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If you are staying local this holiday weekend, there is plenty to check out! Show your Maugansville pride, see the Airshow at the Martinsburg’s National Guard or join the canines for some fun and games at the Ag Center during the Bassett Hound Rescue Walk. Oh and don’t forget to see the first Corn Maze of the season! Have fun…

Saturday, September 4th
9am – 5pm Hagerstown Maugansville Pride Day
Craft vendors, food, entertainment by Heavenly Harmony, country and western dance demonstrations, Maryland State Police dog demonstration, bluegrass music by Stoney Creek Band and candidate karaoke. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maugansville Ruritan Park, Maugansville. Call Jay at 301-739-9221.

9am – 4:30pm Martinsburg Air show
West Virginia National Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing will host an open house and Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Air Show, featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, U.S. Army parachute team Golden Knights and a welcome-home celebration for American military personnel. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5. 167th Airlift Wing West Virginia Air National Guard, Shepherd Field, Martinsburg, W.Va. Call 304-616-5023 or go to www.martinsburgairshow.com.

12pm near Maugansville Corn maze
Celebration Farm opens its eight-acre corn maze. Features several smaller mazes, including a Little Heiskell design. Open 5 to 10 p.m. Fridays, noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Special Labor Day hours from noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 6. Other days by appointment. Celebration Farm, 17638 Garden View Road, near Maugansville. Admission costs $5, adults; ages 5 through 12, $3; ages 4 and younger, free. Call 301-393-4377, e-mail info@cmhag.org or go to www.hagerstowncorn maze.org.

1pm – 5pm Hagerstown Trains for everyone
HO-scale model railroad. Trains for kids to run. Historic railroad equipment, artifacts and photos. 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5. Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 300 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. $3.50, adults; 50 cents, ages 4 through 12; ages 3 and younger, free. Call 301-739-4665.
6pm Harpers Ferry, WV Music in the Mountains
U.S. Marine Band ensemble Free Country will perform. 6 p.m. Food will be sold prior to the concert. Grounds of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park’s Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Fillmore Street, Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Free. Call 304-535-6298.

7pm Hagerstown Free movie
A recent family-friendly action-adventure movie will be shown. Free popcorn and sodas. 7 p.m. Bridge of Life, 14 S. Potomac St., downtown Hagerstown. Free admission. Call 301-791-1674. Go to www.bridgeoflife.org/movienight.

Sunday, Sept. 5

11am activities Sharpsburg Pike Basset Hound Rescue Walk
Hundreds of basset hounds and their owners will walk to raise money for Basset Rescue of the Old Dominion. Contest and games will follow, including a 25-foot-tall Hush Puppies inflatable balloon. 10 a.m., walk begins; 11 a.m., games, contests and auctions. Walk will be at Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg Pike, near Sharpsburg. Games will be at Washington Agricultural Education Center, 7313 Sharpsburg Pike, south of Hagerstown. Donations accepted. Call Christine Williams at 703-341-2445 day or 703-719-0122 evening or e-mail ramble@brood-va.org. Go to www.brood-va.org.

2pm Hagerstown Paintings
Tamara Hoffman’s paintings are on display. 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, reception with music by cellist Mia Hoover and light refreshments. A percentage of sales from the show will go to Humane Society of Washington County. Exhibit continues through Sunday, Sept. 26. The Mansion House Art Gallery, City Park, Hagerstown.