Pizza

 Authorities were looking Wednesday for a man who robbed the Pizza Hut restaurant at 1309 Courthouse Square in Martinsburg, the Martinsburg Police Department said in a news release. No one was hurt in the robbery, which was reported at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, police said. Police were told that a store employee who was opening the business was followed inside by the robber, according to the news release. The employee told the man he could not be in the restaurant because it wasn't yet open for customers, police said.

Vito's Pizza Star IV Restaurant By ANNE CHOVEY Special to The Herald-Mail For our next dining adventure, my companion, Pap Ricka, and I decided to try Vito's, the new restaurant in the old Burhans Station location. (You know you are getting old when you reference everything by saying "where the such-and-such used to be. ") Vito's is actually called Vito's Pizza Star IV Restaurant. Pizza Stars I through III are located in several towns in Pennsylvania.

The former Corsi's Pizza Parlour on Maryland Avenue could reopen as a restaurant if a proposed zoning overlay passes city muster. The Hagerstown Planning Commission on Sept. 15 discussed applying a local conversion overlay district to the property at 991 Maryland Ave. (also 202 W. Wilson Blvd.) to allow it to again operate with mixed uses. The overlay would not affect the zoning of other properties in the neighborhood. Local conversion districts allow adaptive reuse of existing nonresidential and mixed-use structures in residential districts, according to city documents.

Dear Lynne: Our big family loves light desserts, not rich and heavy ones. Do you have anything with strawberries that is not strawberry shortcake and isn't time-consuming? -- Jimmi Dear Jimmi: I am assuming you don't mean "lite" desserts, as in those made with artificial whips, and fake "low-fat" or sugar substitutes. Obviously, I've got a bias at work here. Those treats aren't. They never truly satisfy. Instead, see what you think of a sweet pizza. A flaky pie pastry is rolled very thin (so each slice is truly light)

I think working in the food industry or retail should be a requirement for high school graduation. These customer-service oriented jobs are more than just a paycheck or learning to toss a pizza. It's the best business class in the world. When I was a teenager growing up in Clear Spring, I worked at the Country Deli on Fairview Mountain. Shortly after I turned 15 years and 9 months old, I was excited to get my first job at McDonald's in Williamsport (Clear Spring didn't have one yet)

Authorities were looking for a man who robbed a Dominos Pizza shop at gunpoint in Middletown, Md., on Wednesday according to Maryland State Police in Frederick County. The robber got away with about $700, state police said in a press release. The man entered the business around 10 p.m. and pointed a small semi-automatic handgun at one of the two employees, police said. A search conducted by state police and the Frederick County Sheriff's Department in the woods behind the pizza shop, which is at 4316 Old National Pike, was unsuccessful.

As this decade nears a close, and as readers continue to request best-ofs, The Herald-Mail has compiled its list of its favorite recipes from the biweekly column, In The Kitchen, from the past few years. In The Kitchen is a Sunday feature that profiles local, nonprofessional chefs who are "nominated" by friends, family and colleagues. The Herald-Mail interviews these local Top Chefs and runs articles with recipes in the paper. Know someone you'd like to see featured? Call 301-791-7372 or e-mail tiffanya@herald-mail.

Name of business: Brother's Pizza Owner: Juan Ramirez Address: Stone House Square shopping center, 75 Eastern Blvd. North, Hagerstown Opening date: July 18 Products and services: All types of pizza, strombolis, Italian calzones, hot and cold subs, burgers, gyros, chicken sandwiches, grilled chicken salads and more. Also offers a delivery service. How did you get into your business, or what motivated you to start it? "My brothers motivated me into this business for a better future for myself and my family.

If pizza-making were a sport, I would definitely be relegated to the recreational leagues. I'm happy to spend a few hours a week puttering around the kitchen, trying out new flavor combinations and drilling myself on my dough-flattening skills. Like many amateurs, I pride myself on having the proper accoutrements for making a great pizza, such as a cooking stone and a wooden paddle. And like most novices, I tend to fumble every time I try to slide the raw pizza into the oven. The best part about turning out homemade pizzas is that even the errors taste good.

HAGERSTOWN -- Rocky's Pizza reopened Monday morning at a new location nearly a year after an Aug. 31, 2008, fire gutted the restaurant at its old home on Hagerstown's Public Square. A sign in the window at 40 N. Potomac St. reading "Open, come in," handwritten on the back of a pizza box, was the only sign the restaurant was ready for customers. Rocky's had been at the corner of North Potomac and West Washington streets since 1968, owner Vincenzo "Vinnie" Schiano-DiCola said at the time of the fire.