Current Events Articles

• 2023 Catoctin Christmas Bird Count Results
• The Art Alliance of Greater Waynesboro
• The Winter Catoctin Area Bird Count Results
  • Frederick Midwinter Bird Count
  • Hawks of the Catoctin Area
• Catoctin Furnace receives grant to complete its Museum of the Ironworker
• Update on environmental education at Strawberry Hill
• 2019-2020 Catoctin Area Bird Count
• Land Conservancy Art Auction
• Bringing field and stream together
• Scotty's Ride 2014
• Preservation For Civil War Buffs
• July 2014 issue of the Catoctin Forest Alliance Bulletin
• Humanity Celebrates 25 Years in Adams County
• Nicaragua Night and Auction Slated for January 18
• Six Non-profits receive donations of nearly $45,000 from St. James
• Tree Ceremony Continues Project of National Significance
• Share the Love Gift Fair and Holiday Bazaar
• Land Conservancy of Adams County
• Strawberry Hill
  • Ready for a Walk?
  • Nature Springs to Life!
  • How Sweet It Is!
  • "Spring Fever" is spreading throughout our community
  • Strawberry Hill - where the love of nature begins
  • On My Honor…
  • Maple Madness
  • Trees, Trees Everywhere
  • An inside look at the Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve
  • Busy as a Bee
  • The Forest in the Winter
  • Historical Franklinia
  • Hoooo is coming to Strawberry Hill?
  • The Rich and Interesting History of Maple Syrup
  • Strawberry Hill celebrates land divestment
  • 2018, a year of change for Strawberry Hill
  • Strawberry Hill celebrates 35th anniversary
• Catoctin Forest Alliance Connecting our Children To Nature Conference
• Catoctin Mountain Park Announces 2012 Youth Conservation Corps Program
• Catoctin Mountain Park Announces Earth Day Weekend Activities
• Catoctin Trail designated National Recreation Trail
• Adventists Health Fair Includes FREE Cholesterol & Other Tests
• Oompah ZOOmpah! Fundraiser for Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo
• Bible school exemplifies Emmitsburg Council of Churches' efforts
• From the desk of County Commissioner Jan Gardner - Going Green
• Catoctin Mountain Park White-tailed Deer Management Plan
• The Catoctin Forest Alliance to Hold First Public Meeting
• Emmitsburg Council of Churches Prepares for Mission Trip to Kenya
• Seton Center Thrift Shop Plans Bag Sale
• Monterey Pass, Pennsylvania Civil War Trails Wayside Exhibit Dedication
• Catoctin Forest Alliance kicks off preservation effort
• Bell and History Days Opens the 2009 Museum Season
• Emmitsburg Chorus preparing for Christmas season
• “Thank heaven for little girls”
• Cycle Across Maryland Comes to Emmitsburg July 24 – 27
• Upcounty becomes county agency
• Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra Summer Camp for Young Musicians
• Bells ring in the 2008 museum season
• Youth Orchestra Seeking New Members
• Bill Wivell named construction supervisor for Habitat for Humanity
• Gettysburg Seminary and Elizabethtown College Offer Joint Exhibition
• Library Sponsors a Concert of Celtic Music in Celebration of St. Patrick's Day
• Arts Council annual meeting to feature Gettysburg Festival’s Karl Held
• Full Moon Walk At Strawberry Hill Nature Center and Preserve
• Maple Sugaring at Strawberry Hill Nature Center
• UpCounty Center celebrates 20 years helping people be successful
• Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra Free Holiday Concert
• Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra Seeks New Members
• Display of local artists' works benefits northern county reforestation efforts
• Young “Friends of the Library” operate 'The Book Nook'
• EBPA reinvents itself to support businesses
• Derek Gee Is New Branch Administrator for Emmitsburg Library
• Lions Clubs in Thurmont and Emmitsburg Help Many
• Goodwill Industries of Monocacy Valley supports local community
• Emmitsburg Library Celebrates 100 Years of Readers, Writers and Artists
• Organizational Meeting for Emmitsburg Library's 100th Birthday Celebration
• Seton Center needs family sponsors for the holidays
• Family to reunite in new home
• New environmental group - Friends of Frederick County hold kickoff meeting
• Landmarks Foundation & Frederick Historical Society's Historic Building Project
• Emmitsburg Coalition To Prevent Drug Abuse
• Ms. Littell, to be Parish Nurse Coordinator Caring Hands of Emmitsburg, Inc
• Interfaith Suggests New Single-Family Development in Silo Hill
• Town Celebrates the opening of the new community center
• The Regional Library ... Once Again Emmitsburg is Only an Afterthought!
• Firefighter Memorial Moves to Washington
• President's Emmitsburg Appearance Scheduled Months Ago
• Peace Center to present annual Peacemaker Awards
• Blue Ridge Summit Free Library to celebrate 90th year
• 2022 Catoctin Christmas Bird Count Results

