There’s a saying when it comes to writing: Write what you know.

For author Roberta L. Greenwald of Williamsport, that’s setting novels in Washington County and also Ocean City, Maryland, places familiar to her.

Understanding community and the importance of sustaining it is what makes a community thrive. In North Hagerstown there sits a 3-story refurbished bank barn that is doing just this—helping sustain a thriving and diverse community. The Market Hub, conceived by owner Jill Hudson, is home to 103 local vendors…

Lou Scally is described by listeners and viewers as Mr. Hagerstown and the man you can trust. And the radio morning show host and former television weatherman is much loved by his community.

No matter what people say, most are a little bit nosey, or at the very least curious. Especially when they drive by a beautiful home and want to be able to see if the inside is as impeccably dressed as it is from the curbside.

As a little girl Tina Fraley feared the silence. Not her mother crying or the furniture crashing, as her mother fought with Tina’s stepfather. But the silence.
“Because if I could hear my mom crying at least I knew she was alive,” recalls Fraley, who at 6 years old remembers hiding under the bed in her room with her…

Growing flowers for sale isn’t like growing flowers for pleasure, as Laura Zimmermann discovered when she started Cool Hollow Flower Farm in the Beaver Creek area four years ago.

Charles “Charlie” Sekula was born on May 25,1945,in Braunau, Austria.The birth took place in a schoolhouse enroute to a refugee camp, attended by a young doctor. It was the first time the doctor had ever delivered a baby. Charlie’s parents were refugees during the evacuation from Ratibor due to Russian invasion near the end of WWII. Lack of food caused his mother to…

As Stefanie Boss and her husband, Mike Reed, walk down Smoke-town Road on the Antietam National Battlefield property, a bird with bright blue feathers, a rusty-colored breast, and white belly darts from its perch on the wooden fence to the nearby trees.

High up on the Appalachian Trail is a non-descript little hut that is key to helping scientists learn the habits of the elusive saw-whet owl. This tiniest of owls, about the size of a robin except much more stout, migrates south each fall. Saw-whet owls have several migration routes, one following the South Mountain corridor. These nocturnal creatures often fly through rural areas where they can seek cover in evergreen forests.