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Tool time for beginners assembling their first do-it-yourself instruments, think quality, not quantity By KEVIN CLAPPkevinc@herald-mail.com Wandering the aisles of Clear Spring Hardware assisting customers, Ted Hovermale's tape measure is always close at hand. Carrying the retractable ruler makes sense. After all, in the home improvement arena a fraction of an inch can mean the difference between a firmly anchored bracket and one that clumsily pops from a wall. More telling is his opinion of the device at home.

People are being urged to keep their cars locked and tool bins secured following four thefts from vehicles in the Virginia Avenue and Williamsport areas, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department press release. The thefts have occurred this month and have involved the theft of tools such as drills, nail guns, saws and sockets, deputies said. In past months, other items stolen have included GPS units, purses and stereo faceplates, deputies said. Police are urging people to keep high value items out of sight or removed from cars.

When welfare reform turns into a spouse-batterer's tool For many people, welfare reform was the push they needed to get out of the house, get training and get a job. But as West Virginia officials have discovered, for those who abuse their spouses, the reform program is just another tool to help them control their victims. Fortunately, a new state program is working to change that situation. The sad reality of the situation was explained recently by Ann Menard, a special a special consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who spoke to a recent conference of advocates for the abused in Bridgeport, W.Va.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Zullinger, Pa., man found guilty by a jury of stealing a $5 tool part from Wal-Mart maintained his innocence Wednesday and was sentenced to two years probation. Rodney Eugene Reynolds Jr., 23, was charged with retail theft on April 25 after a loss prevention officer at Wal-Mart in Chambersburg said he saw Reynolds put a package of 36 Dremel cut-off wheels in his pocket and leave the store without paying for them, according to court records.

The Home Builders Association of Washington County recently presented a donation of $600 to the Transition Skills Program at Washington County Technical High School for the students to purchase home tool kits.  The students learn the skills in school to work with all of the tools in the kit, and then they are able to take the kits with them when they graduate.  This is the second year the association has provided the funds for the tool kits....

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - Police are investigating a string of vandalism incidents in the Shepherdstown area Wednesday night. The first incident occurred about 11 a.m. on Billmeyer Road when someone used a wood splitting tool to damage a door on a house, said Jesse Jones, chief deputy of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The tool, a heavy, long-handed hammer, was then hurled through a window and landed on a rocking chair, Jones said. At about 6:30 a.m. Thursday, the sheriff's department began getting calls about vandalism incidents in the Heatherfields and Chaplain's Choice subdivisions, Jones said.

Carolyn Albright, Hagerstown Community College director of nursing and health sciences division, shows SimMan (human patient simulator) to HCC President Guy Altieri and Stuart L. Mullendore and Howard S. Kaylor, right to left, trustees of the Kershner Sisters Foundation and Albert E. and Naomi B. Sinnisen Foundation, which donated funds for the purchase of the SimMan teaching tool.

Fall is just about here, and the weather is finally cooling off. I don't know about you, but I've had my fill of gnats, heat and humidity, so fall couldn't be more welcome. With cooler weather, we can exercise outside a little more often without worrying about being eaten alive by bugs, or being steam cooked in the 95-degree weather. I occasionally take a trip to Hagerstown City Park or the North Hagerstown School Mike Callas Stadium for some great outdoor workouts. I'm going to share with you some of my favorite fitness tools to get out of the gym, and into some fun in the great outdoors.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - The Chambersburg Police Department was investigating a burglary at Rodney B. Smith Plumbing and Heating, 940 Hollywell Ave., in which lengths of copper pipe were stolen. The fence of the business was scaled between Wednesday afternoon and 6 a.m. Thursday, police said. The pipes were stolen from roof racks on company trucks, police said. That same night, six 4-foot sections of copper pipe were cut from an outside wall at a town house construction site in the 200 block of Merriweather Drive, police said.

Commuter skills study may lead to stronger community What kind of a job would it take to make you stay at home? That's the question Jefferson County, W.Va. officials will soon be asking, as they try to develop a new marketing tool to draw new businesses to the area. It's an idea we've suggested in the past, because most workers commute out of the area for employment because they feel they must, not because they enjoy long train or car rides. According to Jane Peters, the head of the Jefferson County Development Authority, the county's work force of 22,000 includes 12,000 who commute out of the area every day. But where they go and what jobs skills they possess is unknown now. To find out, Peters' group will team up with Shpeherd College's Business and Economics Department to send a two-page questionnaire to 3,000 county households.

