MPT Program To Feature Area Barns, Barn Quilts
Feb. 23, 2012
Maryland Public Television will present a one-hour program focused on the state’s many barns and barn quilt art. The show will include footage of Garrett County. Historic Barns of Maryland will air for the first time on MPT Wednesday, Feb. 29, beginning at 8 p.m.
Maryland has more historic barns per acre than just about any other state in the nation, according to a spokesperson from the television station.
“There is a lot to explore and see – from the tobacco barns of the lower Eastern Shore and southern Maryland to the red bank barns of the Piedmont Plateau,” the spokesperson said. “The innovative barn quilt project in Garrett County will also be covered during the statewide showcase.”
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Writer and producer Jonathan Slade, along with videographer Tim Pugh, visited Garrett County early last summer to explore the Barn Quilt Trail. Several property owners and members of the Barn Quilt Association of Garrett County Inc. were interviewed.
“Part travelogue and part nostalgia, Historic Barns of Maryland will celebrate architectural ingenuity,” the spokesperson said. “During the program, viewers will discover the agricultural, economic and cultural significance of these aging, iconic structures made of timber, stone, and brick. Farmers, builders, preservationists, architects, artists, and historians share insiders’ stories and perspectives.”
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OTT To Present Farce
Feb. 23, 2012
Happily Ever Once Upon, a fairy tale farce, is being staged at Our Town Theatre in Oakland next week. “Have you ever wondered what happened after the ball was over?” asked director Christie Elmlinger. “This play checks in with Prince Charming and Cinderella 20 years after the clock struck midnight. We learn that the Enchanted Kingdom is broke, Cinderella’s fairy godmother is a blackmailer with a penchant for B-grade Western movies, and having five kids makes your feet so big the glass slippers no longer fit. Join us for an evening of laughter and love and see why the best fairy tales have real-life happy endings.”
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The show will open Wednesday, Feb. 29, and run through Sunday, March 4. Productions start at 8 p.m. on all dates but March 4, when the show will start at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and $10 on Friday and Saturday. The director noted that this show “is not a princess fairy tale for young children.” The play contains some adult themes and mildly foul language, and is appropriate for those age 14 and older. Elmlinger designed the set, Ben Sincell is the lighting designer, Emily Elmlinger is the stage manager, and Ted Hughes built the set. The cast is pictured. In the front, from left, are Joshua Elmlinger, Jen Shillingburg, and Tammy Beitzel. In the middle row, same order: Dylan Barnard, Hannah Newcomb, Matt Steyer, Nixon Malcolm, Becca Flinn, and Rachael Huxford. In back, armed with pistols, is Lynne Elmlinger. Reservations are recommended, and may be made by calling the theatre at 301-334-5640.
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Miss Herpel Is Crowned Miss Western Md.
Feb. 23, 2012
Local resident Grace Herpel was crowned Miss Western Maryland at the recent Miss Washington County/Miss Western Maryland Pageant held at the historic Maryland Theater, Hagerstown.
She is a 2009 graduate of Northern High School and the daughter of Betsy and Jerry Herpel, Accident. She is currently a junior at Frostburg State University pursuing a degree in math communications with a focus in public relations.
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Herpel champions her personal platform of “Volunteering: Changing Their and Your Life” as she volunteers for Garrett Mentors, the Lions Club Blind Skier Program, and HART for Animals, as well as raises funds for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Herpel will vie for the title of Miss Maryland in June at the Maryland Theater.
To donate to CMN Hospitals, persons may visit http://www.missamericaforkids.org/Donate/graceherpel.
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They’re treating symptoms — not problems
After attending the Garrett County commissioners meeting to discuss possible school closings and aiding or taking over the Adventure Sports Center International, (ASCI) I am afraid we may be asking the wrong questions.
School closings are not in and of themselves the real problem at hand. They are a symptom of a larger problem; lack of enrollment and a dwindling local population in Garrett County.
Treating only the school closings would be like taking Advil for a headache when in fact you have a brain tumor.
The big question is why are people born and raised in Garrett County leaving? Why are more families not making the county their primary residence?
Improvements are being made, though I assume lack of jobs that offer a real salary is one problem. High property taxes present another.
