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>Constant Yield Hearing Slated This Evening
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Apr. 21, 2011
The Garrett County commissioners will hold a constant yield hearing this evening, Thursday, April 21, in the Garrett College auditorium at 7 p.m.
A hearing is required whenever a Maryland jurisdiction is considering not reducing its real property tax rate enough to fully offset increasing assessments.
The commissioners are proposing to keep the current real property tax rate at $.99 per $100 of assessment in fiscal year 2012. This tax rate is .3 percent higher than the constant yield tax rate and is expected to generate $119,903 in additional property tax revenues.
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Commissioners Gregg, Holliday Conduct Their Final Public Mtg.
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Dec. 9, 2010
Garrett County commissioners Ernie Gregg and Fred Holliday held their final public meeting on Tuesday. Both are Republicans, and both lost their bids to retain their seats in the recent election. Dozens of county staff members and constituents were on hand for the meeting.
District 1 commissioner Gregg was elected to six terms (not all consecutive), and is the longest serving commissioner in the county’s history.
“It’s been a real honor for me to serve the people of Garrett County,” he said. “I’ve tried to do that with compassion, fairness, integrity, and, most of all, honesty.”
Commissioner Holliday has represented District 2 for three terms.
“It’s been an honor and privilege to serve the people of Garrett County for the past 12 years,” Holliday said.
He said he hoped some of those gathered at the meeting would forgive him for “sticking a pencil in their eye” in an effort to keep them on budget.
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Garrett Choral Society To Present "Christmas Joy" Concert Dec. 11, 12
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Dec. 2, 2010
The Garrett Choral Society (GCS) will present its annual holiday concert, this year titled Christmas Joy, on Saturday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 12, at 2 p.m. The presentation will be given at St. Peter at the Lake Center in McHenry. The church is located along Mosser Road, just past Garrett College, on the right.
Under the direction of Julie Turrentine, the GCS features nearly 50 singers from all areas of Garrett County and nearby West Virginia. The group’s accompanist is Lynn Grimm, who will be joined on selected pieces by keyboard players Michael Broderick and Barb Peters. Moe Turrentine and Madonna Pool will provide percussion accompaniment.
The major work of this concert will be J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, which is the canticle of Mary from the first chapter of the Book of Luke, verses 46-55. The 12-movement piece will be the first half of the program, and will feature several soloists.
The second half of the program will consist of familiar Christmas songs, as well as some multi-layered choral pieces such as “Benedicamus Domino” by Peter Warlock and “Lux Aurumque” by Eric Whitacre.
The Con Brio Singers, an octet, will present Four Nutcracker Favorites, a light-hearted, abbreviated version of the classic work by Tchaikovsky. The men will present “Betelehemu” as well, which is a Nigerian Christmas song. It will feature soloist Royce Warnick.
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FireFly Farms Win Major Awards At ADGA Conference
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Nov. 4, 2010
FireFly Farms, producer of artisanal goat cheeses from Maryland’s Allegheny Plateau, received top honors for four of its aged goat cheeses at the American Dairy Goat Association’s annual conference. The ADGA held its annual conference Oct. 15 through 23 in Tucson, Ariz.
FireFly Farms’ aged goat cheese, Merry Goat Round, was honored as the 2010 Reserve Best-in-Show at the competition. Merry Goat Round also took a first place ribbon competing in its class against other unflavored surface mold ripened cheeses. These two new awards bring Merry Goat Round’s total individual award count to eight, including international recognition at the World Cheese Awards in 2004, 2007, and 2008.
FireFly’s aged goat cheese, Mountain Bleu, received the first place ribbon competing in its class against other unflavored blue-veined cheeses with exterior molding. This new award brings Mountain Top Bleu’s total individual award count to 13, including its 2005 selection by Saveur Magazine editors as one of their 50 favorite American cheeses and its international recognition at the World Cheese Awards in 2004, 2006, and 2008.
