Sheetz

WILLIAMSPORT -- The Washington County Sheriff's Office was investigating an armed robbery just after midnight today at the Sheetz at 100 E. Potomac St. in Williamsport. The robbery was called in at 12:03 a.m. A man wearing a white bandana or scarf with a black design entered the store, pulled a small handgun and demanded cash, Lt. Mark Knight of the Washington County Sheriff's Office said. The man fled on foot with cash, Knight said. No shots were fired and there were no injuries, he said.

The new Sheetz store planned south of Martinsburg at the U.S. 11 and Business Park Drive intersection is expected to include drive-through service, a unique feature among the Altoona, Pa.,-based company's string of stores in the region, officials said Monday. Sketch plans for a 6,489-square-foot convenience store with a carwash, gas pumps and a drive-thru on 4.07 acres in Tabler Station Business Park were advanced by the Berkeley County Planning Commission to the preliminary plan stage of the county's approval process.

A person was stabbed Friday night in the parking lot of Sheetz at 700 N. Potomac St. in Hagerstown, according to a Hagerstown Police Department news release. Hagerstown police officers were dispatched to Meritus Medical Center at 11:36 p.m., where the victim was taken shortly after the stabbing, Sgt. John Lehman said. The victim, whose name wasn't released, was in stable condition, Lehman said. Police are looking for a black male in connection with the stabbing, Lehman said.

WILLIAMSPORT -- In a repeat of a previous proposal, the owner of property at the intersection of Artizan and Potomac streets is requesting that the Williamsport Town Council abandon part of an alley on the property as part of a plan to build a new Sheetz, according to town documents. Higher Ground Realty LLC is the owner of the former Red Barron property. Bowman 2000 LLC has contracted to buy the site and to build a Sheetz store that would replace an existing store on the corner opposite the property, according to a proposal distributed at a town council meeting Monday night.

A request to abandon part of an alley at Artizan and Potomac streets as part of a proposal to build a new Sheetz store went before the Williamsport Town Council again Monday night. Town council members were presented with the alley-abandonment request last year and scheduled a public hearing on the request. The push to build a new store has been considered for some time, and Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone III in 2009 issued an order upholding a zoning decision that allows a new Sheetz next to where an existing one operates.

 Two people were charged in connection with gunshots being fired early Saturday morning at the Sheetz convenience store on West King Street in Martinsburg, W.Va., the Martinsburg Police Department said. Cambria Olenzuk, 19, of Martinsburg was charged with four counts of wanton endangerment, and one count each of conspiracy and carrying a concealed deadly weapon, according to a police department news release. Timothy Stewart Jr., 20, of Inwood, W.Va., was charged with four counts of wanton endangerment and one count of conspiracy, the release said.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. -- Construction soon will begin on a second Sheetz convenience store in Greencastle that is set to open in late November or early December. The project "is going well," said Mike LaCesa, director of real estate for Sheetz. The new Greencastle store is one of 26 Sheetz projects slated for completion this year, he said. Crews have been preparing the ground for construction at the intersection of Grindstone Hill Road and Pa. 16. LaCesa said the new store should attract customers traveling on Pa. 16 into Waynesboro as well as traffic from Interstate 81. "We think this is a little bit of a different market" LaCesa said.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A proposal to open a Sheetz store in the west end of Chambersburg had some council members and residents questioning the effect it would have on traffic in the area. The 5,100-square-foot store would be built on two acres with entrances off Lincoln Way West, Loudon Street and Monticello Court, according to the subdivision plan submitted by the company. If the subdivision and land development plans are approved by the council, the new store could be open by September, said Michael A. LaCesa, Sheetz's director of real estate.

WILLIAMSPORT -- Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone III issued an order Monday upholding a zoning decision that allows a new Sheetz convenience store and gas station to be built in Williamsport's Town Center zoning district. Boone dismissed an appeal by a group of 45 Williamsport residents and property owners, who argued the town's zoning ordinance prohibits the sale of petroleum products in the Town Center district. Developer Bowman 2000 LLC is seeking to construct and lease out a new, larger Sheetz at the corner of North Artizan and East Potomac streets, across North Artizan Street from the current Sheetz.

