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A Seasonal Herb Tip

Grace Hallenbeck

No idea what to do with the Chives taking over your herb garden? Try tossing them into some cottage cheese.

Education

Remember the Time Lois Jarman Wanted to Write a School Policy...

Seth Eisenberg

On November 9, 2019 around 1:44 pm Board of Education member Lois Jarman was using her cell phone while driving west on Shepherdstown Pike when she rear-ended another car. The impact forced that car into oncoming traffic injuring another family.

Politics

Are Lockdowns an Election-Year Ransom Note?

Guest Writer

“We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November.” Those are the words of a west coast health director. No in-person schooling until after the election? Hmmm.

Recipes

A Seasonal Herb Tip

Grace Hallenbeck

No idea what to do with the Chives taking over your herb garden? Try tossing them into some cottage cheese.

Opinions

Witchcraft, Leprosy, and Covid: “Power to Harm” as Political Weapon

Guest Writer

The Covid pandemic is mired in questions of responsibility and blame. In the heat of panic, we abandoned all of our prior behaviors and assumptions surrounding communicable diseases, instantly replacing them with a propaganda-driven “new morality.” In the ultimate switcheroo, instead of assuming personal responsibility for our own health, we are now encouraged to blame others for hurting us if they refuse to fundamentally alter their lives in order to “protect” us.

Opinions

Ronald Reagan’s A Time For Choosing

Cindy Rose

Today would be the perfect day to spend some time listening to the speech that is said to have put Ronald Reagan on the road to the Presidency. It's perfect for today because we find ourselves once again in a time for choosing. Do we surrender to the Democrat/Socialist/Marxists or fight with all that is in us to keep the American dream alive?

This Day In History

By John Ashbury

On September 24, 1808, Mount Saint Mary's College (now University) and Seminary was founded in Emmitsburg by Father John Dubois.

On September 24, 1815, the second Lutheran Church structure in Middletown was dedicated. It was built on the same site as the first church which was on a lot sold to the church in 1771 by Conrad Crone. The third church replaced this one on the same site in 1860.

On September 24, 1820, the Sunday School of The Evangelical Lutheran Church on East Church Street in Frederick, met for the first time in the old church building. The school was called The Mathenian Society of Frederick until 1847.

On September 24, 1821, a bell was procured for the Frederick County Courthouse steeple. This building was destroyed by a suspicious fire in 1861.

On September 24, 1855, John D. Hendrickson, later a prominent Frederick businessman and president of The Frederick City Packing Company, was born in Baker's Valley near Buckeystown. He died May 21, 1921, at his home on West Second Street in Frederick.

On September 24, 1861, The Frederick Town Herald announced in what it called a "slip" that it was ceasing publication. The Herald began publication on June 19, 1802, and, at the beginning of The Civil War, lost favor with the public due to its support of the Southern cause.

On September 24, 1870, Dr. O. B. Stone, who practiced medicine in Libertytown, was born.

On September 24, 1887, Dr. Eldred W. Moberly, who was born January 3, 1803, and who practiced medicine for 60 years, died in New Market MD.

On September 24, 1930, William M. Wenner, who would become a District Court, Circuit Court and Court of Special Appeals judge, was born in Brunswick. He retired in 2000, having reached the mandatory retirement age for Maryland judges. He died May 27, 2016 in Adamstown MD.

On September 24, 1935, Frederick City voters approved a $500,000 sewer bond issue in a special election.

On September 24, 1977, Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser became the 21st president of Mount Saint Mary's College in Emmitsburg. He was 34 and the youngest man to ever hold the position.

On September 24, 2006, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church in Thurmont celebrated its 150th anniversary.

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Stand Up for Your Rights, says Professor Knut M. Wittkowski

Guest Writer

Who is Knut M. Wittkowski? He is among the many, even many hundreds, of epidemiologists and other medical research professionals whose expertise was not consulted in the frenzied weeks in which the American...

Frederick County Karens Bringing The Shame

Cindy Rose

The Frederick County “Karen’s” have created a Facebook Page: Frederick County WALL of SHAME Anti Maskers Exposed. You have to laugh because those of us who don’t wear masks aren’t really ashamed or hiding it. You should also be nervous because these kinds of groups incite violence toward the innocent whose only crime is disagreeing with the use of face masks.

Frederick County Shaming Wall Goes Down In Flames

Cindy Rose

The Tentacle doesn’t usually publish new columns on Sunday, but we felt an exception was in order. We don’t hear enough about how sharing information can make positive changes in our neighborhoods so when it happens, we want to report on it.

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