Several Frederick County education and safety officials met with parents at Urbana Middle School (UMS) on Jan. 18 to discuss improving transportation safety measures for UMS students and parents. The meeting was held due to much community discussion and following an accident outside UMS in December, when Urbana’s Christopher Pope was seriously injured while...
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Much chatter has gone on in the Urbana community in response to arrests of four, 16-year-old Urbana boys by the Frederick County Fire Investigations Task Force on Dec. 27. The four arrests were made around 11 p.m. on Dec. 27 in conjunction with fires at two separate garages in the Villages of Urbana. The...
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Minda Metz is in the business of making unusual goodness — edible unusual goodness, that is. Metz owns The Buzz, a cafe-and-bakery fusion that holds a comfortable, coffee-shop vibe and draws locals to Monrovia, Md., in hoards. Her cooking is dubbed here as unusual — because it’s unusual that Metz is even in Monrovia....
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Frederick County officials are beginning the permitting process for a proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) facility to be located at the McKinney Industrial Center. According to the proposal, the facility would need to process 1,500 tons of waste daily and would service both Frederick and Carroll counties. Concerned and active citizens have voiced opposition to the...
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Have you ever wondered why a school in downtown Frederick is named Hood College? Or why downtown’s main park is called Baker Park? How about who the first black physician was in Frederick? All of these questions and more are answered in, “Pillars of Frederick,” a new book compiled by Yemi, an artist based...
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Travis Kraft is a math specialist at Urbana High School (UHS). Among other things, Kraft teaches an intense 18-week algebra class that gives students credit for algebra one. But 26-year-old Kraft didn’t set out to teach math because it came naturally. Instead, he decided to take up studying math during his years at Pennsylvania...
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The Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services used to recruit through word-of-mouth requests and legacies — people who get involved because of their family history with community service. Since last August, the organization has used new recruitment initiatives to bring in more non-paid personnel to the 26 county fire and rescue companies. From...
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By Gina Gallucci-White The head of the state’s Republican party will not run for the 6th Congressional District seat. Urbana resident Alex X. Mooney announced at a news conference the day before the Jan. 11 filing deadline that he will instead be supporting Republican incumbent Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. As a former staff assistant to...
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I’ve wanted to take one of Christine Van Bloem’s classes at the Kitchen Studio Cooking School in Frederick for at least a couple of years. Her recent class on winter soups and stews piqued my interest. With the cold weather, my husband and I have been eating a lot of stews. My only really...
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Have you noticed the construction on the corner of Frederick and Lewisdale roads on the land where Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Department carnival grounds used to be? Kingdom Hall is being built here to accommodate growing local congregations of Jehovah’s Witness, according to Stan Rice, the coordinator for the Clarksburg congregation. The former carnival grounds...
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