Locations

Bookmobiles Hagerstown Day Nursery, 9:15 to 9:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5. Mountain View Circle area, 9:40 to 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5. Church Nursery at Oak Ridge Drive, Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5 Maryland Avenue area, 10:45 to 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5 Washington County Family Center on McRand Court, 1:15 to 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5. Call 301-739-3250, ext. 155, for stop locations. Mahogany Drive at Brightwood Acres East, 2:15 to 2:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5. Greenwich Park at Trafalgar Drive, 3 to 3:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5. Homewood Retirement Village area, 1:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6. Call 301-739-3250, ext. 155, for stop locations.

The City of Hagerstown on Thursday released a new artist's rendering of what the proposed downtown multiuse sports and events center (MUSEC) may look like if it were built. The street-level drawing is a follow-up to the “bird's eye view” design, which was debuted at the Oct. 9 public information meeting, that shows the overall footprint of the preliminary plan for the facility, according to city Engineer Rodney Tissue. The biggest change from previous depictions, the field's orientation at the site was flipped, moving the location of home plate closer to West Baltimore Street rather than near the Herald-Mail building as it was first drawn up. Tissue said this change was in response to comments from citizens who live near the site.

Concerns about establishing a dog park in Hagerstown, including possible problems like dogs attacking children or dogs getting hit by balls from nearby baseball fields, were raised Monday night during a meeting at City Hall. About 20 people attended the meeting. Several people associated with American Little League attended a meeting about the proposed facility in Hager Park and said they were worried about mixing the dog park with the Little League games played there. Lewis Berry, an American Little League coach and a league board member, talked about dogs possibly getting away from their owners at the dog park.

The Longmeadow Lions Club will hold its Thursday, Sept. 27, meeting at Applause Caterers above the Academy Theater.  This will be a one-time relocation of the monthly meeting.  The guest speaker will be Dori Yorks from the Family Center.  Reservations for the meeting should be made by Monday, Sept. 24, by calling 301-739-2815. The regular Oct. 8 meeting will be returning to Always Ron's restaurant and the program for the meeting will be the official visit of the District 22-W district governor.

Mountain State University is consolidating operations at the private college's Martinsburg campus and is leaving space it recently renovated at Martinsburg Mall, administrators said Thursday. There are 67 students enrolled at the school's Martinsburg campus, which is down substantially from the spring semester when more than 100 were enrolled in the school's hybrid learning program alone, according to Martinsburg campus executive director David Shahan. There are now nine students in the hybrid learning program, Shahan said.

A portion of Hager Park has been selected as the proposed location of a new off-leash dog park in Hagerstown, and the Hagerstown City Council was receptive to initial plans during a work session Tuesday. The idea of building a dog park was brought up about three years ago, but was eventually shot down by neighboring residents who did not want more noise or increased traffic near their homes, city officials said. The proposed dog park location, about two-thirds of an acre in the northeast section of Hager Park, is suitable because it is close to existing restrooms and about 25 underutilized parking spaces, and no residences are in the immediate surrounding area, city Engineer Rodney Tissue said.

Cindy's Sweets & DeLite-ful Treats, a dessert shop at Valley Mall in Halfway, reopened with a store inside the mall last week after being housed in the food court since July. The shop moved out of its location at the front of the mall facing Halfway Boulevard to make room for Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, according to Valley Mall marketing director Michele Wills. Cafe Rio plans to open in October, and sports bar Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery will follow by the end of the year, Wills said.

Hancock's mayor and three of its four council members expressed their support for a new War Memorial Library in Widmeyer Park during a public hearing at Wednesday's town council meeting. Most of the more than two dozen people who spoke at the hearing also supported that view. Members of the Washington County Free Library System's Board of Trustees and Washington County Commissioners Terry Baker and Jeffrey A. Cline attended the meeting, as well as about 100 residents of the town and surrounding area.