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Chambersburg area residents rallied in support of the LGBTQ+ community Thursday night at the opening of the borough’s largest annual event, IceFest. The rally was to show support following the repeal of the LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance by Chambersburg Borough Council. “Our LGBTQ+ neighbors are deeply hurt after losing their rights and equal protections - protections they fought so hard to get in the first place. They need a visual show of support right now, and what better opportunity than at our community’s largest festival,” said Noel Purdy, president of Franklin County Coalition for Progress. Chambersburg on Monday became the first...

t appears Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has limited, but not completely extinguished, a revolt from county commissioners in central and eastern Pennsylvania who were poised to challenge the state’s authority to lead a phased, coronavirus pandemic reopening plan at the start of this week. What’s a little less clear is how the governor feels about the results of his damage control effort. After a busy Monday, commissioners in just one county - Lebanon - were planning to go forward with formal action to unilaterally declare their counties ready to start reopening under the state’s pandemic recovery plan, with a final...

Walt Bietsch, the Mayor of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Franklin County Commissioners Dave Keller and Bob Ziobrowski have turned on their fellow Franklin Countians and joined the PA Governor who attacked his own citizens, calling them “cowards” and “deserters” for wanting to reopen their businesses. All three of these turncoats are now supporting Tom Wolf’s punishment of Franklin County and have agreed that both the Boro of Chambersburg and Franklin County must remain under lockdown until June 4th.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — The 2015 Manure Expo is coming to Chambersburg on July 14 and 15. The goal of the expo is to bring farmers, certified haulers, researchers, extension educators, government agency personnel and equipment dealers to share their knowledge about this part of agriculture. With farm tours, educational sessions and equipment demonstrations, this year’s expo site will be on Ingram Drive, just off Interstate 81 in Chambersburg. Tuesday, July 14 is tour day. Participants can choose from one of three tours. All tours will leave from and return to the expo site. The dairy and agitation tour will travel...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police barrack in Chambersburg are looking for two women suspected of stopping a vehicle on Interstate-81 and damaging it with a baseball bat. Police said the incident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. on January 2, near mile marker 17.5 on I-81 Southbound. The suspect vehicle, which was being driven by a white woman who is 5'2", about 120 lbs. with black hair, swerved between both southbound lanes to prevent the second vehicle from passing. The second vehicle was being driven by a 47-year-old woman from Chambersburg, who had a girl with her....

SCOTLAND, Pa. (WHTM) - State police in Chambersburg are investigating an incident where someone took an authorized ride on a PennDOT pay loader. The heavy equipment was parked south of Shippensburg last week, but sometime over the weekend was taken for a four-mile drive on Interstate 81. Police said the pay loader was driven from Exit 24 for Fayette Street and ended up in a motel parking lot off the Scotland exit. Investigators believe the unauthorized ride occurred sometime between Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to call state police in Chambersburg...

Nearly 10 percent of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns retired from their job or were sacked in Tuesday’s elections, including the organization’s two leaders: Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Some 95 key members of the group that targets and criticizes lawmakers backed by the National Rifle Association are losing their title of “mayor.” According to an election review of Bloomberg's membership list of about 1,000, three quit the group, 69 retired from their jobs, and 23 were rejected by voters.On the retirement list: Bloomberg and Menino.Among the defeated members of Mayors Against Illegal...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – A 10-year-old central Pennsylvania girl who allegedly caused a baby's death by violently shaking him and throwing him into a crib was charged with third-degree murder. The charges filed against the fifth-grader on Friday in Franklin County came after a coroner's inquest into the death of 11-month-old Heath Ryder. The girl was released into the custody of her parents and ordered not to have unsupervised contact with children under 5. "This is not a kid that has a mental health disorder. She does not have a personality disorder," the girl's attorney, Jason Kutulakis, told The Public Opinion...

With Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed budget stalemated in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, 600 unhappy taxpayers rallied in Chambersburg’s center square Saturday to declare their independence from looming tax increases. Likening their protest to that of a group of Boston patriots in 1776, Franklin County, Pa., joined in the nationwide TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement against taxation and government spending.

...Conclusion to "A Freeper's Last Days". A longtime lurker and 3 year Freeper, known here as "kixx" and to the rest of us as Chip Boose, has heard the Calling of Our Lord. Chip passed on to take his place in the Choir of Angels late last night at about 11:40 PM Eastern time at his home in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Chip was surrounded, even at that late hour, by family and friends. For the last 5 days his house was so full of friends and family that the timbers strained to support the weight of the love that was shared....