First semester funding is available for West Virginia Hope Scholarship student participants to use for the 2025-2026 academic year. Though the deadline for the full amount was in June, new Hope students who apply by September 15th will receive 75%, 50% between September 16th and November 30th, and 25% December 1st through February 28th. Information is available at hopescholarshipwv.gov.
Elizabeth Manges is the recipient of Allegany College of Maryland’s seventh Distinguished Alumni Award. Manges is the first woman president of the Hometown Bank of PA, a community financial institution with seven branches. She has more than three decades of banking, lending, and finance experience. She also serves on the ACM Bedford County Campus Advisory Committee.
As Baltimore Street approaches its first anniversary of completion, the City of Cumberland is looking ahead to its next big project. Ruth Davis-Rogers, City Historic Planner, says Virginia Avenue will be the area of focus, and a public meeting will be scheduled in the near future… “We will have an announcement going out to invite different building owners, property owners, and residents so that they can hear about some of the things that we have in our toolbox to help them. We do have a façade grant down there, as well as we want to hear their ideas. …
Thomas Dontrell Smallwood, 38, of Cumberland is one of 10 people indicted in Frederick County. He is charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. He was arrested following a traffic stop on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 on Interstate 70 in Frederick County. The Sheriff’s Office says Smallwood was a passenger in the vehicle who had 45.7 grams of suspected fentanyl, and 8.4 grams of suspected crack cocaine on his person. The cases now go to the Circuit Court where trial dates will be scheduled. The Frederick County State's Attorney's Office says indictments are charging documents alleging criminal…
All ten members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation have written to President Donald Trump urging a reversal of FEMA’s denial of recovery funds to the Georges Creek area following May flooding. The bipartisan push was endorsed by nine Democrats and the state’s lone Republican federal elected official, Congressman Andy Harris of the Eastern Shore. The letter cited the communities of Midland, Lonaconing, Barton, and Westernport as areas strongly impacted by May’s flooding.
Allegany County’s yard waste site at Mexico Farms is temporarily closed. The site is currently overloaded with debris from May’s flooding. Thus, the county is having difficulty grinding and processing yard waste. Further clean up of the site will continue next week.
The Allegany Arts Council Board of Directors has appointed Bethany Ann Thomas as its new executive director, effective September 8. Thomas holds degrees from Mary Baldwin University and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. She was most recently grant facilitator for Cambria County in Pennsylvania.
