Page 3 - Falling Spring News Today

Historian Mike Marotte examines the life of one of the Chambersburg areas first Rural Free Delivery mail carriers, David H. Zarger.

Chambersburg Borough Council has adopted a new comprehensive plan, "Chambersburg Vision 2035."

Over the summer Chambersburg Vision 2035 was changed to replace "equity" with "equality."

Columnist Bill Gindlesperger recounts how a guide saved a northern pike they caught in Canada, and how the experience enriched his life.

Chambersburg Vision 2035 is being changed to replace diversity, equity and inclusion with diversity, equality and inclusion as a core value.

I've seen people describe this Missouri place as simple, historic and pretty. I would agree with all 3 of those points. Now, you can see inside the old Falling Spring Mill near Van Buren, Missouri for yourself.

Anna enjoyed interacting with people and making them smile. She served as a missionary nurse and church planter in Africa for 42 years.

Borough officials & community representatives have spent a year developing "Chambersburg Vision 2035." A draft will be reviewed at a meeting April 13.

Borough officials & community representatives have spent a year developing "Chambersburg Vision 2035." A draft will be reviewed at a meeting April 13.

From 1891 until 1969, you could board a passenger train in Covington and ride it to The Homestead in Bath County, along a C&O Railway spur known as the Hot Springs branch. Heading north, it followed the Jackson River, one of a handful of wild trout streams left in Virginia. Brown and rainbow trout, some of them a foot to 18 inches long, still swim that stretch of water below Gathright Dam. But the locomotives and tracks are long gone. In their place are crushed cinders, modern bathrooms, parkin...