Mountain Lake Park News

A scholarship for Garrett County residents who are Frostburg State University students majoring in special education and elementary education and plan to teach in Maryland has been established by two FSU ...

Smith Mountain Lake State Park police confirm a boy that was pulled from the water there on Thursday died.

Nothing will stop the 7:30 p.m. Wednesday service at Zion Lutheran Church in downtown Accident - not even a possible tornado that literally blew open the front doors and shook the church to its rafters.

Governor Martin O'Malley announced yesterday that the Board of Public Works has approved more than $1.5 million in local Program Open Space funding for recreation projects at parks in Baltimore City and seven ...

Two Garrett County residents were seriously injured when they were ejected from their vehicle that traveled out of control and overturned early Friday on eastbound Interstate 68 at the one-mile marker near the ...

The United States Postal Service released a new rate stamp on April 18, and local residents may be surprised to learn that the artist who painted the four U.S. flag scenes lives in Mountain Lake Park.

Area residents voiced their opinions on Garrett County's adoption of performance zoning and what many of its supporters hope it will prevent - the development of wind turbines - for more than two hours Tuesday.

The limitations of the Oakland Police to enforce problems in Broadford Lake Park has become a concern as vandalism in the park has increased.

The mayor and town council of Mountain Lake Park adopted a town budget for fiscal year 2009 at their regular monthly meeting last Thursday evening, a budget which features a 10% decrease in the town tax rate.

Requests for state Program Open Space funding are more than double Garrett County's expected development funds for fiscal 2009, and the county commissioners will have to decide how much of the funding will go ...

The Garrett County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved the fiscal year 2009 operating/capital budget at $85,298,803. That figure is about $13.3 million less than the county's FY 2008 amended budget.

Authorities in Allegany and Garrett counties are busy with several major investigations, including two deaths, a suspected arson in South End that left five people homeless and two early-morning armed robberies ...

Private citizens often have to look at their budgets and decide whether they can or cannot afford something they'd like to have, and Allegany County's government is likewise studying the merits of allowing ...

New water lines and water sources are in the plans for the Garrett County Department of Public Utilities, including a test well near Gravelly Run Road and U.S. Route 219 that had been denied previously.

“It's something we can talk further”

Goad also meets resistance regarding response team funds Kevin Spradlin Allegany County Sheriff David Goad could reconsider his office's policy of allowing deputies to take their assigned patrol cars to their ... via Cumberland Times-News

A one-story, single-family dwelling in Mountain Lake Park was damaged by an accidental fire early Monday morning. via The Republican

“I first heard of this about 30 years ago. But so many years later, here we are.”

By MAX B. BAKER The silver windmill was spinning furiously.The gathering gray rain clouds looked like they were ready to burst.Still, nothing was going to dampen the spirits of the first visitors to the new, ... via Star-telegram.com

“Thank you all for coming in and sharing your concerns with us”

With Garrett County retaining a property tax rate of $1 for every $100 assessed, residents expressed their concerns over previous years' spending now that gas prices have risen. via Cumberland Times-News

Authorities in Garrett County are investigating what they are calling the suspicious death of a 15-month-old baby girl.

The county sheriff's office says a family member found Cheyenne Stein unresponsive March 28 at her home in Mountain Lake Park. The girl was taken to Garrett Memorial Hospital then was transferred to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., where she died April 1.

The sheriff's office says the Garrett County Bureau of Investigation and Child Protective Services personnel have been talking to physicians since the girl was hospitalized. Read more

The U.S. Postal Service will issue 42-cent Flags 24/7 definitive stamps in four designs April 18 in Washington, D.C. Each of the stamps features a painting by Laura Stutzman, of Mountain Lake Park, Md., of a ... via Capper's