Thurmont
Municipal Government
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Thurmont
trolley makes its return home
The old Thurmont trolley returned
to Thurmont on Aug. 25 after an absence of about half
a century. Rock Creek Trolley Museum in Rock Creek
Furnace, Pa. donated the original trolley to the Hagerstown
and Frederick Railway Historical Society, which in
turn, donated the trolley to Thurmont First. Tri-County
Pools, Digging and Rigging, Fitzgerald’s Heavy
Timber Construction, R.S. Kinnaird Memorials and J
& R Trucking all lent equipment and personnel
to help bring the trolley back. - Photo courtesy
of John Kinnaird.
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Waveland,
MS
Thurmont, MD
connected by Katrina
THURMONT, Md. – Kathy Pinn of Waveland, Miss., was living
the American Dream. She and her husband had purchased the
old Waveland Drug Store in downtown Waveland. They renovated
the building and opened That Cute Little Shoppe located on
Coleman Avenue near the Gulf of Mexico.
“We
thought we had our retirement set,” Pinn said. “We
sold antiques and gifts in the store and lived above the shop.
Everything was great."
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Thurmont
discusses parkway bypass
THURMONT, Md. – Thurmont Town Commissioners are looking
to the town’s past to solve the town’s future traffic
problems.
Frederick
County’s regional plan for Thurmont used to show an
industrial parkway going around the town. The road connected
with U.S. 15 and looped around the east end of town, according
to Commissioner Bill Blakeslee.
Over
the years, the bypass disappeared off the »
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Where
has all the county growth gone?
EMMITSBURG , Md. – Only two other years in the past 35
did Frederick County grow slower than it did last year, according
to the Maryland Department of Planning.
The county’s population was estimated at 220,701 last
year, an increase of 3,245 people or 1.5 percent. That is
the lowest percentage increase since the county grew by 1.3
percent in 1983 and 1.4 percent in 1970.
“It’s
easy to explain,” said Frederick County Commissioner
John L. Thompson Jr. “We had a moratorium in 2002 and
that pretty much put a crimp on »
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