Thurmont
Municipal Government
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Commission
wants lease for center
THURMONT,
Md. – Though repeatedly told getting a signed lease for
the senior center from the town wasn’t a high priority
for the Thurmont Senior Center Board of Directors, the Thurmont
Senior Commission spent much of its first meeting for the new
year talking about why it should be a high priority.
“We’ve
been waiting, what, three years for a lease?” member
Barbara Smith asked.
Thurmont
town commissioner and liason to the commission Bob Lookingbill
said he had heard the lease wasn’t a “front burner
issue,” but then he added “We need to try to find
out why there is no lease and there should be.”
According
to Thurmont Mayor Martin Burns, the reason there is no current
lease is that when the previous lease expired, the town was
still uncertain as to the future of the building for various
reasons. Instead the »
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Wireman
turns over the reigns
of his radio show after 20 years
THURMONT,
Md. – “This is your host George Wireman.”
For
more than 20 years, residents of Thurmont have been able to
listen to “George Wireman’s Thurmont World”
on the radio.
“Over
20 years, you have listened to my voice and learned of the
many interesting facts pertaining to Thurmont and its many
interesting citizens,” Wireman said.
On Jan.
11, Wireman taped his last show, which was»
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UpCounty
Center celebrates 20 years of helping people
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – Crystal Springer of Emmitsburg was a young girl
with a baby on the way when she first came to UpCounty Center
for help. She earned her high school diploma through the center’s
flex evening high school in 2002. She continued to come to the
center after her son was born. He was able to socialize and
learn in the child-care center while she took parenting classes
or classes to improve her job skills. In 2006, Springer took
a job with UpCounty as a child development assistant and last
year she purchased a new care and home.
“I
probably wouldn’t be very far without UpCounty,”
Springer said. “I’d probably still be a home with
my kids, not working, not being able to»
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