Oakland News

The Garrett County Roads Department will see some change as Fred Polce, superintendent of the department for the last nine years, retires and Jay Moyer is brought in to the position.

Leslie Allen Bittinger, 42, of Oakland pleaded guilty in Garrett County Circuit Court on three charges, including theft of postal revenue.

Turnbull, Hoover & Kahl, Certified Public Accountants, was recently awarded the Allegany County Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award.

The Garrett County commissioners recently approved the allocation of $234,638 in Program Open Space funding for several local projects.

Fundraisers continue for 5-year-old Justyn White of Oakland. Justyn needs spinal surgery that could prevent him from being in a wheelchair in his adult years.

A burglary at Swanton Store, Swanton, was reported to the Garrett County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, which ended in the arrest of an Oakland man.

About 75 local property owners attended a public hearing Tuesday morning at the Garrett County commissioners' meeting room on a proposed Deep Creek Watershed Zoning Ordinance amendment.

After being closed for nearly eight years, the bridge at Third Street is finally being rebuilt after several delays held up the replacement of the condemned bridge.

The Garrett County commissioners will hold a public hearing next Tuesday, June 24, at 10:30 a.m. in their meeting room at the courthouse on a proposal to amend the Deep Creek Watershed Zoning Ordinance.

Safety was the topic of the public commentary portion of last Tuesday's Garrett County commissioners' meeting.

The opportunity to watch local artists create their various works will be afforded to the public next weekend during a tour of several local studios.

The Garrett County commissioners last week received Program Open Space funding requests from nine local groups totaling more than $524,000. But there is only about $234,000, including carry-overs from previous ...

Learning how to adapt to what radiation and chemotherapy treatments can do to change a person's body can be a difficult task, but the Look Good ... Feel Better program works to help women going through this ...

AFTER YEARS OF WAITING, anticipation, and yes, occasional irritation, particularly for Oakland residents who live along Third Street and other parts south of the railroad tracks, construction is now well under ...

In response to recent rate hikes for commercial customers in the BGE and Allegheny Power service areas, Westminster-based Synergetic Energy Pools Inc.

As the cost of food staples skyrockets worldwide, shoppers in the United States are also experiencing grocery store sticker-shock. Food prices in this country have risen about 5 percent since last year, ...

Alot of lips are flapping about restoring the Chesapeake Bay . Checks are being written, partnerships are being forged and promises are being made.

Authorities in Allegany and Garrett counties are busy with several major investigations, including two deaths, a suspected arson in South End that left five people homeless and two early-morning armed robberies ...

Despite wet, cool weather for most of the spring, area farmers will reportedly have plenty of fresh produce available for the first Mountain Fresh Farmers' Market in Oakland on Saturday, June 7. "We've been ...

A West Virginia woman was taken to Garrett County Memorial Hospital for minor injuries following a motorcycle accident on Monday.