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The repairs on the Roddy Road
From the Mayor Covered Bridge are nearly complete, From the Mayor with our own initiatives, have
Thurmont and Frederick County plans on Emmitsburg exceeded expectations. To the five
it being open to traffic sometime consecutive years of matching
Mayor John Kinnaird in mid-March. One of the final Mayor Don Briggs grant awards, totaling $250,000,
improvements to be completed prior results in $500,000 invested in the
March is upon us and brings with to the opening is the installation of With the winter banquet season town historical property façades
it the hope of nice weather! With this height warning devices at both ends now drawing to a close and the area. During the same period,
in mind, the Thurmont Green Team of the bridge. These will consist Super Bowl behind us, there is not pedestrian connectivity and safety
is currently taking applications for of two structures made of wooden much left to blur the stark reality of has been enhanced, with eight
the Community Garden on Carroll posts, with a cross beam and a metal winter. Left to a sullen impatience sidewalk connections throughout
Street. This project was started last plate hung to the 8’ - 6” maximum is the unsettled longing for spring. the town. Now with the downtown
year by the Green Team as a way for height allowed over the bridge. While heartened by the unhurried revitalization project about to start, it
residents to have small garden plots The warning devices will be set far longer daylight hours, it was the is all coming together. We are moving
for growing vegetables, flowers, or enough from the bridge that they surprise guest of a few warm days to a goal of a more walkable town.
fruit. The Community Garden was will have little visual impact on the that gave a nod to the hope of an Thank you for your patience.
a big hit, and I am sure this year bridge itself. There is also going early spring. Also stirred by the elixir
will be as well. Be sure to stop at the to be a truck turnaround area on of warmer temperatures so obliging On April 6, 1917, the United
town office to reserve a spot before Roddy Road, to the South side of the to my anxious imagination, was the States, through joint congressional
they are all gone. I thank the Green bridge. The town will be working restless ambition of Lib’s perennials action, declared war on the German
Team for starting this project, as with the county to improve the truck pushing up throughout the backyard Empire. On April 8, 2017, the
well as many others, including the route signage within Thurmont to confirm the possibility. Oh, so American Legion and VFW will
planting of wildflowers along the to help guide trucks safely to Rt. tempting the signals be. recognize the 100th Anniversary
Maryland Midland tracks. 15. The bridge is looking great of this declaration at noon at the
and looks almost exactly as it did If I seem particularly attentive to Doughboy.
Speaking of the Maryland Midland before the truck damaged it last the signs of spring, it is because this
railway, Commissioner Burns has year. The county has also made vast is the spring the Square - Main Street Working through the State House
once again brought forth the idea of improvements to the Roddy Road revitalization project is to begin. Yes, is a blighted properties bill. Though
getting the Church Street railroad Covered Bridge Park. Roddy Creek finally after four years of plotting and giving much-needed attention to a
bridge painted and having Thurmont Road has been moved away from planning, that seems to us at times municipal problem, the bill seems
added to the steel bridge to welcome the bridge and a small park with to be moving at a glacier pace, but to give a pass to banks and their
visitors to our town. Once we get parking, picnic facilities, and nice to our development partner the State foreclosed-on properties. The bill
permission from the parent company, walkways will now greet visitors Highway Administration (SHA), might have to be accepted as at least
Genessee Wyoming, to move forward interested in stopping at the bridge. as moving along at an unimpeded a step in the right direction.
