06/25/11 Everything was going relatively smoothly on the cross-country bicycle ride for the eight members of Team ViaSat. That was, until they hit the mountains of Western Maryland. One of the cyclists got lost and ended up by himself, right around midnight and in the middle of a 3,000 foot incline, team member Jeff Johnstone said. The seven other bicyclists - all cycling from Oceanside, Calif. to ...
06/24/11 Amid his days spent fishing, hunting and ranching horses in his small hometown of Flintstone, Md., Travis Alder dreamt of flying. After graduating from Ft. Hill High School in Cumberland, Md., that dream would become a reality.
05/30/11 National Trails Day is next weekend and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to help maintain trails at state parks across Maryland.
05/09/11 Isabella Pannone, Washington Middle School eighth-grader, displays her Maryland History Day project on the National Road history at the Queen City Transportation Museum, 210 S. Centre St. The project won the Excellence in Maryland History Award at the state competition held last month and was a first-place winner in the Junior Division.
03/04/11 It's funny the things we remember from when we were kids. On Saturdays my sister Donna and I would wake up early and plop down on the floor in front of the couch to watch cartoons. I looked at them as mindless entertainment. I didn't care if there was a moral to the story. I didn't care if Pepe Le Pew stalked a cat. I didn't care if Wile E. Coyote couldn't brake in time to avoid going over that ...
02/21/11 Firefighters from volunteer companies and the Maryland Forest Service on Sunday morning put out the last of a rash of brush fires that struck Allegany County beginning about 3 p.m. Saturday.
10/29/10 A correctional officer is trying to defeat business owner LeRoy E. Myers Jr. for the state delegate seat in Subdistrict 1C, where Myers is finishing his second term.
10/19/10 William Thomas Stacey Jr., 65, of Hagerstown, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va.
10/16/10 The Herald-Mail asked the candidates running for Marylands House of Delegates in the Nov. 2 general election to respond to eight questions. Candidates were asked to limit each response to 100 words. Following are their responses.
10/12/10 Natural Resources Police will increase patrols in the 46,000 acre Green Ridge State Forest in Flintstone to combat illegal drug activity.
09/20/10 Allie Hott, 15, hopes that in just a few hours this Sunday, she can raise awareness about a disease that she lives with every day.
09/20/10 Allegany County firefighters battled two brush fires Sunday afternoon that were fueled by ongoing dry conditions. Orleans Volunteer Fire Company, Flintstone Volunteer Fire Company and ambulance and Hancock Volunteer Fire Company responded to a brush fire on Scofield Road at about 3:40 p.m.
09/20/10 Tour guides Keith and Anne Potts will conduct a ghost tour of historic Cumberland on Saturday at 7 p.m. The tour will begin by the tracks of the Western Maryland Railway Station and will include architectural and historic information.
09/16/10 obert "Bob" Grant Wolford, 80, of Flintstone, Md., passed away Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, at Western Maryland Regional Medical Center.
09/14/10 Michael Hough defeated Del. Charles A. Jenkins, R-Frederick/Washington, for the Republican nomination in the Subdistrict 3B House of Delegates race in Tuesdays primary election, according to complete but unofficial returns.
08/18/10 Ronald Lohr thought someone else would challenge Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. this year. But when Lohr heard Myers might go unchallenged, he jumped in. He filed July 6 about 45 minutes before the deadline, as he recalled.
08/11/10 Daryl Danko captured Fast Time of the Day at the fourth annual Polish Mountain Hill Climb near Flintstone in this unique AAR Gurney Eagle racer from the late 1970s.
07/08/10 Last night's filing deadline for Maryland elections passed without too many surprises, but not without the usual deadline watch in the state board of elections offices in Annapolis, WYPR's Joel McCord was there and has this report.
06/23/10 CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - 06/23/10) - REALTOR Magazine and the Good Neighbor Society have announced the winning applicants of the second Volunteering Works, an annual program that matches Realtors who work on small-scale charitable efforts with mentors and awards them grant money. The five winning Realtors will receive a $1,000 grant and a year of one-on-one mentoring from a member of the Good ...
06/23/10 CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - June 23, 2010) - REALTOR ® Magazine and the Good Neighbor Society have announced the winning applicants of the second Volunteering Works, an annual program that matches Realtors ® who work on small-scale charitable efforts with mentors and awards them grant money. | 
