2011-12-15

THIS ‘N THAT



Sweetheart Ball Tickets Looking for that perfect Christmas present? One that is unique, but reasonablly priced? How about a ticket for two to the Beta Sigma Phi Sweetheart Ball, which is being held February 11 at McConnellsburg American Legion. The $35 ticket price includes dinner, gourmet desserts, dancing and live and silent auctions. Funds raised will be donated to Cumberland […]

2011 County Buck Harvest Photos



Booth Brothers Bag Bucks Hoffman Takes Two Bucks Bags 8-Point Kills First Buck Bags Big Buck Shoots 8-Point Downs First Buck Father, Son Kill 7-Points Hoffman Bags Buck Takes First Buck Shoots 4-Point Grandmother, Grandson Bring Down 8-Points

School Lunch Menus



SOUTHERN FULTON Breakfast Monday, December 19: assorted breakfast bars or cereal with roll, fruit juice, milk. Tuesday, December 20: french toast sticks w/bacon or cereal with roll, fruit juice, milk . Wednesday, December 21: breakfast burrito or cereal with roll, fruit juice, milk. Thursday, December 22: waffle w/syrup or cereal with roll, fruit juice, milk. Friday, December 23: no school. […]

20 Years Ago

From The Files Of December 12, 1991

’91 Fulton County Commissioners Tuesday gave tentative approval to a 1992 county budget of $2,931,245 which calls for a 5.5-mill real estate tax increase from 13 to 18.5 mills. Final adoption of the budget is expected at the December 30 meeting. The deer kill in the county last week during the first week of buck season was down about one-third, […]

30 Years Ago

From The Files Of December 17, 1981

’81 Edna E. Truax, 64, wife of Rev. Floyd Truax of Needmore, was killed on Monday when the car she was driving went out of control on the snow-covered, slippery road and struck a utility pole, head on. The fatal accident makes the fifth recorded for Fulton County this year. McConnellsburg firemen were called to assist the Needmore Fire Co. […]

40 Years Ago

From The Files Of December 30, 1971

’71 At the end of this week, Susan Martz, 14, of Hustontown, will wind up her nearly two-year-long project of collecting coupons from General Mills products to provide kidney machines for Pennsylvania hospitals. Since April 1970, Susan and her family and friends have trimmed, packaged and delivered approximately 4.5 million coupons, which have been redeemed for kidney machines now in […]

50 Years Ago

From The Files Of January 4, 1962

’62 Pennsylvania’s new minimum wage law went into effect on Monday and specifies that workers must be paid a minimum of a dollar an hour. There were many exemptions to the new law, including agricultural workers and hotel and restaurant employees. The first baby born at the Medical Center this year was a daughter, Tammy Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs. […]

60 Years Ago

From The Files Of January 3, 1952

’52 Two Fulton County men were convicted and fined last Thursday in the first embracery case ever heard here. They were charged with discussing a court case with jurymen before the case had been decided. Each was fined $250 and costs. In sentencing the two, Judge Sheely said, “Any outside influence or pressure by anybody tended to break down the […]

70 Years Ago

From The Files Of January 1, 1942

’42 Deaths: James Maple Winters of near Warfordsburg; Mrs. Margaret A. Peterson of Burnt Cabins; Thomas E. Huston, 54, prominent merchant, who was killed when a gun he was cleaning accidentally discharged at his home in Petersburg. A civil defense volunteer office will be opened in the Fulton County Courthouse next week where all persons, men and women, young and […]

80 Years Ago

From The Files Of December 31, 1931

’31 Deaths: Rachel Jane Booth of Hancock, whose husband, William Booth, passed away only six weeks ago; Miss Sallie Hoop of McConnellsburg; Enoch Harvey Fohner of Pleasant Ridge, a veteran of the Civil War. The two banks in Dry Run will merge, it was announced on Monday after a joint meeting of the directors of the Path Valley State Bank […]