FireFly Farms’ aged goat cheese, Black & Blue, received the first place ribbon competing in its class against other unflavored, rindless, blue-veined cheeses. This new award brings Black & Blue’s total individual award count to five, including consecutive first place finishes in the ADGA Competition for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
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September Home Sales – Market Update – Deep Creek Lake
I am a little late in publishing these numbers this month, but I have a good reason…Autumn Glory kept me sidetracked for much of the weekend and even in to this week. What a great time of the year – the leaves peaked from Saturday afternoon until about mid-day Monday. Keep an eye on this blog for links to the photo galleries from all of the county – I got some great photos!
We had 39 home sales in the month of September 2010 (versus 26 sales in September 2009). Another sizable increase from last month (32 total sales), as well as being the most productive month of the year, I believe.
There are 50 homes under contract (sale-pending), down from last month (67). This number should continue to drop steadily until we enter the next ‘season’ for tourists and visitors to return to the county for extended stays.
The average list vs. ORIGINAL sales price was 82.63%, down from last month (87.31%).
The ADJUSTED list vs sale price is 89.63% down 2% from last month (91.80%).
The current number of active/for sale residential listings (minus timeshares) is 751 as of today, down from last month (775). I expect this number to drop in the coming months, as most sellers remove their home from the market in the late fall/winter months, but even at this pace, it’s a 19 month supply of homes (last months pace was 24 month supply).
Random Observations:
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There were 9 ‘newer’ homes that sold this month.
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There was a lakefront home that sold for $399,900
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24 of the 39 homes sold for less than $300,000.
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Highest sale was $1.150 million on Marsh Hill Rd.
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3 houses sold for full price.
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1 home sold for 50% of asking price – next lowest, 79%
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19 of these sales were lake area or vacation homes.
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The rest (20) are primary residential homes scattered around Garrett County.
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Average age of the home sold was 23 years old
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2 sales at Wisp Resort – one at Kendall Camp & the other at North Camp
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5 condo’s/townhouse properties sold
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2 sales above $1 million, both lakefront homes
Here are the statistical breakdowns:
Average Sale Price: $317,014 (last month $367,780)
Average Days on Market: 187/226 (last month 163/182) (days on market with current broker/total days on market).
I’ll update this later this week with how Railey Realty fared in the sales numbers.
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Ground Broken For New Dove Center
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Oct. 7, 2010
Dove Center staff and board members, supporters, and local officials broke ground last Friday for the construction of a new facility off Memorial Drive in Oakland. The center’s executive director, Heather Hanline, called the event a huge accomplishment. “I can’t think of a better way to kick off National Domestic Violence Awareness Month than to be breaking ground on our new facility, which is the product of years of time and effort, creativity, generosity, and community support,” Hanline said. The center was spearheaded 20 years ago by a small grassroots effort to address the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims.
Hanline noted the facility had a “humble beginning,” with just two staff members in a small office in downtown Oakland. Since then, the center has grown in an effort to meet an increasing need for its services. About two years ago, a capital campaign was launched to construct a new facility, which will include storage space, offices, and safe, secure shelter for victims. The campaign has raised nearly $300,000 in donations and garnered a $800,000 Community Development Block Grant from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. Hanline said she hopes be able to move into the new center by this time next year.
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Miss Maryland To Be Guest In Autumn Glory Parade
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University of Maryland senior Lindsay Staniszewski is Miss Maryland 2010, and through the annual sponsorship of Gregg’s Pharmacy, she will be a special guest in the Autumn Glory Festival Grand Feature Parade on Saturday, Oct. 9. At Maryland, Staniszewski is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in communications, with a specialization in public relations. Following her graduation in December 2010, she hopes to continue her education by obtaining a master’s degree in public relations. Staniszewski’s platform is “Beyond Beauty: Building Self-Esteem and Positive Body Image in Girls.” She said she hopes to use her title as Miss Maryland and her web site, beyondbeautyforgirls.com, “to help redefine the meaning of beauty.” For information about all Autumn Glory Festival special guests and events, see The Republican newspaper’s special supplement which is included in today’s issue, and will be distributed to news outlets and businesses throughout the county.
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