Smithsburg

May 15 to 21 The Washington County Commission on Aging offers noon lunches to anyone 60 years and older at six locations - Smithsburg, Keedysville, Williamsport and three in Hagerstown. Smithsburg, Keedysville and Williamsport are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Potomac Towers, Walnut Towers and Francis Murphy are open Monday through Friday. The hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the days they are open. The agency requires that you call by 11:30 a.m. to give them a two-working-days reservation notice.

Monty J. Massie, 56, of Wabash Avenue in Hagerstown, died Monday, May 6, 2013, at Meritus Medical Center. Arrangements were by J.L. Davis Funeral Home, Smithsburg.

Friday, May 10, 2013 PREP BASEBALL The South Hagerstown baseball team came out hot until a heavy rainstorm cooled it off. The Rebels scored in every inning and starting pitcher Airin Martin had a perfect game through three innings for a 12-0 lead against Watkins Mill before it was halted by rain on Friday in a Maryland Class 3A West playoff opener. The game is scheduled to resume today at noon with the winner traveling to meet Damascus on Monday.  Leadoff hitter Timmy Kitchen had three hits and Colby Johnson hit a two-run home run in a five-run third inning.

North Hagerstown's Max Ober carried his undefeated season into the finals of the boys singles bracket at the Washington County Tennis Championships at North Hagerstown on Friday. Ober, the top seed, dispatched Williamsport's Wornden Ly 6-0, 6-0 in the semifinals before rain washed out several matches late in the day. Two-time defending county boys singles champion Serge Aleshin-Guendel of Boonsboro, the second seed, beat Clear Spring's Jared Barnes 6-0, 6-0 in the quarterfinals.

The Smithsburg Lions Club and the Smithsburg Community Activities Committee recently hosted an egg hunt for the children of the surrounding communities.  There were more than 1,000 eggs filled with candy by the two groups. There were 52 special eggs with monetary and door prize tickets. Approximately 85 children with their parents attended the event to find the eggs. Children also received a bag of candy, refreshments provided by the Smithsburg Market and snack cakes provided by Little Debbie's distributors.

James Albert Turvin, 77, of 12012 Waltz Road in Smithsburg, Md., died Friday, May 3, 2013, at his home. Born Aug. 5, 1935, in Alabama, he was the son of the late James Alto and Connie Elizabeth Ellis Turvin. He was a loving father and grandfather. He loved to fish. He is survived by his wife, Kathy Turvin; two daughters, Dawn Ortiz and husband, Butch, of Hagerstown, Md., and Connie Turvin and husband, Frank, of Smithsburg; three sons, James Turvin and wife, Rene, of West Virginia, Jimmy Turvin and wife, Becky, of Smithsburg, and Earl "Lynn" Turvin and companion, Celsta, of South Carolina; two brothers; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Saturday, May 4, 2013 PREP SOFTBALL THURMONT, Md. - Catoctin clinched the MVAL Antietam Conference title outright on Saturday with a 6-1 victory over North Hagerstown. Rhianna Drieu scattered six hits for the Cougars (17-1, 13-0), allowing a run in the fourth inning when North (9-6, 9-3) tied the game, 1-1. Kaliah Frost doubled to lead off, Lauren Harbaugh sacrificed Frost to third, who then scored on an infield ground out by Rachel Thomas. Catoctin took a 3-1 lead in the fourth and added two more runs in the fifth inning.

Smithsburg High School junior Austin Grove, a member of the school's FFA club, drove his tractor to school from his house in Leitersburg on Friday morning and spent the rest of the day showing livestock to youngsters as part of Farm Day at the school. “It was a little bit chilly this morning, but it was fun driving down the open road,” the 17-year-old said. “I've wanted to get this running (tractor) for years now for this, and I finally got the time to work on it.” The event, run by FFA students, included high school students driving tractors to school and displaying farm life to students at Smithsburg Elementary School.

Attiya Latif is the youngest of three children and the last of her siblings to participate in the local American Legion Oratorical Contest. The contest is designed to foster a deeper knowledge of and appreciation for the U.S. Constitution among high school students, according to the legion's website. “It was always a big thing. It was like a family thing,” said Attiya, 16, who was born and raised in Hagerstown. The Latif children were raised to value the freedoms and protections of the U.S. Constitution, upon which the contest is based.

A drainage culvert replacement project expected to take nearly eight months to complete has approval to begin next week, and it will require temporary closure of portions of two roads just north of Smithsburg, according to a Washington County official. Robert Slocum, deputy director of public works, said recently that the overall project, which is to begin about May 6, includes three smaller projects to replace culverts that are in disrepair - one on Leitersburg-Smithsburg Road and two on Stevenson Road, close to where the two roads intersect.