The Dream Price Paid
Joan Bittner Fry Today, I’m going to Trout’s Market. Should I call them at 5074 or go to their store on East Main Street? They would probably have that nice, young kid deliver my groceries, but it’s a beautiful day, so I’ll go to their store. Maybe I’ll run into some friends. Let me look…
Taste of the Past
Maxine Troxell Becky Linton, Thurmont High School class of 1958, gave me this recipe from Mrs. Strube, who taught first or second grade at Thurmont Elementary School. This recipe is dated September 27, 1949. Our family had just moved to Thurmont in 1951, and I remember her classroom was across the hall from the second-grade…
Veteran Spotlight
Edwin C. Creeger, Jr. Namesake of Legion Post 168 by Richard D. L. Fulton Edwin C. Creeger, Jr. was born on August 21, 1920, in Thurmont to parents Edwin C. and Ethel Creeger. He was his parents’ only child. The family’s address was given as having been 7 North Church Street, Thurmont. Creeger’s father owned…
Attention All Graduating Seniors
Flash! Final Date Change! Are you looking for a scholarship? Check the Community Foundation of Frederick County (www.Frederick CountyGives.org) for the scholarships offered by the Thurmont High School Alumni Association. The application’s new final date is April 15, 2024. You must be a graduating high school senior and related to someone that graduated from Thurmont…
Thurmont High School Alumni Association Scholarship
Are you looking for a scholarship? Check the Community Foundation of Frederick County for the scholarships offered by the Thurmont High School Alumni Association. The application is open February 15 through March 15, 2024. You must be a graduating high school senior and related to someone who graduated from Thurmont High School or from Catoctin…
THE WAY THINGS WERE In Local Government and More
Nancy Gearhart Rice, Thurmont A way to take one’s mind off the troubled times we now live in is to relive the past with memories. I have called Thurmont my home since the 1950s, so there’s no doubt I’ve seen many changes. I went to Thurmont High School and learned along with students in grades…
Thurmont High School Alumni Association Offers Scholarships
Attention graduating seniors! Are you related to a graduate from Thurmont High School or Catoctin High School up through the class of 1974? Are you looking for a scholarship? Check the Community Foundation of Frederick County website at www.cffredco.org for the scholarships offered by the Thurmont High School Alumni Association. Applications are being accepted from…
Make a Difference Coat Drop
The Thurmont Lion’s Club will be collecting new and gently used coats (children and adult), beginning October 26 through November. Drop-off sites are: Thurmont Food Lion, Catoctin High School, and Thurmont Middle School, or you can call Marci at 301-748-1665 for pickup.
Veteran Spotlight
Respected CHS Shop Teacher Survived Korea and TB by Priscilla Rall Michael Massett immigrated from Italy with only a first grade education. He went to work in the coal mines of West Virginia living in Fairmont where he married Catherine Colorusso. Their first child, Dominick, was born in 1928 just as the Great Depression began…
Our Neighborhood Veterans
Remembering Jim Spalding by Jim Houck, Jr. James Irvin Spalding, life-long resident of Thurmont, passed away peacefully in his home on May 19, 2014, at the age of seventy-five. He was the loving husband of Ellen L. Sutton Spalding for twenty-three years. Born January 23, 1939, in Thurmont, he was the son of the late…
New Business is Business as Usual at J&B Real Estate
In small towns, businesses sometimes come and go. Times change, people move. It’s a special thing when a business can set up shop and serve a community and its people for generations, which is why we are happy to announce that, after thirty-seven years of faithfully serving our community, Bonita Smith of J&B Real Estate…
Looking Back – 1922 Thurmont Dedicates the First Veterans Memorial Park in the County
by James Rada, Jr. When the men of the Thurmont District of Frederick County began returning home from World War I, they were feted with a parade through Thurmont. People lined the streets to see their returning heroes. They cheered, and they cried. In that, Thurmont was not unusual. Just about every town in the…
Thurmont High School Alumni Association Scholarship
Attention graduating seniors related to a graduate from Thurmont High School! Are you looking for a scholarship? Did you check the Community Foundation of Frederick County website at www.cffredco.org for the scholarships offered by the Thurmont High School Alumni Association? Applications are accepted from March 1 through March 31, only. Also, remind your parents, grandparents,…
SCHOOL news
Six Catoctin High School Seniors Sign College Letters of Intent Six seniors at Catoctin High School (CHS) eagerly awaited to sign the documents that would soon take them off to their next step in their athletic and educational careers. As proud family, friends, and coaches poured into the high school’s gymnasium on February 29, 2016,…
Thurmont High School Class of 1965 Holds Reunion
Thurmont High School Class of 1965 celebrated their 50th class reunion on June 5, 2015. A dinner dance was held at the Thurmont American Legion. The seventy-first class to graduate Thurmont High School was comprised of one hundred seventeen students, of which twenty-nine are deceased. Thirty-seven classmates returned to socialize with old friends. Some classmates…
Gerrie Inducted into the YMCA Sports Hall of Fame
James Rada, Jr. When Kim Wivell Gerrie was a young girl, she would watch her father when he played softball with different Thurmont-area teams. “I wanted to step out on the field with him,” Gerrie said. Gerrie went on to become quite the athlete. She played softball and ran track and field while attending Thurmont…
