First County Executive Budget Hearing

COUNTY EXECUTIVE GARDNER NOTIFIES PUBLIC OF MARCH 23 BUDGET HEARING Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner today invited citizens to provide comments on budget requests regarding the Draft Fiscal Year 2016 Operating Budget, the Draft 2016-2021 Capital Improvements Program and the Draft Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Budget. The executive will hold a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 23, in the first floor hearing room of Winchester Hall, located at 12 East Church Street, Frederick, Md., to hear input on budget requests.Notice of the budget public hearing was published, and…

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Walkersville Welcome Signs

The Town of Walkersville plans to erect new signs welcoming everyone to town. The new signs will be posted at entrances to town on MD 194, Crum Road, Biggs Ford Road, etc. Town Commissioner Russ Winch posted concept art on the Town of Walkersville’s Facebook page, Walkersville: Our Town. The concept art shows a town slogan of “The Heartland of Frederick County.” Walkersville invites input from residents on the concept and suggestions for a town slogan.

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Main Street Development for Woodsboro

The Town of Woodsboro will meet tonight with Verdant Development Group to discuss plans for Marketside, a planned development for the property at Main Street and Maryland Route 194. The parties will discuss the plans and off-site contributions including “major road improvements to Main Street with curb, gutter, sidewalk, street trees, and light posts.” The plan calls fro seventy town homes, two commercial pads on the south side, a mix of retail and offices in a twenty-thousand square foot building on the north side, and a large open space. The open space…

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Fiber Arts Studio Approved in Walkersville

The Town of Walkersville’s Board of Appeals met Tuesday night to hear a request by Mary Singleton for a Special Exception use in the town’s Old Town Mixed Use zoning district. Ms. Singleton plans to open her business, Singleton Fiber Arts Studio and Processing, at the former Walkersville Market at 25 Maple Avenue. Last year, the property owners renovated the building and received a special exception approval for a wholesale wine and distributor to use the building.  That use does not occupy all of the space in the building. Later…

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