Category Archives: negro mountain

> ‘Like’ on Facebook! Support the Republican Newspaper! It’s only $9.95/year for the online edition! Mar. 31, 2011 The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee yesterday rejected Senate Joint Resolution 3, a measure that would have established a commission … Continue reading →

>By ANDREW SCHOTZandrews@herald-mail.com9:23 p.m. EDT, March 29, 2011 ANNAPOLIS— Legislation to name things in Maryland — including renaming two mountains — has come to a halt. A state Senate committee decided Tuesday to turn down a series of bills requesting … Continue reading →

>Here we go again. No sooner did we get past the attempt to change Maryland’s official state song, there is now a call to change the name of Negro Mountain, near the small Garrett County community of Grantsville. Sunday’s edition … Continue reading →

>Blair Lee | My Maryland Perhaps you mistakenly believed that Maryland lawmakers were preoccupied with the state’s budget crisis or the $33 billion unfunded public employees’ pension and health care liabilities or the spike in home foreclosures or the unemployment … Continue reading →

>Local representatives against new monikers for Negro, PolishElaine Blaisdell Cumberland Times-News The Cumberland Times-News Wed Feb 23, 2011, 07:59 AM EST CUMBERLAND — City council members were in agreement at Tuesday’s public work session that population growth, in particular, residents … Continue reading →

>Western Maryland legislators waited for their turn to speak on Tuesday as Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, at left, D-Baltimore City, urged a state Senate committee to pass her resolution to rename Negro and Polish mountains. The Western Maryland lawmakers are, … Continue reading →

>Matthew BieniekCumberland Times-News The Cumberland Times-News Fri Feb 18, 2011, 08:00 AM EST — CUMBERLAND — For Leonard “Harold” Biggs, Western Maryland’s mountains are part of history, and part of his family’s history. And to Biggs, a proposed change to … Continue reading →

>18th century tribute fuels 21st century debateGrantsville, MD 21536, USA By Julie Bykowicz, The Baltimore Sun 8:55 p.m. EST, February 20, 2011 GRANTSVILLE — — Bryant Bunch, who came from Prince George’s County to attend college here at the far … Continue reading →

>By: Liz Farmer 02/21/11 1:46 PM Examiner Staff Writer .The Maryland General Assembly is taking up a joint Senate resoution to rename two mountains in Western Maryand whose names are a litte, uh, shall we say, outdated? The peaks in … Continue reading →

>To the Editor:The Cumberland Times-News Wed Feb 16, 2011, 08:00 AM EST — I am writing concerning the name change of a mountain in Garrett County Negro Mountain. I wondered many years ago how long would it take before someone … Continue reading →