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Actors Aaron Jackson, left, and Silas Gaither compare uniforms in the woods near Boonsboro Wednesday. The two are in a short World War II-era drama being shot this week.

Minor League Baseball Williamsport High School graduate Nick Adenhart has been promoted by the Los Angeles Angels, moving from low Class-A Cedar Rapids of the Midwest League to high Class-A Rancho Cucamonga of the California League. Adenhart is scheduled to make his first start for Rancho Cucamonga on Sunday. Adenhart, 19, went 10-2 with a 1.95 ERA for Cedar Rapids, leading the Midwest League in wins and ranking third in ERA. His 99 strikeouts in a league-best 106 innings put him third on the strikeout list.

A B-24 Liberator bomber named Diamond Lil is one of two World War II-era planes on display from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Sunday at the West Virginia Eastern Regional Airport near Martinsburg, W.Va.

FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR Sarah Signore, Jr. Greencastle, Pitcher The Herald-Mail's Player of the Year for the second straight season, Signore led the Blue Devils to a share of the Mid-Penn Capital title and the final four of the District 3-AAA playoffs. She went 17-5 with a 0.88 ERA, allowing 77 hits and 24 walks while striking out 234 in 144 innings. At the plate, she hit .375, scored 34 runs and drove in 15. Megan Holmes, Jr. Musselman, pitcher Led the Applemen to the West Virginia Class AAA state tournament, finishing 11-2 with a 0.78 ERA. She allowed 48 hits and 14 walks and struck out 96 in 89 2/3 innings.

Player of the Year Nick Adenhart Williamsport, Sr., P Adenhart, a projected top-10 draft pick before an elbow injury, went 5-1 with a 0.91 ERA and 86 strikeouts in 38 2/3 innings and also batted .418 with 6 doubles, 5 homers and 32 RBI. Lowell Coats Thomas Johnson, Sr., OF Coats batted .375 with 5 doubles, 5 triples, 24 RBI, 27 runs scored and 9 steals. Kyle Davis Chambersburg, Sr., 2B Davis batted .403 with 25 RBI for the Trojans.

First Team Player of the Year Sam Weaver Catoctin, Sr., designated hitter Weaver set Maryland records for single- season home runs (11) and RBI (49) during a brilliant senior campaign, leading the Cougars to the state Class 1A final. She batted .576 and was 10-1 with a 1.08 ERA in the circle. Sara Albright Musselman, Sr., outfield Albright batted .489 with three home runs, scored 30 runs and drove in 18 to spark the Applemen offense.

There has been a certain air about the Hagerstown Suns lately. And its a fragrance that's forcing manager Gene Richards to turn his nose up. We're not talking roses here. "We've been stinking," Richards said. The Suns have been more aromatic than aerodynamic over the last two weeks. Not much has gone right for Hagerstown since winning the South Atlantic League North's first-half title. The Suns were 4-10 through Friday and in last place in the second half, going 2-8 since knocking off Lexington for the first-half title on June 25. In the midst of the championship hangover, the Suns have stumbled through promotions and the conservation of pitchers.

Nick Adenhart (Williamsport) is 3-0 with a 1.93 ERA in three starts with the Single-A Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Midwest League. He has allowed four earned runs on 14 hits while walking five and striking out 24 in 24 2/3 innings. Adenhart pitched six innings, allowing one unearned run on five hits while striking out five in a 6-1 over Southwest Michigan on April 23. Adenhart was the 14th pick of the Anaheim Angels in 2004. P.J. Hiser (South Hagerstown, HCC) has been nursing a sore shoulder and has been inactive.

Clear Spring High School graduate Adam Mills, a starting pitcher at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, was named to the Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American first team last week. Mills, a senior right-hander, went 13-2 with a 1.06 ERA and 136 strikeouts in 135 2/3 innings for the 49ers. He was named pitcher of the year in the Atlantic 10 Conference and is one of 30 players still in the running for the 2007 Brooks Wallace College Player of the Year Award. Mills got his 14th win Friday, going seven innings, allowing two runs (none earned)

When the deck is stacked against the Hagerstown Suns, manager Gene Richards is confident with the knowledge that he has an ace to draw. Jose Sanchez is Hagerstown's top hand and the closest thing to a guaranteed winner for the Suns this season. He might be the most overlooked starter in the South Atlantic League, especially playing for the Suns, who are studded with standouts and have all but owned first place in the North Division. "He may be (a quiet ace) to some, but not to me," Richards said Thursday after Sanchez received a no-decision in Hagerstown's 6-3, 11-inning loss to Lakewood.