with the project, we will be asking As a resident, and now mayor rush. This project along with the
for volunteers to help establish a of our community, I have always now underway East Street – Flat Another pending bill is Senate Bill
committee to help guide the process. been very proud of our police Run Bridge replacement, a 100 141 that would require Maryland’s
Several years ago, Karen and I department, and I am pleased to percent SHA project, when complete, local board of elections to establish
approached the railroad but could not welcome our force Officer Richard will, for the first time, provide polling places at each public and
get a commitment from them to allow Gast. Officer Gast comes to us with connected sidewalks through the private college and university in
any work to be done. We had made many years of experience in the downtown along Main Street, from the State that awards baccalaureate
a proposal based on a plan to paint Frederick County Sheriff’s Office the Brookfield and Pembrook Woods or graduate-level degrees and has
the steel bridge, repair the abutments, and as a member of the Pennsylvania subdivisions to the west and the Silo campus housing. The local election
and then add a mural to each of the Army National Guard. His duties Hill commercial area to the east. boards must pay a reasonable fee to
abutments. I had proposed painting will include investigations, traffic cover the costs of the space. Imagine
a mural of the Western Maryland enforcement, and patrol. Please be All of this has been done as everyone in Emmitsburg having to go
Railway Station, with a steam sure to welcome Officer Gast to our a compatible part of a State of to the Mount.
locomotive on the West abutment. On community! Maryland Sustainable Communities
the East abutment would be a mural As always, I look forward to Program. One of the first decisions My response: If public schools
of the Hagerstown and Frederick speaking to our residents and remind I made when I came into office need to take back a normal closing
station, the adjoining substation and you that I can be reached via email was to go with the Sustainable day, Election Day, the Town of
a trolley car. It is my hope that we can at jkinnaird@thurmont.com or by Community Program, and not Emmitsburg has an optional location
at least get the steel painted and have cell at 301-606-9458. the state Main Street program, a for polling. Moving the polling site
Thurmont, our town seal, and the decision I haven’t regretted for a to the Mount would be inconvenient
Genessee and Wyoming logos placed, minute. Private property façade and expensive for the town residents,
and have the abutments repaired and grants under the program, together and particularly devastating to our
coated. The murals can be added senior residents. More to come on
as we get funding or donations of the progress of this bill.
time. The murals may be a good way
to get art students at Catoctin and
local colleges involved in community
service. Once we get going, please
think about helping us with either a
donation or hands on assistance with
the work.
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The repairs on the Roddy Road
From the Mayor Covered Bridge are nearly complete, From the Mayor with our own initiatives, have
Thurmont and Frederick County plans on Emmitsburg exceeded expectations. To the five
it being open to traffic sometime consecutive years of matching
Mayor John Kinnaird in mid-March. One of the final Mayor Don Briggs grant awards, totaling $250,000,
improvements to be completed prior results in $500,000 invested in the
March is upon us and brings with to the opening is the installation of With the winter banquet season town historical property façades
it the hope of nice weather! With this height warning devices at both ends now drawing to a close and the area. During the same period,
in mind, the Thurmont Green Team of the bridge. These will consist Super Bowl behind us, there is not pedestrian connectivity and safety
is currently taking applications for of two structures made of wooden much left to blur the stark reality of has been enhanced, with eight
the Community Garden on Carroll posts, with a cross beam and a metal winter. Left to a sullen impatience sidewalk connections throughout
Street. This project was started last plate hung to the 8’ - 6” maximum is the unsettled longing for spring. the town. Now with the downtown
year by the Green Team as a way for height allowed over the bridge. While heartened by the unhurried revitalization project about to start, it
residents to have small garden plots The warning devices will be set far longer daylight hours, it was the is all coming together. We are moving
for growing vegetables, flowers, or enough from the bridge that they surprise guest of a few warm days to a goal of a more walkable town.
fruit. The Community Garden was will have little visual impact on the that gave a nod to the hope of an Thank you for your patience.
a big hit, and I am sure this year bridge itself. There is also going early spring. Also stirred by the elixir
will be as well. Be sure to stop at the to be a truck turnaround area on of warmer temperatures so obliging On April 6, 1917, the United
town office to reserve a spot before Roddy Road, to the South side of the to my anxious imagination, was the States, through joint congressional
they are all gone. I thank the Green bridge. The town will be working restless ambition of Lib’s perennials action, declared war on the German
Team for starting this project, as with the county to improve the truck pushing up throughout the backyard Empire. On April 8, 2017, the
well as many others, including the route signage within Thurmont to confirm the possibility. Oh, so American Legion and VFW will
planting of wildflowers along the to help guide trucks safely to Rt. tempting the signals be. recognize the 100th Anniversary
Maryland Midland tracks. 15. The bridge is looking great of this declaration at noon at the
and looks almost exactly as it did If I seem particularly attentive to Doughboy.
