Williamsport

Marriage licenses for July 2009 Kenneth Edward Stewart, 46, and Donna Certain, 41, both of Hagerstown Christopher Scott Branham, 22, and Nina Ann Gantt, 22, both of Hagerstown Patrick Michael Thomas, 23, and Lauren Nicole Smith, 21, both of Hagerstown Jason Wayne Long, 25, and Katharine Leigh Mayhugh, 24, both of Hagerstown Kyle Douglas Badstibner, 23, and Megan Sue Ann Newkirk, 24, both of Hagerstown David Michael...

Rate-hike request affecting electricity budget The town of Williamsport is over budget on two accounts related to its electricity system. Town resident Chris Grimes questioned the expenses on Tuesday as the town council reviewed its monthly budget statement. Legal fees for the electric system are $24,175.82 so far this fiscal year, compared to $1,500 that was budgeted, the statement shows. Consulting for the electricity was at $52,432.08, while $25,000 was budgeted.

Carol Beasley, left, of Williamsport and a member of the Confederate Military Forces re-enactors group, watches a Civil War documentary Friday during the Retreat Through Williamsport Civil War Event at Byron Memorial Park in Williamsport.

WILLIAMSPORT -- The Town of Williamsport will flush fire hydrants within town limits between Sept. 7 and 14 from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., town officials said. The flushing might result in periods of dirty water, according to information from the town.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a home invasion that was reported at 8:30 p.m. Sunday near Williamsport. Deputy 1st Class Carly Hose said unidentified males entered a residence in the 15600 block of Clear Spring Road and demanded money. An occupant of the residence chased the intruders away, Hose said. Further details were unavailable. Anyone with information may call the sheriff's office at 240-313-2100.

The Williamsport High School boys basketball team fell short in its bid for a state title Saturday, losing to Dunbar 64-43 in the Maryland Class 1A championship game at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged a two-story row house Sunday at 28 N. Vermont St. in Williamsport. The fire, which started at about 3:20 a.m. on the front porch, caused roughly $300 in damages, according to a news release from the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office. The fire marshal’s office said it took 28 firefighters about five minutes to control the fire. Firefighters from Williamsport, Halfway, Funkstown and Clear Spring responded to the scene, the release said.

The old adage, “it's not how you start, it's how you finish” held true Friday night. Williamsport had a paltry first half but a solid second half to come from behind and beat Brunswick 41-33 behind Sterling Christy's 19 points. The Wildcats' first half was, for lack of a better word, awful. They trailed by 10 not even three minutes into the game. They didn't register a single point until the 4:37 mark of the first quarter and their first field goal didn't come until there were 59 seconds left in the frame.

Serving was the name of the game for the Williamsport volleyball team on Tuesday night. The Wildcats used excellent serving to sweep South Hagerstown 25-10, 25-18, 25-15 in a MVAL Antietam match. “The serving was the key to our win tonight,” Williamsport coach Emily Crabtree said. “We only missed two serves all evening. We have consistent servers that put the ball in play.” Senior Summer Neff strung together five straight service points in the first game to move Williamsport (4-0, 3-0)

You can call the Clear Spring boys basketball team the “Cardiac Blazers.” After an abysmal first half that saw Clear Spring down nine points to Williamsport, the Blazers weathered the storm and roared back in the second half to defeat the Wildcats 53-44 in front of a huge Clear Spring crowd. Clear Spring (3-0, 1-0) jumped out to a 9-6 lead in the first quarter, which quickly evaporated on a seven-point run by Williamsport, five of which came from Tyler Wise. The Wildcats continued to pound the Blazers in the second, as Alex Aleshire went 3-for-3 from the floor - all mid-range jumpers - and Wise hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to give Williamsport (1-2, 0-1)

Alexis “Lexi” Amy Bryan received a bachelor's degree in business supply chain and information systems from the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University.  Bryan spent four years at the main campus in University Park, participating in Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional business fraternity.  She served an internship in 2012 with IBM and will begin her career with IBM as a consultant in July. She is the daughter of Tim and Kendra Bryan of Williamsport.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 PREP BASEBALL BRUNSWICK, Md. - After losing two games to Brunswick during the regular season by healthy scores, Boonsboro turned the tables on the Railroaders in the postseason. After 12-2 and 10-1 losses during the regular season, Boonsboro put together one of its finest games of the season in turning back the Railroaders 6-1 in the Maryland Class 1A West region East section semifinals Tuesday. Boonsboro (8-11-1) will hit the road again today to face Clear Spring (14-4)

The Williamsport Town Council on Monday accepted a $30,000 Recreational Trails Program grant through the Maryland State Highway Administration to add a new fitness trail at Byron Memorial Park. Town Clerk/Treasurer Donald L. Stotelmyer said the town is still in the planning stages for the trail, but the plan is to have a design finalized and ready to present to the council in the next two months. The fitness trail will be designed to snake its way through the park, and include various pieces of stationary fitness equipment for public use. “It will be something unique,” Councilman Scott Bragunier said.

Geraldine Andrews had no idea last year at this time what she was in for in the months to come. She worked as a hair stylist and enjoyed tight-knit relationships with her husband, two daughters and four grandchildren. Then, in August, Andrews, 58, of Williamsport, became ill. She had had a mole removed from her leg and it wasn't healing as expected, but she didn't think much of it. It didn't take long after she felt sick for her condition to critically deteriorate. She became septic and spent about a month at Meritus Medical Center in and out of the intensive care unit, her daughter, Lea Michael said.

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.

Hagerstown Kiwanis Club member John Roney welcomed new member Paula Shatzer to the club recently. Shatzer is chief financial officer at Cedar Ridge Children's Home near Williamsport.

Since her daughter's death a year ago, Jonna Vinci said she has been hearing stories about what a wonderful person Samantha Kelly was. “I've been proud all year,” Vinci said Sunday afternoon during an event at The Improved Order of Red Men Tribe 84 in Williamsport to raise money for a scholarship program in Kelly's honor. Members of the championship Williamsport High School girls volleyball team made the memories even sweeter for Vinci. Members of the team - of which Kelly once served as the captain - presented Vinci with a ring that had Kelly's name, team number and “in memory of” inscribed on it. Vinci showed the silver ring as she and her husband, Brian, checked people in at the fundraiser.

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Lillian Virginia Evans, 89, died Friday, May 3, 2013, at Homewood of Williamsport in Williamsport, Md. Born Aug. 14, 1923, in Martinsburg, W.Va., she was the daughter of Arlie B. Hutzler and Lillian Nesmith Hutzler. She was a 1942 graduate of Martinsburg High School. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where she served on the altar guild. She was a member of the Gateway Garden Club and the Junior Civic League. Ginny was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker.

Williamsport's Jesse Zeger and Cody Grams both found their form at the right time as the Wildcats successfully defended their boys team title at the MVAL Antietam Conference Track & Field Championships on Friday evening at Oakdale High School. Zeger was the champion in both 110-meter hurdles (15.46 seconds) and 300 hurdles (41.30). “Two weeks ago at Walkersville (at the Talley Zimmerman Invitational), I didn't even make the finals of the 110 hurdles and was only fourth in the 300 hurdles,” Zeger said.