A
local hero makes his final journey
A
group of Marine pallbearers carry the casket
of Lance Cpl. James W. Higgins Jr. from the
Lynfield Event Complex building on Aug. 4. Two
of the pallbearers, 1st Lt. Byron Owen and Sgt.
Scott Martin, credit Higgins with saving their
lives when their patrol in Iraq came under fire.
Higgins was buried in Resthaven Memorial Gardens
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LEWISTOWN, Md. – They rode together for five months in
a truck in the heat of western Iraq. On Aug 4, four Marines
flew to Maryland from Camp Pendleton where they were recovering
from combat injuries to walk with Lance Cpl. James W. Higgins
Jr. on his final journey.
Higgins’
former platoon commander, 1st Lt. Byron Owen said, “I
watched his back and he watched mine.”
Semper
fidelis. Always faithful.
“I
know he watches my back still from his post on high,”
said Owen.
Hundreds
of family, friends, classmates and servicemen turned out
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Sabillasville
Elementary is no cool school
THURMONT, Md. – As hot as it was during Frederick County’s
recent heat wave, Sabillasville Elementary School was even
hotter.
One
afternoon during the heat wave, a weather station in a school
library display case showed the temperature outside the
school as 96 degrees and the temperature inside the school
as 100 degrees.
“It
can get so oppressively hot in here when kids are trying
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Celebrating
50 years -
Thurmont & Emmitsburg Community Show
THURMONT, Md. – Fifty-four years ago, Emmitsburg began
a community show that featured the agricultural and homemaking
talents of the community.
“My
wife and I used to go to the show and we thought it was nice,”
said Rodman Myers, president of the Thurmont and Emmitsburg
Community Show committee. “We worked to get the Thurmont
Grange and Thurmont FFA to start their own show.
The Thurmont
Community Show began in 1957 in the old Thurmont High School.
Emmitsburg’s last community show was in 1958, but when
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