Explore Franklin County | PA - Great moments along the way

Outdoor enthusiasts will have the opportunity to bike, hike and travel back in time this Labor Day weekend. A full slate of events is being offered as part of the first “South Mountain Outdoors” celebration, scheduled for Saturday, September 3 – Monday, September 5.
Caledonia State Park and The Franklin County Visitors Bureau are teaming [...]

Mainstreet Waynesboro, Inc. is sponsoring their sixth annual Scarecrow Contest as part of Waynesboro’s annual Market Day celebration, scheduled for Saturday, October 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event features live music and entertainment, and dozens of craft, specialty and food vendors.
Youth groups, non-profits, individuals and area businesses are invited to [...]

The Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce donated $1,000 to the Friends of the Monterey Pass Battlefield, Inc. on Wednesday, August 24 to help the organization with its plans to purchase battlefield property. The Chamber presents three Civil War seminars each year and donates some of the proceeds for battlefield preservation. Since the seminars [...]

The seventh annual Cumberland Valley Pottery Festival will be held on Saturday, September 17, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Renfrew Park, 1010 East Main St., Waynesboro, PA. The festival, co-sponsored by the Nicodemus Center for Ceramic Studies at Penn State Mont Alto and the Mont Alto Pottery Guild, is a clay-only celebration [...]

Renfrew Institute announced a new partnership with Antietam Eye Associates of Waynesboro, lead sponsors of the institute’s annual Recycle-Reuse Yard Sale this spring.
“The yard sale, held in conjunction with Earth Celebration Day and Festival of Art, is a great way to implement the ‘reduce, recycle and reuse’ practice, while making extra cash and supporting Renfrew [...]

Cumberland Valley School of Music will re-convene the CVSM New Horizons Band with a free introductory class and informational session on Thursday, September 8, at 1:00 pm at the St. Paul United Methodist Church Choir Room, 750 Norland Avenue, Chambersburg, PA. This meeting is open to anyone interested in learning more about this group. [...]

Grand opening celebrations for Shippensburg Arts Programming and Education’s (SHAPE) new gallery and the launch of “Question Reality,” the 9th annual abstract and non-objective artwork exhibition, will kick off on September 2 at 6:00 p.m.
The popular exhibit will commemorate the premiere of SHAPE’s fall exhibit season and spotlight local and out-of-town talent in the [...]

The town of Chambersburg will soon be featured on national television, highlighting what it’s like to live, work and play in the heart of Franklin County.
The small town will be featured on “Insights with Terry Bradshaw,” which airs nationally on the FOX Business Network. According to the show’s web site, “’Insights’ takes viewers around [...]

The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation (PPFF) is pleased to offer an exciting new book called “The Pennsylvania State Parks and State Forests Passport” – the development of which was funded by a grant from Chesapeake Energy. The Passport will be initially available for sale on the foundation’s webs ite, www.paparksandforests.org, for $10 plus [...]

August brings both the bounty of Franklin County’s fresh produce and the “dog days” of summer. Penn National Farmers’ Market welcomes special guest, Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter (CVAS), to their Dog Days event on August 25 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Visitors may bring their leashed dogs to the Market.
Market vendors provide the [...]