Town
approves
new charter THURMONT,
Md. – After four years of review, rewriting,
hearings, meetings and discussions, the Thurmont
Commissioners finally approved an updated town charter.
“The
charter review committee spent an exhaustive amount
of time on it,” Mayor Martin Burns said.
For
the most part, residents won’t notice a change
in town government.
“Basically
the citizens wanted the same type of government,
which is the ‘weak mayor’ form of government,”
said Commissioner Bill Blakeslee.
The
new charter will take effect in 50 days, which will
give town officials time to change over anything
that needs to be changed from the
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Digging Out
The
Valentine's Days snowstorm in the region
caused problems not so much because of the
snow that fell but because that snow froze
to ice. Thurmont used plows and front loaders
to clear the main streets downtown while
Thurmont Police closed off sections of the
roads. Snow was dumped at Community Park.
The Valentine's Day storm cost the town
about $7,800 to clear.
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