Speaking of the Maryland Midland before the truck damaged it last the signs of spring, it is because this
railway, Commissioner Burns has year. The county has also made vast is the spring the Square - Main Street Working through the State House
once again brought forth the idea of improvements to the Roddy Road revitalization project is to begin. Yes, is a blighted properties bill. Though
getting the Church Street railroad Covered Bridge Park. Roddy Creek finally after four years of plotting and giving much-needed attention to a
bridge painted and having Thurmont Road has been moved away from planning, that seems to us at times municipal problem, the bill seems
added to the steel bridge to welcome the bridge and a small park with to be moving at a glacier pace, but to give a pass to banks and their
visitors to our town. Once we get parking, picnic facilities, and nice to our development partner the State foreclosed-on properties. The bill
permission from the parent company, walkways will now greet visitors Highway Administration (SHA), might have to be accepted as at least
Genessee Wyoming, to move forward interested in stopping at the bridge. as moving along at an unimpeded a step in the right direction.
with the project, we will be asking As a resident, and now mayor rush. This project along with the
for volunteers to help establish a of our community, I have always now underway East Street – Flat Another pending bill is Senate Bill
committee to help guide the process. been very proud of our police Run Bridge replacement, a 100 141 that would require Maryland’s
Several years ago, Karen and I department, and I am pleased to percent SHA project, when complete, local board of elections to establish
approached the railroad but could not welcome our force Officer Richard will, for the first time, provide polling places at each public and
get a commitment from them to allow Gast. Officer Gast comes to us with connected sidewalks through the private college and university in
any work to be done. We had made many years of experience in the downtown along Main Street, from the State that awards baccalaureate
a proposal based on a plan to paint Frederick County Sheriff’s Office the Brookfield and Pembrook Woods or graduate-level degrees and has
the steel bridge, repair the abutments, and as a member of the Pennsylvania subdivisions to the west and the Silo campus housing. The local election
and then add a mural to each of the Army National Guard. His duties Hill commercial area to the east. boards must pay a reasonable fee to
abutments. I had proposed painting will include investigations, traffic cover the costs of the space. Imagine
a mural of the Western Maryland enforcement, and patrol. Please be All of this has been done as everyone in Emmitsburg having to go
Railway Station, with a steam sure to welcome Officer Gast to our a compatible part of a State of to the Mount.
locomotive on the West abutment. On community! Maryland Sustainable Communities
the East abutment would be a mural As always, I look forward to Program. One of the first decisions My response: If public schools
of the Hagerstown and Frederick speaking to our residents and remind I made when I came into office need to take back a normal closing
station, the adjoining substation and you that I can be reached via email was to go with the Sustainable day, Election Day, the Town of
a trolley car. It is my hope that we can at jkinnaird@thurmont.com or by Community Program, and not Emmitsburg has an optional location
at least get the steel painted and have cell at 301-606-9458. the state Main Street program, a for polling. Moving the polling site
Thurmont, our town seal, and the decision I haven’t regretted for a to the Mount would be inconvenient
Genessee and Wyoming logos placed, minute. Private property façade and expensive for the town residents,
and have the abutments repaired and grants under the program, together and particularly devastating to our
coated. The murals can be added senior residents. More to come on
as we get funding or donations of the progress of this bill.
time. The murals may be a good way
to get art students at Catoctin and
local colleges involved in community
service. Once we get going, please
think about helping us with either a
donation or hands on assistance with
the work.
Advertise
in The Catoctin Banner
• Full Color •
Affordable • Effective
• ads@thecatoctinbanner.com •
The Community’s Good News Paper
