Parade

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- Independence Day was marked Sunday in Shepherdstown with a parade.

Crowds watch Sunday as antique tractors roll through the Leitersburg Peach Festival on parade Sunday. The annual festival was held Saturday and Sunday.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. --Pets were on parade Monday at Wilson College as part of ChambersFest.

Chambersburg's Council for the Arts announced its annual Parade, a fundraiser for which crafters and artists decorate a piece of furniture to be displayed and then auctioned off. In past years, artists have decorated tables and rocking chairs. This year, the furniture item all artists will use is a bar stool. Artists must submit proposals showing how they would decorate a bar stool for this year's Parade. The deadline for submitting designs is Friday, April 15. Artists are invited to design their bar stool with no material restrictions.

Williamsport High School will kick off its homecoming celebration with its annual parade. Marching units need to reserve a spot by contacting Mr. Stike at 301-766-8434. The parade will be Saturday, Oct. 2, starting at 11 a.m. at Springfield Middle School.

WAYNESBORO, PA. -- The participants in Waynesboro's Memorial Day made their way down Main Street in everything from sporty convertibles to draft horses. Children and adults clapped, shouted, waved and saluted as veterans organizations, bands, churches, fire departments and dignitaries passed. Stanley McIntire, a retired warrant officer from Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., joined the Cascade (Md.) Lantern Post 729, 29th Division Association, to continue its decade-long involvement in the parade.

Funkstown held its annual Halloween parade Thursday evening.

The Budweiser Clydesdales parade on West Washington Street in Hagerstown on Friday.

As finalists in an America's Favorite Show Choir competition, Waynesboro Area Senior High School's top vocalists are hoping to strike a chord with online voters. The Wayneaires are asking for votes at www.parade.com/choir to earn them national bragging rights. The contest is associated with Parade magazine, which is included in The Herald-Mail on Sundays. High school senior Zachary Arestad said some of the other entrants have professionally made videos, while Waynesboro's submission was filmed on a cell phone.

Chambersburg's Council for the Arts announces its annual parade, where artists may decorate a decorative birdhouse, which will be displayed in local businesses throughout the summer. Deadline for entry designs is Friday, April 19. Birdhouses must be family friendly and appropriate for public display. Participants whose designs are accepted will receive their birdhouse between Monday, May 27 and Friday, May 31, to be completed and returned by Friday, July 12. The birdhouses will be displayed in downtown businesses Friday, July 19, through Tuesday, Aug. 13, with silent auction bidding at Council for the Arts, 159 South Main St., to conclude at The Capitol Theatre's Wine Festival on Saturday, Aug. 17. For an entry form call 717-264-6883, email programs@councilforthearts.net or go to www.councilforthearts.net .

The following Virginia Military Institute cadets were among the approximately 1,500 who marched in this year's presidential inaugural parade Jan. 21: Alexander L. Brown of Smithsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin R. Brown William C. Holzapfel of Hagerstown, son of  Mr. and Mrs. James N. Holzapfel Kirk L. Lambert of Frederick, Md., son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Lambert Kyle J. Morse of Frederick, son of Mr. and Mrs....

The trumpets are polished, the tubas are shined and the drumsticks are dusted as part of the last-minute preparation for the Mighty Sound of Maryland's performance in today's 57th Inaugural Parade. The century-old University of Maryland band will march in an inaugural parade for the fourth time. It last performed in President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural. This time around, the band beat out nearly 2,800 applicants in a competition that required submission of a list of its accomplishments, along with pictures, audio and video of its performances.

The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on New Year's Day will feature a float that will carry a floragraph - a tribute made with flowers and leaves about 14 inches in diameter resembling a photograph - dedicated to the memory of a Hagerstown teenager whose family donated his organs after he was killed in a car crash earlier this year. Quinn Hoover, 17, died on March 18 after an early-morning accident near Clear Spring. A student at Washington County Technical High School, he was known for his outgoing personality and his prowess on the soccer field, his parents said.

Brittany Clopper stood in front of her childhood home in Smithsburg watching Santa parade by on an antique fire engine. The 24-year-old, who now lives in Cascade with her husband, Ben, held her daughter, Remie, 2, in her arms. “She wanted to see Santa,” Clopper said. Clopper remembers watching parades pass her house as a girl and said it was nice to share the tradition with her own child. “We still know a lot of people in the parade,” she said. “It's a small-town thing.” The parade featuring Old St. Nick was one part of the Smithsburg Hometown Christmas celebration Friday and Saturday at various locations throughout the town.

The Downtown Business Council announced the winners of Saturday's 43rd annual Chambersburg holiday parade, which was sponsored by F&M Trust. The winners are: Class A band First place - Shippensburg (Pa.) Area Senior High School Marching Band. Prize sponsored by Franklin Shopper. Second place - Waynesboro (Pa.) Area Senior High School Band. Prize sponsored by Wagner's Supply Depot. Class B band First place - James Buchanan High School Rocket Band.

It was a beautiful November day for both the Greencastle and Waynesboro Christmas Parades on Saturday. Scarves, mittens and warm coats were the dress of choice for the 27th annual Christmas parade, sponsored by VerStandig Broadcasting, in downtown Greencastle on Saturday at 9:21 a.m. Thousands lined the Greencastle parade route from E. Baltimore Street onto the square and down S. Carlisle Street to watch bands, floats and costumed characters spread...

Greencastle is buzzing with holiday happenings beginning with its annual tree lighting on Friday and continuing with Saturday's Christmas Parade. The tree lighting ceremony will begin on the square at 6 p.m. with VerStandig Broadcasting entertaining the crowds with music, according to a news release from the Greencastle-Antrim Chamber of Commerce. Jack Gaughen Realtors of Greencastle will hand out several hundred bags of popcorn to hungry revelers during the festivities. To take the chill off the evening, the Exchange Club of Greencastle will offer free hot chocolate and cookies.

Waynesboro's 56th annual Holiday Parade is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. There is no entry fee to join the parade, and applications are being accepted now. Entry deadline is Monday, Nov. 5. The parade route begins on West Main Street at Cumberland Valley Avenue and continues east to Enterprise Avenue. Participants disband at the Waynesboro Mall parking lot. Judging for parade participants will be by local representatives. First-place prizes will be awarded for various categories.

Deryle Bingaman of Hagerstown fashioned a costume of play money dollar bills for Halloween, which he said he had hoped to wear in the Alsatia Mummers Parade in Hagerstown. He said he was unable to participate in the annual march because he could not ride the motorcycle along the route. Bingaman said it took him two weeks to put the costume together.