Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) is accepting nominations for the 2019 Charles E. Tressler Distinguished Teacher Award. Named for a former Hood College faculty member who encouraged young people to enter the teaching profession, this award recognizes an FCPS teacher who has had a significant positive impact on young people. Hood College presents the Tressler…

Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) is accepting nominations for the 2018 Charles E. Tressler Distinguished Teacher Award, named for a former Hood College faculty member, who encouraged young people to enter the teaching profession. This award recognizes an FCPS teacher who has had a significant positive impact on young people. Hood College presents the Tressler…

by Avie Hopcraft Fall, with its beautiful autumn colors, is flying by, and the winter season will soon be closing in on us. Catoctin has definitely been busy this past month, as well as the town of Thurmont. Colorfest was a blast, and Sunday was a gorgeous day to walk around to all the vendors.…

David Salner (pictured right) will be the guest poet at “Catoctin Voices” Evening of Poetry on September 16, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at The Creeger House, located at 11 N. Church Street in Thurmont. Salner worked for twenty-five years as an iron ore worker, steelworker, and general laborer. His writing has appeared in Threepenny Review,…

Mike Franklin, a health and physical education teacher at Catoctin High School (CHS), was formally presented the 2016 Charles E. Tressler Distinguished Teaching Award by Hood College during its graduate school commencement on May 14, 2016. Sponsored by Hood College, this award is presented each May to a Frederick County Public Schools’ (FCPS) teacher who…

Christine Schoene Maccabee A Call To Action Depending on your political, religious, or philosophical positions, you may or may not read this essay. Some say it is too late to do anything, some say it is not necessary, and still others say “Who cares?” However, many do care, and care a lot. I am one…