Top photo, from left, Harry Carr, Ben Rodeheaver, Jimmy Robinette and Emma Carr prepare the Carr Farm Festival of Fright, which benefits the Ellerslie Volunteer Fire Department and the Western Maryland Food Bank. The event, which features the Hollow of Horror and the Horseman’s Hayride, is open from 7 to 11 p.m. Oct 23, 24, 30 and 31. The farm is located at 13919 Kings Grove Road, Ellerslie. For more information, call (814) 767-8000. Right photo: Brandon Greise and Dan Scism are dressed in character for the Dry Bones Haunted Corn Maze and Insane Asylum, a 2-mile corn maze located in Hyndman, Pa. The maze is open Friday and Saturday, dark until 11 p.m., and Sunday, dark until 10 p.m., through Nov. 1. On Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m., the pumpkin patch and corn maze are open and unhaunted. Proceeds benefit the junior and senior classes of Hyndman High School. Mazegoers should bring their own flashlights. To get to the maze, follow the signs from the Corriganville Sheetz. For more information, call (814) 842-6180.
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Mountain Ridge High School presenting ‘Guys and Dolls’
Mountain Ridge High School’s Drama Club will present its spring musical, “Guys and Dolls,” Friday through Sunday and May 6 through 9 in the school auditorium.
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Students tour campuses
Forty-four sophomores and juniors from Allegany High School traveled to McDaniel College in Westminster (shown above) and the University of Maryland in College Park on April 14, thanks to a grant from the AHS Academic Endowment Fund.
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Allegany County dog licenses available in Luke
Allegany County dog licenses for the year July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, may be purchased from the town clerks in the council chamber of the Luke City Building Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Midland Town Council hears complaints
The Midland mayor and members of the town council heard complaints from a number of citizens during a recent meeting, concerning cigarette butts and dog feces in the flower planting areas in front of the post office and on the sidewalks there and other locations around town.
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Community Notes - April 29, 2010
Wiley Ford VFD schedules hoagie sale
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Student also has role in learning process
What determines how much a student can learn in a given class?
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Go fish!
Just in time for the observation of Presidents Day, Dawna Staup from The Art Gallery in LaVale works to matte and frame two prints by Andy Thomas.
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Board game
Three-year-old Brandi Gochenaver from Cumberland puts cut-out mittens on a board as children at the weekly story time sing the “Winter Mitten” song to learn colors with children’s librarian Liz Sell at the Allegany County Library on Washington Street.
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Providing some aid for relief work in Haiti
Pat Steckman, left, from The Kensington presents a donation of $744 for relief work in Haiti to Emergency Services Director Mike Wilhelm of the local Red Cross chapter Thursday morning.
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Honing art skills
Fifteen-year-old Julia Robinson, right, from Flintstone is tought the art of sketching with color pencils by Donna Housel Tuesday at Café Mark in Town Centre as she sketches a lynx. Robison has been taking lessons from Housel for more than four years to develop skills she has as an artist. Art lessons are given every Tuesday with colored pencils at the café from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
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