2024 Annual Catoctin Community School Supply Program
Area churches in Emmitsburg, Lewistown, Rocky Ridge, Sabillasville, and Thurmont are working to provide students in need with school supplies for the 2024-2025 school year. This program is for the students attending the Catoctin Feeder Schools. These schools include Emmitsburg Elementary, Lewistown Elementary & Pyramid Program, Sabillasville Environmental School, Thurmont Primary, Thurmont Elementary, Thurmont Middle,…
Words For Thirds
The Thurmont Grange #409 recently presented dictionaries to all northern Frederick County third-grade students. This is a community-service project called “Words for Thirds,” and all of the third-grade students in the Catoctin feeder system received dictionaries (Sabillasville, Lewistown, Thurmont, and Emmitsburg Elementary Schools). The Grange is an agricultural organization, which is deeply rooted in the…
Frederick County Directory — 1878
Joan Bittner Fry This is interesting information published in 1878 as a Frederick County, Maryland, resource. It makes one realize just how much things have changed in more than 100 years. Frederick County ranks with the largest Maryland counties, having an area of 642 square miles, and is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on…
Scouting For Food
Scouting for Food is an annual food collection, orchestrated by Boy Scouts of America as a community service project since 1985. Cub Scouts, Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts will be placing bags/notes on doors on November 2, to remind people to donate on November 9 (when the Scouts will come by and pick up any…
Lewistown Ruritan Awards Scholarships
The Lewistown Ruritan Club awarded scholarships to seven students at the annual Ruritan picnic in August. The recipients and the schools they are attending are: Allison Rippeon, Shippensburg University; Matt Gartrell, Mount Saint Mary’s University; Jennifer Lambert, Frederick Community College; and Aaron Matlock, West Virginia University. Recipients not pictured are Meghan Jenkins, Salisbury University; Luke…
You Are Here!
The Catoctin Banner is distributed via direct mail to approximately 8,500 households in Emmitsburg, Thurmont, Sabillasville, Cascade, Lewistown, and Rocky Ridge, Maryland. It is placed for free pick-up in surrounding towns in high-traffic areas. Those towns include Woodsboro, Taneytown, Detour, and Smithsburg in Maryland and Blue Ridge Summit, Waynesboro, and Fairfield in Pennsylvania.
Church Spotlight
Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church, Lewistown by Theresa Dardanell “1833…Rebuilt 1883.” That’s what you see on the cornerstone of the historic building that is now Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Lewistown. Inside the church, you will find a small, but growing, congregation that includes young families with children, as well as members…
2018 Annual Catoctin Community School Supply Program
Area churches and organizations in Emmitsburg, Lewistown, Rocky Ridge, Sabillasville and Thurmont are working to provide students in need with school supplies for the 2017-2018 school year. This program is to assist students attending the Catoctin Feeder Schools. These schools include Emmitsburg Elementary, Lewistown Elementary & Pyramid Program, Sabillasville Elementary, Thurmont Primary, Thurmont Elementary, Thurmont…
Baker Tree Services Relocates to Thurmont
James Rada, Jr. Since 2003, Baker Tree Services has operated out of Lewistown, but they recently relocated to 147 Water Street in Thurmont and celebrated their grand re-opening at their new home. “We were getting a little too big to operate out of our home in Lewistown,” said Carolyn Baker. “We also wanted to be…
The Lewistown Volunteer Fire Department Holds Its Annual Banquet
James Rada, Jr. The Lewistown Volunteer Fire Department held its annual banquet to recognize its members and to install its new officers on Saturday, February 4, 2017, in the department banquet hall in Lewistown. The members and other guests recalled the fun that they had in serving the community in 2016. The company had a…
Fires on the Mountain
Deb Spalding A fire above Thurmont between Route 550 and Kelbaugh Road consumed seven acres on Sunday, November 21, 2016. The fire started around 2:00 p.m., was contained by 5:00 p.m., and fully extinguished by 8:00 p.m. It was started by downed power lines. Ironically a new fire broke out around 1:00 a.m. the following…
Lewistown “Girls on the Run”
“Girls on the Run” is a positive youth development (PYD) after-school program for girls in third through eighth grades. Lewistown is excited to become a part of this program this year! Their mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident, using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running. The program started…
School Supply Drive Brings Smiles to Students
Theresa Dardanell Hundreds of colorful school supplies filled the basement of Graceham Moravian Church on Monday, August 8, 2016. The Catoctin Community School Supply Drive, coordinated by Jen and Laura Harbaugh, collected donations from churches, organizations, and individuals from Emmitsburg, Thurmont, Lewistown, Sabillasville, and Rocky Ridge. Volunteers from Harriet Chapel and Graceham Moravian Church, along…
Department Spotlight - September Lewistown District Volunteer Fire Department
When you think of a volunteer fire department, the first thing that comes to mind is the serious nature of the firefighter’s job and all the dedicated volunteers who take on this responsibility. However, that’s only one side of the story. The other side of the story: Volunteers of all ages come together to work…
The Present Past
“A Well Manored Family” by “My Father’s Son” Most are familiar with the historic site of Rose Hill Manor alongside Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick. This classically southern home— built over eight years, beginning in 1790, for Thomas Johnson’s daughter, Ann, after she and her husband received the land as a gift from…
World Premier of Almost Blue Mountain City: The History of Thurmont Film Documentary Held
John Nickerson Emmy Award winning producer, Chris Haugh, premiered his highly anticipated film documentary, Almost Blue Mountain City: The History of Thurmont, on Sunday, October 26, 2014, at The Springfield Manor Winery & Distillery near Lewistown. The showing was a great success, and everyone left knowing a lot more about the founding of the original…
