Cornerstone unearthed in Gettysburg battlefield archaeology project
A 11 day dig at the Bliss Farm site near Emmitsburg Road engages 14 students including five from Gettysburg and is conducted with the National Park Service. The group aims to locate and measure the Bliss barn and farmhouse, continuing a decade long collaboration that has included sites from Rose Farm to City Point and even China.
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Gettysburg
National Park Service
Bliss Farm
Emmitsburg Road
George Pickett
Bliss barn
Steve McCarter
Lower Marion High School
Philadelphia
Ardmore
McCarter
David Orr
Park Service
Mr. McCarter
Rose Farm
Virginia
City Point
Fredericksburg
Appomattox Court House
China
Orr
Gettysburg High School
Judy Pyle
Alan Cooper
Lower Marion
William Bliss
Cemetery
Seminary ridges
Bliss
Blind and Wheelchair Bowling Available at Thunderhead Bowl
Thunderhead Bowl offers blind and wheelchair bowling options with phone contact 677-9542. The Hanover area hosts July sales days sponsored by the Gburg Area Retail Merchants Assoc featuring over 35 local businesses with discounts and store events.
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G-borg
G-burg Area
DNA Test Links Taylor to Drago Attack
Taylor 38 faces attempted murder and related charges after a DNA test tied blood found at Drago’s apartment to her. Prosecutors and defense questioned 10 witnesses as Dr. Robin Cotton testified the odds of a nonmatching blood sample are one in 65 million. Witnesses described the assault and responders including Edgar Shelleman and Officer Cytha Gassom. Defense seeks to suppress the DNA evidence.
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Biglerville
Jeanette Ruth Taylor
Drago
Jeanette Taylor
Roy A. Keefer
Adams County
Robin Cotton
Cellmark Labs
Germantown, Md
Cotton
Michael A. George
Taylor
Kevin E. Wilson
Gettysburg
Wilson
Frances T. Drago
Edgar Shelleman
Baltimore Street
Shelleman
Ms. Drago
Andrew Carl Hoot
York Hospital
Adam Sorenson
Grandmother killer autopsy awaited as family prepares burial
State police awaited autopsy results on Sara E. Little of Mount Pleasant Township after she was shot twice by her 19 year old grandson Steven Shaner at her 406 Stone Bridge Road home. Shaner faces first and third degree murder charges and a preliminary hearing is set for Friday. Family and friends planned a Mass of Christian Burial at St Joseph The Worker Catholic Church in Bonneauville.
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Sara E. Little
Mount Pleasant Township
Mrs. Little
Edward T. Little
Little
Stone Bridge Road
Steven Edward Shaner
Isadore Mihalakis
Lehigh Valley Medical Center
Allentown
Shaner
Littles
Linda Kuhn
New Oxford
Arendtsville-Fairfield
Harold R. Deardorff
court of common pleas
Bonneauville
Samuel K. Frymyer
Dal-Tile Corp
St. Joseph’s
Worker Catholic Church
church Rosary
Centennial Fire Co
Catholic War Veterans post
Shaner linked to past convictions in grandmother slaying case
Steven Edward Shaner 12 of Mount Pleasant Township faces first and third degree murder charges for the death of 67 year old Sara E. Little wife of Mount Pleasant Township Supervisor Edward T. Little. Court records show a probation review hearing scheduled before the shooting but postponed at Shaner's request. He is already serving 23 months probation for a 2023 criminal trespass plea arising from a Germany Township burglary attempt.
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Adams County Prison
Mount Pleasant
Adams County
Steven Edward Shaner
Shaner
Germany Township
Irishtown Road
New Oxford
Figaro had prior gun offense before fatal East Berlin shooting
A 35-year-old Aspers man, Israel Bra tiri Figaro, who was killed outside the Checkerboard Inn, had served about three months in 1989 for shooting a man. Court records show he pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was paroled in November 1989. Police investigate a separate fatal shooting linked to a dispute and a possible dog shooting motive.
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Aspers
Checkerboard Inn
East Berlin
Reading Township
Adams County
Israel Bratini Figaro
Nursery Road
Jesus Reyes
Reyes
Figaro
Zamboni
Adolfo Bravo
N. Main St
Biglerville
Pennsylvania legislature plans Eisenhower centennial session
The Pennsylvania Legislature will hold a special joint session in fall to honor Dwight Eisenhower. A $100,000 appropriation supports local events, with Gettysburg and Eisenhower Centennial Commission coordinating. Walter Cronkite may speak, and governors of Texas and Kansas are invited.
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HARRISBURG
Pennsylvania
Dwight Eisenhower
Federal State Relations Committee
Capitol
Kenneth Cole
Gettsyburg
CBS News
Walter
Ike
Gettysburg
Cole
Eisenhower
Bob Hope
Bush
Gettysburg College
William T. Walker Jr
Andy Rooney
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St. Joseph’s The Worker Catholic Church
Francis T. Weaver
Bernard Weaver
Mildred Little
Hampton
Elsie Steub
ROBERT HOLT
Times
MARSHALL D
BLACK Times
chin. Reyes
Adams
Dominican Republic
Bryan William Zamboni
Carlisle Pike
John C. Zepp II
RICH KIRKPATRICK
Associated Press
White House
U.S
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Soviet Union
Walker
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