Emmitsburg News

Frederick County distributed nearly $187,000 in state funds for parks and open space to eight of the county's 12 municipalities this spring.

Firefighter safety is the focus of a million-dollar grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security to the Emmitsburg-based National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

In a way, veteran Hagerstown firefighter Richard T. "Dick" Hopkins' work experience has come full circle in his new job with the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Father Michael Field, pastor of Queen of Heaven Parish since June 2005, was not born into an observant Catholic home.

Just north of Emmitsburg lies Adams County, Pa., best known for the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

In 1972, the U.S. Catholic Church had 57,000 priests and 48 million followers. Last year, there were 15,000 fewer priests - and 19 million more Catholics.

The Frederick County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary where an undisclosed amount of money was taken from a safe.

For the second time this month, commissioners have voted down a pay raise. The most recent proposal, brought to commissioners last week, would raise commissioners' annual salaries to $4,800 and the mayor's to ...

Commissioners have voted down a pay raise for themselves and the mayor, the second such action in a month.

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch and several severe thunderstorm warnings for much of the D.C. area Monday.

A summer camp for young men who have questions about the priesthood, Quo Vadis Days, is being offered from Sunday to June 26 at Mount St.

Dean Fitzgerald looks around the old bank barn on Auburn Road.

Built around the early 1900s, the wainscot siding is all but gone on the windward side; its sawn oak timbers are laid bare to the wind, rain and sun. The mortise-and-tenon frame has a slight lean to the east. His prognosis doesn't take long.

"This barn doesn't have much time left," said Fitzgerald, president and CEO of Fitzgerald's Heavy Timber Construction in Thurmont. "One of its saving graces is that the barn is open," he said so wind blows through.

An Emmitsburg family is grieving from the loss of their beloved pet that was shot to death, and others are taking action with a reward worth thousands of dollars.

The Emmitsburg town planner will be preparing a text amendment to the recently approved revisions to the sign ordinance to address a recently discovered oversight.

A dog that survived Hurricane Katrina was shot to death near its Emmitsburg home and police are searching for the culprits.

The Emmitsburg Town Council asked town staff to provide information on the costs of the service to recycle yard waste in-town following a complaint by a citizen that the current service provided is ...

A memorial service is scheduled Monday at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg for a student who was killed in a weekend crash in Pennsylvania.

With the deaths of her father and grandfather in mid-September, Lindsay Raugh had a rough start to her senior year at Liberty High School.

Linganore High School juniors Lauren Schoelen and Jess Tomko light candles at ''Final Goodbye of Linganore," a student-run ceremony at the school's stadium on Monday.

When their business burned to the ground despite code-compliant sprinklers and noncombustible building materials, the owners of a retail store learned the hard way how a seefmingly small oversight can result in ...