Emmitsburg Dispatch
  Vol. V, No.10
News and Opinion in the service of Truth
May 18, 2006  
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Tour center officially opens
with a bang

Members of the South Mountain State Battlefield artillery team sent a resounding volley toward Emmitsburg on May 16 as the ribbon was cut marking the official grand opening of the new $5.4 million Mason-Dixon Discovery Center, the new area visitors’ center on U.S. 15. Work on the center began in Sept. 2003. Guest speakers at the event included Maryland Secretary of Transportation Robert L. Flanagan; Assistant Secretary of Tourism, Film, and the Arts, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Dennis Castleman; Senator David R. Brinkley (MD); John Fieseler, director of the Tourism Council of Frederick County and Emmitsburg Mayor James E. Hoover. More than a hundred local, county and state officials and guests attended the ceremony.
Federal court
rejects Elder's due process claims

BALTIMORE, Md. – U. S. District Judge L. Frederick Motz has rejected denial of federal due process-related claims alleged by former Emmitsburg town commissioner, Arthur “Art” Elder, in his lawsuit against the Emmitsburg Ethics Commission, one of its members, and Mayor James E. Hoover, and dismissed the claim that the town should pay Elder’s legal fees. At the same time, Judge Motz, while questioning the merits of Elder’s state law claims, remanded those claims to the Circuit Court for Frederick County for review.

Motz wrote in his April 21 decision that the town ethics commission did not deprive » full story

County covers ambulance company permit fees

EMMITSBURG, Md. – Frederick County Commissioners voted 4-1 on May 8 to grant up to $30,000 relief from permit fees and a 75 cent per-square-foot excise tax that would be due the county from the construction of the new Emmitsburg Volunteer Ambulance Company building.

Commission President John L. “Lennie” Thompson Jr. cast the only dissenting vote.

The proposed 25,895 square foot, two-story EVAC structure would generate an excise tax of $19,421, with permit fees due the county amounting to over $4,500.

EVAC President Joseph Pelkey said that » full story

'Eisenhower convoy' reenactment set for June 28 

EMMITSBURG, Md. – The Maryland State Highway Administration has scheduled June 28 as the date the 1919 “Eisenhower convoy” will stop at the South Seton Rd. bridge over Toms Creek for a commemoration ceremony and the unveiling of a historic marker.

The event is being planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the national highway system, for which President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the leading proponent. Eisenhower’s inspiration to establish a national highway network began in 1919 when he joined a military experiment to see how fast the army could get from coast to coast.

Jennifer Gavin, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials deputy Director of Communications, said the » full story

This Issue

Monsignor Phillips
monument unveiled
» full story
Silo Hill accidents increase
» full story
Water surcharge adopted
» full story
Mother Seton School
principal to retire
» full story
Local History

Depression-Era cabin on
Toms Creek
» full story


 





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