Residents to Receive Text Message as Part of Regional Test of Wireless Emergency Alert System
Country’s first live regional test using geo-target capabilities, reaching up to 5.2M
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New Walkersville Library Set to Open Doors March 10
Final preparations are underway to open the doors to Walkersville’s new library. The new facility will open on Saturday, March 10, 2018. Located on South Glade Road, the 15,000 square-foot facility will replace the current and smaller Walkersville library. The new building will offer an expanded collection; a science, technology, engineering and mathematics lab; meeting rooms; computers and more to better meet the needs of the community. The facility will also feature an early literacy play and learning space for the community’s youngest patrons. The dedicated space will include fun, interactive and educational elements designed to…
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Board of Ed Selects Walkersville for Rock Creek School
After voting overwhelmingly against building a new Rock Creek School in Walkersville, the Frederick County Board of Education voted in the exact opposite to do just that. A large group of people from the Monocacy Middle School area attended and opposed locating Rock Creek on their school grounds. They announced that they had been involved in discussions with the school system for a year about the project. Most of Walkersville learned of the project yesterday, and others just a few weeks ago. School system staff said they spoke to “the…
Read MoreWalkersville Middle recommended as site for new Rock Creek School
The Frederick News Post reports: The latest recommendation calls for building the new Rock Creek School on the same grounds as Walkersville Middle School. The architect of the school, as well as Frederick County Public Schools staff, reviewed seven possible sites for the new Rock Creek School, a school for students from ages 3 to 21 with severe disabilities. The Frederick County Board of Education is scheduled to make a final site selection Wednesday night. Staff used a cumulative scoring system based on . . . continue reading on The Frederick…
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Old Town Walkersville Scene of Attempted Murder
Maryland State Police arrested a man early Thursday morning in the stabbing of his estranged wife in Frederick County. The suspect, Jeremiah William Snyder, 36, of 16 Maple Avenue in Walkersville, is charged with second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. He is being held without bond at the Frederick County Detention Center. Shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, troopers from the Frederick Barrack responded to a home in the unit block of Fulton Avenue regarding a domestic incident in progress. Troopers and Criminal Enforcement Division investigators at the home…
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