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Freight
Motor Car No. 5 at the Thurmont train station
(no longer in existence) prepares to run a string
of freight cars to Frederick. This wooden trolly
was built in 1920 and was retired in 1955. Photo
courtesy of John Kinnaird.
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Town,
County agree to joint police station
If all
goes as planned, the Town of Thurmont and Frederick County
will open a joint police station near the Thurmont Senior
Center on East Main Street by the middle of
2007.
Sheriff
Jim Hagy and Thurmont’s Board of Commissioners pitched
the idea of sharing a north county facility to the
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Old
town trolley to return to Thurmont
A circa 1920s trolley car is finding its way home to the Town
of Thurmont thanks to the generosity of the Hagerstown and Frederick
Railway Historical Society.
Freight
Motor Car No. 5, a wood-construction trolley car built in
1920, was retired in 1955 after serving the Thurmont-Frederick
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Difficulty in communicating with remote water wells through
telephone lines has led Thurmont to a high-tech solution –
installing wireless controls to synchronize its water supply
system.
Gary
Dingle, town water superintendent, told The Emmitsburg
Dispatch that he would soon be ordering the necessary
equipment to tie in several town wells with wireless communications
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