pay for a tube slide, picnic tables, benches, trash receptacles and shaded umbrellas at Claude M. Potterfield Pool.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- Waynesboro's recreation board members are hoping their latest idea turns into a splash hit event and fundraiser. The recreation board is working with the Waynesboro Borough Council to open up Northside Pool on Sept. 11 to dogs and dog lovers. The $10 entrance fee would benefit a nearby dog park still in the planning stages. "We're also going to ask the participants who come to the dog dip to bring canned dog food or bagged dog food for the humane society," said Mike Forney, recreation board president.

This is so quintessentially Hagerstown it almost makes me weep: City officials have decided to form a task force to decide whether the city can support a leash-free dog park. We do love our task forces, don't we? Not enough to ever do what they recommend, of course, we just like having them around. It's a warm blanket for our public office holders, because it makes them feel as if they are doing something when in fact they are not. No one's responding to fires? Let's form a task force, that'll take care of the problem.

The Berkeley County Council voted Thursday to take ownership of a 1.7-acre parcel that is being donated for a park in the community of Bedington, W.Va. The new recreation site, which is proposed to be named Goldie Gibbons Park, is along Bedington Road across from the Bedington Volunteer Fire Department's main station. The land also borders the Winchester & Western Railroad. “It's too nice of a piece of property to say no to,” R. Stephen “Steve” Catlett, executive director of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Parks & Recreation Board, told council members Thursday.

HAGERSTOWN ? Hagerstown officials are asking the state to provide $407,700 in Program Open Space money for a number of projects, including parking improvements at Mansion House at City Park at an estimated cost of $135,000. The Hagerstown City Council on Tuesday approved an application to ask the state for the money, which would be used in Fiscal Year 2009. Program Open Space awards money to municipalities to help pay for park improvements. The city's list includes the following 10 items in order of priority: · $31,500 to pay for a tube slide, picnic tables, benches, trash receptacles and shaded umbrellas at Claude M. Potterfield Pool.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- The Waynesboro Borough Council has agreed to let the borough's municipal swimming pool go to the dogs. For one day at least. On Wednesday, the council voted in favor of opening Northside Pool for a dog swim to help raise awareness about a nearby dog park still in the planning stages and to raise funds for the effort. The "Dog Day at the Pool" event will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Sept. 11. The entrance fee is $5. Councilman Wayne Driscoll told the council "the recreation board is 100 percent behind it. " Council President Craig Newcomer said he wanted the public to clearly understand that the pool will close for the season after the dog swim.

Thumbs up to all of the groups that held ceremonies last week in remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It's been nine years since the attacks occurred, but it still is important to hold events to remember the victims and the heroes of that day. Thumbs up to John R. "Jack" Hershey Jr., who was honored last week by the Rose Hill Cemetery Board of Trustees for serving 50 years on the board. This is just another in a long list of honors for Hershey, who also was president of the board for many years and said he intends to continue serving on it. Thumbs up to all of the firefighters and emergency personnel who responded to a 40-acre wildfire last weekend near the Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area.