Contract Awarded
Herald of Aug. 6, 1998
Martinsburg Borough Council awarded the contract for a renovation project at the Hershberger Pool to Talucci contracting of Chester County. The pool committee received a matching grant of $70,000, and the committee had to raise $70,000. Rex and Dorothy Hershberger helped by donating $50,000 to the project. The pool is named for Rex’s father, Dr. J. Warren Hershberger, who donated the land on which it was built in 1968.
Amanda Cessna of Everett won Supreme Champion honors at the 1998 Morrisons Cove Junior Dairy Show for her five-year-old Holstein, Windy-Knoll View Krisma. Reserve Supreme Champion went to Aaron Gable of New Enterprise for his aged Guernsey, Guerndale Fayettes Robin.
A mammoth oak tree that stood in Martinsburg for 275 years was cut down because it posed a danger to a house. Joe Hinish, who owned the house, thought it might have been the oldest tree in Martinsburg.
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