Toms
Creek bridge site of highway 50th anniversary
Merrill
Eisenhower Atwater (left), great-grandson of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, joins Mayor James E. Hoover
beside the new historic marker provided by The Maryland
Historic Trust and the Maryland State Highway Administration
to commemorate the Toms Creek bridge’s historic
place in the evolution of the national highway system.
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EMMITSBURG,
Md. – In 1919, a military convoy “battled”
its way from Washington, D.C. to California, to test equipment
and to see how fast the military could get from coast to coast.
The
first stumbling block on the journey that would ultimately
claim 21 lives and eight vehicles proved to be the “Bridge
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Silo
Hill could get stoplight next year
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – Silo Hill intersection could get a traffic light
“within a year” as a result of a multi-year Maryland
State Highway Administration accident and traffic review,
although a roundabout is also a possibility.
Town
staff learned of SHA’s decision at a meeting Thursday,
June 29, scheduled with SHA representatives to discuss concerns
about the intersection. The board of commissioners will review
the stoplight and roundabout options for
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Decades of sewer spills may be over
EMMITSBURG, Md. – In spite of heavy rains during the
last week and a half of June, changes made in the town’s
wastewater collection system are already paying off –
no spills in spite of the persistent deluge.
When
he saw that the area was to be hit with large amounts of
rainfall, Town Manager David Haller asked that work be speeded
up along a section of the wastewater collection system being
replaced through the Waybright property to the treatment
plant.
Even
though the treatment plant was subsequently hit with as
much as 1.9 million gallons in one day, the new line
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