A
local hero makes his final journey
A
group of Marine pallbearers carry the casket
of Lance Cpl. James W. Higgins Jr. from
the Lynfield Event Complex building on Aug.
4. Two of the pallbearers, 1st Lt. Byron
Owen and Sgt. Scott Martin, credit Higgins
with saving their lives when their patrol
in Iraq came under fire. Higgins was buried
in Resthaven Memorial Gardens with full
military honors.
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LEWISTOWN,
Md. – They rode together for five months in a truck
in the heat of western Iraq. On Aug 4, four Marines flew to
Maryland from Camp Pendleton where they were recovering from
combat injuries to walk with Lance Cpl. James W. Higgins Jr.
on his final journey.
Higgins’
former platoon commander, 1st Lt. Byron Owen said, “I
watched his back and he watched mine.”
Semper
fidelis. Always faithful.
“I
know he watches my back still from his post on high,”
said Owen.
Hundreds
of family, friends, classmates and servicemen turned out
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Board makes incorporation
date official
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – The board of commissioners unanimously approved
a resolution sponsored by Commissioner William B. O’Neil
Jr. to recognize the town’s 1825 incorporation date
at their Aug. 7 meeting, with little debate.
The resolution
recognizes Jan. 13, 1825, as the “the only legal and
official date in which the government was established for
the Town of Emmitsburg,” and provides the town government
with a way out of the multi-year debate over the town’s
founding date.
Board members
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Celebrating 50 years -
Thurmont & Emmitsburg Community Show
THURMONT, Md. – Fifty-four years ago, Emmitsburg began
a community show that featured the agricultural and homemaking
talents of the community.
“My
wife and I used to go to the show and we thought it was
nice,” said Rodman Myers, president of the Thurmont
and Emmitsburg Community Show committee. “We worked
to get the Thurmont Grange and Thurmont FFA to start their
own show.
The
Thurmont Community Show began in 1957 in the old Thurmont
High School. Emmitsburg’s last community show was
in 1958, but when »
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More Tavern
to change hands
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Industrial
park annexation
contigent on agreement
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Wildlife plan would not end
hunting on town land
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Emmitsburg
baseball
league finishes season
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