Garrett County News

Garrett County needs more ambulances, according to Brad Frantz who heads up public safety and emergency management there.

A Garrett County woman who escaped after slipping through her handcuffs at the Cumberland Police station Tuesday evening was back in custody a few hours later when she voluntarily returned to police headquarters.

The Garrett County commissioners asked Sen. George Edwards and Delegate Wendell Beitzel for legislative help in matters ranging from the power of its Emergency Services Board to requirements dealing with wind turbines to the ability to sell the houses of citizens who don't pay their water and sewer bills.

Operators of vacation rental homes near Deep Creek Lake are fighting a plan that could increase the hotel tax in the resort area.

Garrett County Administrator Monty Pagenhardt said he was surprised by the amount of opposition Tuesday from local rental housing representatives to the county commissioners' request to be able to increase the hotel rental tax from 5 percent to 8 percent.

Several inmates of the Western Correctional Institution are scheduled Tuesday to begin clearing a 3-mile section of the Big Savage Hiking Trail that will lead to the site where a new memorial honoring the crew of a B-52 bomber that crashed in 1964 will be placed on public land.

I would like to let the people of Allegany and Garrett counties know about my experience with workers compensation.

An Oklahoma-based energy company has applied for the first permits to drill for natural gas in Marcellus shale deposits in Western Maryland, the state Department of the Environment said Thursday.

The Youghiogheny River has served as an inspiration for a number Fred Peacocka TMs oil paintings.

A Virginia truck driver averted disaster Monday by entering a truck escape ramp off state Route 135 at Backbone Mountain after his rig's brakes and transmission failed.

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What's good for Garrett County is good for Allegany. At least, it could be. So said the Allegany County commissioners, who requested Friday that the county's delegation to Annapolis introduce legislation that would force producers of natural gas to pay a 5.5 percent tax at the point of production.

The Allegany Arts Council has finalized plans for its 2009 Mountain Maryland Artists Studio Tour.

Mr. Moe is headed to Washington. David Moe, a key member of a regional organization attempting to secure funding for improvements to U.S. Routes 219 and 220, is expected to be part of a group of stakeholders who travel to the nation's capital later this month to discuss with federal lawmakers the importance of both projects.

Celebrating a safer AmericaThe Navy float at the Armistice Parade through Downtown Memphis in October of 1948 gives a hint of the future.

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

Maryland's black bear hunt in the western part of the state has ended. Officials with the Department of Natural Resources announced the end of the hunt in Garrett and Allegany counties late Thursday.

Even in the best of times, it is often difficult for the American Red Cross to keep adequate blood supplies on hand.

ANNAPOLIS - While snowfall to some means outdoor winter fun and time off from school, to county governments it requires big spending on equipment and overtime pay to clear roads and ensure safety.

MSP says the two were picked up in Washington County. Two teenagers who fled from a youth facility in Garrett County Monday morning are back in custody.