The Town of Thurmont, in conjunction with the Thurmont Police Department, Frederick County Emergency Management, and the Guardian Hose Company, is working on plans to implement an audible warning system in Thurmont to alert residents of weather emergencies or other critical news. The recent tragic flooding events in Texas have brought the need for this…

James Rada, Jr. Thurmont is now part of a nationwide weather network, called Mesonet, in Eyler Park, close to the water tower. It is the first Mesonet site in Frederick County. Mesonet comes from “mesoscale,” which is a metrological scale that refers to weather events that range in size from 1 to 150 miles in…