Frostburg News

Western Maryland Food Bank's 22nd Annual Bags of Plenty Food Drive will begin Wednesday.

Leaders of Allegany County and municipalities from one end of the county to the other hammered home on Friday to all four members of the District 1 legislative delegation the importance of highway user funds from state government.

Sheetz will expand its presence on Virginia Avenue next year with a bigger store to be built directly behind its existing one.

The chirp of a telephone makes Lou Femi's day. It's not necessarily retirement that's allowing Femi, a retired Frostburg StateUniversity police officer, to enjoy a simple pleasure or preferred sound.

For Walter Moore, Westernport resident Mary Jane GA1 4lck's late brother, the chance to attend Frostburg State University was a dream come true for a child who had fought a number of serious physical difficulties since birth and whose family was told he was unlikely to even finish high school.

Wantz Distributors expanded its business operations earlier this month with the purchase of Price Beers in Frostburg, Md.

Frostburg, Md. - THREE hours by bike from Cumberland, Md., on the Great Allegheny Passage, I rode into the mouth of the abandoned Borden Tunnel near here, where freight trains once rumbled, hauling coke, steel and coal.

Charges are pending against a Mount Savage man in connection with a high-speed chase early Saturday that occurred before the driver lost control of his vehicle a short time later on Parkersburg Road.

No souls were bet, or fiddles of gold won, but people of all ages came out for the 16th Annual Fiddle Championship to compete in fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

A young Midand man operating an all-terrain vehicle was arrested early Friday after he allegedly failed to stop for police, rammed a police cruiser during the pursuit and then was arrested after he struck a parked vehicle on McCulloh Street.

Maryland State Police continued the investigation into Wednesday night's head-on collison on U.S. Route 40 in LaVale that claimed the lives of three Mount Savage residents, including a mother and her 11-year-old son, and severely injured a Frostburg man.

Three people were killed in a head-on collision in the Allegany County community of LaVale.

I used to donate to St. Jude's Children's Research. They sent back some items with pictures that children drew.

A Virginia man was arrested early Saturday after being involved in an altercation on East Mechanic Street.

A Frostburg man kept police at bay Sunday Morning for more than an hour, while they tried to get him to leave his apartment for questioning.

It's so easy that, well, a caveman could do it. A federal grant will aid Allegany County Emergency Medical Services in providing at least 33 automated external defibrillators to public schools, the local health department and Country Club Mall, among other places.

The Frostburg mayor and council will vote today on an amended ordinance that regulates wind mills and wind energy systems.

Frostburg is expected to issue a building permit sometime this month that would allow construction of the Braddock's Greene housing project to begin on the city's south side, according to Rich Harris, Frostburg's director of development.

Allegany Magazine Managing Editor Shane Riggs will be the guest speaker with the Friends of the Frostburg Library on Oct.

They won't be difficult to spot, the members of Alpha Sigma Tau and Delta Zeta, as they wear yellow vests and blue gloves and tote orange bags while cleaning the city streets that have been adopted by their Frostburg State University sororities.