FROSTBURG -- The green-thumbed elves of the Frostburg House and Garden Club were on Main Street this week, decorating lamppost planters with holiday greenery.
The club members maintain the planters throughout the year, with flower arrangements on display from spring to first-frost. Come mid-November, the planters are then decorated with pine and other evergreen clippings.
Pictured above, Nancy Crawley, right, and Tess Delaney work on the planter at the corner of Beall's Lane and West Main. One of three planters they transformed Thursday afternoon, the lamppost display includes a variety of greenery, including hemlock, white pine, yew, blue spruce and cedar.
The plantings are as varied as the members who maintain them, with some House and Garden elves also including rhododendron and holly.
Crawley and Delaney worked in below-freezing temperatures, and brought along pots of hot water to help thaw the frozen potting soil in the planter. Starting out with six plastic yard bags full of greenery, the pair used about two bags per planter.
"It takes more than you think," Delaney said.
While the winter plantings require little maintenance, with the cuttings usually retaining their color well beyond the holidays, the summer flowers are labor intensive. In July and August, Crawley said, garden club members are sometimes out daily watering the plants. Delaney said many motorists will toot their horn or yell a "Thank-you!" as they pass, a show of gratitude that the House and Garden Club members appreciate.
The greenery is being put out just in time for the new Christmas light wreaths and displays which will top Main Street lampposts from Water to Grant. The new wreath displays, which will be out by Thanksgiving, were designed and crafted by Karen Bingman, president of the House and Garden Club, and Jack Dishong.
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:37
City Square hearing Thursday night
Written by Raquel Ketterman
Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:08
For AppIndie
The corner of Mechanic & Water:
What should it look like?
Frostburg's City Square Development Project includes the development of a new parking lot (possibly with some green space) on the corners of S. Water and Mechanic Streets in Frostburg (across from City Place). This development was previously featured in Richard Kerns 11/10/2008 AppIndie article: "Billboard, parking lot focus of Legacy grant package."
Whether you are in support of green space or parking space, Thursday's meeting is your chance to speak on the City Square Development Project! Public hearings like this are opportunities for local governments to receive feedback from the community. Sometimes these hearings are required, sometimes not. Either way community comment is very helpful as local government decisions are made. This is also a chance to see your local government in action, and for some a chance to see WHO the leaders of your community are!
From personal experience in local government, not enough people consider taking the opportunity to comment on projects like this. Decisions are made, projects are completed, and THEN people ask - what happened?
So come see for yourself - is more parking and/or incorporating green space best for this project? What are the benefits to more parking and/or incorporating green space?
From the November 17th Cumberland Times News: Thursday's city meeting [November 20th @ Frostburg Community Center, 7:00 PM] will include a public hearing to provide information concerning the City Square Development Project, a proposed new parking lot on the corner of South Water and West Mechanic streets.
November 20, 2008 - Thursday 7:00 PM - The Frostburg MAYOR AND COUNCIL Meeting at Community Center, 27 S. Water Street
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:19
Author Barbara Hurd Packs Main Street Books
Written by Mary Spalding
Monday, 17 November 2008 15:30
Frostburg - Despite forecasts of a snowy night tonight, a crowd filled the seats in Main Street Books at 7:30 p.m. to hear award-winning writer Barbara Hurd read from her latest book, Walking the Wrack Line: Of Tidal Shifts and What Remains. This is the latest in a trilogy of books in which Hurd's poetic voice and scrupulous attention to quirky detail render nature's offerings--whether strange in themselves or seemingly ordinary--in fresh, thought-provoking ways. She read three essays from Walking the Wrack Line: "Moonsnail: Unseemly Proportions"; "Beached Icebergs: Erasable Truths"; and "Spider Crab: Disguise." Hurd explained that the subject of each essay was an object she had found that a wrack line--that area of beach that is exposed during low tide--and that the subtitle of each relates to what those objects suggested to her as she wrote about them.
The Raging Controversy of the County Road Patrol, Part 3
Written by Jeff Davis
Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:58
The Raging Controversy of The Allegany County Road Patrol, Part 3
The roaring flames seem to have subsided for now, but there is still plenty of smoke smoldering below the surface in regard to the contentions between the Allegany County Commissioners and Sheriff Goad over the county road patrol.
Today in this updated report from your diligent investigative reporter for the Appalachian Independent, you can read about the opinions on both sides of the aisle, as well as comments based on an independent inquiry.
On Nov. 9th the 500-seat auditorium at the new high school in Frostburg was packed with fans eager to hear Kathy Mattea. This was her final stop on her tour to promote her new CD, "Coal."
The country folk star took her performance gently into the "message music" direction by spicing her menu with a few "Coal" songs. She opened with "Dark as a Dungeon" and then added an up-tempo version of Jean Ritchie's "The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore" with the guitars and mandolin imitating a fast-moving train.
The three band members showed their instrumental expertise on several numbers with the slap bassist getting the loudest applause for his solos. Her steady finger-picking steady sideman guitarist, Bill Cooley, drove most ensemble numbers.
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