According WBAL News out of Baltimore, the United States SBA is offering low-interest federal disaster loans to small businesses and non-profit organization due to the flooding in Western Maryland in May. The disaster assistance declaration covers Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties, as we as jurisdictions in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. For more information, interested parties should contact SBA's customer service center at 800-659-2955 or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. This comes more than a week after the Trump administration denied a request for disaster assistance.

On Wednesday, July 30th, 2025, the Cumberland Police Department served a Criminal Summons on Ronald William Crawford, 46, of Ridgeley, WV. The summons was in reference to an incident that occurred on June 23rd, 2025, at a business in the 200 block of N. Mechanic St. On that date, officers responded to the business for the report of a theft. Once on scene, It was learned that an employee had a wallet stolen from an "employees only" room inside the store. Credit cards belonging to the victim had also been used at multiple locations after the theft was reported. Security…

President Trump’s executive order designed to get the homeless and drug-addicted off America’s streets has met with consternation in some circles. But, Pastor David Ziler who runs the Union Rescue Mission, sees it as an opportunity to get people the help they need.  He told WCBC that the way Salt Lake City works with the homeless could be a model for giving help…     “They send out a team of people and when you go into Salt Lake, you don’t see homeless people. Because they go around with a team of people and there’s the head of the homeless…

Maryland House and Senate Republicans sent a letter to the state Legislative Policy Committee this week expressing opposition to Governor Moore’s plan to continue a program that rapidly hires former federal employees. The state announced a hiring freeze for most jobs on July 1st. Legislators claim the program is inefficient in that it has only hired 251 former fed employees since February and only 7% of those came through the expedited program.

Flood Watch from Thursday afternoon through late Thursday night for portions of north central Maryland, including the following area, Washington, Virginia, including the following areas, Clarke, Culpeper, Frederick VA, Greene, King George, Madison, Northern Virginia Blue Ridge, Orange, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, Stafford and Warren, and panhandle West Virginia, including the following areas, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan. Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be IMPACTS… Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. ADDITIONAL DETAILS… Numerous showers and thunderstorms will develop…

On Thursday, 7/31/25 from 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, Park Street will be closed to through traffic from Harrison Street to Baltimore Avenue for the tie-in of the new water main. Water service will be interrupted from Harrison Street to Baltimore Avenue, as well as Union Street. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience while our crews complete their work.

Clearway Energy’s wind turbines atop Dans Mountain are now online. Nine turbines placed along the mountaintop will generate enough energy to power 24,000 homes.  Constellation Energy is purchasing the power. For Allegany County, it means a bump in property tax collection according to County Administrator Jason Bennett…      “Them being operational means we start collecting on our pilot agreement we did with them which means they’re paying us roughly $825,000 a year in property tax. And they had communicated that to us that they were operational now so that’s really what that means to the county. It means the…

In a targeted move, Allegany College of Maryland and UPMC Western Maryland are working to fill open positions and develop future workforce.  A career fair on Wednesday August 6 from 10 till 1 and 2 to 6pm will give job seekers access to apply for open jobs at UPMC and ACM as well as explore career training. Applications, career guidance, and more will show the close alignment between UPMC careers and ACM’s academic offerings, according to spokesperson Kristen Kehrwald…     “Certified nursing assistants, patient care technicians, cooks, medical assistants, office managers, nurses, phlebotomists, physical therapy assistants – those positions…

The City of Cumberland presented Life Saving Awards to five fire department members for their response in an emergency call at Constitution Park. Doug Heinz suffered a heart attack while visiting the park and Mayor Ray Morriss related that UPMC’s Dr. Mark Nelson said the crew from the Cumberland Fire Department played a key role in saving his life…     “Within six minutes of call, the crew was there and were able to resuscitate and help save this man’s life. Dr. Nelson, actually, gave a lot of credit to the group that had been there and participated in the…

The state of West Virginia set a new record for returning lost funds to residents, with nearly $40.6 million dollars’ worth of unclaimed property returned in fiscal year 2025. State Treasurer Larry Pack announced that almost 21,000 claims were paid out covering 65,000 pieces of property. Since 1967, the unclaimed property program has returned over $350 million to rightful owners. The state database lists more than $475 million dollars’ worth of property to be claimed.