Thurmont
Municipal Government
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EMMITSBURG,
Md. – Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball
team won its first Division I NCAA tournament game with
a 69-60 win over Coppin State on Mar. 18.
Coppin State was ahead the first half of the game, but
the Mount took control during the second half. Jeremy
Goode, a 5-foot 9-inch sophomore guard, scored 21 points—including
four three throws in the final 27 seconds--to lead the
Mountaineers to victory. When Coppin State went five
minutes without scoring, the Mountaineers took on a
decisive lead at the end.
With the win in Dayton, Ohio, the Mount advances to
face North Carolina, the top-seed team in the tournament,
for the first-round game. That game will be in Raleigh,
N.C. on Mar. 21. If the Mountaineers can win that game,
they will make history. A 16th seed team has never beaten
a No. 1 seed team, according to the Associated Press.
This is the third time that the team has played in the
NCAA tournament since becoming a Division I school in
1988-89 and the first
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Business
expo coming March 28
THURMONT,
Md.– For the past few weeks, Diana Stull’s display
for the 4th Annual Thurmont Restaurant and Business Expo has
been taking shape above her garage. The display prominent feature
will be a five-foot-tall nutcracker soldier dressed in red,
white and blue.
“I’m
a visual person,” Stull, who owns The Beauty Parlor
in Thurmont, said. “I have to set it up and see what
it’s going to look like before the show.”
The
expo will be in the two gymnasiums at Catoctin High School
on Friday, Mach. 28 from 6-8:30 p.m. Approximately 80 Thurmont
businesses will have booths at the expo, though by the time
of the show, the number of businesses will
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Town
trolley projects get $55,000
THURMONT,
Md.– Thurmont’s trolley projects received a large
boost last week with $55,000 in grants from the State of Maryland
last week. A $30,000 Community Legacy grant will help restore
the old Thurmont trolley car that is sitting on East Main Street
next to the electric substation and $25,000 will go to the Thurmont
Lions Club to complete their development of the trolley path
into a walking/exercise trail.
John
Kinnaird with the Thurmont Historical Society has been championing
the return of the trolley to Thurmont. When the opporturnity
arose to get an original Thurmont trolley from a Pennsylvania
trolley museum in late 2005, he arranged for around $10,000
in equipment and labor to get the old baggage car to town.
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