Pharmacist

Editor's note: There are a lot of people you see around town that you recognize, but don't know anything about. People like... Name: Brian Hose Age: 28 Occupation: Pharmacist at Boonsboro Pharmacy/Sharpsburg Pharmacy Hometown: Near Maugansville Where would you see Hose? Hose, who started working for Boonsboro Pharmacy/Sharpsburg Pharmacy in 2006, splits his time between the two stores. He was recently named the 2007 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in Maryland.

Editor's note: There are a lot of people you see around town that you recognize, but don't know anything about. People like... Name: Brian Hose Age: 28 Occupation: Pharmacist at Boonsboro Pharmacy/Sharpsburg Pharmacy Hometown: Near Maugansville Where would you see Hose? Hose, who started working for Boonsboro Pharmacy/Sharpsburg Pharmacy in 2006, splits his time between the two stores. He was recently named the 2007 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in Maryland.

FREDERICK, Md. - A 63-year-old pharmacist was flown to Washington County Hospital after he was shot by a man demanding narcotics Sunday afternoon in Frederick, according to a press release from the Frederick Police Department. Police said a white man in his 50s with graying hair approached the drive-in window at the CVS Pharmacy at 2040 Rosemont Ave. and demanded drugs at about 3:45 p.m. When the pharmacist closed the window, the man fired at least three rounds, with one bullet striking the pharmacist in the shoulder.

Brittani Eichelberger Hagerstown With her nut-brown skin and oil-black hair, Brittani Love Eichelberger looks nothing like the adoptive parents who saved her from the streets of Calcutta, India, as an infant. Her husband more readily passes for her mother's child than she does, and her 3-year-old son, Slate, once asked why her skin is different. But Eichelberger, 22, of Hagerstown, said she never realized others thought she was different until hijacked planes struck at the heart of the country's fiscal and military centers.

Week of Nov. 6, 1955 Aldo Ray, the husky-voiced young star of a series of Hollywood films - including "Battle Cry" - is slated to visit Hagerstown on Saturday, Nov. 19, to add cinematic glamour to the local opening of his newest starring vehicle, "Three Stripes in the Sun," at Henry's Theatre. Washington County Hospital has revised its regulations regarding the marriage of student nurses. Heretofore a girl could not get married and remain a student at the School of Nursing.

wandaw@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Because Jenny Knipe gets "queasy" at the site of blood, she realized she'd probably never become a nurse like her mother. But that didn't stop the Smithsburg native from finding her place in the health-care field. "Growing up watching my mom care for people also influenced me to want to help people in need," she said. In May, the 25-year-old honor student will graduate from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com GREENCASTLE, Pa. - If multiple generations of a family count as one owner, then Frank H. Ervin is the second owner of a local drug store that has been in continual operation for 180 years. Ervin, 54, bought Carl's Drug Store at 145 N. Antrim Way in January 1974 from Edward R. Carl, the third generation in his family to own the business. According to a history of the business compiled by Ervin with help from Kenneth and Bonnie Shockey of the Allison-Antrim Museum, the Carl dynasty began in 1825 when physician Adam Carl opened a drug store at 13 S. Carlisle St. It was to be the first of five eventual locations for the store.

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail will run "A Life Remembered. " The story will take a look back - through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others - at a member of the community who died recently. Today's "A Life Remembered" is about Cyrus Francis Jones, who died Jan. 27 at the age of 88. His obituary appeared in the Jan. 31 editions of The Morning Herald and The Daily Mail. marlob@herald-mail.com When they were youngsters growing up in Baltimore, Kenneth Jones said that his older brother, Cyrus, became fascinated with amateur ham radio operation and set up a station in their home.

Editor's note: This is the fourth of a five-part series featuring black men and women who are making a difference in their communities. waynesboro@herald-mail.com Francis Achampong has large windows in his second floor office in Penn State Mont Alto's Conklin Hall, but they aren't needed to brighten up the room - his broad, infectious smile does that. Achampong, 48, is Mont Alto's director of academic affairs, a job that puts him second in command of the 1,100-student campus behind David Gnage, the school's campus executive officer.

gregs@herald-mail.com At the time of his arrest in January, a Hagerstown podiatrist had nearly weaned himself off painkillers he began taking for severe headaches about two years before his arrest, the podiatrist's attorney said in a plea hearing Tuesday. Bradley Scott Williams, 29, of 112 Bentley Court in Hagerstown, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court to three counts of obtaining illegal drugs with false prescriptions. Washington County Circuit Judge Frederick C. Wright sentenced Williams to two years in prison, but freed him on the condition that Williams continue drug treatment and comply with restrictions imposed through a Pennsylvania licensing board.