The Mineral County Fair’s return after a  year’s hiatus has been a hit with large crowds all week. The 72nd annual fair wraps up today and tonight with the  band 28 Speedway will round out fair week  with shows at 7 and 9 p.m. along with the super stock and super modified classes of the mud bog at the grandstand. The grand feature parade will line up beginning at 3 p.m. on Dan’s Run Road. The parade will start at 4 p.m. This year’s fair grand drawing takes place  tonight  at 10 p.m.  The Fort Ashby Volunteer Fire Company sponsors…

Members of the Mountain Amateur Radio Cub (MARC) will participate in the National Amateur Radio Field Day event June 26-27 at the old LaVale Swim Club parking lot and Lion’s Pavilion located at  599 Georges Creek Blvd.  ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June of each year, thousands of radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.  Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies as well as an informal contest.   This event is open to the public, so come…

Maryland gas price averages increased overnight, as did the national average, after little movement over the last few days. Drivers are likely to see minimal fluctuations in prices through the weekend, however, increasing crude prices, while gas demand remains high, are likely to push pump prices higher ahead of the Independence Day holiday weekend. Today’s national gas price average is $3.08, up a penny from one week ago, five cents higher than one month ago and 91 cents more than one year ago.  Maryland’s average is $2.98, up two cents from last week, four cents less than a month ago…

The Catholic churches of Allegany and Garrett counties will resume full-capacity worship beginning with this weekend’s services. In a press release, the pastors of Divine Mercy Parish in Frostburg, Our Lady of the Mountains in Cumberland and St. Peter the Apostle in Oakland announced that, a year after reopening services with limited capacity, many COVID-19-related restrictions will be lifted for this weekend’s masses and all future ones.

A small earthquake shook the Baltimore area on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 2.6, happened around 3:40 p.m., according to Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center. It was centered in Woodlawn, just west of Baltimore, and was about 1.5 miles deep. People in the Baltimore area tweeted about feeling the temblor, but it wasn't yet clear if it caused any damage. In 2017, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake was felt in Maryland that originated in Delaware. A more substantial 5.8-magnitude earthquake was felt in 2011 in Maryland that was centered in…

 Allegany County Emergency Management reported a house fire in the Rawlings area.  

Allegany County Emergency Services is reporting a working house fire in Rawlings

Maryland State Superintendent Karen Salmon is retiring from her position by the end of June, but she spoke with WBAL Friday morning to discuss her journey, especially during the past year with a global pandemic. The pandemic changed a lot of things everywhere, but especially in schools for all students. Salmon shared some of her reflections. “Hindsight is always 2020,” Salmon said. “I think what we got right is we immediately got the kids fed and burnished throughout the pandemic. We put 90 million into making sure all of our essential workers had free childcare during the most critical times….

Congressman David Trone (MD-06) announced that he secured $187,500 in funding for improvements to the Allegany College of Maryland Community Theatre as a part of the FY 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill. The bill will be considered by the Appropriations Committee in the coming weeks and then head to the House floor for a vote before August.   The Allegany College of Maryland theatre is a central part of the community in Western Maryland. The theatre holds annual events on workforce and economic development to serve the needs of Allegany County residents. The funding for…

 Congressman David Trone (MD-06) announced that he secured a historic $883,574 investment for broadband expansion in Garrett County as a part of the FY 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill. The Garrett County Broadband Expansion Project will ensure that 270 households, 24 farms, and 17 businesses from Route 135 at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland to Bloomington, Maryland receive high-speed internet. The bill will be considered by the Appropriations Committee in the coming weeks and then head to the House floor for a vote before August.   Trone is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and single handedly…