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Who I Am My name is Jay Ferguson, and I am a lifelong resident of the Deep Creek Lake area. I am also co-owner of the real estate side of Taylor Made. I have been in the real estate business for 21+ years now and I LOVE what I do! I have to say, my career really took off when I co-founded the real estate side of Taylor Made in 2014. Its been an amazing experience, building a real estate company from the ground up and achieving so much so quickly! In August 2016, we purchased Long & Foster Real Estate Deep Creek, where I had started my career in 2000. In 2018, we on-boarded virtually every agent from Coldwell Banker Deep Creek Realty as they closed up shop and the real estate family grew even more! We now have over 40 sales agents and have expanded to West Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well. Taylor Made is the #1 vacation rental company at Deep Creek with over 475 vacation rental homes, and over one hundred thousand yearly visitors. Its amazing what we have accomplished using the principles of honesty, teamwork and customer service! Personally, my wife Jessica and I enjoy traveling and especially spending time in the outdoors, hiking and exploring the many diverse areas that Garrett County is naturally blessed with. We have raised two wonderful children here, Kayleah (22) and Noah (13). In the summer, we love spending time on the water with friends & family and enjoying the lake life! We are both active in our church, our community & local school activities, and we fill our schedule with plenty of volunteer efforts. I currently serve on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity. I am proud to say that I was named Deep Creek Time’s Favorite ‘Community Champion’ in 2019. I was also named Garrett County Realtor of the Year in 2018-19, as well. I really enjoy promoting my hometown. I am very proud of the resort area that has developed over my lifetime and look forward to growing the area even more! Deep Creek Lake has been described as ‘The Lake Tahoe of the east', and I think that speaks volumes about the potential to own property here! Deep Creek Lake isn't really a town or city by itself; it's comprised of three towns: Oakland, Swanton & McHenry, Maryland. I am very passionate about my hometown and am impressed with how many people know about it as we travel around the country. Deep Creek Lake is an amazing place to visit and even better place to live! During the pandemic in 2020, our market exploded and more and more people left their primary residence in the city to live here permanently. With distance learning in schools and tele-commuting becoming the ‘norm’, many more people were drawn to the area to ‘live where they love to play’. Why You Want Me Working for You: In addition to being an owner, I am consistently one of the top-producing agents in the entire area and the Associate Broker of record for Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales. I have 21+ years of experience and I am a problem solver. There aren’t many situations that I have not encountered and I have a strategy for almost every scenario that you may encounter. I have extensively trained in all areas of real estate & emerging technologies, and also have trained as an appraiser, as well as served as a full-time Broker. I have a strong knowledge of the industry, as well as many trusted local contacts & affiliations that allow me to perform at a very high level and deliver results. I have a great deal of respect for my peers in this industry and have strong working relationships that I would love to put to work for you. Call me to discuss your situation - I know I can be of great service to you & others you care about! Honesty. Integrity. Results.

Western Maryland Truck Show Set In Grantsville Park Next Weekend

Aug. 15, 2013

 

The 15th annual Western Maryland Truck Show will be held next weekend, Aug. 23 to 25, at the Grantsville Town Park. A wide variety of events and entertainment is slated for all three days.

Friday, Aug. 23

Truck registration will be held on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. A lawn mower pull will be featured at 7 p.m., and the Kenny Jones Band will also present a concert.

Saturday, Aug. 24

Activities begin on Saturday at 9 a.m., with craft and food vendors, children’s activities, music, and the Maryland National Guard sponsoring a climbing wall and bungee jumping.

“Open mic” Karaoke with Jimmy B will take place behind the playground from 2 to 4 p.m., and at 3 p.m. there will be a candy drop in the ball field.

WFRB will broadcast a live radio remote trom 3 to 6 p.m., with the Trucker, and Billy Bigrigger’s Saloon will open at 5 p.m. (Proper age identification will be required.)

Entrance to concerts on the main stage will begin at 5 p.m., with Girlz in Black Hats performing at 6:30 and Chris Cagle at 8 p.m.

A Big Rig Light Show will be featured at 9:30, and the After Party at the Grantsville American Legion will begin at 10 p.m. The featured band at that event will be Jennings Run.

Sunday, Aug. 25

Sunday will include a drawing for a 4-wheeler give-away and plaque presentations at noon, followed by a truckers’ convoy at 1:30 p.m.

Organizers have noted that there will be a change in the truck show judging for this year. In the past, a team of judges has awarded trophies in various categories. This year there will not be a team of judges, but trophies will be awarded to certain trucks.

Persons should bring their own chairs and blankets for concert festival seating for these events. Additional parking will be available at the Grantsville Industrial Park, with a shuttle running to the truck show.

Portions of the proceeds will benefit the Frostburg Soroptimist Club in efforts to battle ovarian cancer.

Admission is free to the public on Friday and Sunday, but tickets are required for the Chris Cagle concert on Saturday.

Tickets are available in advance at the show’s web site, found at www.westernmarylandtruckshow.com, or at Grantsville Liquors, First United in Grantsville, M&T Bank in Grantsville, Lake-view Auto, and Winner’s Circle in Oakland.