• Emmitsburg has three crime “hot spots”
• Vandalism Destroys Students' Tree-Planting Efforts
• Thurmont man arrested on 4 counts of attempted first-degree murder
• More drug arrests rattle Emmitsburg residents
• Drug Abuse Prevention Effort Goes on
• Heroin in Small Town, USA
• Ted Brennan's: Help Fight Drugs In Our Community!
  • Emmitsburg Coalition To Prevent Drug Abuse
• The Emmitsburg Underground's
  • Emmitsburg Coalition To Prevent Drug Abuse
  • Emmitsburg Coalition To Prevent Drug Abuse Take 2

• Even with pandemic, Christmas festivals & concerts go on
• The 2020-2021 local winter arts scene
• Celebrate 95 Years of Majestic Movies with Classic Films
• Majestic Theater announces movies at home & curbside popcorn sales
• Adams County Heritage Festival Announces Lineup
• Being Revived announces their first full production - "Superman!"
• Adams County Arts Council
  • Gettysburg artist Wendy Allen to exhibit Lincoln paintings
  • Arts Council explores Italian culture and cuisine
  • Adams County Arts Council announces April pottery classes for adults
  • Arts Council show showcases high school artists
  • Arts Council Hosts Five-Woman Quilt Show
  • Arts Council welcomes 2 new board directors
• One Mountain Foundation to host 5th Annual Fall Dinner Theater
• Songs from the Camps, a Civil War picnic concert
• Labor Day Rest Fest at Crumland Farms
• Cumberland Valley School of Music Presents Performathon 2013
• Frederick Community Collage
  • FCC’s Music Program presents "The Old Maid and The Thief"
• Gettysburg Community Theatre
  • Special needs youth theatre!
  • Totem pole playhouse announces 2016 season
  • Senior Citizens Rediscover The Princess And The Pea
  • Gettysburg Community Theater's The Penguin Project
  • Local Children’s Theatre to Become Gettysburg Community Theatre
  • Senior Citizens Rediscover "The Princess And The Pea"
• Music Gettysburg!
  • Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra Performs Handel, Mozart and Hayden
  • Music, Gettysburg! Presents Festival Choral Vespers for Advent
  • Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra opens 2014 Music, Gettysburg!
  • Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra Concert of Beethoven and Debussy
  • Gregorio Brings Ensemble Companio to Music, Gettysburg!
  • Farewell Tour of Eaken Trio Comes to Music, Gettysburg!
  • Music Gettysburg! Metta Ensemble Celebrates Verdi Bicenntennial
  • Music Gettysburg! Premiers "Voices from the Hill"
  • Music Gettysburg! presents Pianist Brian Ganz's Chopin Festival
  • Music, Gettysburg! Presents the Gettysburg Big Band
  • Music Gettysburg! Presents Festival Choral Vespers
  • Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra Concert to Feature Eaken Trio
  • Music, Gettysburg's - 2011/12 Winter line-up
  • Award Winning Folk and Dance Duo Atwater and Donnelly
  • Music Gettysburg! Presents the U.S. Soldiers Chorus Concert
  • Metta Ensemble & Schola Cantorum Perform Together
  • Central Bucks Highschool Choir to Perform for Music, Gettysburg!
• Maryland Symphony Orchestra Presents "A Night at the Opera"
• Totem Pole Playhouse announces 60th Anniversary Season
• The Majestic Theater
  • Majestic Theater announces 2019-20 Season
  • Majestic Theater Hosts Totem Pole Playhouse’s "A Christmas Carol"
  • Giant Puppets from around The World take over the Majestic Stage
• The Weinberg Center
  • Disney’s Choo-Choo Soul
  • Church Basement Ladies A Heavenly Musical Comedy
  • The Africa Project
• Maryland Shakespeare Festival presents "Dead Man’s Mambo"
• Expose Yourself to Shakespeare!
• Seton Shrine presents "Songs from the Camps," a Civil War Picnic Concert
• Thurmont Thespians Auditions for "Grey Gardens – the Musical"
• The Majestic Theater presents Western Adams County Photography
• Way Off Broadway
  • Celebrate Mother’s Day With a Performance of Singin’ in the Rain

• Emmitsburg Ambulance reinstated - Again
• An open letter to the Community of Emmitsburg on EMS services

   2014

• New ambulance company building officially dedicated
• Fire/EMS Departments Seek Community Help
• Ambulance service fees could rise
• Paid staff join Volunteer Ambulance Co.
• Volunteer Emergency Services meet to discuss county career staff
• County approves fire tax to pay for full-time career emergency personnel
  • Ambulance and fire company emergency personnel talk merger
  • Fire tax talks turn to merger of Fire and Ambulance Companies
  • County to hold public hearing to discuss proposed fire tax
  • Emergency Ambulance staff could leave $300K hole in County budget
  • County takes over Emmitsburg ambulance company
  • Town recommends tax increase to cover ambulance service
  • Emmitsburg residents facing a sizeable tax increase
  • Panel Does Not Support Career EMS Personnel in Company
• Emmitsburg Ambulance Company's 15th annual banquet
• Chief Resigns, President Ousted at Emmitsburg Ambulance
  • Ambulance Company Agrees to Cease Billing
  • Ambulance Company Chief Defends Billing Users
  • Ambulance Company is Now Billing for Transports
  • Ambulance Company Threatened With Suspension
• Ambulance Company Receives County Training Award

