New Center

Martinsburg's north end will be the location of Shepherd University's new Martinsburg Center. Shepherd plans to offer a full range of classes at the Martinsburg Center beginning the fall semester 2013, with the possibility of a limited number of classes being offered this summer, according to a news release from the university. Shepherd's new center, which is designed to serve adult learners, will be in the new Berkeley Commons building at 261 Aikens Center off Edwin Miller Boulevard.   Taking into consideration the needs of working adult students who are juggling career and family, Shepherd's Martinsburg Center will offer courses in education and the popular credit-for-experience degree, the Regents bachelor of arts.

New center dedicated By STACEY DANZUSO / Staff Writer, Chambersburg photo: JOE CROCETTA / staff photographer CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Adam Epstein, 17, knows he wants to be an engineer, he's just not sure what kind. But through the new Summit Health Career Center at Chambersburg Area High School, Epstein, a senior, has access to all kinds of career-building software that will help him narrow in on a specialty and colleges across the nation that offer that program.

tarar@herald-mail.com GREENCASTLE, PA. - The Antrim Township (Pa.) Supervisors have agreed to spend $1 million for land on South Antrim Way to build a municipal government center. The new center would house administrative, planning, zoning, road, sewer and water offices; a larger public meeting area; District Justice offices and hearing room; and the township Tax Collector's office, according to a written statement. With a 25 percent population increase over the last 10 years in the township, the supervisors wanted a larger facility with enough room for future expansion, according to the statement.

WASHINGTON COUNTY -- Construction is moving along swiftly on a T. Rowe Price backup data-recovery center being built at the intersection of Downsville Pike and Rench Road south of Hagerstown, a company official said. Crews are putting up the structural exterior walls and steel, and intend to have the building roofed in by winter, said T. Rowe Price Vice President Mark Ruhe, who oversees the company's real estate. Local economic development officials announced the project in February, when the Washington County Commissioners agreed to offer T. Rowe Price an $810,000 incentive.

Officials at West Virginia University Hospitals-East, in conjunction with the Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday for the new Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at City Hospital. The center, which opened to patients on Monday, offers Eastern Panhandle residents a comprehensive approach for treating patients with non-healing sores and wounds close to home. “The new center offers treatment locally for patients with chronic wounds, which are wounds that do not heal,” Dr. Robert Bowen, the center's medical director, said in a news release.     The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine is staffed with specially trained physicians and nurses.

By DON AINES Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Things apparently did not work out at the gym for Rando's Fitness Center, which was closed by a court order Friday. On Monday night, members were driving up to the 41,000-square-foot fitness center located in the former Nichols store off Edwin Miller Boulevard, where they were greeted by a notice posted on the door. The notice from the Berkeley County Circuit Court granted G.B.R. North Queen Street Limited Liability Co. "possession of demised premises.

HANCOCK -- Hagerstown Medical Laboratory Inc. will open its newest patient service center Monday in the south end of the Hancock Antique Mall at 266 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in Hancock. The patient service center will be open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. HML canvassed providers and patients from Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Southern Pennsylvania and Western Maryland and determined they would benefit from having another choice for their medical laboratory testing needs, HML said in an e-mailed release.

By RICHARD F. BELISLE / Staff Writer, Waynesboro photo: RICHARD T. MEAGHER / staff photographer WELSH RUN, Pa. - Members of the Conococheague Institute are dismantling their second old log house, the parts of which are becoming the raw materials for their new cultural and historic center being built near Welsh Run. This week, members were dismantling a mid-19th century, brick-covered, two-story log farmhouse at...

The new Letterkenny Army Reserve Center in Chambersburg offers state-of-the-art training facilities and saves billions of dollars by consolidating three obsolete centers into one, U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster said Wednesday. During the reserve center's grand opening ceremony and open house, Shuster, R-Pa., applauded Letterkenny Army Depot's use of consolidation to save money. “This is a consolidation of three different reserve units (Chambersburg, Gettysburg and Greencastle) and will save the taxpayers money and that's extremely important that we do that,” Shuster said.

A new visitors center could be built in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., before the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Monterey Pass this July. The Friends of Monterey Pass Battlefield Inc. is planning for a 1,064-square-foot stone building on the land purchased in 2011 by the Washington Township (Pa.) Supervisors. Representatives of that organization told the township supervisors Monday that an existing building on the site would require extensive rehabilitation to effectively serve as an interpretive center.

