Volunteers plant flowers to beautify Hagerstown City Park View Video by clicking link above Volunteers planted hundreds of flowers at Hagerstown City Park on Saturday. A volunteer group, Historic City Park and Neighborhood’s First, is on a mission to beautify the Hagerstown City Park. Organizers said the group was able to raise...
Read MoreHAGERSTOWN, Md.— More than 200 people gathered at Hagerstown’s City Park Sunday to try model boat sailing. “It was beautiful weather,†said Laurel Kahn, founder of Neighborhood First. “We had wonderful wind. It was blue skies. Fluffy, cloudy, white skies. I mean it was just gorgeous.” The city...
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After watching adults use remote controls to guide model sailboats around Hagerstown City Park’s north lake Sunday, James Engle said he and his younger brother, Griffin, got their turn. Then James, 8, and Griffin, 6, headed over to a pavilion with their parents, Cate and Keith Engle, to make their own primitive model sailboats using a kit with pine...
Read MoreAlice Kan placed a pick in each of the 3-year-old’s small hands and then covered the girl’s hands with her own as she showed the youngster how to play a gu zheng. After Daphne received the impromptu lesson, following Sunday’s Arts in the Park concert by the Alice Gu-Zheng Ensemble, she wasn’t up for an interview. But her...
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By JULIE E. GREENE The south end of Hagerstown’s City Park was full of the sounds of love and heartbreak Sunday afternoon as the Hub Opera Ensemble performed excerpts from an upcoming performance of “Don Giovanni.†The performance was the first in a new series of events, to be held at 1 p.m. in the park every other Sunday through...
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By: Dana Chicklas Arts in the Park just kicked off its second year with a preview of the Don Giovanni, an opera of comedy and drama put on by the Hub Opera Ensemble. “One scene will be very tragic and the next will be very funny, and the next will be sort of sexy, then the next will be tragic again. It’s a really genius melding of the different...
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Hagerstown City Park is known as America's 2nd most beautiful park. The first most beautiful being Central Park in New York City. The park was designed by landscape architect George Burnap who helped design some of the landscapes in Central Park. Read More 
The neighborhood surrounding City Park is one of the oldest in Maryland and features houses from the 1750s to present day. The neighborhood has formed a Neighborhoods 1st Group in 2009 and is currently the largest in the City of Hagerstown with over 2,500 residents. The neighborhood group works to improve the park and surrounding areas. Read More