We here at the Yokel couldn’t make it to the hearing over the future of Trout Run today. According to Tony Ortega’s blog, things did not go well for disciples of L. Ron Hubbard. Here’s the account: We just had a telephone conversation with Mary McConnell, who gave us some basics on how the hearing went […]
Howdy Yokels! Some good news! We have just discovered that we have our very own version of the satire newspaper, The Onion, right here in Frederick County. It’s operating under the name of the Emmittsburg News Journal. What’s that, you say? That’s a real newspaper? Well how can that be, after they printed this nonsense […]
We are so proud to know that we here at the Yokel are following in the footsteps of hundreds of years of snarkiness in these here parts. From Sunday’s Frederick News Post we learned of this little bit of awesomeness concerning the dreaded Stamp Act of 1765: When 12 judges in Frederick County, in an act […]
Reading Political Notes yesterday (September 18, 2015) in the Frederick News Post, there was a part that caught my attention. Chmelik, who has been vocal at council meetings about his frustration in not being able to get information or meet with staff, gave one specific example. He wanted to meet with Dr. Barbara Brookmyer, the county’s […]
So remember last week when we had our nice little BOE meeting? The PTA Presidents exchanged contact information and one of our favorite readers told us that members of both PTAs gathered together at the end in a circle of solidarity. Who would want to ruin that!? That’s right, state delegate Kathy Afzali. Let’s highlight […]
