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Geof Lambert Your Turn Have you ever been sexually abused? Were you sexually abused as a child? I realize that those are fairly direct and personal questions. For me the answers to those questions are now, "yes," and "yes." If you would have asked me those questions not much more than a few years ago, I probably would have answered "no" and "no." Times change, people change. While my father and mother were alive, I told myself there is no need to publicly tell anybody about the abuse I suffered...

FINCASTLE — School employees go to work to educate children, not necessarily to save their lives. But they’re trained for rescue situations, too. That training came into play at Troutville Elementary School on Jan. 25, when a pre-K student began to choke on a hot dog. The 5-year-old was unconscious for about three minutes, as at least three members of the school staff attempted the Heimlich maneuver, her principal said Thursday. It didn’t work. Finally, with a finger-sweep maneuv...

Chambersburg Public Opinion Charles Quinton “C.Q.” Smith, a U.S. Army veteran, Boy Scout leader and businessman who presented himself as a pillar of the community in Chambersburg but perpetrated acts of sexual abuse for decades and escaped criminal prosecution, has died at 81. In an email on Wednesday, the Rev. Andy Hart of  the Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring, where Smith was a longtime member, notified others of his death. Smith, he wrote, had been living at Providence Place Senior...