Francisco Silva's smile was beaming Thursday afternoon as he talked about his new business location on North Potomac Street in downtown Hagerstown. “I wanted to come downtown; more busy, more traffic,” said Silva, owner of Kerry's Hair and Day Spa at 35 N. Potomac St. “That way I can build my salon and also my stylists.” Attended by numerous city officials and a representative from U.S. Congressman John Delaney's office, a grand opening and ribbon-cutting event was held to officially welcome the City Center business, which was transplanted from Silva's former location on East Franklin Street.

A new visitors center could be built in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., before the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Monterey Pass this July. The Friends of Monterey Pass Battlefield Inc. is planning for a 1,064-square-foot stone building on the land purchased in 2011 by the Washington Township (Pa.) Supervisors. Representatives of that organization told the township supervisors Monday that an existing building on the site would require extensive rehabilitation to effectively serve as an interpretive center.

Washington County is losing two outside funding sources - more than $1 million - by abandoning plans to build a senior citizens' center on the Hagerstown Community College campus. The Maryland Department of Aging had promised the county $800,000. Another $250,000 would have come from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Both grants were contingent on a senior center being built at HCC, County Administrator Gregory B. Murray said. At the start of 2012, after ruling out other sites, county officials were focused on placing a new senior center on the college campus.

Pending the sale to Washington County, the former U.S. Army Reserve property in the city of Hagerstown has emerged as the likely site of a new countywide senior citizens' center. On Friday, the Washington County Commission on Aging's property committee submitted a letter to the county commissioners with a five-page list of suggested guidelines to be considered when the 4.6-acre property's main building is renovated into a senior center that the county has planned to build for years.

Martinsburg's north end will be the location of Shepherd University's new Martinsburg Center. Shepherd plans to offer a full range of classes at the Martinsburg Center beginning the fall semester 2013, with the possibility of a limited number of classes being offered this summer, according to a news release from the university. Shepherd's new center, which is designed to serve adult learners, will be in the new Berkeley Commons building at 261 Aikens Center off Edwin Miller Boulevard.   Taking into consideration the needs of working adult students who are juggling career and family, Shepherd's Martinsburg Center will offer courses in education and the popular credit-for-experience degree, the Regents bachelor of arts.

It is disappointing that Washington County was not able to seal the deal on a modern new senior center that had been planned for a site on the Hagerstown Community College campus. State funding was delayed, bids disappointed the commissioners and before all was said and done, the county was looking for a backup plan. So instead, the county will settle for renovating some aging armory buildings on the city's northeast side. Last week, a divided Hagerstown City Council council voted to sell the property to the county for $625,000.

Officials at West Virginia University Hospitals-East, in conjunction with the Martinsburg Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday for the new Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at City Hospital. The center, which opened to patients on Monday, offers Eastern Panhandle residents a comprehensive approach for treating patients with non-healing sores and wounds close to home. “The new center offers treatment locally for patients with chronic wounds, which are wounds that do not heal,” Dr. Robert Bowen, the center's medical director, said in a news release.     The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine is staffed with specially trained physicians and nurses.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for a new $18 million finance center brings to $47 million the amount of money that American Public University System has invested in Charles Town and Ranson, W.Va., since it moved to Jefferson County in 2002. The 105,000-square-foot, four-story structure at 393 N. Lawrence St. will serve as the online university's finance office and meeting space. The new building has a capacity for 400 employees. About half that number will occupy it initially.

The Freightliner truck dealership near Hagerstown is going to build a new parts, service and sales center in Hagerstown, and will hire about 30 more employees after it opens next summer, an official said Monday. Work on the new center, which will cost “between $7 (million) and $8 million,” will begin Sept. 18 with a groundbreaking ceremony on the nine-acre tract the company bought at 16777 Halfway Blvd., Service Director Daniel Stine said. With 65,000 square feet, the new center will be much larger than the current site the dealership leases at 11611 Hopewell Road, Stine said.

Nearly 100 senior citizens turned out Wednesday to hear about the future of a proposed senior citizen center that officials hope to build on the Hagerstown Community College Campus within the next few years. Hilary Lo, community educator for the Washington County Commission on Aging, told the seniors packed into a temporary senior center on Washington Avenue in Hagerstown that the existing site doesn't have enough room to accommodate more than 9,000 visits from seniors each year. “We don't have adequate room to grow,” Lo said, noting Washington County is the only county in Maryland without a permanent senior center.