The Home Builders Association of Washington County recently presented a donation of $600 to the Transition Skills Program at Washington County Technical High School for the students to purchase home tool kits.  The students learn the skills in school to work with all of the tools in the kit, and then they are able to take the kits with them when they graduate.  This is the second year the association has provided the funds for the tool kits....

It looks like spring really does exist in Washington County. I don't know about you, but I've had my fill of cold weather and snow, so spring couldn't be more welcome. With warm weather, we get an increase in fitness options and locations that were shut off to us for way to long during the colder months.  I regularly take my clients outside to train when it gets too nice to be in the gym. I'm going to share with you some of my most favorite fitness tools I use to get my clients out of the gym, and into some fun in the sun. Tool 1: The TRX Suspension System  The TRX Suspension Training System has quickly become one of the most popular training tools in gyms worldwide.

Two Hagerstown men have been charged in connection with the theft of copper wire from trucks of a utility company which had come to Washington County to help the region deal with the after effects of Hurricane Sandy last month, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman. Timothy Blake Miller, 21, of 17548 Gay St., and Richard Dalton Vanes, 20, of 17328 Diane Drive, are each charged with rogue and vagabond, theft between $1,000 and $10,000, burglary tools, conspiracy to commit rogue and vagabond and conspiracy to commit theft, according to a news release from Carly Hose, public information officer for the sheriff's office.

The emergency department at West Virginia University Hospitals-East's City Hospital recently received a donation in memory of a former patient, Larry Nix.  Forty-six donors made gifts totaling nearly $10,000 to the City Hospital Foundation to the Larry Nix Memorial Fund. Among the donors were Larry's wife, Anne Nix; their son, Mark, and his wife, Lisa Nix; and their daughter, Linda, and her husband, Jan Derezinski. The Nix family decided to direct these funds to the emergency department to recognize the heroic attempts by Dr. Bradley Mongold and other emergency department clinicians to save Larry Nix's life.

A longtime Waynesboro manufacturer of cutting tools will be moving to a larger building later this year to accommodate future expansion. Wayne Tool Co., which was founded in 1917, was acquired by Louisiana-based Magnum Carbide early in the summer. Recently, the business owners secured a lease agreement for the old EZ Dumper building on Ninth Street. “We're looking for long-term growth,” company President Mark Wilcox said of the larger building. The investment will be substantial, he said.

Any job is easy when you have the right tool in the box. On Friday, the Waynesboro football team had an Adgers and it made the Indians craftsmen. Running back Johnnie Adgers rushed 37 times for 218 yards and a touchdown while the Indians' defense pounded in the loose nails for a 9-0 win over New Oxford. It's Waynesboro's first win this season and a nice way to go into the Mid-Penn conference schedule starting next week. Adgers scored from the 5 on Waynesboro's first drive of the second half to break a scoreless tie. It was a big relief after the Indians failed to capitalize on great field position in the first half.

American responded from a tough loss to Conococheague on Friday with a strong 18-9 victory over Halfway in a Maryland District 1 9-10 Tournament losers' bracket game Monday.With the win, American remains alive and will travel to South Mountain on Tuesday night at 6. Halfway¿s all-star trip came to a conclusion with a 1-2 record.American displayed a three-tool effort - speed, defense and hitting ¿ much the same as it did against Conococheague....

A few years ago, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts officially began accepting photographs for its permanent collection of fine art. But these days, society is way past asking whether photos are art. With widespread use of digital enhancement of photography, the question is more like: Are photos ever simply photographs? This weekend, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts presents a look at the state of the art of photography with the opening of the 79th annual Cumberland Valley Photographic Salon.

Hundreds of dollars in tools that were being used by volunteers to build a home through Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Panhandle were recently stolen from a project site, leaders of the nonprofit organization said Tuesday. “We'd like to get our tools back,” said Brian Truman, the organization's operations director. The theft from a locked storage box at the construction site at Lair Way off Nadenbousch Lane south of Martinsburg was discovered on Monday, Jan. 16, Truman said.

Jeffrey A. “Jeff” O'Toole, 31, of 14911 Baker Road, Waynesboro, Pa., died Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, at Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center. The family will receive friends today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, Waynesboro. The service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro.