Hagerstown, MD (January 13, 2017) - Two Washington County Public Schools educators have recently received honors for work in their fields. Amber Sheffler, Spanish teacher at South Hagerstown High School, had been named 2016 Maryland State Language Teacher of the Year and is now a finalist for similar honors at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL). She is one of five finalists in the multi-state region and will learn who receives top honors at the group’s conference next month. Christine Hurley at Springfield Middle School has been nominated for the first-ever Maryland School Librarian of the Year award. Five finalists will be chosen by the Maryland Association of School Librarians and a winner will be announced in February. The finalists will be invited to the Common Ground Conference in Ocean City May 4-5. Ms. Hurley is in her ninth year as a media specialist and 13th year of teaching overall.