Y on the Fly
The YMCA of Frederick County Brings Programs to Thurmont Beginning mid-April, the YMCA of Frederick County, working with the Town of Thurmont, is bringing several six- to eight-week-long classes to the town of Thurmont, as well as a one-day youth basketball clinic. The YMCA of Frederick County has two branches and seven locations (including Camp…
Festivals Shine Amidst the Rain
Blair Garrett Festival season is upon us. There’s no doubt we’ve all noticed the changing of the season. A biting cold light frost has replaced the morning dew from summer’s end. Our windshields are foggier than they were just a month ago. And, come October, Northern Frederick County gets a whole lot busier. With Thanksgiving…
Health Department Rabies Vaccination Clinics
The Frederick County Health Department (FCHD) is offering two rabies vaccination clinics in 2023. The first one is on Sunday, September 24, at the Thurmont Community Park (Community Park Road). The second is Sunday, October 22, 2023, at the Brunswick Park (655 East Potomac Street). Both clinics are from 12:30-3:30 p.m. The clinics will be…
Lewistown Ruritan Club Holds First Virtual Crab Feast Raffle
The Lewistown Ruritan Club sponsored a virtual crab feast raffle as a summer fundraiser, suggested by Lewistown Ruritan Secretary Loberta Staley. All the tickets for this fundraiser were sold. The winner received $300 to purchase crabs, shrimp, or to be used however they choose. This was the first time the club has attempted to hold…
Local Photographer ‘Focuses’ on Squirrels
BY Richard D. L. Fulton To some people, squirrels may seem a public nuisance, chewing on wiring and rubber tires, or finding ways into attics, making a mess out of the insulation. Some see squirrels as being a free meal, beginning as far back as whenever the original human occupants of the Americas figured out…
Returning Home
Stories of What It’s Like Returning Home After 25 Years by dave ammenheuser How do you honor the death of a loved one in the midst of a pandemic? It’s not easy. When my parents, John and Elizabeth Ammenheuser, died in the last few months of 2020, our family faced many difficult decisions. Among the…
Coming Home to Colorfest
Theresa Pryor The mountain may not have been showing her bountiful fall petticoats October 12 and 13, but Thurmont’s annual Catoctin Colorfest event was an artist’s palette of colors and hues. I was born here in this beautiful part of the country and recently moved back home to Thurmont, so this was my first Colorfest.…
Scouts in the Park
Scouts in the Park will be held on July 25, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. in Thurmont Community Park. No matter what Scouting uniform you wear, you are invited to come for food, games, skill-building activities, and lots of fun. Are you interested in finding out more about Scouting? Come talk to leaders from local Cub…
Catoctin Colorfest For Kids, Young and Old
Grace Eyler Friday, October 13, 2017, marked the beginning of the 54th Catoctin Colorfest weekend in Thurmont. On this morning, the streets were busy with locals snagging a great deal at the yard sales that were set up all over town. The town had started to bustle. Some locals were preparing for the busy weekend…
Tree Planting Project in Thurmont Begins
The Town of Thurmont Streets and Parks Department, the Thurmont Green Team, the Frederick County Forest Conservancy Board, the Maryland Forest Service, and approximately twenty additional volunteers gathered together on November 5, 2016, for a tree planting project in Thurmont Community Park. Thurmont’s Community Park is located on a 24-acre site on Frederick Road. The…
Gateway Trail Connects Thurmont to National Park
The Town of Thurmont is partnering with the Catoctin Mountain Park on the Gateway Trail project. The Gateway Trail links the Thurmont Memorial Park, the Trolley Trail, and the Thurmont Community Park to the trailhead located at the Lewis Area on West Main Street. Until further acquisition can be obtained by the Town of Thurmont,…
Vans Warped Tour Cleans up Thurmont
James Rada, Jr. Early Tuesday morning, July 12, 2016, a line of tour buses pulled into Thurmont’s Community Park. About 250 rock musicians and roadies spilled out of the buses, stretched, and got ready to work. They separated into groups and spread out throughout the community, not to sing and play instruments, but to help…
Acacia Masonic Lodge #155 Holds Annual Strawberry Night
Members of the Acacia Masonic Lodge #155 of Thurmont hosted Strawberry night on June 20, 2016, in the Thurmont Community Park. This date was appropriate since the Strawberry Moon coincidentally occurred that evening. The Strawberry Moon, according to Native American Algonquin tribes, occurs when the full moon falls on the summer solstice. It announces the…
Colorfest Experiences Another Successful Year
James Rada, Jr. The crowds have gone now, Colorfest 2015 is over, and life in Thurmont is back to normal. Many local non-profit organizations got their annual boost of funding from the estimated 125,000 people that crowded into Thurmont for the event that was held during the second weekend of October. Although Colorfest started out…
Thurmont and Emmitsburg fun Halloween Community Events
Emmitsburg Trick-or-Treating: October 31 — 5:30-6:30 p.m. Halloween Parade and Costume Contest: October 31 — Tagging begins at intersection of Federal and De Paul Streets at 6:30 p.m. Parade Route: Federal to North Seton to School Lane at Paul’s Pit Stop, follow to cross Lincoln to back of VHC for a party! Games, refreshments, contest…
Fifty Years Ago: Political Turmoil in Thurmont
Randy Waesche Fifty years ago three of Thurmont’s leading citizens figured in two of the most remarkable episodes in town politics. The men were Donald L. Lewis, Roy W. Lookingbill, and Calvin G. Wilhide. Donald L. Lewis was one of Thurmont’s most-progressive mayors. Although only in office for just over five years, the effects of…