Police seized 310 cartons of cigarettes from a vehicle that was stopped at a Martinsburg-area Sheetz on Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Oda Qarqat, 46, of Bogota, N.J., was arraigned Thursday on charges of no operators license and transportation of unstamped cigarettes or tax-not-paid tobacco products by Magistrate Robert L. Lowe II, according to court documents. Qarqat was in Eastern Regional Jail Thursday night on $9,000 bond, according to court and jail records.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring the cleanup of a gasoline spill that occurred Monday night at the Sheetz at 245 S. Washington St. in Berkeley Springs. Approximately 350 gallons of gasoline spilled onto the pavement when an overflow occurred while a truck was filling an underground storage tank on the property, according to a news release from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The cause of the overflow and subsequent spill is still being investigated, the release states.

For the first time since early July, gas prices dropped this week nationally and locally, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic's website at midatlantic.aaa.com. The national average for regular-grade gasoline was at $3.80 per gallon Wednesday, down from $3.85 last week, and the priced locally dropped from $3.85 to $3.82 per gallon, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Area residents remained skeptical about what lies ahead at the pump. “We'll have a break for a few weeks and people will say gas is looking good, but it's not going to be any relief,” Hagerstown resident Frank Daymude, 29, said.

Fearing he was in “imminent danger,” a law enforcement officer fired his weapon at a 33-year-old man Friday night who avoided capture outside a Sheetz store and led police on a high-speed pursuit on W.Va. 9, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Martin Cain Felder of Urbana, Md., and passenger Zachary Brian Huff, 20, of Hedgesville, W.Va., were wanted by police on drug-related charges before the pursuit, which began at about 10:30 p.m., according to court records.

Plans for a new Sheetz in Williamsport got a significant boost Monday when the town council agreed to measures that allowed the project to go forward. It's been about four years since a developer and Sheetz first proposed building a convenience store at the corner of North Artizan and East Potomac streets. It would replace a smaller Sheetz store across North Artizan Street, next to Byron Memorial Park. The project has been held up by negotiation and opposition, including a lawsuit by 45 residents.

One person was wounded early Saturday in a shooting at Sheetz at 1465 Edwin Miller Boulevard, West Virginia State Police said. Troopers J.A. Padilla and Z.S. Conner received a call at 4:12 a.m. for a report of shots fired and found a male in the parking lot with a bullet wound to his leg, Sgt. Michael A. Cole said. The victim was identified as William Olin Hamlin, 34, of Damascus, Md. His injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, Cole said. Witnesses told police there was an altercation inside the store between Hamlin and another male, Cole said.

 Two people were charged in connection with gunshots being fired early Saturday morning at the Sheetz convenience store on West King Street in Martinsburg, W.Va., the Martinsburg Police Department said. Cambria Olenzuk, 19, of Martinsburg was charged with four counts of wanton endangerment, and one count each of conspiracy and carrying a concealed deadly weapon, according to a police department news release. Timothy Stewart Jr., 20, of Inwood, W.Va., was charged with four counts of wanton endangerment and one count of conspiracy, the release said.

The new Sheetz store planned south of Martinsburg at the U.S. 11 and Business Park Drive intersection is expected to include drive-through service, a unique feature among the Altoona, Pa.,-based company's string of stores in the region, officials said Monday. Sketch plans for a 6,489-square-foot convenience store with a carwash, gas pumps and a drive-thru on 4.07 acres in Tabler Station Business Park were advanced by the Berkeley County Planning Commission to the preliminary plan stage of the county's approval process.

Maryland's oldest historic preservation organization has included the Potomac House in Williamsport on its 2012 list of threatened historic properties in the state. Over nearly 200 years, the Potomac House at East Potomac and South Artizan streets has been a tavern, a temperance hall and a hosiery factory. A county historical official earlier made a plea to spare the building from a plan for a new convenience store to be built on the site. This is the sixth year for the Endangered Maryland listing, which contains 11 sites this year.

Police arrested two Baltimore men Friday after using an informant to arrange a $1,100 heroin deal at the Sheetz store in Spring Mills, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Marquese Tavon D'Andre Ward was charged with single felony counts of distribution of heroin and conspiracy, and Marcell Edmonds was charged with conspiracy, the court documents said. Ward and Edmonds, both 21, were being held in Eastern Regional Jail Friday night on $100,000 and $50,000 cash-only bonds, respectively, according to court and jail records.