A rash of violence in Hagerstown has local officials squabbling. Can they come together?

It’s been a long, hot summer in many respects for Hagerstown. But on the last day temperatures broke 90, a storm was brewing — and not just from the remnants of Hurricane Debby. For weeks, tensions had been growing over a rash of shootings — two of them fatal — and continuing struggles with behaviors associated with opioid addiction within the city.