• August edition of From the Desk of County Commissioner Blaine Young
• Blue Ridge Summit Free Library to celebrate 90th year
• Two area bridges to be replaced
• Property Owners to Receive Real Estate Tax Bills
• County Commissioners Adopt Balanced FY2013 Budget
• Variance requests concern Thurmont planners

• Scott Zuke's: Shopping for a Charter to Stand the Test of Time
• Charter board requests $25,000 for outreach, document draft
• Jim Hoover's: Why I volunteered for the County Charter Committee
• William Morrow's: One Person in Charge?
• Commissioner Blaine Young's: On the Charter Writing Board petitioners
• Bob White's: To Charter or not to Charter...

• A Short history of Rocky Ridge
• 100 Years Ago This Month - August, 1912
• John Miller's: The 1862 Maryland Campaign on the Home Front
• 25 years of Gateway Market and Candyland
• James Rada's: The last trolley to Thurmont
• George Wireman's: Gateway to the Mountains

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• Michael Hillman's: In for a penny, in for a pound
• Bill Meredith's: The Retired Ecologist - Rest in peace, Lonesome George
• Shannon Bohrer's: The budget is fixed if the congress takes a holiday
• Lindsay Cocker's:  Down Under - And that’s the truth
• Jennifer Vernerau's: It does, sometimes, take a village

• Pastor Gary Buchman's: A Communion Service
• Pastor Jon's: Here’s a teaching that is so right
• Fr. Elias Yelovich's: On the Sanctification of Each Moment
• Pastor Katie's: The Waiting Place
• Rev. Dr. Peter Keith's: The Whisper of Memories

• Cathy Olson's: The Gardens of Claude Monet
• Phil Peter's: How to Read a Pesticide Label
• Ruth Axelrod's: Composting the Minimalist Way!
• Karin Peterson's: Growing Asparagus
• Sue Williams: Singing (and Planting) the Blues
• Connie Holland's: Growing Watermelon

• 8/10 - Gettysburg's Community Theatre presents The Victim
• 8/11 - Cunningham Falls State Park's wilderness survival course
• 8/12 - Hollabaugh Brother's Annual Peach Festival
• 8/13 - Rocky Ridge Old Fashion Carnival and Fair
• 8/18 - 18th Annual Civil War Music Muster Civil War brass bands
• 8/21 - 90th Annual South Mountain Fair

My Little Sister's Jokes  

• A group of loud and rowdy drunks were making a racket in the street
• Remembering what July 4th is really all about ...
• An investment counselor decided to go out on her own
• A wilderness area asked hikers to fill out comment cards
• They told me the big black Lab's name was Reggie...
• Jill was called to serve for jury duty, but asked to be excused...