Advance tickets are $8, and tickets at the gate are $12. Children ages 12 and younger will be admitted free of charge.

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Laura Stutzman's Paintings Adorn New USPS Stamps

Aug. 15, 2013

“From the heights of sunny summer to the snowy depths of winter, Old Glory proudly waves,” states the United States Post Office, referring to the latest Forever® stamps being issued this week. The stamps, titled “A Flag For All Seasons,” are more significant to Garrett County than the simple mailing of letters, as the paintings of the flag were created by Mountain Lake Park resident Laura Stutzman.

This is the second time the local illustrator/graphic designer has created works of art for national distribution, as she painted four flags used on stamps issued in 2008 as well. This year the flags are depicted in all four seasons. In 2008, she showed them at four times of day.

The message being stressed by the USPS through these new stamps is the proper treatment of the United States flag. Guidelines for the display and treatment of the American flag hark back to the National Flag Code adopted in 1923 at the National Flag Conference and amended a year later. A federal law in 1942 further provided specific rules for using and displaying the flag.

According to the USPS, federal law states that the flag should be displayed every day of the year, but especially on federal and state holidays, the “birthdays” of states, and other days according to presidential proclamation. As long as a flag is a durable, all-weather flag, it may be displayed outdoors throughout the year, regardless of the weather.

Each of the four “A Flag For All Seasons” stamps shows an American flag, viewed from below, flying from a pole at full staff against a background of trees that evoke one of the four seasons of the year. Local residents may be interested to know that Stutzman took photos of the flag at the Mountain Lake Park historic ticket booth to use as a reference for her works. The trees, she said, are local aspens. Her medium for the paintings was gouache on illustration board.

The art director was Phil Jordan. Stutzman works with Jordan and USPS personnel in developing the final product, which takes a great deal of time, as well as trial and error processes.

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Deep Creek Watershed Management Plan Steering Committee Appointed

The Board of County Commissioners and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources worked collaboratively to select the following members to the Deep Creek Lake Watershed Management Plan Steering Committee.

David Myerberg – Resident Representative

Robert Hoffman – Resident Representative

Peter Versteegen – Resident Representative

Lulu Gonella – Resident Representative

John Forman – Forestry Representative

Steve Green – Recreation Representative

Robert Browning – Business Representative

Willie Lantz – Agricultural Representative

Mike Sabad – Power Plant Representative

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665 Shoreline Dr – Thousand Acres – $649,000 – ga8099094

665 SHORELINE DR
SWANTON, MD 21561 

Level lakefront cottage, private dock. 3 bedroom, two bath, massive stone fireplace, vaulted ceiling, living, dining, kitchen combination, on 2.5 acres ! Located in private Southern lake Thousand Acres Community !

http://deepcreeklake.com/RealEstate/JayFerguson/detail.aspx?id=GA8099094

Yellow Beauties' Bobbing Heads

Cool picture from the Republican:

Readers of this online edition of The Republican newspaper would be confused by the caption originally written for this photo, as it was all about simply imagining the lovely colors. That is because a major equipment malfunction this morning at the newspaper office has caused the staff to print today’s hard copy newspaper in black and white only. Online viewers can see it in all its glory, however, so technology has not completely failed us. Happy August, everyone. Photo by Lisa Broadwater.

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Local Family, Town Topic Of Article

Aug. 8, 2013

Author and historian Joe Manning, Florence, Mass., recently completed an online article that centered on the Blizzard family and the Garrett County mining town of Kempton, pictured below. George Blizzard was among the many employees of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, which began operations in 1914. The company built the mine and houses on a hillside above the Potomac, where most of the residents lived in single-family houses, with four to six rooms, an outdoor toilet, and a small lot, enough for a lawn in front and a small garden in back. Next to the company store was an arcade called the Opera House, with a lunchroom, bowling alleys, pool tables, dance floor, and auditorium. The streets were unpaved. By 1918, Kempton had 106 houses and a population of 850, which grew to around 2,000 by the time the mine suddenly closed in April 1950, causing the Garrett County commissioners to have the county declared a federal disaster area as some 250 miners were suddenly unemployed. Within a decade or so, the town all but disappeared. Pictured above are George and Lillie Blizzard, with children (from left) Mildred, Carl, Dorothy (front), and Nellie. Dorothy Blizzard Slaubaugh is still living today in Virginia, and an interview with her done by Manning in February is included in his feature. Many descendants of the Blizzards reside in Garrett County today. For the past seven years, Manning has been conducting a personal project to track down and interview descendants of some of the families photographed by the Farm Security Administration in the late 1930s and early 1940s. “In my career as a social worker, I became interested in child labor photos, and wanted to find out what ultimately happened to these children,” Manning said. “I began scanning the many photos available through the FSA and had a desire to turn these children and their families into more than just a photo; to find out about them and what became of them.” He has completed nearly 50 such articles over the past several years. Manning grew up in southern Maryland, but spent a lot of time in Garrett County. His father Joseph was a deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources under Governor Marvin Mandel and had a second home in Garrett County. Manning’s online article about Kempton and the Blizzard family can be found at http://www.eightsteeples.com/blizzard1.html.

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