Mason Dixon

By RICHARD F. BELISLE / Staff Writer, Waynesboro photo: KEVIN G. GILBERT / staff photographer STATE LINE. Pa. - A group of four Pennsylvania auto dealers known as Picol Corp. has bought the Mason-Dixon Auto Auction, an ongoing public sale that runs about 40,000 cars and trucks through its bays every year. Dave Utzinger, general manager for the auction, said the sale was completed in August. He decline to state the selling price but said Antrim Township netted about $10,000 from taxes in the transaction.

Area roundup on Saturday LEGION BASEBALL WILLIAMSPORT - Mt. Airy swept Williamsport 4-2 and 5-4 in American Legion action on Saturday. Jake Marquis went the distance for Williamsport, striking out seven while allowing two earned runs in the first game. Jason Embly scattered six hits, allowing one earned run, in 5 2/3 innings for Williamsport (8-22, 2-8). Game One Mt. Airy0010201-470 Williamsport2000000-251 Dahlgern, Woodward (7) and Harrison.

By ERIN HEATH / Staff Writer photo: MARLA BROSE / staff photographer When Candy Suarez looks back on her wedding to her husband, Andres, she will remember the dress, the guests, the cake - and the ring. Candy, 30, and Andres, 28, both of Hagerstown, got married in the ring at a professional wrestling match in Buckhannon, W.Va. The two met through the Internet, when Candy found Andres' e-mail address on an Internet directory for Hagerstown and sent him a message.

heatherk@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Buttons in albums, buttons locked away in glass cases, buttons laid out on tables, buttons pinned to free-standing display screens, buttons by the hundreds in large bins that eager collectors sifted through with their fingers. "There have gotta be at least a million" buttons at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Antietam Creek, one participant estimated Saturday, though there were too many for any kind of official count. The hotel was the site Thursday through Saturday of the Mason-Dixon American Political Items Collectors' annual conference, the largest annual political memorabilia show in the country.

Political collectors come to town By DON WORTHINGTON / Staff Writer photo: RYAN ANSON / staff photographer Jim Gifford of Akron, Ohio, carefully took the 1-inch button from its case and gently ran his fingers over the fine brass work and the ferrotype or tin-type photos. continued Rob Payne of Ranson, W.Va., looked at the button and commented on its perfect condition - stunning considering it's 136 years old. The condition and the subjects - Abraham Lincoln on one side and Andrew Johnson on the other - insured the button would get top dollar at Thursday's action of the Mason-Dixon American Political Items Collectors Millennium Extravaganza at Hagerstown's Ramada Inn. The estimated price?

From Interstate 81 south, as soon as you cross into Maryland, look on your right for the Maryland Veterans Memorial Highway Monument at mile marker 11. Pull off on the right at the monument. As I followed Clue No. 1 on my first letterboxing adventure, my initial concern was traffic-related. Hopefully all the other drivers would be alert on this particular afternoon. Better pull into the grass just to be safe. Face the writing on the monument and notice the large bush to its right.

MEN'S BASKETBALL HCC 88, Baltimore 82 Scott Spence had 24 points, including a season-high six 3-pointers, to lead Hagerstown Community College over Baltimore Community College (7-11, 4-4) for its second Maryland JuCo conference victory of the season. Three Hawks (4-12, 2-6) recorded a double-double in the win. Leon Nelson 23 points and 20 rebounds, John Long had 14 points and 15 rebounds and Marquis Waters had 10 points and 11 assists. CLUB VOLLEYBALL FCA's 18U Malachi finishes 14th PHILADELPHIA - The Tri-State FCA 18U Malachi finished 14th among 40 teams from across the Mid-Atlantic in the martin Luther King Tournament at Temple University.

Stepping along path to spring There are a lot of unofficial paths that cross from the town to the river. They begin in backyards and alleys that in any other town would have led out the other side to meadows and farms. In Hancock, these planned grids were cut off, compressed into our narrow bit of land between the Mason-Dixon divide and the Potomac gutter. Human feet have extended these avenues by way of narrow paths that take the direction of least resistance, dip across the old canal in places that stay dry, even in the spring, then plunge suddenly off the towpath to the riverside where there is a terrace of land along the bank.

