Emmitsburg
Municipal Government
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EMMITSBURG,
Md. – Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball
team won its first Division I NCAA tournament game with
a 69-60 win over Coppin State on Mar. 18.
Coppin State was ahead the first half of the game, but
the Mount took control during the second half. Jeremy
Goode, a 5-foot 9-inch sophomore guard, scored 21 points—including
four three throws in the final 27 seconds--to lead the
Mountaineers to victory. When Coppin State went five minutes
without scoring, the Mountaineers took on a decisive lead
at the end.
With the win in Dayton, Ohio, the Mount advances to face
North Carolina, the top-seed team in the tournament, for
the first-round game. That game will be in Raleigh, N.C.
on Mar. 21. If the Mountaineers can win that game, they
will make history. A 16th seed team has never beaten a
No. 1 seed team, according to the Associated Press.
This is the third time that the team has played in the
NCAA tournament since becoming a Division I school in
1988-89 and the first under Coach Milan Brown. In its
previous appearances in 1995 and 1999, the team lost its
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County downzones
properties
FREDERICK,
Md. – The Frederick County Commissioners took action
on Mar. 17 that would lead in the downzoning of properties
adjacent to the municipal boundaries of Emmitsburg.
“In
the broad scheme of things, I don’t want anything
sitting outside of the town’s borders that is zoned
and planned for development,” Commissioner Lennie
Thompson said during a commissioners workshop.
Parcel
by parcel, he began proposing that properties adjacent to
Emmitsburg be downzoned from their residential designations
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Emmitsburg
may be looking to expand its family
EMMITSBURG,
Md. – During a recent visit to Emmitsburg, City of Frederick
Alderman Alan Imhoff met with the Emmitsburg Board of Commissioners
to give a basic introduction about the Frederick Sister Cities
Association.
Invited
by Joyce A. Rosensteel, treasurer of the board, Imhoff spoke
at length about Frederick City’s program which belongs
to an international non-profit network known as Sister Cities
International. Frederick City currently has three sister
cities, Schifferstadt and Moerzheim, Germany and Aquiraz,
Brazil, which was added in 2006.
Sister
Cities International, headquartered in D.C., helps partner
communities in the U.S. with similar communities around
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Mount student dies in fall
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DNA results on remains
pending
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CARROLL VALLEY
Crime on the increase
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· EDUCATION
CHS graduation info
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