July 14th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

At last week’s meeting, the Downtown Development Commission held a discussion around discontinuing the seasonal outside Friday After Five events. While the event has been hosted in downtown Cumberland for several years, DDC member and business owner Michael Harris said it is no longer drawing the numbers of people it used to…

   

“We’re not drawing the people from Keyser, from Ridgeley, to come to see the bands that we’re getting. I think it would be better to do away with Friday After 5 and once a summer, bring in a good band that no one has here that is going to draw crowds from Keyser, from Hagerstown.”