Airman First Class Ballenger From Rocky Ridge to Japan …and Beyond by Richard D. L. Fulton Life-long Rocky Ridge resident, Emily Ballenger (pictured right), during a short two-year span during which she lived in Texas, decided to seek out a career move, and subsequently signed on with the United States Air Force. Ballenger is the…

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…