Walkersville News

Terry Poole's farming lessons are a big hit with his students. Poole, principal agent emeritus of the University of Maryland Extension Service, holds a class, Beginning a Successful Small Farm Operation, each year at the Frederick County Extension Office at 330 Montevue Lane in Frederick .

The federal holiday honoring U.S. military men and women falls on Wednesday, but Walkersville will celebrate its second Veterans Day ceremony three days early.

Close to 100 middle-schoolers from Howard and Frederick countiesgathered at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel recently for the 10th annual Space Academy, which employees at the facility hope will encourage the students to pursue a career in space exploration, math and science.

Ella Fitzgerald, 6, gets acquainted with a Chesapeake Bay blue crab during a tour of the new Earth and Space Science Lab at Lincoln Elementary School on Tuesday.

Volunteer Megan Miller and Rock Creek School student Hannah Mowry set out for a day at Disney World in 2007.

Instructor Buck Reed, left, watches while Jesse Lee of Walkersville washes the grains he used for his beer during a beer brewing class at the Flying Barrell Brewery in Frederick.

Workers on one of the LeGore Bridge's arches chisel the old mortar in preparation for tuckpointing or repairing the joints between the stones with new mortar.

Jesse Johnson, a native of Walkersville, has been inducted into the Cutco Cutlery Hall of Fame.

Former state's attorney Scott Rolle takes the stage as "Ernst." What: NoDOG Theatre Company presents "Frankenstein" When: Oct.

Hundreds of cars lined Md. 80 and Md. 355 into Urbana High School on Friday morning to receive flu shots at a drive-through site provided by the Frederick County Health Department.

Gov. Thomas Johnson High School's band will kick off the Halloween spirit with its Howlin' Halloween Party from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the school's parking lot, 1501 N. Market St.

An unlighted license plate led to two arrests after deputies found marijuana and Ecstasy pills in a vehicle about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.

Walkersville's 14th annual CROP Walk went off without a hitch on Sunday despite cloudy skies that had some participants concerned about rain.

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The Frederick County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who used shoes he stole from Kohl's to walk away from the Guilford Drive business.

While Kandy Poole Johns was helping compile a slide show of her son, Jordan Chrobot, for his funeral on Sunday, she came across a picture of him saluting.

Each robbery involved a white heavy-set woman wearing a hat or scarf on her head and sunglasses, authorities said.

The Board of County Commissioners and emergency officials work together to inform families, businesses, seniors and those with disabilities about the importance of preparedness.

Ground was officially broken for the the Catoctin Creek Park, located between Middletown and Burkittsville, that will be built on a 139-acre parcel purchased by Frederick County in 1974.

A Walkersville man died Friday from injuries in a single-vehicle accident in the 9100 block of Stauffer Road in Frederick County, according to a press release from Maryland State Police.