Olympic gold medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton was arrested for DUI in Fairmont, West Virginia on May 17.   Retton, 57, was charged with misdemeanor DUI.  She won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics.

Tuesday night's scheduled game between the Short Gap Orioles and Fort Ashby Rockies has been postponed due to rain.

Federal funds have supported the Corporation for Public Broadcasting since 1969.  President Trump called their coverage “biased” and “partisan” when he signed an executive order ending over $500 million dollars in funding to PBS and NPR.  PBS CEO Paula Kerger told Katie Couric recently that Trump supporters also support public radio and TV…    “We did this survey three times, we asked people who self-identified as having voted for the president how they feel about federal funding and 60% said we support federal funding for PBS. We are focused on trying to make sure that people that do care let…

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen got good news recently during a hearing in the US Senate. Environment Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin gave testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee and Van Hollen took the opportunity to confirm that funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program would continue. Zeldin didn’t let Van Hollen down…      “The Chesapeake Bay Program is an amazing program. Our team takes great pride in running it. It’s filled with a lot of success stories that span multiple states including yours and we will make sure that you also have a smile on your face when the…

The Garrett County Commissioners will soon vote on lowering their property tax rate, based on a stronger revenue outlook. The proposed rate reduction from $1.056 to $1.02 per $100 of assessed value would bring the county’s tax structure more in line with current economic conditions, according to a Garrett County Government news release.  The county also held the line on its income tax rate of 2.65%.

The Allegany County Commissioners have finalized the long-awaited takeover of the George’s Creek Ambulance Service.  County Administrator Jason Bennett told the commissioners the Memorandum of Understanding gives the county control of the failed volunteer station…     “What that will do is allow the County to takeover possession of the building, three ambulances there—one of which is a newer ambulance—two life packs and all other assets that are within the building.  We will then end up staffing that with paid county EMS staff.”

Allegany College of Maryland recently held their second annual “Allegany Gives” event, a day for individuals to show support for the college through donations to the college or specific programs. ACM Foundation Director Courtney Jensen told WCBC that though they didn’t raise as much money as last year, this year the focus was on increasing donors…     “We were able to raise over $50,000 with over 400 individual donors supporting the day. The top fund for the year was for our scholarship. That was about a third of the donations.”

Maryland State Highway crews will be working along Route 36, New Georges Creek Road starting this week. The work is expected to last up to six weeks. Slope repairs will occur over the Route 36 bridge in Westernport as well as a retaining wall north of Midland. SHA Spokesman Charlie Gischlar tells WCBC some work needs done now, but other projects are planned…     “There’s a lot of those situations where there’s waterways and underneath of the bridges a lot of debris built up so we’re going to be kind of prioritizing and triaging everything. We have to get…

Allegany County Public Works Director Adam Patterson has worked several 20-plus hour days since the flooding of Lonaconing and Westernport. Now that waters have receded, the work begins to rebuild and improve those areas to prevent a similar disaster.  Patterson spoke at a county work session about hopes for FEMA disaster relief to help the county…    “I want to make sure that we continue to prioritize making sure that people have safe access to their homes in case of emergency whether you’re on a county road or not. It’s encouraging to think that the money – that we may…

Governor Patrick Morrisey has signed a bill kick-starting a program called Troops-To-Teachers, focusing on making it easier for veterans to become teachers in West Virginia schools. Morrisey says the program will fix the teacher shortage in the Mountain State and benefit veterans and students…    “One of the best ways to address that is to have people who have really wildly succeeded in other walks of life come in, and they can have other alternative certification pathways to get into the classroom quicker. This bill is going to gut the time to allow veterans to come in and to teach….