Emmitsburg
Municipal Government
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Commissioners
reject Myers annexation
THURMONT,
Md. - The Thurmont Town Commissioners unanimously voted on
Oct. 16 not to annex the 210-acre Myers Farm north of town,
but the town's annexation debates are far from over.
"I'm disappointed,
but I'm not really surprised," said Tom Hudson with
Hudson Land, the property developer, "It's a two-year
effort that didn't pan out. Now I've got to move on."
He said he
has grown to like Thurmont from all the time he has spent
in town and if he can assist the town in any property redevelopment,
he'd love to hear ideas for what he can do.
Though
the commissioners said Hudson had made an attractive proposition
for annexation, traffic issues and the fact that two-thirds
of residents said they were against annexation in a poll
Mayor Martin Burns sent out last year couldn't be
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Let's all take charge
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Blue recycling bins on a Friday morning
sit along the back alleys and the sidewalks of Emmitsburg.
As the sun rises, blue bins can be spotted here and there,
but no one could claim that the town's streets are a sea of
blue Friday mornings. In some areas, several houses in a row
sport the bins piled high with cans, bottles, plastic and
bundles with newspaper and cardboard. Then you can pass eight
or ten homes in a row without a bin in sight.
An
unscientific survey of the town's recycling during the last
collection day in September showed that neighborhoods with
the greatest percentage of recycling to the least were:
Frailey Road, Northgate, Pembrook Woods, East and West Lincoln,
Brookfield, DePaul, North Seton, Emmit Gardens, Silo Hill,
Welty and Southgate.
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I want my M(ayor) TV!
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Mayor James Hoover wants to be Emmitsburg's
Oprah Winfrey.
Hoover asked the Emmitsburg Board of Commissioners for
permission to broadcast a monthly 30-minute television
show on the town's cable station 99. Hoover would produce
the show and then replay is a few times each month.
"It would highlight a lot of different things going
on around town and … emphasize some of the town's
positive nature," Hoover said.
Hoover already hosts a radio show on the Mount St. Mary's
University radio station WMTB 89.9 each Sunday night at
7 p.m. The university allows Hoover to use the campus
station as a public service and it
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