Woodsboro News

Woodsboro Town Commissioner Joel Rensberger and Carrie Lhotsky, program administrator with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, discuss plans for Woodsboro Regional Park.

Bidders from 12 states are expected to attend the Maryland auction of rare dairy supplies, unique milk bottles and cream separators.

Auctioneer John Roop assembles an antique butter churn, next to an 1890s milking machine patented by William Mehring of Keymar, which will be auctioned Saturday in Woodsboro.

If a large fire breaks out in Ocean City this week, the area will be well-staffed with firefighters.

Orville Smith has run Smitty's Fix It Shop for 29 years, repairing lawn mowers, tillers, weed eaters and chain saws.

Four dispatchers with Frederick County's Emergency Communications Center were recently honored during an awards ceremony held by the Tri-State Telecommunicators Associations.

Rte. 500 near Hoffman Seachrist Road was closed, but has reopened. Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal vehicle crash at Route 550 and Hoffman Seachrist Road near Woodsboro.

A woman was killed in an accident involving a dump truck near Woodsboro in Frederick County.

Woodsboro -- Deputies charged an 18-year-old man with second-degree assault after he punched a 16-year-old relative in the head several times, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.

Potato seeds haven't been replaced since they ran out at Woodsboro 's Southern States store earlier this year.

Woodsboro election judges Ruth Martin, left, and Joan Eyler count the 44 ballots cast in Saturday's town election.

Tom Chuvala, who has been postmaster in Ladiesburg for the past two years, retrieves mail from the mailbox outside his post office Wednesday morning.

Bob Black, president of Catoctin Mountain Orchard near Thurmont, talks about grafting techniques to a group os Walkersville High School science students.

A toy Dalmatian in fire gear was at the open house in February at the United Steam Fire Engine Co.

Many of Frederick County's oldest families can trace their lineage through fire companies.

Burgess Donald L. Trimmer leads the Woodsboro town meeting and nominating convention for council and burgess seats at the Woodsboro Volunteer Fire Company and town hall office Tuesday night.

Woodsboro -- Three candidates will run unopposed next month for three seats on the Town Council.

Mary and John Poffenbarger at Lock farm near Woodsboro use agricultural techniques such as plastic mulching which only requires a trickle of irrigation water from specialized hosing under the plastic.

It may be 2009, but near Thurmont on Sunday, the landscape could have belonged to Anytown, western United States circa 1890, as dozens of men, women and children walked around with dusters, spurs and leather gun belts.

A prison work crew baby-sat a 2 1/2-year-old boy who was spotted Friday running along the center lines of a rural Maryland highway, with trucks loaded with gravel rumbling by, police and correctional officials said.