Election

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Franklin County Sheriff Robert B. Wollyung announced he will seek re-election to a fourth term in office. Wollyung, 63, was first elected sheriff in 1991. He joined the U.S. Navy upon his graduation from high school. After serving the last two years of his four-year enlistment in the South Pacific, Wollyung returned to Pennsylvania to become a police officer under his father, who was the police chief of Pottsville, Pa. In 1962, Wollyung joined the Pennsylvania State Police.

By LISA GRAYBEAL Staff Writer, Chambersburg CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - It's a hot issue between the two candidates running for the only open supervisor seat in Greene Township in the Nov. 4 election. But it isn't really a factor in the eyes of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Whether or not Exit 7 on Interstate 81 should be built has split the township north of Chambersburg since the state first proposed it in 1987, and the matter has surfaced again in this year's election.

Attorney Jerrold A. Sulcove has announced that he will seek election for Court of Common Pleas judge in the 39th Judicial District, which serves Franklin and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania. Sulcove will run for a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Richard J. Walsh. Sulcove is a partner with the Chambersburg law firm Black and Davison, where he practices with his father, Jan; brother, Elliott; and other attorneys. Sulcove graduated from Chambersburg Area Senior High School and received his law degree from Temple University's James E. Beasley School of Law, according to a news release.

The Herald-Mail's Editorial Page Advisory Committee proved its worth again prior to the Sept. 12 primary, when members said that candidate William Staley's message was one that shouldn't be ignored. Staley, a School Board candidate and former welding instructor at the county's Technical High School, said that not every student wants to go to college and that the school system should be strengthening, not weakening, trades training programs. School Board members Paul Bailey and Jacqueline Fischer pointed out that between 1994 and 2002, five trades courses were dropped, in large part because of low enrollment.

o If you like reading Tim Rowland, you'll love watching him. See what else Tim has to say In Hagerstown election circles, 2009 may be remembered as the year that the primary was more important than the general. Who wins on Tuesday? Who cares? Assuming no write-in surprises, the triumvirate of incumbents who provided us with the greatest cringe factor over the past four years were summarily dispatched by the electorate in March. Public tantrums, unprofessional behavior, the browbeating of staff and people with business before the council, and/or minor brushes with the law will do that to a political career.

Declaring that he wants to continue changing the "cultural mindset" of criminals, Franklin County (Pa.) District Attorney Matthew Fogal announced Thursday he is seeking election in 2011. Fogal, 38, took office Oct. 23, 2009, following the sudden death of his predecessor and former boss, John "Jack" Nelson, at age 58. On Thursday, Fogal called the time of Nelson's death a "dark, tough time" for the Franklin County District Attorney's Office and law enforcement community. Fogal, a Republican, said victims are "first and foremost" in his mind every day. He described stacks of files from the 3,000 cases handled each year by the office.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Turnout in the Eastern Panhandle for the special primary election for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Robert C. Byrd could be high, based on the number of ballots cast Friday on the first day of early voting. The number of ballots cast in Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson counties easily surpassed the first day early-voting tallies for the primary election this year, voting officials reported. By 4:45 p.m., 160 ballots were cast in Berkeley County, 100 more than on April 21, according to Deputy County Clerk Bonnie Woodfall.

Hagerstown resident Wayne M. Kretzer Jr. said he wants to focus on ways to improve student health if he is elected to the Washington County Board of Education. "I want to get the fitness level back for these kids," said Kretzer, 42, a former track star at Boonsboro High School. "I want to make them healthy again. They don't need to be top athletes. They just need some fitness. " Kretzer said he plans to develop a more detailed agenda as the date of the election draws closer.

The thing that fascinates me most about American politics is that just when it seems as if we've seen it all, and the political landscape is in danger of becoming dull and monotonous, someone raises the bar. And indeed, shortly after the election, a handful of corporate executives stepped up to the plate to announce that, due to the Obama win, they would be forced - forced - to lay off workers or cut back hours. How great is that? We've all seen sore losers who want to take their ball and go home.

Del. John Doyle said Thursday he will not seek re-election, a decision that will end a 20-year run in the West Virginia House of Delegates in December 2012. Doyle, 69, of Shepherdstown, was noncommital about his plans other than to say he had other interests he wanted to pursue "while I still have the energy. " He said whatever he gets involved in it will have something to do with the issues that he favored while in the House - tax reform, land use, education and civil liberties.