Walkersville News

Frederick County Homemakers board of directors met Nov. 3 at the Extension Office.

The Walkersville Elementary School PTA will host a seasonal flu vaccine clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday for children, their families and members of the community at Walkersville Elementary School, 83 W. Frederick St.

Should municipalities be required to limit development when there isn't enough school capacity for expected new students? It's a question the Frederick County Commissioners will discuss Monday, following a lengthy public hearing this week with several municipal officials who objected to the county's interference.

Grief and Loss through the Holidays -- 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 19 at Emmitsburg Elementary School, 300 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg .

A group based in Washington is urging members of the 34,000 churches it represents nationwide to get the H1N1 vaccine as it becomes available.

Terry Poole's farming lessons are a big hit with his students. Poole, principal agent emeritus of the University of Maryland Extension Service, holds a class, Beginning a Successful Small Farm Operation, each year at the Frederick County Extension Office at 330 Montevue Lane in Frederick .

The federal holiday honoring U.S. military men and women falls on Wednesday, but Walkersville will celebrate its second Veterans Day ceremony three days early.

Close to 100 middle-schoolers from Howard and Frederick countiesgathered at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel recently for the 10th annual Space Academy, which employees at the facility hope will encourage the students to pursue a career in space exploration, math and science.

Ella Fitzgerald, 6, gets acquainted with a Chesapeake Bay blue crab during a tour of the new Earth and Space Science Lab at Lincoln Elementary School on Tuesday.

Volunteer Megan Miller and Rock Creek School student Hannah Mowry set out for a day at Disney World in 2007.

Instructor Buck Reed, left, watches while Jesse Lee of Walkersville washes the grains he used for his beer during a beer brewing class at the Flying Barrell Brewery in Frederick.

Workers on one of the LeGore Bridge's arches chisel the old mortar in preparation for tuckpointing or repairing the joints between the stones with new mortar.

Jesse Johnson, a native of Walkersville, has been inducted into the Cutco Cutlery Hall of Fame.

Former state's attorney Scott Rolle takes the stage as "Ernst." What: NoDOG Theatre Company presents "Frankenstein" When: Oct.

Hundreds of cars lined Md. 80 and Md. 355 into Urbana High School on Friday morning to receive flu shots at a drive-through site provided by the Frederick County Health Department.

Gov. Thomas Johnson High School's band will kick off the Halloween spirit with its Howlin' Halloween Party from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in the school's parking lot, 1501 N. Market St.

An unlighted license plate led to two arrests after deputies found marijuana and Ecstasy pills in a vehicle about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.

Walkersville's 14th annual CROP Walk went off without a hitch on Sunday despite cloudy skies that had some participants concerned about rain.

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The Frederick County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who used shoes he stole from Kohl's to walk away from the Guilford Drive business.