Thurmont
Municipal Government
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Commissioners
commit to
building equalization basin
THURMONT, Md. – Facing $17.5 million in sewer repairs
and upgrades, the Thurmont Town Commissioners committed to the
State of Maryland to purse an equalization basin project first.
As part
of the process of negotiating and updating the consent agreement
the town has with the Maryland Department of the Environment,
the commissioners needed to lay out what their next step would
be in the repair and upgrade of the town’s sewer system.
The
town had three options it could have pursued:
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Christmas,
Santa are coming to town early
THURMONT, Md. – Christmas may be well over a month away,
but Christmas and Santa Claus are coming to town a bit early
this year.
On Nov.
24 at 7:30 p.m. Santa will make his first appearance of the
season at the Cozy Restaurant’s annual tree lighting,
which follows Thurmont’s tree lighting in Mechanicstown
Park at 6:30 p.m.
Santa
will also be making an appearance at the Fourth Annual Christmas
in Thurmont on Dec. 1, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The
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Mount
employee wins gold at Special Olympics
TANEYTOWN, Md. – Charles Syd Lean of Taneytown has been
involved in competitive cycling since he was three years old,
riding away with countless medals, awards, titles and trophies.
But most recently Syd participated in the 2007 Special Olympics
World Summer Games and left an Olympic champion.
Syd
won gold medals in the 15k road race and 40k road race and
won silver in the 25k road race in the top-seeded division.
“It
was good,” Syd simply said of his experience at the
Olympics. For three weeks Syd was in China, training prior
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