Dawn Furman Gordon was at her home by the Urbana Fishing Lake in early summer when a thunderstorm came through and brought a large tree down, falling across the Urbana Fishing Lake Road. She was trapped, along with several other…
The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) recently introduced their own application meant to be downloaded onto smart phones. A new website was also launched. This can be found at www.frederickcosheriff.com. The application has 12 options, including crime statistics, locations of…
Eric Soter, former Frederick County planning director who is principal, director of Research & Analytics with Rodgers Consulting, Inc., gave a presentation March 12 to the Frederick County Building Industry Association (FCBIA). He called for Frederick County to gather and…
Two days after Christmas, the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) sent out their reassessments of nearly 700,000 residential and commercial properties across the state and Urbana residents saw a noticeable increase. Area residential assessments went up about…
State Delegate Carol Krimm (D-District 3-A) was elected leader of the Frederick County State Delegation at their annual public meeting, held Dec. 8 at Winchester Hall in Frederick. The eight-member Frederick County State Delegation is split equally, 4 to 4,…
Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner and the Frederick County Council were sworn in Dec. 3 at the Weinberg Center for the Arts. This is the second county executive and County Council sworn in since Frederick County voted to change to…
After absentee and provisional ballot counting, the 60 percent Frederick County voter turnout for the 2018 election was indeed high and mirrored turnout in presidential elections when the highest number of voters cast their ballots. Democratic Frederick County incumbent County…
While Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan defied odds to win reelection in a state where Democratic voter registration is twice that of Republican voter registration, it turned out he had no coattails in Frederick County or across the state to…
It has been decades since a Democrat was elected leader of the Frederick County state delegation, and Democrat Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner will have the opportunity to appoint a member to replace the soon to be vacant Frederick County…
Frederick County voters will be electing a county executive and County Council on Nov. 6. The three candidates running for county executive are incumbent Jan Gardner (D), Kathy Afzali (R) and Earl Robbins (U). We asked the candidates to limit…
