Loud Music

FORT LITTLETON, Pa. - It's like a Marine Corps boot camp with state cops as the drill instructors and Fulton County school students as their recruits. Discipline is hard-nosed and unrelenting. cont. from news page The kids try to stand ramrod straight as the cop camp directors stand bill cap to bill cap yelling orders in their faces. The days are dawn-to-dusk and all travel to meals and activities is always on the run. "It takes a couple of days for them to get into it," said Don Eisaman, a retired McConellsburg, Pa., state trooper who directs the week-long camp every year.

Teens are known for loud music, low jeans and being as lazy as a mayfly on its day off (i.e., dead). Gardening is regarded as a time-consuming, deliberate art practiced by adults in straw hats. The two don't seem to mesh, to say the least. However, as in everything, there will be individuals who stand out as daringly unique: teens, who enjoy a long-term, slow to fruition project, involving long hours in hot sun, dirt, bugs and manure. Daveeda Land, a homeschooled 16-year-old, uses gardening for part of her curriculum.

Whittington denied parole Jeffrey Todd Whittington, serving a 20-year sentence for the 1993 murder of his bride of three weeks, on Monday lost his bid for parole. Maryland Parole Commissioners Thomas V. Miller and Michael C. Blount deliberated for four minutes before announcing their decision, which is expected to keep Whittington, 24, in prison for at least 11 more years. "We have studied and looked over all the criteria we use and, given the serious nature of this horrid crime and the breaks you already got, parole is refused," Blount said.

HAGERSTOWN -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Californication" boomed over the sound system at Southside Bowl on Sunday afternoon as patrons drummed their fingers on counters to the beat. The sound of balls slamming into pins added an alternative percussion to the music as a healthy crowd of about 180 people streamed into the local lanes at 17325 Virginia Avenue. The bowling lanes, along with two others in the area that are owned by Frank Turner, have been a fixture in the community for decades and over the weekend, Turner celebrated 58 years in the business.

tarar@herald-mail.com WASHINGTON COUNTY - When the phone rings, Teddi Garrison heads for her back yard. Garrison, speaking to the Washington County Commissioners last week, said she does so because it's the only way she can hear what the person on the other end is saying. Garrison, who lives on Wagaman Road off Sharpsburg Pike, said what residents describe as a "dirt track" used for riding dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) is creating noise pollution in the neighborhood.

Washington County liquor officials on Wednesday ordered the owner of El Palenque Cantina in Hagerstown to pay a $2,500 fine because of multiple complaints that were made against the downtown bar and restaurant earlier this year. The Board of License Commissioners for Washington County, known as the liquor board, also voted to suspend the liquor license of Jose Arias, El Palenque's owner, for 60 days. Robert Everhart, liquor board chairman, said after the hearing that Arias has 30 days to pay the fine or file an appeal at Washington County Circuit Court.

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Police log in November 27 Morning Herald Woman charged with refusing to keep car radio volume down A Waynesboro, Pa., woman was charged after police asked her three times to turn down the volume of her car radio Monday afternoon. Hagerstown City Police said Wintry S. Irvin, 38, of 22 W. 6th St., was charged with disobeying a noise ordinance after police heard music blaring from her car stereo. Each time police asked her to turn down the music she did, only to turn it back up a short time later, police alleged.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- A Georgia college student said she felt powerless to stop a short-tempered Ben Roethlisberger from having sex with her in a bar bathroom even though she told him to stop, telling investigators: "I'm a little girl and he's a big boy. " Her interviews with police were among more than 50 audio and video clips released Wednesday from the investigation into Roethlisberger's late-night carousing in a Georgia college town, a...

Letters to the Editor 10/5 County meowing up wrong tree To the editor: I must say I am very troubled by our local government trying to tell people how many cats and dogs they can have and where they can have them. The only possible reasons I can imagine that the government has any right to interfere with your pets on your own private property would be if there was (1) abuse to the animals (2) a health problem or (3) the animals were interfering with your neighbors.