ESP Dance Turns 50!
Kristen Daly Local dance studio, Elower-Sicilia Productions (ESP) Dance and Music, LLC is celebrating 50 years of business this year. Owner Linda Elower Sicilia started the studio back in 1969 in the basement of her parents’ Thurmont home. Within a year, she was able to move the studio to the Thurmont Guardian Hose Company Meeting…
Guardian Hose Company Holds Annual Banquet
Blair Garrett Through rain, shine, sleet, or snow, first responders will be there in our time of need. The Thurmont Guardian Hose Company’s Annual Banquet was no exception, with several of the featured volunteers called away to combat a house fire on the Catoctin Mountain. But, the show must go on, and the banquet didn’t…
Rocky Ridge 4-H Club Holds Annual Banquet and Achievement Night
Submitted by Natalie Bentz and Payton Troxell, Rocky Ridge 4-H Reports On November 6, 2016, the Rocky Ridge Progressive 4-H Club held their Annual 4-H Banquet and Achievement Night. Special quests, community members, and 4-H families were in attendance. The night started off with appetizers, prepared by the Rocky Ridge 4-H Club’s cooking group. Payton…
looking back — 1953
Guardian Hose Company Makes a lot of Noise by James Rada, Jr. From November 16 to November 21, 1953, the fire sirens went off a lot more often than usual around Thurmont, and people took particular note of where they were when they heard the sirens. It wasn’t that there was a rash of fires…
