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Property Type: Single Family-Attached | ||
3 | 3 Full | |
1,563 (approx) | 1989 | 3 |
CALL SCHOOL BOARD | NORTHERN | NORTHERN GARRETT HIGH |
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3 |
Condo |
1218054639 |
$4,619 |
2013 |
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Vickie GriffithsCumberland Times-News
GARRETT COUNTY — Race Across America contestant Chris “Hoppo” Hopkinson, of North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, tackles a hill on Rt. 40 in Garrett County on Friday.
The race, which covers 3,000 miles from Oceanside, California to Annapolis, Maryland, raises funds for a variety of charities.
Team Hoppo is sponsoring Fraja Ellie, a 5-year-old girl from North Yorkshire who is fighting neuroblastoma.
For more about the race, visit www.raceacrossamerica.org.
GRANTSVILLE — — In a cabin built in the 1750s, just a few hundred feet from a 201-year-old stone bridge across the quiet Casselman River, a man sits at a slab of a wooden table, an array of carving tools spread before him.
The rush of traffic from nearby Alternate U.S. 40, also known as Route 40, does not bother Gary Yoder. Nor does the “thump-thump-thump” of the weaving loom from the cabin next door.
“What I do is more like an addiction than a career — a healthy one, I hope,” he says, glancing up from a hawk feather he’s carving from a piece of basswood.
Yoder has been practicing his craft at the Spruce Forest Artisans Village — a cluster of working artists’ studios a mile from downtown Grantsville — for 42 of his 55 years.
For the Cumberland Times-News
— MCHENRY — A public presentation on the health implications of fracking to be held June 28 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Garrett College auditorium will include time for community comments and questions.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside.
Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Dr. Amir Sapkota and other team members from the University of Maryland’s Institute for Applied Environmental Health will deliver the presentation. “We are looking forward to reporting to the community on our results, conclusions and recommendations,” Wilson said.
Last fall, Wilson and his team met with community members to compile a list of issues and questions they wanted addressed by the public health study. The comments made in those meetings were written up and are available to read at www.marcellushealth.org.
This is also an opportunity to hear more about the work of Maryland’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission.
Representatives of the Allegany and Garrett county health departments will be present.
The June 28 meeting will be an opportunity to understand existing threats to Allegany and Garrett County air quality and why citizens may want to be trained to conduct their own air quality monitoring in addition to that being done by the state.
Pre-existing environmental threats need to be documented, so that if fracking is permitted, officials and scientists can determine if new problems with air, soil or water contamination are emerging. For public health purposes, it will be important to know if illnesses can be attributed to any phases of gas extraction and production.
The meeting is hosted by the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. MIAEH requests an RSVP atmeleahboyle@gmail.com.
Michael A. Sawyers
— BITTINGER — A new state wildlife management area, only the second in Garrett County, will provide public hunting as well as protection for some plant and bird species.
The Cunningham Swamp Wildlife Management Area opened in May. Public access, including a parking lot, is available by turning west off state Route 495 about 100 yards north of the entrance to the Western Maryland 4-H Education Center.
The 258-acre unit includes grassy fields, evergreen and deciduous forest and, of course, a swamp. Some of the unit sits atop reclaimed strip mines.
“We encourage deer hunting at the WMA because deer eat the rare and endangered purple-fringed orchids,” said Ed Thompson of the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service, the managing agency within the Department of Natural Resources.
Thompson said deer also like to eat Canada yew, another plant with which he is concerned.
“The yew plant is like candy to a deer,” he said.
The WMA offers a variety of open fields and thick cover.
Jim Mullan, regional manager for WHS, said deer hunting should be popular and productive at the new unit.
“This part of Garrett County is well-known for having bears,” Mullan said. Bear hunting is by special permit only in Maryland.
A kiosk providing information about the WMA is located at the grassy parking lot.
Rare birds, including the golden-winged warbler and alder fly catcher, use the WMA, according to Thompson.
The state paid $550,000 from Program Open Space funds for the land.
To inquire, call 301-334-4255.
Property Type: Land | ||
1.98 Acres | Recreation, Residential |
CALL SCHOOL BOARD | SOUTHERN MIDDLE | SOUTHERN GARRETT HIGH |
The Oakland-Mtn. Lake Park Lions Club will host the annual Redneck Dayz on Saturday, June 14, at Broadford Recreational Park. The gates will open at 8 a.m. and the Redneck Regatta, featuring boats made of anything that floats, will start at noon. A cornhole tournament will start at 1 p.m., and the popular Mud Pit Belly Flop, a scene from last year shown above, will happen at approximately 3 p.m. There will be live music throughout the day, starting at 11 a.m. and running until midnight, according to organizer Bubba Marucci. The Lions Club will have a variety of adult beverages for sale, as well as soft drinks and water. (The club asks that guests not bring their own coolers.) There will be a “bounce house” for children, airbrush tattoos, crafts, jewelry, and other vendors. For a complete schedule and details, persons may go to redneckdayz.webs.com. Photo courtesy of the website.
Participants will race up the black diamond slope, Face, at Wisp Resort. The race is 400 meters with a 124 meter (407ft) ascent. Awards are given to the fastest male and female, fastest male and female over 50, and the oldest & youngest participants. All participants finishing the race, forever have bragging rights for completing the World’s Hardest 400 meter race and receive a 2014 Race up the Face bumper sticker.
Save time! Visit http://garretttrails.org/race-up-the-face.html for your registration form that you will need to sign in order to register or you can sign upon arrival on the day of the race.
If you raise additional monies over your registration fee amount, please bring that amount to the Race up the Face Event.