Cost of living is nearly on par with the nicer areas of large cities or other recreational destinations. Complete lack of anything that caters only to locals and doesn’t have a large price tag attached could be another part of the equation.
When I was a student at Garrett College in 2002 the GEIC incubation center for small business had just opened. I, along with 15 others was part of an internship with a software firm from Frederick.
We were paid minimum wage and offered health insurance with promises of good salaried jobs right at home in Garrett County when we graduated and potential for some of our education to be paid for.
One year later they dumped all of us with the exception of two and made good on none of their promises. What was dressed up and masqueraded as opportunity for locals was nothing more than cheap labor for a small software firm full of bloated promises that ended up being lies.
We need real economic growth and opportunity for all Garrett County citizens; $7.50 per hour, no health insurance and often sub-par working conditions don’t cut it and certainly does not encourage local people to stick around.
Closing schools will just make the area less and less attractive for potential new residents. The college is overpopulated with students from out of the area and this has created a tough learning environment for local children.
In, “Field of Dreams” Kevin Costner’s character learned, “If you build it they will come.” Perhaps our elected representatives and private business people need to realize if you offer real opportunity people will come.
If you stop allowing local citizens to feel like second class, more people will come and more people will stay.
Jeremy Gosnell
Oakland
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CVLG To Give Information On Drilling Leases
Feb. 23, 2012
The Casselman Valley Landowner Group (CVLG) will hold informational sessions on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department, Salisbury, Pa. Anyone who owns one or more acres of oil and gas rights will have a final opportunity to join the group that day. Informational sessions will be held hourly, and refreshments will be served.
The CVLG has been holding regular meetings in Salisbury since November. Landowners have expressed a strong interest in leasing property for Marcellus Shale drilling in recent meetings in southern Somerset County.
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Landowners with 10 or more acres in Garrett County are invited to attend to get more information, as Shale Marketers is interested in starting groups in Maryland in the near future.
Property owners in the Somerset County townships of Addison, Black, Elk Lick, Greenville, Larimer, Milford, Southampton, and Summit have thus far shown a committed interest in leasing over 15,000 acres of land for drilling purposes, according to Jack Polochak, an attorney representing the Casselman group.
The group has been organized by Shale Marketers, a marketing group representing clients who are interested in leasing their gas and oil rights to energy companies.
Richard Vickroy, the land group manager for Shale Marketers, noted that the more property owners combine efforts and acreage, the easier it is to negotiate an agreement with a prospective company.
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GC Officials Attend State Senate Hearing
GC Officials Attend State Senate Hearing
Feb. 23, 2012
A group of Garrett County officials attended a hearing in Annapolis yesterday to discuss the proposed Maryland State Senate Bill #586.
The bill would cap school system funding losses from state aid at around five percent.
About 30 individuals from the Friendsville area were present, while Dennett Road Elementary had seven people at the hearing on its behalf.
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The hearing began at 1 p.m. One Garrett Countian has stated that there was a wait time of approximately 3 to 4 hours before the school budget issue could be addressed, as other bills were also on the agenda.
When Bill 586 did come up, George Edwards, Maryland state senator, led the testimony and was followed by Davis Cox, Allegany County superintendent of public schools.
Next to speak were Garrett County commissioners Gregan Crawford and James Raley, followed by Sue Waggoner, Garrett County interim superintendent of schools, and Larry McKenzie, director of finance for the Garrett County Board of Education.
Spencer Schlosnagle, Friendsville mayor, then began the citizen testimony.
In response to the testimony, Edward Kasemeyer, Maryland state senator, stated that the committee was “going to help.”
Further information will be forth coming.
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Tucker Community Foundation Offering 40 Different Scholarships
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 4:43 PM EST Updated: Feb 22, 2012 4:43 PM EST
By Jeff Schrock, Randolph, Tucker and Upshur County Reporter – email
PARSONS –
The Tucker Community Foundation is accepting applications from high school students for merit-based scholarships.
Students in seven counties in West Virginia: Barbour, Grant, Mineral, Preston, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker County, and Garrett County, Md. can use the money regardless of their field of study.
The foundation will award more than $52,000 in 40 different scholarships.