A Sharpsburg man planting trees at his Powell Road home Thursday unearthed a live Civil War-era shell that authorities later disposed of by setting it off at a neighboring farm. “When I saw it I knew what it was,” J.D. Taylor Jr. said. “It was the second one I found here. “It was some kind of experience.” Taylor said he at first thought he hit a rock with his steel shovel while digging in his yard about a mile from Antietam National Battlefield sometime between 8:30 to 9 a.m. He pushed the shovel under the object, which was five or six inches deep, and knelt to pry it out. The Maryland State Fire Marshal's office said in a news release that the object was a 3-inch Federal Navy Schenkl that had not been fired and had an intact fusing mechanism.

When Sandie Collins-Keener walked into Sunnyway Foods in Greencastle, Pa., on Friday morning to grab a bag of her favorite Gibble's chips, she couldn't believe her eyes when she saw nearly empty shelves. “It's so sad. I grew up with Gibble's,” Collins-Keener of Greencastle said. “They were like a childhood mainstay.” She was one of many fans of the iconic brand who poured into Sunnyway Foods early Friday morning hoping to savor one last bag of the locally made potato chips, pretzels or cheese curls.

Age: 54 City in which you reside: Smithsburg Day job: Web developer, High Rock Studios, Hagerstown Book title: "Rare Images of Antietam and the Photographers Who Took Them" Genre: Historical nonfiction, Civil War Synopsis of book: "Rare Images of Antietam" is the beginning of my attempt to document, organize and interpret, in a comprehensive fashion, the historical photographs and photographers associated with...

In the mid-1700s, British soldiers on the way to battle might have marched right past the property on the old road crossing South Mountain. A century later, just after a battle nearby, Civil War armies did rush past on the same road, barely 12 paces away from the front door of the property's new log farmhouse. Today, the new battle threatening the old log house, barn and outbuildings at 20725 Reno Monument Road is the nation's ongoing economic struggle. With its owner in bankruptcy, the property has deteriorated.

The NCAA dropped the hammer on Penn State University on Monday, effectively crippling its once-storied-but-now-stained football program for years to come and doing so with incredible haste. Just weeks after former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of dozens of counts of child sexual abuse and days after the release of the Penn State-commissioned Freeh Report, the NCAA banned the Nittany Lions from the postseason for four years, stripped them of 40 scholarships, vacated 111 wins from 1998 to 2011 and fined the university $60 million.

Vicky Bullett isn't much for labels. There are a lot of descriptions that will be cropping up as Bullett takes over as Hagerstown Community College's women's basketball coach, replacing Marlys Palmer who retired after 32 years on the job. The only thing that “new” and “change” mean to Bullett is the team's uniforms, and “transition” is the style of play she will be teaching. The significance is a little more basic. “I'm really excited,” Bullett said. “When I saw the players coming in, it's going to be different.

Cherubs, turtledoves and unabashedly romantic verse figured prominently in Victorian valentines. But during the mid-1800s, Dr. Josiah Smith of Boonsboro received a card less given to gushing and more into rushing. Authored by an anonymous young woman living in Washington, D.C., the handwritten message encouraged the gentleman to make up his mind in choosing his wife  -   and hopefully, he would choose her. Whether she became his bride is a mystery. But more than a 150 years later, the card and its sentiments have survived, offering a glimpse into expressions of love and courtship from another era -  something the sender, simply signed St. Valentine, would never have imagined.

With the recent publication of former President George W. Bush's memoirs, “Decision Point,” in which he defends most of his record, another opinion is very relevant. John Dean, whose testimony helped drive President Richard Nixon from office, has his sights on others guilty of political misconduct. In his book, “Worse Than Watergate,” Dean makes a very good case that a “co-presidency” of George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney engaged in political misconduct more reprehensible than the Watergate scandal engineered by the discredited Nixon.

 "No trespassing," reads a sign at the gated entrance to a winding, mile-long gravel road in the mountains west of Hancock. "Not open for public use. " But Saturday, park rangers opened not only the gate, but the doors of the majestic 1930s-era Woodmont Lodge at the end of the road for a twice-yearly open house. The lodge, part of Fort Frederick State Park, has a storied history as part of the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, founded in 1870 as a fishing and hunting club for "men of prominence.

Juwuane Sandridge says he doesn't mind if people look at him a little funny. “I'm blessed,” he said. “I'm in the position I wanted and I have a group of kids who are working hard. I think we are going to surprise some people.” That's when the sidelong glances and the index finger circling around the temple starts. Sandridge is the new head football coach at Saint James School, replacing Chris Milmoe, who became the athletic director. But he enters a program that will be as new as the bleachers that are being replaced on the home sideline.