Bittinger News

Volunteers responded to two fires in the Grantsville area Sunday, according to the Garrett County Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management.

Two separate fires that occurred Sunday to residences on Chestnut Ridge Road and Foster's Inn Road were both accidental, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

The turnout might not have been as big as previous years, with fear of rain and a slightly overcast day, but the spirit of community remained at Sunday in the Park.

The sale of Allegany County's debt-laden nursing home would fatten public education coffers by about $285,000, but school officials aren't counting their chickens yet.

The fire was staged Tuesday morning at Burn Building 841, a gutted concrete-block structure where firefighters train.

The Bittinger kids of Wiley Ford seemed to have a corner on the fishing rodeo conducted Sunday at the Evitts Creek Community Ponds.

An accidental fire caused by a wall-mounted electric heater caused an estimated loss of $185,000 to a two-story wood-frame house near Oakland last Thursday.

Environmental Health Services division of the Garrett County Health Department has reported the first case of laboratory confirmed rabies in the county for 2009.

Environmental Health Services of the Garrett County Health Department reported Monday the first case of laboratory confirmed rabies in the county in 2009.

There was no apathy in downtown Cumberland on Wednesday. Rather, several hundred people turned out for a TEA party.

Law enforcement program students at the Allegany County Center for Career and Technical Education laughed Monday during a Taser training session.

Illegal burning caused fire that consumed approximately 35 acres, a barn and a storage shed on Resh Hill Road in Garrett County early Wednesday afternoon.

A Cumberland firefighter works at the scene of a woods fire Wednesday afternoon.

Three women have been selected for induction into the 2009 Garrett County Commission for Women's Hall of Fame.

The cause of a Sunday evening fire that destroyed a barn on Sand Run Road and killed more than a dozen livestock remains under investigation by the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

Mary Grant sits with her friends, from left, Shelly Tasker, Tammy Bittinger and Barbara Brown as they celebrate her 100th birthday on Sunday at her home in Westernport.

There will be a corn crop next year and farmers will continue plowing their fields, milking their cows, feeding their chickens and selling their goods at market.

It might seem to go without saying, but some local high school teachers aren't so sure.