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Median wages in Md. fail to keep up with cost of basic needs, report says
By Caitlin Johnston and Carl Straumsheim, Special to The Baltimore Sun
February 23, 2012
A family of three in Baltimore County needs about $62,000 just to make ends meet, a new report shows. And, without government assistance, minimum wage barely gets them a quarter of the way there.
In Baltimore City, that same family of an adult with a preschooler and a school-age child needs nearly $50,000, the report said, for a bare-bones budget.
The 2012 Self-Sufficiency Standard, scheduled to be released in Annapolis on Thursday morning, calculates the cost of living for Maryland families based on prices of such necessities as housing, food, transportation and child care. The report, prepared for the Maryland Community Action Partnership, found that median wages in Maryland — which have risen about 25 percent since 2001 — have failed to keep up with the increasing costs of basic needs, which are up statewide about 54 percent.
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Baltimore's winter on track to see most-ever 50-plus-degree days
By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun
10:07 p.m. EST, February 22, 2012
February is coming to a close the same way it started — with unseasonable warmth — and climate experts say there is an increased probability that above-average temperatures will continue into summer….
…For the last two years, he said, snow and freezing temperatures kept golfers off the fairways between Halloween and St. Patrick’s Day. In February 2010, for instance, only five rounds — total, across all five courses — of golf were played. This year, the company surpassed its expected revenue for the first two months of the year by the end of January, Ladd said.
In Garrett County, the ski business at Savage River Lodge has been reduced from a normal season of more than 40 skiing days to just four days this season, said owner Mike Driesbach.
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Smarter Way to Own a Vacation Home on Deep Creek Lake Scheduled to Open Spring 2012
The Creekside Club, a fractional private residence club, is coming soon to beautiful Deep Creek Lake in Garret County, MD. This very popular four-season vacation area has been a destination for a generation of families from the Washington D.C. area, Northern Virginia and Pittsburgh looking for a retreat away from the hustle and bustle of city living.
Offering a smarter way to own a vacation home at Deep Creek Lake with fractional ownership, The Creekside Club is scheduled to open Spring 2012 but is taking reservations now for ownership. Only 36 ownerships will be available at The Creekside Club. Since 1986, the residence club ownership model has proven to be a smarter way to own a luxury vacation home without all the traditional hassles associated with second home ownership. Private residence clubs can be found in other luxury vacation destinations such as the Rocky Mountains, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and some tropical paradises as well.
The Creekside Club’s ownership model truly fits this new real estate market – by being the “smarter way to own” a lakefront vacation home. A luxuriously furnished four-bedroom villa, complete with private dock, starts at only $139,000 for a one-eighth deeded share, and allows you to use your lakefront home as much as you want based on availability. And if that is not enough, it comes with a brand new 24’ top-of-the line Bennington boat to cruise and play on the crystal clear waters of Deep Creek Lake, right outside your back door.
Fractional real estates expansion into Deep Creek Lake, MD, is being driven by a growing consumer awareness and interest in this unique and efficient second home ownership model. Owning fractional real estate allows you to purchase your vacation home, use it as much as you want (probably more than you’ll have time to). It also allows owners to keep more cash in their pocket, since buyers only pay a fraction of the acquisition price, and owners share all upkeep costs on a million dollar home on the lake.
“This real estate product has been very successful in places like Aspen, Vail and Lake Tahoe we are very excited to now have it at Deep Creek Lake” says Debra Savage, the Club’s Sales Director. Our Owners will enjoy all the luxury, none of the hassles of owning a home away from home, and all at a fraction of the price”
Residence Club Partners of Asheville, NC, the management company at Creekside feels this model will change the future of second home ownership forever. “In addition to a growing trend in buying a residence club home vs. whole ownership, the residence club owner services we offer at our clubs include a full-time concierge, housekeeping and very unique custom experience packages, things you don’t get with the typical real estate purchase” says Mandy Allfrey of Residence Club Partners.
Vacation and second home buyers interested in learning more about The Creekside Club on Deep Creek Lake, can visit www.creeksideclub.com. Mention that you heard it from Jay Ferguson, buyer agent with Railey Realty.
About Residence Club Partners
Residence Club Partners and DCP International are the leaders in private residence club design, management, sales and marketing in the U.S. and internationally. They are also the fastest growing residence club design, sales and marketing company in the United States, as awarded by BestResidenceClubs.com, a division of Luxury Living Magazine.
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