John Bell

The Washington County Historical Society presented the Antietam National Battlefield Park with two significant gifts.  In the 1950s, purchase of the Dunker Church and gifting of the church and the Burnside Bridge were made possible through the work of...

Steven Spielberg's animated "The Adventures of Tintin" and HBO's period gangster series "Boardwalk Empire" scored the most nominations early Monday morning from the Visual Effects Society for the VES Awards....

Riding a wave of recent success, "Rango" took home four trophies at the 10th annual Visual Effects Society Awards. "Hugo," "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" each took home two awards....

After her raging success in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," actress Cate Blanchett is tackling another formidable stage classic for her follow-up -- Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," which opened this week at the Sydney Theatre Company in...

Two area churches are inviting the public to join them next month when they will open their doors for renowned hymn writer and preacher, Rev. …...

As promised in today’s column, the farm vehicle in the photo—er, excuse me, the implement of husbandry in the photo—is indeed a sprayer, as John Bell of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau had suspected. Farmer Mark Lichtenwalner of Lower Magungi...

Headlines for Thursday,  May  23,  2013 GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar. Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...

On the surface, Cate Blanchett would seem to be the least Chekhovian human being on the planet. No idle longing for Moscow for this international stage and screen star, whose frequent flier mileage must have broken the million mark since she and her...

John Bell loving husband, father and son, and owner of Bell's Window Cleaning passed away on July 15, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Lorena; his children Tanya, Eric, Anthony, Johnny, Justin, Jacob; his mother Janet; and his brothers. John is known for...

Last year I started to do a series on leadership; my premise was to have some of our local elected officials comment on the subject and I would print in this column whatever was submitted.  What I quickly found out was I don’t have total control...

June 27, 1987 John Bloomfield, a native of Winchester and a classically-trained pianist, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First United Methodist Church to benefit the Winchester Council for the Arts. He first discovered piano when he was...

Kelly Bell had a zest for life. In her 47 years, she touched the lives of many, whether it was through local breast cancer awareness groups, local youths or her work as a dental assistant. “She was very well-loved. She was so vibrant, so alive,&...