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Permanent seating at City Park band shell discussed The city of Hagerstown is considering installing permanent seating at the Peter Buys Band Shell at City Park. City Engineer Rodney Tissue presented initial plans Tuesday to the Hagerstown City Council, saying a permanent seating option at the band shell would be a nice addition to the park. “Basically, they would be a series of concrete bands with wooden benches sitting on top of them,” he said. “This would hold maybe 200 patrons of the band shell.” The green wooden benches there now have the capacity for about 300 to 400 people, Tissue said.

“If the county commissioners approve the contract to buy a piece of land for three times what it was paid for a year ago, each and every one of them should be booted out of office, and on their way out, they should send a letter of apology to every single taxpayer in Hagerstown and the state of Maryland.” - Fountainhead area, Hagerstown “I'm calling to inform the voters, please check the record of everybody. Do not listen to the news, do not listen to the press. Go back in history on your computer and see what they did before they started for office.

His name is Ifeanyi Idegwu. He goes by Steve. But he's known as The Trashman to North Hagerstown boys soccer coach Glen Singer. Idegwu collected some garbage on Monday as he stood on the doorstep of the goal and popped in a ricochet off Thomas Johnson goalkeeper Quinn Jenkins in the 70th minute to lift the Hubs to a 2-1 victory at Mike Callas Stadium. It capped a game featuring only concentrated action, as both teams had problems delivering shots for the first 60 minutes.

A set of yellow, blue or neon green flippers occasionally appeared Sunday morning beyond the rope line bordering the swimming area at Greenbrier Lake. Then the flippers disappeared and scuba divers' heads bobbed to the surface. For at least 10 years, divers from the Tri-State area have volunteered to pick up trash in the lake at Greenbrier State Park, said David Stealey, who helps organize the annual cleanup. Stealey and his wife, Mary, own Blue Marble Divers in the South Pointe Shopping Center in Hagerstown.

Students at Rehoboth Learning Center have been doing community service activities, even though they are on summer break. In addition to watering the large potted plants placed around Williamsport by town officials, the children and their teachers have been picking up trash at River Bottom Park.

As the Fourth of July celebration at Fairgrounds Park drew to a close Wednesday, the cleanup was just beginning. Workers from the Hagerstown Parks and Recreation Division were out Wednesday night and Thursday from morning to the afternoon, cleaning up the park after the popular event. “It's just another day on the job,” said Randy Lee, a city recreation worker. “Every day's a cleanup day for me; today there is just more trash than usual.” Lee, who was picking up the trash left at the park Thursday morning, said he didn't mind the work because he enjoys being outside.

A company that wants to sort and biologically treat garbage in Berkeley County to create a “solid refuse fuel” has applied for state certification. Entsorga West Virginia LLC filed a “certificate of need” application with the West Virginia Public Service Commission on June 13, according to the state regulatory agency's online case docket. The company is proposing to build a $19 million resource recovery facility on 4 acres of the Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority's old landfill property off Grapevine Road, according to the application.

Curbside recycling will start next month in Boonsboro, but sanitation fees will remain unchanged due to projected savings on landfill tipping fees and a grant from local author Nora Roberts, Councilwoman Barbara Wetzel said. Letters explaining the recycling program were being mailed out last week and recycling containers are to be dropped off at homes in the last week of June, Wetzel said last week. The containers will come with fliers detailing what items can and cannot be recycled, she said.

A trash can was set on fire in a group home at Cedar Ridge Ministries Tuesday night, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's office. The fire, which was reported at 10:30 p.m., caused about $50 in damages to the home at 12146 Cedar Ridge Road, Deputy State Fire Marshal Ed Ernst said. The fire in a second-floor bedroom was discovered by occupants of the home, Ernst said.

Antietam Creek Watershed Alliance invites volunteers of all ages to help pick up paper, bottles and cans along Hamilton Run, the stream behind the former McDonald's on Northern Avenue, Hagerstown. Cleanup will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 22. Meet at Gold's Gym parking lot, 562 Northern Ave., Hagers-town. Gloves, trash bags and trash grabbers will be provided. Wear appropriate clothing. Call 301-745-3169 or email sboss49@att.net .