Hometown
hero is laid to rest on Memorial Day
A
U.S. Army honor guard accompanied 1st Lt. Robert Seidel, III’s
flag-draped coffin to St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church’s
cemetery next to the Basilica of the National Shrine of St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton. Seidel was killed by an improvised explosive
device near Baghdad, Iraq on May 18 and is the first local
resident to die in the war. »
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Town
tax rate will remain the same
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – The current tax rate on real property in town
will not change in 2007 despite a budget increase of nearly
$200,000, passed by a 3-1 vote at a special commissioners
meeting on May 30.
Based
on projections, Mayor James Hoover proposed a $1,515,308 town
budget for 2006-2007, compared to the $1,327,992 budget set
for 2005-2006.
The
increase is largely from the inclusion of some $600,000 of
surplus monies from prior budget years, proposed short and
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Resident Rainbow Lake beavers to be killed
EMMITSBURG, Md. – The town has declared war on Rainbow
Lake’s beaver population, and has hired a trapper to
capture and kill the renegade rodents.
The
11.5-acre, 33 million-gallon Rainbow Lake serves as a water
reservoir for Emmitsburg. Under normal conditions, the town
is authorized to process as much as 168,000 gallons of lake
water a day for public consumption.
For
the past couple of years, large amounts of algae, known
as blooms, have hampered efforts to withdraw and treat Rainbow
Lake’s water by »
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