When I was a kid, most of my sports dreams involved dunks, home runs and touchdowns. These days, they're mostly about writing the perfect column on such feats. For today, though, I'll probably have to put that one on the back burner as well. It's about 3 p.m. on Tuesday and - as I was locking the door behind me for a short trip out of town, while trying to remember what I forgot to pack - it just hit me: I forgot to leave something behind. I never wrote my column for (today's)

The Mason-Dixon Kennel Club held its annual dog show April 14 in Harrisburg, Pa., and the honor of Best in Show went to the toy group winner No. 11, Maltese Ch. Scyllas Small Kraft Re-Lit.   Reserve Best in Show was awarded to the non- sporting group winner No. 9, Tibetan Spaniel GCh. Kan Sing's Tenzin.  Both received their placements under Judge Alice Inman. The show was part of the four-day Blue and Gray Cluster at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Building, Weis Expo Hall, in Harrisburg.

When you see Hammerhead, Ox, Hardcore and the rest of the Defenders rumbling through your town, just remember this: They aren't looking to make trouble. Because most of them are police officers and first responders, their day jobs usually involve putting an end to trouble. Seven members and an associate of the Defenders Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club's 56th and newest chapter, the Mason-Dixon Chapter, donned their colors and mounted their Harleys on Saturday for a ride through the county.

A local Scouting official said the organization will respect whatever decision is made when the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America votes this spring on whether to open membership to gays. On Feb. 6, the national group decided to postpone a vote on the matter until May. Mark Barbernitz, Scout executive of the Mason-Dixon Council of the Boy Scouts of America, said earlier this month in an email that his organization would follow membership guidelines in accordance with national BSA policy.

The commissioner staff of the Washington County District, Mason-Dixon Council, recently discussed plans for the first “disassembled” Scout show in the district's history.  Scout shows typically are held in large facilities such as an exhibition hall or open field area, and are designed to give the public the opportunity to see Scouts in action. The program will be held during Scout Week, which is Feb. 3 to 9, 2013, and will occur in troop meeting rooms in church halls, civic club meeting rooms and dedicated Scout halls throughout the county.

In the wake of the release of decades of confidential sexual-abuse allegations within the Boy Scouts of America, a local Scouting official said Friday that the organization remains committed to protecting youth and providing a safe environment above all else. “Safe-guarding the Scouts is the number one priority for the Scouting organization,” said Mark Barbernitz, Scout executive for the Mason-Dixon Council of the BSA, which oversees approximately 2,300 kids and about 100 troops of Scouts in Washington County as well as parts of Franklin and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania.

With names such as “Endless Summer” and “Journey to Antietam,” each of the more than 200 quilts on display at the Mason Dixon Quilt Show this weekend has a story all its own. Stitched by members of two area quilting groups - Friendship Quilters Guild of Hagerstown and Buchanan Trail Quiltmakers of Waynesboro, Pa. - the quilts are being shown as part of the guilds' annual fundraiser to benefit the HCC Lady Hawks Scholarship Fund....

Mason-Dixon BBQ Services, 1542 Buchanan Trail East, Greencastle, Pa., is hosting several barbecue bootcamps beginning in May. All bootcamps cost $125 and are limited to 20 participants each. For more information, call 717-643-0039 or email contact@mdbbqservices.com . Go to www.mdbbqservices.com . Pork Bootcamp - Two bootcamps available: 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 25 and 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 26; or 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 13, and 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 14. Participants learn the ins and outs of prepping, injecting, seasoning and slow-cooking pork.

The Mason and Dixon Kennel Club will hold an American Kennel Club Sanctioned B Conformation All Breed Match Saturday at Washington County Agricultural Education Center, off Sharpsburg Pike.  The event will be held rain or shine. Entries will be accepted between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. The entry fee costs $10 per dog. There is no fee for junior showmanship. Judging begins at 11:30 a.m. with junior showmanship. The all-breed judging begins at noon.  There will be a free introduction to conformation (show)

The Mason-Dixon Council of the Boy Scouts of America was on the hot seat Tuesday night as more than 100 people filled two rooms at Hagerstown Community College to air their concerns about a draft forest-management plan for Camp Sinoquipe in Fulton County, Pa. When the council hired Certified Forester Tom O'Neal to prepare a forest-management plan for the 500-acre camp, a group called Concerned Friends of Camp Sinoquipe started an online petition...