Buckeystown News

Randy and Nancy Adkins hold the helmet their son, Wayne, was wearing at the time of the crash.

Myron Horst of Jehovah-Jireh Farm feeds turkeys last week. The organic family farm has raised turkeys for the last eight years and has seen demand for the birds steadily grow.

Photo courtesy Laurie Savage Bryan Lee, 19, of Adamstown, has a true passion for goats, and his friends and family call him the "goat collector." He is building up his business with his brother, Phillip, 16.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick. When: 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A move by Essroc to turn its Buckeystown, Md., cement plant into a distribution center is further proof of the company's plans to consolidate its operations locally, a company spokesperson said Wednesday.

Kilns at the ESSROC concrete plant near Buckeystown will be shut down at the end of this month and the work force will be cut from 90 to 7 by the end of the year, when remaining processing operations will ...

This is an aerial photo taken in November 2004 of the massive Alcoa Eastalco Works aluminum company near Buckeystown.

The final remaining employees of the Alcoa Eastalco Plant in Buckeystown, shuttered in 2005, have been laid off.

Archaeologist George Evans sifts dirt for artifacts at the archaeological dig near Buckeystown earlier this year.

Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore has denied a request from St. Thomas More Academy in Buckeystown to be recognized as a Catholic school within the archdiocese.

It was long, hot weekend of sitting in a saddle in wool pants, but re-enacting the Battle of Chickamauga helped Mike Turner, of Decatur, Ala., get a glimpse of what the Civil War battle would have been like for ...

' State and county environmental agencies are taking action at a property south of Buckeystown, where sediment has washed into a tributary of the Monocacy River.

There is no shortage this year of new racers who have only a vague idea of what they're doing.

Corn Mazes, Friday, Sept. 19, through Saturday, ]Nov. 1. Winterbrook Farms Moonlight Maze kicks off the season Friday ... with more than 7 miles of trails on the farm at 13001 Creagerstown Road, Thurmont.

"Cash market corn growers will do well," says Colby Ferguson, an agricultural specialist with the Frederick County Office of Economic Development.

A mother and daughter accused of animal cruelty entered plea agreements Wednesday in Frederick County District Court that prohibit them from having pets while on probation.

Since each helicopter is flown by numerous pilots, Matthew Wagner does a final check of the helicopter to make sure things are to his liking right before take-off. State police helicopters are equipped with ...

U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett said in a statement Tuesday that he would amend his personal financial disclosure reports to correctly show roughly $1 million in property sales he has made in Frederick County.

Essroc Cement Corporation in Buckeystown is facing a $100,000 penalty for a violation of air quality emissions regulations.

Frederick County officials are taking residents' side in a battle to keep Dominion Transmission from building a natural gas compressor station in the Jefferson area.