• Elyssa Cool: VHC member of the year<
• Vigilant Hose wants a county Fire Chief
• Vigilant holds 128th Awards Banquet
• 127th Vigilant Hose Company Annual Banquet
• Volunteers make video about Vigilant Hose
• Videotape Celebrating Vigilant Hose Company 125th Anniversary
• Fire Heritage Center start membership drive
• VHC, Rocky Ridge recognized for seatbelt usage
• High winds encourage barn fire
• Vigilant Hose Fire Company recognizes members (2006)
• Vigilant Hose uses grant for new gear
• Fire at 15905 Old Frederick Road
• 2 Families Displaced Following Apartment Fire
• Fire company honors 2004 volunteers
• Lifesaving Defibrillators Making Emmitsburg Area Heart Safe
• Fire tax talks turn to merger of Fire and Ambulance Companies
• Unusable Fire Hydrants Plague Town
• DOJ Decides Not to fight Vigilant Over Tip Jars
• Fire Company's New Rescue Vehicle Arrives
• Members honored at VHC's 2002 banquet
• VHC honors Bob Rosensteel Jr. as 2001 Member of the Year
• VHC honors Chad Umbel as 2002 Member of Year

4 Years At The Mount

2018

• Mount St. Mary’s University set to graduate Class of 2018

2016

• Brigadier General Timothy Trainor appointed Mount President
• President Moves Mount Forward
• College Retention: A moral obligation
• Mount St. Mary’s University president defends his efforts to retain students

2014

• Mount Announces Selection of New President

• Mother Seton School Announces the Recipients of the Seton Values Award
• New Emmitsburg principal described as exceptional
• Mother Seton celebration begins
• Catoctin High School makes a splash
• Graceham Moravian begins celebration of 250 years
• Catoctin SAT scores drop 6 points
• Schools boast state’s lowest drop-out rate
• Local Pastors and Church Leaders honored
• Archdiocese Rejects Validity of Gianna Sullivan's Apparitions of Mary
  • Vatican supports action to suppress visionary
• St. Anthony Shrine meet the challenges of being one community
• North County schools deal with overcrowding issues
• Construction Begun at Mother Seton School 
• Mother Seton Expansion Still on Hold

• Mother Seton School's Christian Character Traits Program winners
• Emmitsburg Teens Take Center Stage
• New book details one of the nation’s "best kept secrets" of the civil war
• Mother Seton School announces recipients of Seton Values Award
• First Marshall Family Scholarship Awarded at Mother Seton School
• Daughter of Charity prep for bicentennial
• Catoctin’s number of AP tests increases
• A Commissioner in Cambodia
• In the name of one child, they ride for many
• Memorial Day Speech By Florida State Senator Jeff Atwater
• Catoctin freshman basketball goes undefeated
• Local waiter on the fast track toward 2010 Olympics
• George Wireman turns over the reigns of his radio show after 20 years
• Casey leaves community with good memories
• Northeast Storytelling Festival Announces Storytellers for 2nd Annual event
• Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
• Savor the tastes of Italy
• Library showcases paintings by local artist Amelia Carroll
• Elias Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates 250 years
• Circus is coming to Emmitsburg
• National Fire Academy accepting first semester applications
• Welcome to Furmont, Maryland
• National fire archive and county museum moves forward
• ESP adds artistic flavor to Thurmont
• Lewistown state fishery still going  after 88 years
• Gas prices affecting area gas stations
• Thurmont Rescue group hopes for county support
• Local volunteer earns award for service
• Frederick County Not Picked for Horse Park
• Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra Presenting Free Recital
• Cozy honors area's history
• Local citizens air school budget concerns
• Adams-York Area Irish Band To Unveil New CD
• Battle of Bands raises money for Catoctin high school
• Final plans for Bumpers drive-in theater to be submitted
• Mike Cady & his superb organization of the World Weightlifting Championship
• The World Weightlifting Championships - A Huge Success
• Governor Ehrlich Accepts Invitation To Serve as Honorary Chairman of WWUC
• Emmitsburg Hosts Three-Day Cycling Event
• Local Author Enjoys Publication of Second Book
• Judge Orders Insurer to Pay Emmitsburg Man's Legal Fees
• Mason-Dixon Line to Receive New Stone
• Emmitsburg Hosts Three-Day Cycling Event
• U.S. 15 Scenic Byway
• Fall Drought of 2000
• Reflection on the Rains
• Perry J. Wivell Retires After 24 Years Service to his Country
• Robert Seidle III, Emmitsburg native serving in Iraq