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HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. -- Berkeley County Sheriff's Department deputies are looking for a man who robbed a Burger King restaurant at knifepoint early Tuesday. Deputies responded to the Burger King at 248 Roaring Lion Drive at 3:55 a.m. and learned that an employee was robbed by a man with a knife, according to a news release. The employee told deputies the man surprised her as she was entering the restaurant and threatened her with the knife and forced her into the restaurant, deputies said.

by Joe Crocetta / staff photographer click image below to see larger image Restaurant doling out free holiday helpings By RICHARD F. BELISLE Staff Writer, Waynesboro BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, Pa. - Mike Pryor will plunk four big hams into the ovens at his Mountain Shadow restaurant today and follow them Wednesday with six large turkeys, enough meat to feed the nearly 500 people who will likely be enjoying his free Christmas...

waynesboro@herald-mail.com WAYNESBORO, Pa. - The Hoover House will be able to serve liquor when it opens as an upscale restaurant later this year, its owners said Thursday. Robert and Barbara Persun bought the 15-room, 93-year-old brick building at 227 W. Main St. last year. Robert Persun said the couple was notified last weekend that their application for a liquor license was approved by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Persun said the investigator who handled the application for the board recommended approval.

bonnieb@herald-mail.com WAYNESBORO, PA. In its 93-year history, the huge brick Hoover House has been a private residence, a restaurant and an assisted-living facility. Now, it's poised to become a restaurant again. John and Barb Persun, who live on the second and third floors of the stately home, will open the first floor of the 1912 Hoover House on Wednesday. Opening a restaurant has been Barb Persun's dream for 12 or 15 years, she said. "Whenever we'd go out to a restaurant, I'd be saying, 'Note that, note that, note that,'" she said.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Jazz music plays in the background, and beige walls and dark-brown accent lighting at the tables give the place a distinctive feel. Employees of the Dish restaurant busily go in and out of doors from work areas, a scenario that has played out daily since the establishment opened Oct. 16 at 213 W. Washington St., co-owner Doug Vaira said. Such a restaurant in an old town is not typical, Vaira said. In today's market, many communities grow around a vision of big-box stores, which Vaira said no one can stop.

HAGERSTOWN OfficeMax plans to move into a former Wesel Boulevard grocery building. Other shops - including a restaurant and a New York-style deli - will open there, too. Martin's Food Markets left one building at Valley Park Commons on Wesel Boulevard a year ago when it moved into a new, larger store. · OfficeMax, which will use the old Martin's building, will offer free coffee and free wireless Internet service, spokesman William Bonner said. OfficeMax already has a branch near Wal-Mart on Garland Groh Boulevard.

Hempen Hill BBQ Bar & Grill hosted a benefit night July 16 in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity of Washington County - Women Build program. The donation totaled $119.34 and was a result of 15 percent donation of all food sales from the Habitat for Humanity group during lunch and dinner that day. This most recent benefit brings Hempen Hill BBQ's year to date donations to a total of $2,575.96 all given to local charity/organizations in Hagerstown. Hempen Hill BBQ Bar & Grill is at 13208 Fountainhead Plaza and can be reached at 301-797-4455 or online at www.HempenHillBBQ.

charlestown@herald-mail.com RANSON, W.Va. - Police say $4,400 in cash was stolen from four state-regulated slot machines at Boss's restaurant when someone broke into the business early Tuesday. A burglar alarm sounded at the restaurant and bar at about 3:40 a.m., said Capt. Mickey Ballenger of the Ranson Police Department. By the time Officer Patrick North arrived at the restaurant at 200 N. Mildred St., the machines had been broken into and the money taken, Ballenger said.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. -- The recently closed Golden Corral restaurant on Pa. 16 next to the Wayne Heights Mall will reopen in December under the direction of Jeff Donald, the restaurant's former longtime owner. On Nov. 3, the restaurant closed its doors to "reorganize," apologizing to the community and its employees in signs posted on the front windows. The signs blamed the unstable economy, the rise of food costs and the financial meltdown of the banking industry as reasons for the closure.

Big Bats Cafe is in growth mode, planning a Nov. 23 opening for its latest expansion franchise in Hagerstown at the former Applebee's on Wesel Boulevard, a company official said Wednesday. The family-owned business chose Hagerstown because it is a growing city, said Nathan Garland, chief executive officer with the company based in Stevensville, Md., on the Eastern Shore. This will be the third Big Bats Cafe. The first opened in 1997 on Kent Island, Md., and one opened in Easton, Md., in spring 2004, Garland said.